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Show ELECTION IS SUBJECT OF SERMONS Many Pastors of City Urge "Dry" Vote in Pulpit Utterances. 1 Tester day was an leeediagly "dry" Saaday ia moat of the churches of Bait Lak City. Ia view of tomorrow tomor-row 'a election the pastor took it upon themselves to utter a Anal warning of the dangers of the liquor traffic, and many urged, indirectly, at least, that every good eitixea vote "dry" in tomorrow to-morrow ' eon teat. tho Bev. Greer Alvin Foote of 'West-minster 'West-minster Presbyterian church took exceptions ex-ceptions ia his morning sermon to the methods of the Manufacturers' ana Business Men's association in fighting tha "dry" and branded aa untruthful untruth-ful many of the atatementa issued by the aaeoeiatioa daring the campaign. Ia concluding, he said: "Get back to God. my friends; go to the nolle next Tuesday with the voice of God in your ears; decide this qnes-tooa- fioaa a were I,-from a apirftaal standpoint; listen to. the voice of your conscience and let your ballot be in obedience to that voice; the law may be weak, th law is weak, but ir i could vote I should cast my ballot against the saloon." The Bev. C. B. Noel of the Central Christian church took as his subject "The Impending Issue." The speaker referred to the drunken deaths of Babyloa, Carthage, Athens and .Rome and predicted that history will repeat itself and that the American nation is andangered from the liquor traffic to a great extent at thia time. The speaker undertook to show how impossible im-possible it would be for prohibition to mak time harder, and closed with a strong appeal to hi congregation to vet "dry." Dr. Pad an at Presbyterian. - Tbe Rev. Dr. William M. Paden of tbe First Presbyterian chureh discussed dis-cussed local option in hie sermon apropos of th election tomorrow. The speaker called attention to th fact that though there may be no disastrous disas-trous results in taking a-doe of morphine mor-phine or a shot of "hop," there would be disastrous results were hop joints and drug den legalixed, end he aaid that the liqnor t raffle question might be thought of ia the same light. Dr. Paden aaid the voters have been called upon to exercise a option tomorrow to deride whether or not there shall be saloon. At the7 quarterly stake conference of the Belt Lake stake in assembly halUlast night Nephi L. Morris, stake president, and other "take authorities all spoke of the evils of . fhe saloon and urged "dry" yotea in tomorrow's election. Condition In nnai , x At th tabernacle John Marshall, formerly aaaistaat attorney general of Kansas, told "What Prohibition Has Don for Kansas" from the standpoint of a prohibitionist. The sneaker predicted pre-dicted the end of the saloon throughout through-out the length aad breadth of the land, and said that unless the saloon do go the eburches will go instead. The death ktruggle is on in earnest, he said, and one or the other must go. Mr. Marshall said that arguments being need by th anti-prohibitionists in Salt Lake City at this time were obsolete ia Kansas years ago. All of the old argument of the "sntis," he said, have long sine been overcome by tha prohibitionists. |