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Show THE PRESS-BULLETI- N, BINGHAM, UTAH. - -- ' - - - - ' ....... - J Make America First On Second The prosperity and stability of State and Nation de-pend upon the election of the Republican ticket Vote for Harding and Coolidge and a straight Congres- - Legislative, State and County Republican Isional,Make this an Overwhelming Republican Victory ERNEST BAMBERGER, Republican National Committeeman HBBH and supporters. To say that anything in the covenant empowers foreign governments to order our soldiers to foreign soils to settle foreign disputes is to proclaim an untruth both baseless and wicked. Thirty-nin- e nations, including every great power except the United States, have entered the league of nations with a full understanding of every obligation assumed. Although the respon-sibilities of the covenant apply to them precisely as they do to us, opposition has been confined to a few perfectionists on one side and to small groups of irreclaimable Tories on the other. Is it conceivable that all the progressive peoples of the earth, barring only ourselves, have signed away their liberties and sur-rendered their war-maki- ng power to an authority beyond their control ? If the United States is ever to assume a position of honor, dignity and power in the complicated affairs of the world its statesmen and its political parties must have some regard for truth. The Republican national committee's 5,000 falsifiers are going to be exposed some day, but the mischief that they will do will be lasting. It will poison our foi'eign relations for years to come. It will be an incentive to demagogy and deceit on the part of every turbulent racial cr r.ati-rr- l group. Can the Repub-lican party itself afford to win an election with a deliberate false-hood? N. Y. World. FIVE THOUSAND FALSIFIERS. Friday and Saturday of last week the Republican national committee, its various treasuries well supplied with money, for-mally opened the presidential campaign. Five thousand speakers, all of them well coached and most of them generously paid, took the stump. Never before in the history of American politics was there a program so comprehensive and costly. With military precision, every man has ;i sphere of operations assigned to him. For six weeks to come their one objective will be the ballot box. If this mighty demonstration of partisan vigor and efficiency were honestly directed it would be inspiring in many ways, but its lack of honesty was everywhere in evidence. From the speeches delivered by the leaders we are able to estimate the utterances of all. The keynote of Senator Harding, Senator Lodge, former Justice Hughes, Candidate Miller in New York and National Chairman Hays, not to mention others, was most forcibly sounded in the words of the last-nam- ed orator when he said that the question which the people were to decide was "whether foreign governments were to order soldiers of this country to foreign soils to settle foreign disputes." We have had many political contests involving conflicting policies, misunderstandings, prejudices, ignorances and warring interests, but this is the first time that a great party has taken up its position upon an unqualified falsehood. The purpose is to discredit and defeat the existing league of nations and its authors '; Elder James E. Talmage "No, no, it was not intended that this nation should be for-ever shut off from the rest of the world. If we have anything better than the other nations have, let us as Americans give it that the world may be made the better for it. That is the spirit of 'Mormon' propaganda, that is the spirit of our missionary serv-ice, and it will be the spirit of the service that this nation shall render to the rest of the world." Elder Richard II. Lyman: T would be untrue to the blood that flows in my veins, I would be untrue to that father of mine, Francis M. Lyman, who was a lover of liberty, who in all his lifetime hoped and prayed earnestly for the nations of the world to so organize that blood-shed might be averted I say I would be untrue to all of these if I were to refrain from speaking in the interest of the proposed covenant. If Francis M. Lyman were here today to speak as he has spoken many times, on occasions like this, he would say, as I say now. T am prepared to do my duty as I under-stand it, and I accord to others the same privilege. Let me make it clear that I stand firmly for the league of nations. In the days to come I expect to see no time in which I shall regret hav-ing taken this stand.' " Elder Melvin J. Ballard : "One of the questions discussed at this conference is not a political question. I protest against its being a political ques-tion. There is no election that this would affect at all in the future. It is a statesman's question, and I say that I thank the Lord that we have a prophet in our midst who spoke not for the Latter-da- y Saints, but for the whole world on this great prob-lem." Elder Richard W. Young: "In conclusion, if you will pardon something which sounds like profanity, but which is uttered reverently and with a pro-found sense of what I conceive to be our duty, for God's sake let us stand behind this League of Nations." .Political Advertisement) LAHER DAY SAINTS FAVOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS The following endorsements of the League of Nations will be read with interest at this time by our many readers, through-out Utah county and even to the farther parts of the state. Some people would try to make it appear by misrepresentations that the church leaders are against the league, but the following ex-pressions speak for themselves and if the opposition can refute them we welcome the contradition. President Heber J. Grant "I am convinced in my own feelings that Great Britain, France and the United States have common aims, common desires, common objects, and that a league in which those three nations are combined will mean peace as far as the acts of na-tions can bring peace to mankind. I believe in my heart that it is our duty to stand by those nations that stood the brunt of the battle and that saved us the loss of perhaps millions of our boys in the great struggle. I am not saying that I would not be delighted if this league of nations, or the terms of the covenant of peace, could not be changed in some particulars, but they can-not be changed without submitting the treaty again to Germany. To my mind that would be a calamity." President Charles W. Penrose T have read tho propositions for a covenant of peace care--f 'illy, over and over, and over again, and I find that nearly every-thing that some of the great men and statesmen want to put in the pact is there already, and some of the things they want taken out are not there at all. I say here, that to my mind it is one of the grandest things ever presented to the people of the world. There is nothing anywhere to be compared with it. Do I say it is perfect? No, but it provides means for its perfection, or for its correction, plenty of means provided for anything that needs to be put into it, or anything that needs to be taken out of it, just as it was with our great Constiution of the United States." Elder George F. Richards: "I believe that had there been a League of Nations, such as the one now offered, when Germany launched this war, it never would have been accomplished and the world would have been saved all the loss of life and property and the broken hearts the war entailed. "I have been used to the inspiration of the Spirit of God and, If I am not mistaken, I have inspiration upon this subject; that it is God's way of helping to establish peace and good will on earth, and I am not sure but that a fight against the League of Nations as it has been presented to the senate of the United States for ratification is a fight against God. May He deliver us, I pray, and guide us right in all things." Elder Orson F. Whitney: "I am in hearty accord with the inspired teachings of my brethren. I haven't a great deal to say on the subject of the League of Nations, but I can say that I am heartily in favor of it." Elder Anthony W. Ivins: "I feel certain that no plan will succeed, no matter who is its author, or when it may come, to which the majority of the people are opposed. I am just as certain that the present plan, or any other like unto it, will succeed beyond our fondest hopes, provided the people of the world will unite in a determined effort to estab-lish and maintain it." "BOYS, GET THE MONEY." There may be some dispute and some debate about the exact-ness of Governor Cox's figures of the Republican slush fund, but there can be no denial of the fact that he has shown by official Republican documents that commercialism is written all over the Republican campaign organized commercialism. "Boys, get the money" is the refrain that runs through every line of the Repub-lican campaign. "Harding and Coolidge have the confidence of the people but, boys, get the money. The platform is sound enough to hold the weight of the nation but, boys, get the money." This is simply another example of Republican reaction. It is back to Dudley's "blocks of five" ; it's a return to Quay's "shak-ing ,the plurn tree." The general staff of the Republican party in their plan of campaign do not rely on appeals to reason, to patriotism and right; they rely on money. The candidate is a great and good man but, boys, get the money; America first but, boys, get the money ; an understanding amongst the nations of the world is great and glorious but, boys, get the money. Too many American boys have recently died for their coun-try for us to put the presidency up for sale to the highest bidder this year. (Political Advertisement Why Wedding Ring la Plain. From the early times gold was used for the wedding ring, and tradition has it that the ring should be abso-lutely plain. It hns been long reeog. nixed thnt the diamond ring enn never replace the plain band ring. A reason for the preference given to the ring without the setting Is offered by Fuller In his "Holy State," where he says; "Marriage with a diamond ring fore-shadows evil, because the interruption of the circle augured that the recipro-cal regard of the spouse might not bt perpetual." Wheedling Lion. Lions are not tempted, like other an-imals, t9 strict obedience to their trainer' commands by the offer of luscious foods. Practically every ani-mal but the lion Is taught to do what Is wanted by giving It a reward every time It does It or makes an effort to, either a lump of sugar or a vegetable or a hit of fish or some other thing of which It Is fond. This Is Itnpossihle with the lion, as It eats only meat and Is only allowed a certain amount of that. Thl Increases tlifc dlftlculty of the lion tamer. |