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Show COOK'S LLCTUinC. FAVORS EXCLUDING THE MORMONS AND ADMITTING THE CHINESE. lie Dfiinnnrra the Suloon, llrotliel anil Gamtiliiiir linn In Scathing Term, and tuTiini the ( hrintian Churi'hea Tallinn Tall-inn a lliiiid In Politics. Joseph Cook, the Boston Monday lee lurer, addressed a goed sized audience at the Presbyterian church last evening. At the request uf the managers of the lecture he spoke on the Mormon question ques-tion as a prelude to the lecture. He used as his theme Ju.lgi) Anderson's recent decision, and made his points as follows: 1. Mormonism is a theocracy. 2. Tho Mormon lobby at Washing-' tou is a menace to the entire country, lirigham Young ouco said: Give me the tithing ollice in one pocket and I'll put congress iu the other. 3. ' The manifesto is a trick. 4. Tho man who had ten wives whs a sensual brute. 5. The endowment oaths nro still taken. 7. Ho favored the Strubble bill. lie made these points on what he was pleased to call "expert'' testimony. "The New West" was the subject of his set lecture. He said: "The new w est was to be congratulated congratulat-ed on the stability and cleanliness of its civilization. With the increasing complexity of our general civilization, there is more and more need of the American Am-erican christian home. It is a glorious thing that the home is succeeding the slave pen in the south. Another sign of the times in the new west is that the railroads are extending in all directions. Tho Canadian Pacific is part of Eu-gland's Eu-gland's iron belt around tho world. But one of the signs of the times is that we must not violate our treaties with China. This Chinese question is assuming as-suming a serious phase as our Oriental trade increases. Senator Sherman said if we had broken our treaties with England as we have broken them with. China, there would have been war. Another sign of the times in the west is the growing problem of municipal government; whether the saloon element ele-ment shall prevail in local self-government. Illiteracy in the country and its alarming aspects were shown, the speaker wishing that the day might return when the offer to buy a vote would be answered by a blow. He was applauded, also, when he illustrated how municipal muni-cipal misrule through the saloon element was becoming rampant. The doctor would never vote to license the saloon or the brothel or the gamblihg den. Dr. Herrick Johnson deserves to be remembered for 1000 years for saying, say-ing, "Low license bids for your sons; high license bills for your daughters." "The democratic party, as a whole, never did anything to offend the saloon power. But the republican party, in national convention assembled, also forgets to do things that will offend the liquor traffic. In the new west it is right that civilization should be founded on a secure and moral basis. The rum seller is a social pariah. If the Episcopal Episco-pal nud Catholic churches would only treat him as the. other denominations do, a great change for the better would ensue. It is a significant fact that in the great religious denominations the saloon keeper is excluded from membership. mem-bership. His traffic ought, therefore, not to be legalized by Christian votes. High license is vicious in principal, and groundless as a remedy. By tho suppression sup-pression of the liquor power and the arousing of the Christian vote the speaker hoped to see the problem of municipal misrule solved. The germs of mischief are in the east, and unless they are slni "d out as a. germs, they will grow into a forest a. id crowd us out. . . |