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Show VIEW IT IN ANOTHER LIGHT. Senator Morgan does not believe that Congress has any right to send to Utah a board of trustees to take charge of property prop-erty standing in the name of the Mormon Church. He argues that as there is a positive inhibition against legislating in regard to the establishment of religion, the matter is not within the domain of the legislative power of the Congress of the United States, and therefore, though the new 'Edmunds bill may pass the House (having already passed the Senate) Sen-ate) with that provision in it, the President Presi-dent would be within the strict line of his duty if he should refuse to appoint the board referred to. - - We have little faith that the appointment appoint-ment of such a board would result in any particular good, considered as a means to the end of breaking up this' vile thing here which some people insist upon calling call-ing a church, still we are quite willing that the experiment should be tried. The trouble with Senator Morgan seems to be that he does not fully comprehend the kind of a "religious" institution at which this provision of the Edmunds bill is aimed. If there existed in Alabama a corporation calling itself a church, and that corporation, going outside out-side of its legitimate sphere, laid hands upon the State Government and used the power and influence which that control would give to an unscrupulous unscrupu-lous organization, in an attempt to set up an independent government within the State, how long would it be before the Senator from Alabama would raise his voice against that so-called church and demand de-mand that it cease its domination of matters mat-ters that should pertain only to the State and confine its operations to saving souls and such other things as churches properly prop-erly have to do with ? Here in Utah the State iscorapletely swallowed up by the Church, and those citizens who do not subscribe to the Mormon faith are practically prac-tically denied the right to any representation representa-tion whatever in the control of governmental govern-mental affairs, and this notwithstanding the fact that in proportion to their numbers, num-bers, the non-Mormons pay as taxes the greater portion of the money necessary to carry on the Territorial government. If Senator Morgan had a true understanding under-standing of the kind of a "religious" organization or-ganization which it is proposed to attack, he would in all probability come to the conclusion that it is such an one as is not contemplated by Article 1 of the Constitution. |