The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-04-23
NIT were invariably imposed upon
by the tricks of the burros, common
ly called by trail men, narrow
gauge mules. Us. F. Bulletin.
Money.

~ C8lIeO Oy tTall mcn, narrow
gauge mules. rs. F. Bulletin.
Money.
will endorse an article entitled
Mormon Money" which / think
ought to satisfy the most conserva.
tive minds what q government could
do in regard to establishing sub
treasures for the storage of grain
and which / think is the secret ol
Mormon success
If you 60 into the principal Of
fee of the tithing house. you will
see young man handling what
looks like money. He is behind a
counter, and the counter is pro-
tected by a high railing. The man
glances through the window, then
goes on thumbing them like a bank
teller. He goes to and from big
safe, carrying bundles done up just
as bills are, with little bands OF
brown paper pinned about them.
Sometimes the young man doesn't
stop to count, but takes the amount
on the brown slip as correct, and
passes ont the money. 1t is the tith-
ing script. It is used to facilitate
the handling of the grain and hay
and live stock and produce which
comes in. If you pick up one of
these you will find it very much
like bank note in appearance. In
one upper corner is the number of
the bill. In the lower left hand
corner is the hoe signo of Mormon
ism, beehive. The face of the bill
reads: General tithing store
house, good only for merchandise
and produce at the general tithing
storv-house, Salt Lake City, Utah. !"
Each note bears the signature of
the presiding bishop. On the back
is the denomination again, and a
vignette of the new temple at Salt
Lake City. The back also bears
the wording: "This note is not
current, except in the merchandise
and produce departments of the
general tithing-house." The en-
craving is we'll executed, and the
printing is well done. The bills vary
in color. There are green backs
for one department. of the tithing-
house, brown backs for another, and
so on. By using this script the
church is able to create a market
for considerable quantities of the
tithing. This script is given out in
dispensing charity. It is used for
paying for work on the temple so
far as the workmen can make use
of it. Employees Of the tithing-
house receive their salaries or al
lowances partly in script. In nu-
ways the Mormon money
gets into circulation.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
The Mormon church or the Nor
mon people are a cooperative ma
ton of themselves, and instead of
giving nine-tenths of what they
produce to the money lenders, as
we do, they only give one-tenth to
the church, or their government,
and they are furnished with a cir
culating medium without cost;
consequently they get the full share
of what they produce. Hence their
prosperity. think if this Mormon
question was sifted to the bottom
you would find a "nigger in the
wood pile" in the shape of a money
for the Mormon people
are not a money-borrowing nation,
and Shylock wants everybody to
have to borrow money. The Nor
mons can pick themselves up and
move to some other portion of the
country and set themselves down
and become prosperous, all on ac-
count of their understanding of the
science of government-or, in prop
sr language, the science of money.
am not saying this in defense of
NJ Mormonism, but only to show what
relation the finance has to the pros
perity. People often wonder at
he prosperity of the Mormon peo-
ple, and their understanding of
sound financial laws is the secret
IF their success.-The Watchman,
Mo.
The Guernsey Island market was
ouilt in very much the same way,
he labor and materials being paid
for in script made receivable at the
market for products. When the
building was completed and all of
The receipts taken up in payment
Of products Of the island, it was
gathered up and burned in presence
Of a mass meeting of the people.
The market had not cost one cent
in principal nor interest, but peo-
pie refuse to learn from incidents
IF this kind, referring to pay inter-
sst to Shylocks.
Two Boys.
The late Ex-Governor w. w. Hol-
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