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Show SHIES1 ifiii till! :;rd Church Works iN'ot Oppose League Nations, Statement iL. D. S. President. I p Petition Asking cediate Adoption of a;e Treaty Without Kndment by Senate. r. o:' ll.e :ire j: op- i: ::-.r..oc.i t-.i'.i ! ; 5 - Qsr'.cr;;." Cv nrere.e rj..: :;iervd-.!0:- Ht it -a-: Carles W. !Hr.rvs. .:s W. N:'.:;-, Ar.thcr.y W. --..z J. E;ird of the courc,: - .iiz: Ne;h: L. Morris a-J t :"Tii:rs- ;c-iiy on ir.aztcrs per-' per-' ILi'.r.. I dci.re to rr.akt a ' President Grant .-.!d. r: re-5a:ti ly word o: - -'..'-r, on rr.or& i'..:.r. one t : rr.y opinio.-, rei-ariir.g ;: I re.r. rd a t-ie- -J to ,'o:.-. ei-F73:utn; '-i-i trca;y, -.he ::-s t-e s'-':!i the ixxeia: mt-5i'-r c- riCc with Ger-1--'--"r-e.::. v.r.h a re-j re-j -tie co.-.:er.;r;ce r.r.d a re-" re-" s t.:at wou'.d briny - P-oiored uncertainty ir. J issues of the pea-jc. clri b tcaue. Panv Nation as te XEED. d.:sjince from t'..e cor.- :."-";.c.":ia''-D,r' ''Ve lJii'- tor j.rii'""'-' ''-ithoui deiav. Our L " '.t.";.slate of n-r-. ous itraiii. (-rttes.it!,, r.-.ar.iiesti:.jc it- t-' ' ':r'i Cjr-nect:.jn v.-ith th ''-j-"' ;n Iacl itJ aftermath. .. e!wnn: p:.-.i of rev.-.. rev.-.. "- .' cay. oiss-.:- ' i:1-'- y :o.-!nr alii-rs tr -i-".-';'1',;161'6 'i'J so.emn- -:.v(.1-'- -'-ej ur.U ciiia in - -.VJ; "aT '.ci.'i:;:d :.:id ur.it-, ur.it-, .-.-;c-;.e. I'c.-.ce vriV. bring : ..-;;fe;.e:Ky cot , ;;. Ds;a. S.ir.-:.-4 rii:.- j.i ... ..vd .ji r.e:lh::- pta-.-e r.u- I '" ,,:-"'t---::o:i ai.d aoubt. .......t.-.ea lilt yi-y of "' !-eo.ji::t.s o: iif'; : 'ost- c.d:i:. v.-i-.j , .:- (:-.'; i-lw to give t;-.e f-i r'-;':-'-L-v i ivuiii. a.-il a.-il - ? XmtA ,.,r, '.. h lr:." or pct kh- 1 ,5 c- treaty, not lncon-1 lncon-1 o''"C'iT v':a ''! re..jirc I llr'tf?' with ! Jf'-y ot doui,t 'l.T- ,r'- ' "is is i-.o-,.- 'i . :::?'!l- . I r-S iM-.V" n'K''i--i'n ! 'i. Quc-.,:io.-:s de- '1 - :r:;'. ;yns ot voaid it uIr)'':eV' revolution in -.t,ti-n ;ihe here o' ci cal'"---! fcii'i labor l-Sr.;'dtr,a:'d Pruf- i-o neconie more Ranges ... L-ori"L-, rtr. i ......."Petiii,,;, .; -rr.iis,.. -'";'-t'..ir!,1''10 Vet . . j ,r .;- !! . irit :-j the .' 0.--!' . '''V.::'. 1 1 n:'-: '- :rr'',.;,!':'ii-' to -.. ,; vjitry ar, ;.r-,u!tl : '? 'J!'th.:"-;t '" cuw .- h 4 ''n ie 3. Column I i f'T f.r.-i time, in till? covenant anJ trc:iM'. tho iiie.ui.- and nifth"ii to steuro Justice :w the removal ol iht opjres-s:vt opjres-s:vt t'on.iini int. i'ierv:. e of Ft roiiR-T i sat !on w!i-,-- vit iz us ;tri- wihin lu-r K-UfS, p!Mt-'v-Wvl l.y a h.;i su.-r?ston of mtt'riiai'oii (1 :irr--nio:i;s .Moreover, it sh-'uul W' rt-irrMiihoreil thai the clause rc-pariltii rc-pariltii S!i.u;! unir was ir.:i'le upon the aU'iiiit: t.' Jar-ui that l!H will return 1 1;- lerri ; vy - v.'hiTia and. t horeiore, llp'n t hat co:nli t:in ; com pi i;. nee with whu-h pro liti,. ;hf !o;.p.:e f;ni re-i'iire. " The peace o!' t he present a :ki tho r;iri,ti ".:.-i:cs-- of the iijiuru can he het .eo.'..:vll Ue r,.t:f:c:i.i-'n of tl:e cove- T;a:.t and treaty v Uhout a ineiul :u-: U . l.et the se;:at. take no action that w lil i;:vc , niiy par;y t-- the treaty, and t-.-pec..ihy j ' 'f-nr at; y. p:i ".ii-.d l"-ir ma inta : n : n' thitt I the ratification of tho L nited States is n-'t cir.pU'e and That chancres rniiir-I rniiir-I r'R a .vs:i:iip'( ion -t cov f rence and neo-t neo-t atio'.ii havf Uen ir.ade In it.' " Church Works Not Opposed. Vr-ier.t G:aat said that he replied as :o"ovs: " 'J' ii.i'co pN.'i'ire !:i .io-nir.p I-Prf.:-den: T.i.'t and other leading Ainericar.a . in .s::i;:.j; manifesto as uu.iined in jour ! telegram -i -:'Tdh.y 1 "The e:it::i,e:;-s eonta :; d in t!.e it'v.'.ve i mi:. eprt-s ir.y rerso.al i Oh!'.lo:i I with regard to tav .e or' raitio:.-; and j is':: .e z'.'.k furnn I have neitliT ; heard nor road of a::yt hi:: t'.-;:l i:as !ti J i iiTiy drer ci.ai.ted i:'.v titiilioi; this e:-y iir.poi-;a!it. cja-- :io::. : 'I ra-t::e: exc"-e. i : ne.y th.t the Ptar.da.rd I v.orks of i'r.-i- (' of Jt--;:s? Chrtst o? , Latter-day t'air.ts hate htc-n hroncr.t into, cor: trove: a . w'n.;:: iias no-.v he- t'lr.e prac-ti'.riiiy prac-ti'.riiiy a :.a".i?.iu controversy. It is iv.y j opin!on that th.s important nuest'on ouRitt to ha, . e been kept. ahoiufe!;.- out 01 poll- , tic?. ; "On or c Importar.t nta iter T desire to ' , place the pr-s'tion of liie Liiur.'h of .Tesnv j Ciirist of Latte.'-day Saints fairlv Nj-fore t:.e peo.iie. An illustrated handhi',", iias ; been ci: cu.ated and : as hen ividt'.y re- , puhiisl ed iri newspapers nnde- the head-, ir.sz: 'Mormon hi oie proi iiecies hecorne , issue in opposition to ;eac:.:e ( nations.' ; Ti.e position of 'he Ch':rm of Je-:s Christ j of Eatter-uay Saints is that the sandarii , wori:s oi the eh.irc'n are not. opos-rd to J the league of nations. Regrets Political Pressure. "as stated in 'vhai I hae read to you I resret ex'.-edii.ty thru this s.'eal and i impurt;i:u n,uest iu:i 'ml a ";.:ome. a. politl- j ral Issue and I desire to ask each and j all of the mom hers o'" t! e church that I have tho honor to preside overt in ah controversy in eoanection with this preat i tha". t'aey express themselves as ; to' their vie-s w!:U due de:"ere::,e to the or-irhot'S of oth.ers. "I regret exceedingly tliat in poutica; controversie-- -,en seem to hack thai courtesy cour-tesy and tr.;.' vospoot for their opponents that T belie-, e ail Li tier-day Saints ouslit to have. I have n-;ver jo: li?ard a Democrat Demo-crat make a poh.ti'-al speech that 1 felt was fair to tho Republicans. Boins: a I Democrat. I won't say anything of what I think o the speeches of Repu'olicans roardinc Derr. o'rnts. Nov." it is a stranpo thin?; thev say that love is blind, and i some ' peohie have added, 'and cannot t a'!.- Arid I have sometimes thought GUI URGES j (Continued From Page One.) i c.urstior. open before hostilities in reqard I : to submarine warfare and the '.reatment ; of us niitiot.a's in this cov:. try. All 'he prov.siors for our tn.de in Gerntar.y rah-ed i by tr.e wuiiomic clauses of fhe treaty. ! ntar.y of ti.eni ital to our industries and I our :arms, as :i dye patents. u"e sup-: sup-: plies and fertilizers, ih.e woikir. of the ; reparation commission which superintends the trade of all with Germuny could li i be brought up by Berlin for readjusl-, readjusl-, ment by our negotiators, act in? lor the j United States aloiie and no ioi.eer asso-j asso-j ciated with other vicori'-us plovers or supported by a victorious American army I on the German border. i "'Peace itself, the peace of the world. : is delayed until ratification coir.es. And a.r.y amendment po. t pones peace. Ger- 1 , many a::d Kr.gtai.d alone of ihe trincipai powers have, ratified. The other prmei-. prmei-. pals necessarily awa-t our aotior.. influential influ-ential and powerful as we ar3 todaj- in the world s affairs. The ravasrs of war on more than a score of t h h t i r g fronts are continued by any needless delay. Le; the senate pive the world e:.ce by rati-ihcatiori rati-ihcatiori without amendment. Shantung Clause Defended. " 'Even the amendment lor which most can be said, the provision in regard to Shar.tung1. v.-il! secure nothir.s which cannot can-not be gained if Ciiir.a. backed by the powerful advocacy of the United States, addresses itself to the machinery for rig-fit ing in terra, tior.a: wrongs and meeting meet-ing just claims created by the Icapue between be-tween nations. China, after eighty years cf oppressive 'treaties arid despoiled rights, by which ail the grat powers have profited directly or in directly, has would have done but for our help, instead of lesH than a hundred thousand of our boys slain, there would have been hundreds hun-dreds and hundreds of thousands who would- have fallen before we had won the i victory. I beiieve in my heart that it is our duty to stand by those nations that j stood the brun t of the battle and that I saved the lives, perhaps, of millions of our boys. "I am not sayinp that I would not be delighted if the terms of the league of nations, this covenant of peace, could be changed some; but they cannot be changed without submitting it again to Germany, and, to my mind, that would be a calamity." Ilhi.t blh sr.-ileni'"-i;s were true, and from my 'own nersonal cermet wi:h Republi-.-ans and Perno'.TaLs I "nave not been abie lo dlFcover tnai. what you ruieht call cliarit". y1: lie. Ior lne opinions of others! t'r.at oppose them politically, that j pee 'existinfr amonj,' o'.:r people. I am a thorough convert mvself to the idea that it is not possin'.e for all men to see alike, knowir.rx the remnrk that was made hy a'man once. He sr.id. 'It is a splendid thinLT that we don't all see alike, because if we did e'eerybodv wnuld want to marry my Fa'.'ly Ar.n. and tb.e other man re-ma"l'.ed. re-ma"l'.ed. 'Vcs. thank the Lord, if everybody' every-body' saw your Sally Ann as I see her nobody no-body on earth wonld have 'her and sho would die an old maid.' League Means Peace. I am a thoroneh convert in my feel-',! feel-',! V at the grvst nations of i:ngland, F--ance and the United States have common com-mon aims common des res and common obiects and that a league in which those throe riat'ons are combined means peace as la- as ve weak mortals can sain It 'or t'-e beneii! of mankind. The 3.100 m(t o-" iordtr between the United S'ittes and Canada, maintained for over hundred veirs without the slisthtest 1-0 i'iIo without any jrreat mrts such as ' ihev'i-ave had to have between Germany md' France and other Kuropean conn-Ir'e conn-Ir'e ies me absolute assurance in ,v heart that Great Britain and her sub-i.,'--s have the same desires for t.'.e wel-f-M-e of mankind and for the liberty of mankind tha'- we here in the United States have. . , brieve that but for toe tact ol our io'nins'in the eon.roversy in the great war Germany would nave conquered France and Great Britain, and Immedl-! Immedl-! thereafter would have picked a quarrel with the United States and tried to conquer this country. In a little ;.)ech of ten minutes, tne limit given to me when, as chairman representing you ,:,a state of Utah in selling Liberty l,oU(is' I attending a banquet in San r.-.incix.-o I announced that ve were ;,,',V to win the war: that there was no doubt of It in my mmd. abso.ute.y none. y accepted the statement ot an . , i,.';, I nrooT.et of the lii ing Gml that i.',:' detl hundreds ot years ago on this continent; that it wuts a .and cno.ee. il.ove all other lanns. and ti.at no l.ins 1 'should rule In this land. Changes Mean Calamity. 'Tverc-f'' T hart 00 fear 01 Germany , auv other cx.untry conquclng .hese j rni'.'-d States if Ann rica. none w.-.at- ; it-.! it" . Armani" ,ad conouered j riln'ce and Ki.land, uhic. I tehcie she' |