The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-07-24


er who will take orders from political
parties.
III you prefer 10 sleep with the saloon
rather than 70 see the republicans or
democrats defeated. Go 20 sieep. m
child" have no words for you
Politics VIII pan thc nose Of the church
just as long as the church will permit
st.
Tis now, nearly three years since our
great national parties fcasted on Metho-
dlsts. Next year. they will break Their
fast on you and a dainty meal for Them
YOU Wi. be II you are beasts. you WI
stand like Fat oxen. waiting Tor the bit
chcrs knife. II ye are mon. strike Down
the petty tyrants who revel in your
wealth. who make havoc m your fair
fields. desolate your churches ami cause
more perdition in a month than you can
cure Ia a year.
Learn a lesson IN politics from the R0-
manlst from the liquor men from the
Mormous with no such motive as ours
they stand superior to party, and parties
haste TO please them
1--WE are In a grave and serious times
"1s Methodsm dead2'
Restrictive and prohibltory Legisla-
ton" was discussed by Bishop Charles
3 Galloway. Jackson. Miss and Rev. X
J. Cook. Chattanooga, Tenn.
Mr. Cook said " part:
THAT the churcl is right that her op-
position TO restricu.e laws that do not
restrict Is well grounded, that her de-
mands for prohbitory laws IS based up
on sound. moral, political and economic
principles ds no longer a debatable ques-
ton. Prohibition is no longer confined to
the Sunday school. the pulpit and polti-
cal derellcts. Il has now become a world
question The baneful influence Of the ID
uor truflc on the military power Of ma
ton r. pointed out by the military lead
ers Of America and England Wolsely
Kitchener Miles. shafter and every lead
er OF men In great movements. These
men make history for a nation, stand for
prohfbitlve laws and they all condemn
the canteeu. The people and the congress
OF the United States condemn the cam
teen. And the only reason given by the
highest legal authority in Washington,
for continuing the canteen is that con-
trary to the genius, the meaning. the
structure the usage OF the English Lam
guage for a thousand vars, the word 2
no other person means every other per-
SON Thank God when we have to root
up and destroy the English language IN
order 10 establish the liquor traffic the
last ditch IS in sight. Some day. Lincoln
will ait In Washington and write anotner
bM Of Emancipation for the millions q
his oountrymen.
"The problem now confronts the indus
trial world as never before and the ia
dustrial world decides largely In favor
Of prohihitive laws.
Industry representing the bralEs, the
labor ana the wealth Of the nation de-
clares through government report that
restrictive laws are no prohchiton
against the labor destroying powec Of the
LIQUOR business. Can these indictments De
set aslde9 Restrictive laws do not res
trict That is the verdict Of the govern
ment revenue. it is the verdict Of crime,
OF poverty of labor. and OF the manufac'
turing and industrial interests OK the ma
ton at large.
1T may be that nothing move Than res
friction will become a universal law II
may be that restrictive laws win become
more rigorous as a fact OF thels present
more rigorous as the fact OF their present
weakness grows upon the untrv, but l
insit that II We are 90 nave restrictive
laws the laws should be evsrywha-e equal
There should no he one law fnr the men
in the country and anottsr '1w fer the
men g. the city II Il IS illegal 10 buy,
sold or give away intoxicating liquors
liquors IN the country, It should be equal
ly criminal IN the cities and incorporated
towns.
"The time has come WHOM Christian
forces should make a new alignment
when Christian voters shou 1lly them
selves with the leaders Of labor and io-
dustry. with the working man and 'he
manufacturer. and crush forever. the foe
0f commerce the enemy or labor, the pro
moter Of poverty, Of heavy taxes, and The
insprer OF crime such as Is committed no
where else on earth but where the saloon
Is a recognized institution before the law.
Let there be new alignment Let
the church Of God stand READY TO form A
league offensive and defensive with any
and every power welding the ballot In
shaping the thoughts OF men. Let her
leaders be seen In workingmen's conven-
tions. let them confer with the leaders
OF labor. and the managers Of industry.
ana thus array against thS AHIeaAta4h-
able enemy OF all, the concentrated ire
sistable power OF all"
In the absence Of Hon Frederick d.
Fuller. of Topeka Kas.. Rev. T. C.
nine OF salt Lake City took his place on
the program and spoke on "Mormonism.
He said In part
The liVliest question in the minds Of
the American pe0pio at this moment Is:
Shall The polygamist Brigham II. Rob
erts be allowed 10 retain a seat in the
56th cohSvess?' II Is significant Of public
sent ment 10 zee with what enthusiasm
the great audiences assembled here have
provided utterances relative 10 The ex-
pulsion OF DR.. Roberts,
''Mormon.sm In doctrine. ia spirit, IN