Speech #490005066

Yes. but the bill itself sweeps out the Emigrating "compauy. because the Emigrating Company in the terms of its charter does not profess to have either faith or worship or discipline. It does not purport to be a religious corporation either by name or by substance. It is a political corporation. I am not speaking of "political" in the sense of party politics or governmental politics. but in the legAl sense of the word. a political corporation. one that deals with men and affairs to build up a community in a particular Territory. and that is all. Now. then. inasmuch as we know from our experience and observation that that corporation is devoted to gathering the most ignorant and degraded of all classes of community in all the States and in all other countries in there for the purpose of imposing upon them the doctrines and the practice of polygamy. and inasmuch as that corporation lives by the sufferance of the United States. we propose to wipe that out. and inasmuch as it is not a stockholding corporation. instead of (on the old commonlaw doctrine. but not what I think is now the true commonlaw doctrine that my friend has stated) giving the fund to the ten thousand persons who in the last twentyfive years have by tithings and otherwise contributed to make up the fund of that corporation back to them. as they can never be found. we propose to devoteit to the education of the children of that Territory. subject by a judicial investigation to the private claim and the private right of every human being who comes fbrward to make any demand upon the fund.