Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-16
O,sr % 900 Persons in England
Sworn to Resist Taxation for
4 Religion Not Theirs.
MOVEMENT GOES STEADILY ON.
p,If At Church going England is Ar.
n,ed Against the Other Half, With
Bitterness Constantly Increasing.
so,cial Correspondence

Grbr,al correspondence
CNDON, Jan, If the cutest man
IN England hadn't diverted atten-
uon inst when things were begin
- inc 10 become serious 1t would be
.,,i,,,d by this time that the curious
,.col, begun here by the Passive Re
.,,.,.o has now developed into far
s,ys, struggle for religious liberty
M ,bat which drove our Pilgrim faith
es out Of England
# tss been queer movement iull OF
,,,bctlc incidents, grim humor AID
Ssrolrs both false and true, and under
rs,,h II all has been the kind Of stern
examination to make any sacrifice for
.o,,olsnces sake which has plunged
,snn,ri4s into bloodshcd often enough
isiofe now. II is the same spirit That
Sropght about the Boston tea party and
HE Revolution.
20 FAR there has been no bloodshed In
England other than the broken heads of
ng auctloneers, but II Is safe 10 say
hsta political revolutlon-a change Of
sWernlnent-woud have been In sight
n England today Il Joseph Chamber
hin. foreseeing the trouble, had not
r6pped in at the psychological moment
allh his tariff scheme and filled the
nsgpapers so full Of free trade and
pp,seton arguments that there was
Nom only at the bottom of the column
70 record the daily sales Of household
pcis Of sturdy citizens who held that
oiNence was above even the law Of
xADd,
SEVEN THOUSAND sCMMONSEs.
There are nov 10000 Passive Resist
IN, and so far 100 Of them have been
Nnm0ned TO court 10 show cause why
lher goods should not be sold for taxes
IN support Of religious creed in which
they DO not believe and some $50 OF
such sales have been held. Eacls>snle
beels new "Reslsters." and the move.
nent has been growing steadily ever
since Il was begun, last summer, under
he leadership Of the Rev. DR.. John
CIf)rd former president OF the Ma
i.onal Council Of Free Evangelical
Churches, pastor Of the Westbourne
Park church in London, and probably
he foremost Baptist IN England.
Suppose large population of the day
schools Of the United States were sup
ported and managed by one religious
denomination, with teachers Of that
examination and with instruction Of
all The pupils In that one creed. Then
suppose the government enacted n
measure taking over these schools and
Without changing the sectarian rcu-
glols instruction Of the requirement
nat the principal teachers should be Of
We one denomnatIon-should call upon
zoe genera taxpayer to support those l,
SCHOOLS. wouldn't there be a beautiful |
~ before many hours had passed? |
wouldn't the taxpayers Of every other |
lHtn except the favored one rise TO a |
nan and tell the government what they |
nough' about It, In terms that couldn't
Be mistaken?
Wen, they move more slowly over
.Ve ana the favored church IL, Of |
.vurse, the established church,to which.
sLnlhaIIy half the people In England
Npng. yet the American parallel win |
MYe 70 give an idea of what a big,
sslnoant and deep seated conflict IL
NV gong ON In this country despite
"e TACT mat outsiders hear little OF II.
MADE A PARTY QUESTION.
What IN the United States Is called
W. episcopal church IL In England the
N,~UIlshed church, and all the others
Melhodist Baptist, Presbyterian, what
,vG Nlll--are punched together in the
ysNSopal mind under the sweeping title
\ Noncohiormlsts" or 'dissenters,"
aV are looked upon with some con-
ascension socially and theologicallv.
.ny tne other day a clergyman, touch
,s molh ms pulpit on the present con.
, vt SAID magnanimously that he
, he h0ped-that Noncon.
s,un would not be excluded from ]
. iney form the great body of the solid
0S,'lIae, hardworking, law.abidinq
Sa eiaSs, as II is called ON this
NJ, vi ihe ocean, What might be
lI ~, ~ their cathedral is the famous
~ temple, from whose pulpit DR., In.
pu FaIker Numbered for so MANY
sps a., S'u which Of late has been the
asa several excited gatherings ad.
u pHn py such noted pulpit orators rs
,mrsn J Is, Meyer, the Rev. II. j.
: XIV VINO succeeded Or. Parker.
nm i.,.orl and other leading Noncon-
nr ron' all arrayed against the gov
,on, ~. some Of them were doubtful
y na. pt. 'llfords scheme of refusing
GoS i,a'es To the enemy but all we're
ny, u ID saying that tho government
4 or hbe nv VI. repeal the hated education
rty ~ 0GH,ev'nroWn, The great Liberal
,sr v ~, Gladstone, dIsunited over tho
Z ,bo "' came together again In fight.
n re- government on this act and
ION r. 10 get back into power ms
cane ',Suse " the education bill ns
.''' VI 'hamberlaln's tariff scheme,
'ALF THE cHuRcHGoERs OF
ENGLAND.
ron, SIZE OF the struggle becomes m
lrcbso.rn one realizes that half tho
,ibs,s FITS ,s N England are arrayed
conann,, otner half, A careful cen.
Der sbeu,eu ny London daily news.
Ans mat In actual worshippers
on,m.ah church In London docs
lie in "uuulo'r the NonconformIsta
lsbod ,he country districts The Es.
ters Tnurch falls short OF The dIs
.ns,h Estimating Tho resnectpve
onnns according 10 the ntmbc,s ",
yinoeS ,hs noth In London and the
nbered 'n me Nonconfomists are ont
iurbed a, he latter, however, are not
~ man ~ n tnls' Tor they declare that
gellcepn ., VINO Is nothing claims tbc
| he se,nurch, and they say Az we'll
'"' "sures Include the "twlcers"@