Show THE IOWA Republicans ate carrying I carry-ing the campaign into the churches I turning all their preachers into stump orators and their pulpits into I party stands The New York Sun estimates that on the first Sunday I I in September five hundred sermons were delivered in Iowa in favor of the Republican prohibition plan If anything will bring religion into contempt it is the preaching of politics from the pulpit to congregations congre-gations who honestly differ in their opinions as to party principles and policies The practice will not only result in churchgoers rejecting the political opinions of the preachers but in doubting all others as well In Iowa the liquor question has come to be purely political The parties do not disagree as to the benefits of temperance tem-perance the only dispute being as to the methods of dealing with the liquor problem The Republicans it seems have control of the churches and the pastors are throwing their weight and influence influ-ence on the Republican side of the controversy Whatever the Republicans Repub-licans gain from the pulpit religion will lose |