The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-02-27
Readers Column

| pal authorities whenever ministers OF
a church are changed.
8. Under no conditions shall stud
les carried on in institutions devoted
to the professional training OF minis
tiers of religious sects he ratified or
be granted any other dispensation or
privilege which shall have for it's pur.
pose the ratification of the said stud
les in official institutions. Any au-
thority violating this provision shall
be punished criminally and all such
dispensation or privilege shall be null
and void, and shall invalidate wholly
and entirely the professional degree
obtained through the infraction OF
this provision.
10. Periodical religious publica-
tons shall not on their program, their
title or merely by their general tend
encies, comment upon any political
affairs of the nation, nor publish any
information regarding the acts of the
authorities of the country or Of pri'
vate individuals who have to do with
public affairs.
II. Every kind of political associa-
ton whose name shall bear any word
or indication relating to any religious
belief is hereby strictly forbidden.
-. No minister of any religious
sect may inherit on his own behalf
or by means of trustee or otherwise,
any real estate occupied by any asso-
citation for religious propaganda or
religious or charitable purposes. Min.
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capable of inheriting by will from
ministers of the same religious sect
or from any private individual to
whom they are not related by blood
within the fourth degree.
Article q, clause 2, reads: The re-
ligious associations known as church
es, irrespective of creed, shall in no
case have legal capacity to acquire,
own or administer real property, or
loans made on such real property; all
such real property as may at present
be held by the said religious associa'
tons, either on their own behalf, or
| through third parties, shall vest in
the nation, and anyone shall have the
right to denounce property so held.
Presumptive proof shall be sufficient
to declare the denunciation we'll
founded.
The same article, too long for full
quotation, declares also all property
as episcopal residences, priest houses,
converts, religious schools, orphan
asylums, seminaries, etc., or any 9th
er buildings built or designed for the
administration, propaganda, or teach
ing of the tenets of any religious
sect, shall forthwith vest as of full
right directly in the nation, to be
used exclusively for the public serv-
ices of the federation OF the states
within their respective jurisdiction"
Section IA Article 1870, says: No
trial by jury shall ever be granted
for the infraction of any of the pre-
ceding provisions.
The articles quoted make it clear
/! that:
Every religious body is ostracized;
every shred Of liberty Of the press
touching religious matters is taken
away; the ruling government has
made the constitution 2 means to
make every opposition to itself i'm
possible in public speech, assem-
blances, etc.
And this is praised in large part
of the American press as liberty;
yes, the liberty of the anarchists, OF
the robbers, Of the tyrants, but not
the liberty Of the people.
One may ask: How is it possible
that nation stands this? The an