Show I HOT SHOT THE PROHIBITION MOVEMENT NT CHICAGO March 30 m as tho power behind the tha demand for prohibition prohibition pro pro- was attacked vigorously rigorously yester yesterday day by M. M M M. Mangasarian in hi his lecture lee lec turo ture in in Orchestra hall before tho Independent Lido Indo pendent Religious society Tho The o cause of prohibition v ho id I is tho the cause of ot the church If on In April 7 illinois should voto in favor of prohibition tho church with mth nil all its sectarian sec e t lian artan branches will ride tlde into political power In the futuro future the two political parties will have havo to mako make terms termo with the fhe church This would mean the church churchin iii in politics I Whether or nr not it will Trill be bo well forthe for far forthe the country to havo the tho church in politics politics politics poli poli- tics can oan OW only be answered by studying tho the condition of those countries where the church is le in politics now and also of those countries in which tho church ha hao been in politics in tho the past The prohibition candidates are aro as a rule men selected by the church If they should be elected to office the they will willand willand and shall obey oboy tho the people who W who put ut them in power which means that prohibition if successful will turn over tho the interests inter inter- ests of a secular state into the hands of ot tho the ecclesiastics The Tho saloon iu in politics is bad too but can punish tax bleed and ond regulate the saloon whereas you JOU cannot even stop a church from ringing its bell much less ret get a R. cent from it by bv way of taxes tames Let the Americans o of at Illinois think twice before they tho vote volo tho the church into power To o encourage tho ulO state to encroach upon tho the sphere phero of individual action acHon and domestic lifo life is an exceedingly dangerous There Thero is no nos s swifter ter way t to stunt the growth growth of a nation or to emasculate it than than by placing in ing under government to tutelage men and wom women n who aro are of age |