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Show SENATOR SMOOT IS SCORED I BY ELDER B. H. ROBERTS H Tliat .Senator Iteeil Hmoot is en H tlrcl.v nMinible for drawing the H Latter-dav Saints ehurch inlo K)lltia uon the league of natioM iamie ami H thereto causing I'reaident Ileher J. (Irani of the church to Imuc a state- H ment declaring that the leaehinm of the church are for Ihe league of im- H tions and not against it, wna one of H the concluding deelarntioiM bv Urig. H bam il. Kober! in ins tqmth at Of H den last Monday evetiingliefare flf- H teen hundred person. The siwaker declared that on AnguM Stitd Viator Smoot gave out an interview to the H iM-wspaittr of the count ry in which H he declare. 1 that the ihietrine of the H Utter-daj Saints church i agninat H the league of nations. He said tbU H statement was followed In a stata- M ment b Fresiilent (Irani, September H Sltd, in which he said that the ehurch H teachings were for tho league of im- H tlona. M Kl.ler Itoherls declare.1 that I lie M senator made charge that the demo. H oralic wrt, through its DewoenstU Meaaeiwer, had dragged tho ehurch into the iMditical iwtue iiH)ii tlie M league, when, in truth, the senator M had brought the church into the bane. 1 a tiHinth Wforo the deimieratie pHr M was iwiiwl. The deelaratiun regard- 1 Ing Senator Kimmt came at the con- H olualou of an appeal to tho people of H Qgdun andWW county to oanslilbp 1 the ImjMvrlanee o' the li-agaa or m- " M lion. In dUeuwiong the jieaw mti, M Roberts said that the rtwtwm Ihe Unit- H e.1 State hail enoilte. a small M coterie of senalor lo keep the nation M out of Iho league wa lieau I h H band of ealatnilv had lain very lirht- M I) upon this count n H "If we had kat' mm millions e H the flower of our land," hi said, M "inatead of but Hight.viwa thousand, M which w.ml.1 make our romrtiontbt H same a that of Kngland or Krattee, H then would have mm a iliffatwt H slor We would have had enongh of H war, and no bunch of senators would H have dared to ign a round roWn to H keep us out of the league, widen in H sure iiae for its members." H He (xpreed eonfitWuee that tW H voter of Utah would suptort tboM who indorse the league H |
