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Show WARNS AGAINST ! BLOCKING PEACE: Apostle A. VV. Ivins Urges j Use of Lawful Methods ! in Ogden Speech. Kpe::ai 'o The Tribune. j ' iXJDKX, Aug. Z. That he is not. in' politics and refuses to be muzzled for I fear of offending some men of the world . if he talks of this ration or of the othe:" i nations living in wickedness for which they will suffer severe judgments, were declarations made at the Second ward chapel this evening by Apostle A. W. Ivins in giving a warning against the rejection of offers of peace and also a gal p.st committing acts of violence and lawlessness in the community. In the course of his address Mr. Ivins referred to his recent visit to Ogden at 'which time he made reference to the ; league of nations. He said he had been : misunderstood, had been charged with I fooling the people, with being a builder j of words In which the people had been i tricked, and that he was charged with : being a politician. He denied the i charges, saying that if he was a poiitl-j poiitl-j clan he had never discovered it. He fa id that ho had not made an address ad-dress for any political party in twenty years, and that during the period of the ! war he received slxty-slx cents from the government for his services. Referring to the recent disturbance in 1 Ogden by what he termed "the radical j element of tho labor unions," Mr. Ivins I said he was afraid that "we were becoming be-coming a lawless people." 1 fe did not I mean to imply, he said, that labor should not organize and seek to better its condition, con-dition, but he said these changes must be brought about by lawful methods and not by breaking the law and committing acts of violence. Mr. Ivins said that he was not the advocate ad-vocate of the peace of any party of nen, but said that peace was coining, for God said it would. He said that he did not know whether peace would come by the league of nations or in some other way. He did not think peace would come with the present temperament of the people of the world. "If the world wants peace or if it wants a league; if it is war weary, we will disarm," he said. "We will not build vast navies and there will be no war, but if we say we do not want a league, if the United States says 'we stand alone,' and other nations decide to stand alone, and all go their ways, we will have more trouble." Mr. Ivins said he did not know who made the .league, Democrats or Republicans, but he did know that the greatest statesmen of the nation favored the league, but since It got into politics the cause seemed lost. |