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Show GOSHEN FLAYS UTAH REFORMERS "Most Autocratic Church in America Dictates Legislation." Legisla-tion." Minister Says "Lincoln's greatest gift as a statea- mer I. Ooahen In tbe course of an eloquent lecture on that statesman at Ithe Tint I i r.Ktegatlonal church Inst I Bight, I "He ts succeeded at the present time J In state leglsUturws and federal offices of-fices by men w ho have neither his abll- j itv. nor his vlsiui. nor his moral in-, tegrtty of seeing a purpose clear, and following it without any turning to the right or to the left. The one nAme that will eventually j stand next to his in the apostolical eu - j cession of America's great and good 'men. is that of Wood row Ylls.n. who, through the course of five years, saved the face and the fame of this country, uved it from financial ruin by the greatest piece of financial legislation wc have ever known, unit ended his! ,1 r 1. the moat magnificent at-l ternpt to aeh the hell hounds of war' that mankind has ever witnessed. He J suffered from the same clans of people who counted no shame deep enough to heap upon the character of Lincoln in the time of his country's stress." 1 I M.I III l RJU VI 01 HI ol.T. "Throughout this country at this moment there Is a Widespread undercurrent under-current of rcvoll m i crime "nd discontent. discon-tent. The constitution enabling the people to enjoy the right of liberty I .md the pursuit of happiness Is being I Interpreted b) 11 group of long-haired legislators, or both sexes, who Like that constitution to mean that the legislators, of both sexes who take away from tin' people, little by little, and more and more everything that we know as liberty, und all that Wg mean bv baPPlneaa With unemployment causing hard times In the homes of the people, and a crime wave unpnr-nlleled unpnr-nlleled In our history sweeping over our cltls vvc .ire .lSked to :ie npou n group of legislators of the State of t'tah gathered together In Salt Lake "it v spending the people's time and th people's money deciding whether a full grown irucn may smoke a clgar-et. clgar-et. In a little while they will be equally busy deciding whether von may r to I picture show or a baseball game OS Sunday Then undoubtedly un-doubtedly they will follow their mad craze by deciding whether a man may kiss his Wife on Sunday. Their whole mental temper la such that tbsy will be hound to take the one step too many which will eventually result in widespread contempt for law und nn outbreak of Bolshevism and anarchy that will make Russia look like a kindergarten." kin-dergarten." I M M K.ll IIM l MCfDS "They do not know, are not ublo to recognize the distinction between flr.t and secondary matters. Their whole Httltude to human kind Is that men and women are puppets to be made to do this or that us it pleases their un-llghtened un-llghtened and dictatorial minds "Some of my friends In ogden, 1 hear, were kind enough to lndnute that I am In the employ of the tobacco rrust that my only business hero Is to help their interests. Twenty -two j care ago I commenced mi ministry hre so the very 4pot where now I st-md. 1 was bought by nobodv then, 1 have been bought by nobody since, end nobody no-body ever will be ahlo to bUJ the Utterance Ut-terance of my lips The; x:ild the same kind of thing when I opposed the prohibition movement It was as untrue un-true then us it Is now. 1 saw the prohibition pro-hibition movement as the beginning of a series of reform movements which would have, as their result, not a higher regard for law. but a greater 1 ontempt for it, and I am living to see my prophecy proven true. There wn only one thing to do with the organ-izeil organ-izeil liquor traffic, and that w.is to take it out of private hands und put It under un-der government control. The movement move-ment to prohibit it altogether has made of tho home a brewery and of the place of residence a convenient distillery- ' si m 1 n MORONI "IJberty as a priceless heritage, happiness as a consummate aroni. are Ideals of our government into which lour children ought to be trained. They will not he trained by repression, I inhibitions and prohibitions. At the present moment t'tah's h h-lniion is I being dictated by men. members of the most autocratic religious organization In America who regard men and wo- men as the subjects of their com- ! mauds. The people must be herded to do as they say told to do what they I wish. And here In I 'tah It will bo God help us If the statue of Moroni ever becomes more significant than .the Goddess of Libert) ' Impressionistic, dramatic, phrased n 'a perfect galaxy of wondrous English. Dr. Ooshen held tho attention of his audience for an hour. Here causing them to break out into loud applause, and there causing strong disapproval, but always provoking the mind to vigorous and fundamental thought. on |