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Show H j AnvPRTTSHAlBNT ADVERTISEMENT. I ADVERTISEMENT. I ADVERTISEMENT. ADVERTISEMENT. ADVERTISEMENT. IF H ADVERTISEMENT. AUwuiaiaimM. I I ? ij H . : H WE BEG TO ANNOUNCE THE APPEARANCE HERE OF RABBI JACOBSEN OF SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA, AT THE ORPHEUM THEATER, SUN- H DAY EVENING, JUNE 25, AT 8:15 P. M. ONE OF THE MOST GIFTED SPEAKERS IN THE UNITED STATES TODAY. HIS FAME IS NATIONAL. HE WILL 1 H SPEAK AGAINST PROHIBITION. ADMISSION FREE. GOOD MUSIC. SOLOISTS: SQUIRE COOP, FRED SMITH, M. J. BRINES. 1 Every issue before the American people can be ereign and names the servant; here the voter, free and called a moral issue by those seeking to cross the line untrammeled by any allegiance other than the conscience drawn by the American people which separates church and the power of reason, and acting within his free agen- and state, and if the demarkation appears to be but faint- LTelf aTn f kingS' beCmeS ly drawn those eager to supplant the civil with the eccle- Theanwho relinquishes that unequalled right of siastic will disregard the line altogether. Would it not be citizenship and yields it to another helps to destroy the well for those under suspicion of using church influence grandest form of government on the face of the earth and ' in politics to so conduct themselves that even when a fails to maintain the doctrine that the voice of the peo- questionable latitude is offered, they could say, "No, not pie is the voice of God; the citizen who bows down and even in the name of morality shall we place our church humbles himself before a churchman intruding in poli- and people in a position to evoke criticism." tics, on a question of public policy, in an issue of state, be- Utah, for the past ten years torn by dissension over means himself and invites a kingship and supports the the question as to whether the high church men are in monarchial doctrine of divine right of kings. Oh, what politics and as to whether they send out whispers to sway a surrender of manhood and what a confession of inferi- the faithful, was emerging from the gloom when, under ority! the pretext of serving prohibition, and assuming that the And all that is necessary as an excuse for the church other churches would wink at this interference, a priest- j supplanting the state and the citizen yielding to the king hood meeting was called. For what purpose? Mark the is that the issue is a moral one; is there anyone so dense answer. ' as not to realize that a precedent so established, whether To determine whether the church should dictate to any issue involving a policy of state can be determined the state a question of public policy. by a test of church allegiance, after a time that precedent Is that not outrageous outrageous because it is a re- must become the rule of conduct and be the accepted right flection on the church and will bring more trouble than of church, and then what of your republican form of gov- any other one act chargeable against the good name of a ernment and your individual right of citizenship? peace loving people, and outrageous because it strikes at A moral question? Let us see. A year ago the Dem- the fundamental principles of government based on pop- ocratic party in Utah unequivocally declared or state- ularrule. wide, unrestricted, unqualified prohibition. 7ould the The American form of government does not count- moral in that plank in the Democratic party so appeal to enance the sifting down of political judgment, but gives the church leaders in that election as to even evoke a to the citizenship the sole right to convey authority and word of approbation? shape the destiny of this republic. Authority comes from The Democrats had placed the principle above all the people and must be responsive to he will of the peo- else, had sacrificed any hope to obtain office in the cham- ple. In an absolute monarchy the King can do no wrong pioning of that cause, and yet when they appeal to those and is presumed to have divine rights. There the people who are now so sensitively moral as to see a moral in the are instructed as to the limits of their privileges and they issue whether liquor should be sold in wholesale quanti- are condescendingly granted certain liberties, but they ' ties by the manufacturers or be retailed by the saloon, are deemed untrustworthy in government and incapable they transfixed their petitioners with a cold and icy stare. of having a voice in government. They arevlooked on as Oh, the delicate morality of some;Oh, the craftiness the inferiors of their ruler and are held to be subjects. In of those who so nicely shade their opinions that what was America every citizen, whether of foreign or native birth, politics last fall is a moral issue now, and calls for church is clothed with sovereignty here the voter is the sov- interference. ' . i . . . , ; Toledo, Ohio, Hungurlan laborors ' H struck recently for $2 a day InstescJ H of $1.75. oo H VERNAL J. ROSE, M EX-CHIEF OF POLICE H OF KANSAS CITY, M KANSAS, WHO MADE $ SUCH A FAVORABLE : IMPRESSION BE- M FORE A LARGE AUD- m IJ?NCE ON THE CITY M HALL SQUARE THE OTHER EVENING, M WILL BE THE SPEAK- 'iM ER TONIGHT AT THE SAME PLACE AT 8:15 'jM OLOCK. MR. ROSE M WILL ANSWER SOME OF THE ARGUMENTS ADVANCED BY FOR- M M E R PROHIBITION : tM speakers. ym |