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Show PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY GOODWIN'8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO INC. F. P. GALLAGHER, Editor and Manager. W. E. CHAMBERLIN, Bualnees Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage In the United 8tates, Canada and 'Mexico $2A0 per year, $1.25 six Wor month. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $$.50 ' Kier year. Single copies, 6 cents. Payment should bo made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March' 3, 1879. Salt Lake City, Utah. Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409. 311-12-- . 13 APOSTLE IVINS REBUKED FOR POLITICAL TRICK tion and devastation in the world, make the fact known to your representatives in Congress so that they will not dare to oppose the league or the covenant A League of Nations has been formed. We do not want the war to return. The boys who went overseas know what the war cost. Ask them if they want any more war. Ask the fathers and mothers if they want any more war, and they will answer, No. And so that we may be free from further trouble, the world is to be policed as you police your cities. The league and covenant have been framed with the object to prevent future wars. What are you going to do with it? Are you going to approve it? It is not. entirely of our own making and could not be and still be a League of Nations. It fell to the lot of President L. W. Shurtliff to frame the question so as to put the voters in a most embarrassing dilemma. He called for a vote by those of you who agree with his (Apostle Ivins) remarks and WHO WISH FOR PEACE IN THE WORLD. No wonder the reporter informs the public every hand was raised. Not to raise their hands was to proclaim themselves opposed to peace in the wrorld. Not even the most hardened politician at a ward meeting could have framed a question more craftily to obtain votes by fraud. Some of the most distinguished statesmen of the country have declared that, in their opinion, tlie league covenant, instead of making for the peace of the world, will be the fertile source of wars. In the United States Senate the time will come when the question will be put to a vote, but we may be sure that the ruse resorted to at the Ogden conference will not be tried. The senators will be able to cast their votes without implying that they are enemies of peace. On the contrary those who vote for changes in the covenant will make it clear that they cast their votes as they do just because they arc friends of peace and because they wish for peace in the world. We take it that Apostle Ivins is somewhat unfamiliar with the pure Americanism which came to be the guiding spirit of the members of all churches in Utah while he was in Mexico. He is perhaps unaware that long ago the question which he raises was settled after years of controversy and almost unparalleled bitterness." Surely, if he firmative. So that the tenor of the apostles speech may be understood were fully informed of what went on in Utah while he was laboring jH! in Mexico he would hesitate to lift the old standard of religious domifully, we quote from it the following : nation in politics. He would see how futile and how dangerous it is I stand here to say to you that had not President Wilson mental anto revive the issue with all its prejudices, heart-burninbeen in Europe during the past few months there would have been no peace in the world today. Those of you who do not guish and community conflict. We desire especially to emphasize for his edification the action want any more war, any more bloodshed, any more destruc take pleasure in commending an editorial which appeared in the Salt Lake Herald of last Wednesday under the caption, Fooling the People. It is an editorial which, not only all Utahns, but all Americans might read with profit. In it Apostle Anthony W. Ivins is justly excoriated for using his priestly office in support of a partisan issue, for seeking to convey the impression that he spoke for his church when, in his speech before the quarterly stake conference at Ogden last Sunday, he advocated the League of Nations covenant and, by a ruse, obtained the unanimous indorsement of the meeting for his speech. As a Democrat Mr. Ivins has a right to express his views on the League of Nations or any other political issue and to impress his views upon others. He has no right to use the prestige of his ecclesiastical office to spread political propaganda. His offending is all the more reprehensible when he deludes the members of his church into the belief that the church authorities have taken a position which they expressly refused to take. In that case he is not merely misusing his ecclesiastical office; he is misrepresenting his church and tricking his audiences. At the recent conference of the church in Salt Lake City the general committee for Utah of the League to Enforce Peace urged the first presidency to have the conference indorse the League of Nations covenant. The first presidency promptly refused the request and stated its reasons in unmistakeable language. The petitioners were informed that the members of the church were divided on the question, which was about to become a political issue, and that jhere was no sound reason why the church should give its support to either side. That Apostle Ivins employed his church office to convey an entirely false impression is clear from the circumstances. As The Herald remarks: His speech before the quarterly stake conference at Ogden last Sunday was one of the most partisan political speeches ever delivered in or out of a church in Utah. Apostle Ivins, not content with exploiting his own political views, manuevered so as to obtain a vote of indorsement. The question was stated so equivocally that everyone at the meeting was put in the position of voting against peace if he refused to vote in the af- WE -- . g, |