| Show CONFERENCE QUESTIONS The general gueral eral conference n of the th Mor Mer Mermon Mormon mon moR church beginning Sunday prom promises promIse Ise to be one cf f I the most mOlt gatherings gathering therin in the history y of 01 the church h hand and one of the tIle best bat attend The Thee church is I prosperous IU Its menthe a l have uve e had bad fall run share of the general well belu being which has hu Messed this whose whole re region region gion and there is la I every tery r for foe the Ute thanksgiving which attends atten a large gathering under such Alter After AU r the Immediate affairs affair of the church itself the met meet rn It IVer sub subject feet of oC ill is i expected to be Ke the agitation for prohibition or in inthe inthe J the tile liquor business As eta 0 Is It 1 the church adopted resolutions on Oft this sub subject subJect last brat tan fall re tely in interpreted interpreted a as I a declaration d for far f r state stateWide Wide tride prohibition And as te is l equally tall well known the egort to Ire wan waa It if not defeated sole ole solely ly by the alliance of the Republican party leaders and the liquor interests It has been Men charged ha ed repeatedly repeat 17 that tb the church or its loaders leaders understood the tile compact of politicians politician and liquor in int t during the campaign and tacit lf It permitted its consummation at the polla Th The Herald does d not believe bellee that th Ute tote church authorities as Ii a body bOO or QI any larse l re part of its chief official om cia I knew be of oC th the deal which was waN carried oE t i In the U legislature The history of or ofte ort te to t e church itself adequately for tor the predominant sentiment among its Ito members In Ia favor faor of temperance t and aDd the lee large bogy body bod of Its Ita membership hi le temperate in practice as well en as In belief Undoubtedly the church au an authorities aut t made possible f the sue success 8 at atthe ath atthe the h polls of the machine that made the thed dual d with the liquor men mett there their was wu ne as concealment tOnce of Or d the fat fart and the atU tilde tade of men like Nephi U L 1 Morris both before tho the election and after the legis teet legislative aUve made mad the situation clear dear Mr Morris and ami the other high officiate who ho aided hits hila ii a I carrying the election ter the Smoot machine thought the safety of ur their church organization and the protection of its higher r officials lay la lu the election of the UtI Republican ticket ket They TIMI were deluded of course COO nIP and they the were the very men met who after afterward afterward ward Routed flouted their demand for liquor l IbOr legislation and ridiculed ridicule their effort elron to tonI secure nI a respectful hearing on the qua ques question Lion tion Whatever may ma be thought of Ii their judgment of their use of or socket ecclesiastical power for political eoda ea trey they the I used tired that power openly and Made no effort to t conceal their purpose as ac a the machine advised them to do doNow doNow Now Mr Morris orria and Apostle Grant and the very Ten large e number of oJ church people who advocated j prohibition de M dare clare the tile campaign has bu only begun As Asa Asa Asa a moral question they say It is a legitimate legitimate mate subject for tor action Eby by the church churchia ia in conference Just as aa It was waa tat Met Octo October October ber her If It the subject ul t is brought ht up at I this tide gathering and if it the Is IB Isas aa as frank Crank as It ha ham been heretofore it I ought to most moet Interesting Inte tIng lD mat matter matter ter tr not only for the church people and the Ute politicians but t also for fM the liquor dealers who supposed they had Md bought Immunity from interference with their business when hen they purchased the Ute con COD controlling trolling element In Republican an JM polities politics The TIle machine politicians politician have bae prom promised k teed their friends frIen that the conference will do nothing rash sad aad Ut the I muffler will wi be put on an the two radicals rad caU r who may want ot to speak their minds minda on the liquor 1 iq question Ion lender ender litter the stances we e venture to guess c that the will m be sorely disappointed and aRd that there t will be such suell outspoken at ok of oe the attitude atun a on ten I Ithe the subject b t as will m love leave no I t as to its on or all as a to the tM fate fat i ot of tile tie politicians p who wIto declared d their t i alai abl to control oI its It deliberations deliberation ir it itt this t lle particular j t |
