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Show WOODBUKN'S BILL. ., - v ! The Democrat cheerfully affords space '. for the following communication. It is ' i from the pen of a gentleman who for 1 many years has been a resident of this j I Territory, and who has been a close stu- !". j dent of the means resorted to by the i. i Mormon Church to firmly establish in ! ! this free country an institution so vile in ,i j its aims and objects that in any other civiliaed land in the world its precious r I head would have been lopped off ere the ' ; foul thing had attained three months' ! -i growth. J As to the motives which induced Mr. ; Woodburn to introduce his anti-polygamy I ! bill in the House yesterday, we know I i ! nothing except what is to be inferred f ! I from the measure itself. It may be, and i j we are inclined to think that our cor- ; respondent is right in asserting, that the j new Edmunds bill, with the amendment ' ! projKjsed since the measure has been in j t he hands of the I louse Committee, would j go much further toward "flooring" the r Mormon monster than the measure pro posed by Mr. Woodburn, since a close j reading of the latter bill shows the omis sion of many points fully covered by the ! Edmunds bill, and without which it ! would be difficult to successfully grapple ; j with the great evils existing here : j j Editob Democbat: It is pretty well set- ; i tied in the minds of the Saints that sorne- J thing must be speedily done for their relief t from the pressure now brought to bear on f . i them under the Federal laws, and for those I : who may not know the faot, it may be well I . to state that-the Priesthood is not idle in I .. the present trouble. They Lave determined I : not to give up polygamy; have determined I not to emigrate in body from Utah; have de- 1 : termined not to let go their grasp as a ! ' church the Kingdom of God on the State, ! 'j and yet they recognize the fact fully as well ! as the Gentiles do, that the people and Gov- ; j ernment of the United States have decreed that polygamy shall no longer be openly taught and practiced in this Republic. The polioy of the Church leaders in this emergency emer-gency seems to be taking form, and ways that are dark and tricks that are peculiar to ; the Latter-day frauds may be looked for. ' There is one thing, and one thing only, which these people have constantly in view above all others, and that is the establish ment of a theocratic empire. They are full , of resources, as they have always been, and ; ; never relinquish a point if they can help it. ) Equal to any and all emergencies, they now, under the pressure of the laws against polygamy, po-lygamy, have a soheme perfected for the colonization of their polygamists in Mexico. The land there has been purchased, they have been exenpted from taxes for ten years, and hold the promise of the Mexican govern-, govern-, ment for protection against assaults by the : Indians for a like period. They claim to have i the Yaqui Indians half converted to their faith, and by means of telegraphio lines, will, from the Mexican Btake of Zion, where the polygamous head of the priesthood will le established, conduct the affairs of the Kingdom of God in two Republios. : ' The United States end of the Kingdom of God will refrain from teaohing and practicing practic-ing polygamy, so that the Idaho test oath will be of no avail, to the end of striking Ipolitioal power from the Church, and the Kingdom of God will still flourish. Theb-jeotion Theb-jeotion to the Idaho test oath is that a decree de-cree of the Mormon priesthood at any time forbidding the practice and teaohing of polygamy in the United States, re-enf ran- ; chises the Saints to the last one of them, and still leaves the theocracy of Mormon-; Mormon-; dom in political control of Utah and other j ; Territories. Woodburn's bill introduced in the House ' of Representatives on Monday, smacks much of a Mormon ruse to defeat the more potent and efficacious measure proposed by ; Senator Edmunds as an amendment to his i own bill, now in the hands of the House j Committee, by which it is proposed to dis- ! franchise every officer and subject of the I Kingdom of God on earth who is now exer- ; i cising the rights and privileges of American j citizenship to the ulterior and wicked eud of I establishing the sovereignty of the Mormon I 1 Church in the United States. !; The Idaho test oath recognizes polygamy j asfhe basis of Mormon disfranchisement, ' v and therefore leaves in the hands of the Mor- !!; mon priesthood means by which the church may escape the consequences of this oath at iany time, by simply yielding, or seeming to yield, up polygamy in the United States. On the other hand, the Edmunds test oath recognizes as the basis of Mormon cRsfran-j cRsfran-j chisement, the fact that every Mormon is , j the subject of, or an officer in, the Kingdom 1 of God on earth, and must therefore of ne- ' oessity be an alien if not a traitor to the i United States, because one and all of these people are engaged in a conspiracy to establish estab-lish by apparent . republican forms and If .. t methods a theocratic empire. I Mr. Woodburn, who represents' Nevada in Congress, was elected over Cassidy, Democrat, Demo-crat, by Mormon votes, as a Republican, ; and is now serving the Saints, by forcing to ! the front a measure fraught with no particular partic-ular danger to the Mormon theocratic scheme, as against the test oath of Edmunds, which would completely floor the Mormon monster in this country, if put into execution. execu-tion. The polygamists are bound for Mexico, Mex-ico, to which country they propose taking their polygamy with them, and Mr. Wood-burn's Wood-burn's test oath is designed, evidently, to forestall Edmunds', and thus leave the Kingdom King-dom of God still in full control of Utah and the politics of the Rooky Mountain region. |