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Show IT OPPOSES PROHIBITION. To those who expect support from the Deserct News, the official organ of the Mormou church, for tho Democratic party on account of its adoption of a prohibition plank in its State platform, we earnestly call attention to tho masterly mas-terly silence now maintained by that supposed champion of anti-liquor crusades, cru-sades, and to the following which appeared ap-peared in its editorial columns on February Feb-ruary 9, 190(5: If wc cannot influence our follow men by our example and moral qualities, wo had better not propose coercion. There should be no attempt to return to the old-time old-time 'Blue laws civilization found It necessity neces-sity to abolish. If they members mem-bers of the W. C. T. U. engaged in tem-poranco tem-poranco workl would work privately, each one in her own surroundings, against the bud habits, they would have more success than they can hope to achieve by protests, resolutions, petitions, unci declamations. So that declamation made by the local lo-cal Democracy is not likely to bring from the church organ a support that can by any means be called enthusias tic iu iact, uic ojcserct iews, to put it mildly, is "up a tree" in the present campaign. Pretendcdly the church which it represents is for prohibition, first, last and all the time except when it is advisable in political self-protection or for revenue, "to tic up with the liquor interests. On that account, however, how-ever, it docs not dare to come out in support of the locnl Democracy, even though it has declared for what the News and tho Mormon church pretend to stand in this particular. There is Apostle-Senator Smool and his church political mission to consider. Ho and his political adherents demand approba-tion approba-tion from tho church organ, because of the fact that he has been sot apart to the particular duty of ropresentiug the polygamous hicrarchs "in the halls of Congress." What the News is going to do .under, the circumstances it is difficult to determine, de-termine, unless we lake its present dank silence as a forerunner of whut is to come. |