Show 1 MACHINERY AT hAND D. D I r rI j I I 1 Every Evory community waits for tor Its leadIng leadIng leading lead lead- ing men amen Men ten of ot power become leading lend lead ing ng men because o the they Initiate Naturally Naturally Na Na- that eort sort are arc prominent In too tao Mormon establishment Naturally that sort Is more receptive to the tho In Inducements In- In we wo have o mentioned nn an and the tite arguments advanced nd The They be began n simplY as citizens But as opposition to prohibition developed it became a avery avery very caS easy thing thing almost almost an nn Inescapable inescapable i able ablo thing for thing for prominent Mormons to invoIce invoke some aid from tram their church machinery Understand wo we 0 do not say the Mormon Mormon Mor Mor- mon church authoritatively urged Its members to enact prohibition It did didI I not even countenance tho exercise of ef I ecclesiastical authority which some of or orIts Its it-B members injudiciously essayed And we C think the church can not be Justly justl blamed for tor its attitude even attitude even of ot silence and inaction It could not with ith propriety propriety propriety pro pro- declare either for tor or against tho the enactment of ot laws Ians b by the tho legis legis- lature laturo And those were not Its best friends who ho holding authority in that bod body sought to create creato the time Impression that their church authorized such action Tho Those e c men who sent their ur urgings through usual church channels knowIng know know- lag InS the tho effect that It would have ha on devoted communicants did a n thing which will one da day be bc recognized as ns vastl vastly wrong wrong vastly vastly harmful to their own people Their strong desire desire so so initiated ao so o indorsed Indorsed plade mado them employ amplo church machinery tacitly permit the tho belief r rIn In absolute church authority for their labors in favor of ot a prohibition law And It placed tho the real authorities of ot the church in the tho hard position of ot not being able openly to disclaim without with with- out being charged with Influencing legislation or on tho the other hand openly openly open open- J ly Indorsing without the tho same Interpretation interpretation Inter inter- being placed on tho the pro pro- Real Really tho Mormon ormon church wild said nothing It took tool the time only course possible possible possible pos pos- sible either cither from tram established policy or from sagacious foresight And Itis it itIs itIs Is unfortunate that all an Its members were not so 80 c careful |