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Show NEPHI L MRIS IS OHLlfSPEAKER President of Salt. Lake Stake Talks to Saints at the Tabernacle. READS PROM ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN TRIBUNE Speaker Urges Mormon People to Live Up to Their Religion. "ephl L. Morris, president of Salt Lako stake of tho lUonnou church, was the only speaker at the tabernacle Sunday afternoon, and In a long and somewhat heated address he admonished the good saints to llvo up to their religion and to be loya! to their church and God. Mr. Morris begun bin address by reading from tho Intel-mountain Catholic an editorial on the recent debntc which wan held at llio V. M. C. A. on the question: "Resolved, "Re-solved, That llio average man can bo a Christian without belonging lo any church," and which was decided in favor of the affirmative. The speaker declared that this showed the altitude of.thoaver-ago of.thoaver-ago man toward the Christian church. Mr. Morris declared that ho thought the Jnlcrmounlaln Catholic took the right stand when II sold that the decision in tho case of the debate at the Y. M. C. A. mcnnl Ihe abolition of the church and tho Bupprcsslon of Chrlstlunlly. Mr. Morris then read an article recently published in The Tribune concerning tho extreme number of delinquents in tho juvenile-court "1 read this striking, but humiliating, bit of news," said Mr. Morris, Mor-ris, "I hat those who live in this community commun-ity may not be Ignora.ut. of Ihe conditions wlileli exist among us. The young people peo-ple have become disloyal to those institutions institu-tions the purpose of which is to promote their benefits and guard their purity and chastity." lie admonished the parents to watch more carefully their children. National Corruption. The sponker thm dealt at some length with national corruption, speaking of how Ihe big corporations and concerns of the country rob the government, lie laid special stress on tho suar trust. Mr. Morris arraigned Ihe gambling house and liquor evils, declaring that since the last legislntnre twenty saloon licenses had been granted. Continuing, the speaker declared that after a light by the county officials and a few moral -loving people the "unspeakable "unspeak-able institution" on the west aide had been closed, but he declared that he was advised that efforts. aro now being made to open It ngnin. "This." ho declared, "with the consent, of the eity officials and alpo certain county officials.". Mr. Morris declared "our interests are common.- and we should light for the moral condition of the admlnisira.tlon of public affairs." The speaker arraigned partisanship In politics, declaring that the day will come when tho present condition of affairs must slop. He declared that manv men do thlncs in their party's Interest In-terest which are not lo the interest of the public Speaking of the franchise to vote which is held by citizens of this count n Mr. Morris declared that thousands thou-sands "of citizens think so Uttie of the privilege for which our ancestors fought and died, that when elect ion lime comes thev do not even go to the polls and vote. |
