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Show HOW ABOUT IT IN UTAH? Tho Smoot organ breaks forth into a scare-head shriek about "An Unholy Alliance Between Wall Street and Tammany Tam-many Hall to Rob tho People." But we do not need lo go from Utah to know all about unholy alliances to rob and deccivo tho people. What about tho unholy alliance engineered en-gineered by the Federal bunch two years ago, between the liquor interests of this State and the Mormon church politicians to defeat tho (then) evident wish of the people for legislation on the liquor question? How about the unholy alliance that is kept up right along between tho Federal Fed-eral bunch and tho church hierarchy in order to rob and deceive the people at every election? Prcsidont Joseph F. Smith dodged the prohibition question during the legislative legis-lative scssiou of 1909, sneaking off to the Sandwich Islands until the storm blew over. When he roturncd he gave out a belated and ineffective declaration seemingly, but not in fact, in favor of prohibition. His alliance with the Federal Fed-eral bunch would not permit that. President Pres-ident Joseph F. Smith has always been in favor of the liquor traffic but always his idea has been that saloons ought to be closed so as to give the whole liquor traffic of tho Slalo to tho 'A. C. M. I. drug store which is Toputcd to be by far tho heaviest liquor dealer in this Stale. A good many people during and right after tho legislative session of 1900 believed be-lieved or preloaded to believe that tho church was in favor of prohibition. The Tribune never believed it. Tho course of tho church this year in courting an allianco with tho liquor intorcst undor the renewed influence of tho Federal bunch is doing no moro than Tho Tribune Trib-une oxpected it to do all along. Tho liquor interests horo contributed some $40,000 two years ago for tho church Republican campaign; this to ward off prohibition or any hostilo liquor li-quor legislation. The contract was duly made that the contribution of this money mon-ey should havo that effect. It did havo that effect. There was no reason whatever what-ever to expect that the church would ever lako a different position on the liquor question than that which it had occupied all along. Jt has always favored fa-vored tho liquor traffic when the profit of that traffic could be reaped by tho church or by the ciders. In early days in Utah there were upwards of thirty distilleries in the Stato all runuiug not only without rebuke, but with the approval ap-proval of the church authorities. Tho church position on this question has been uniform. It has always been for liquor. As Josoph F. Smith said in hiss tabcrnaclo address frequently quoted in theso columns, it was necessary for the Z. C. M. I. drug storo to sell liquor or the saints would go elsewhere to do their trnding. And so with this uu-broken uu-broken pro-Iiq uor rocord there is no rea-1 son to suppose, nnd never has been any reason to suppose, that the church was sincere, or that Joseph F. Smith was sincere, in any prctonded declaration in favor of prohibition. It is all the more obvious, in view of this alliance between the Federal bunch, the liquor interests, and" tho Mormon Mor-mon hierarchy, that thoro is no roason whatever to go p New York to find evidence of unholy alliances for politi cal, moral, or any other purpose, to rob and deceive the people |