Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-02-18

he wasn't swlndloi at all, that ans
charge or fraud is ridiculous, that 90,
transaction was ia every way stralgh
and legitimate. AZ TO the romance ID
any doal In "cousecratod' stock 10 thai
mining property, there were variou
other Stockholders In the company aDt
al haI tho same understanding ns &c
the "c0nsocfai0n" Of the stock
President Cannon again is the only
one mentioned, yet each and oil The
others can tc.tiy that the Times 90.
count OF his prodting BY il is utterly
untrue.
A. 10 HE real estate belongings,
either Of property that Ut one time was
supposed TO belong to the Church, or
any other property, President Caunon'i
purchases havobeen In every case open,
legitimate ana according 10 contract.
lie ~ not the only fotl estate owner in
Utah; there hro others who have
bought property nt ths same time ani
Ia some cases from tho same parties
that no did, wbllo no and
HE family arc alone mentioned
bic right Of possession is a.
unclouded and as free from suspicion
We anything Of tho kind ever was In
the world. The same may % said u
ownouhip Of banking stock ami stock
la n. G.. 81. T., both Church concerns
the Z,mcs Wishes II understood, and
both we beg 10 ray, good sound instI-
buttons IN which no one need De
ashamed 10 bu either a sloogholdor OF
an official
The nez count Ia The indictment is
that Pfaldu1t Cannon T. on editor, The
posscss5r II "undoubtod literary nbil.
ity,n and that tho Establishment
which boau bic name prints a good
many b00ks, magazines, etc. Well %
there any crime IN all thu2 AMI b
there anything 20 hein0us iu The fact
thut two OF bis sons nro the
principals AS loisues (n1t owuof.l OF
Tho nHEgEr NEws aud iis publlca'
,lon,2 President Cannon himself had
the least 10 do Of all the parties cau-
cernod In tho Arrangement % that
tense; no knew nothing about % until
IT, contamination waB VOL under wuY
aud certainly there H. not ono q the
stockholders n tho original company
who raised bic voice against tho coz
cluslon Ofnn agreement which incy
regarded 10 highly favorable In that 10
relieved them all OF the financial rick
and responsibility, which the lolao1s
took upon themselves.
The Utah company comes In Tor o
tremendous attack, % do the sugar
factory, the Sal, Lake aui Los Augr-
les railroad, 5alialf Beach (which 10
described a. magnificent but of which
the Infamous inlsrhoJd 10 told that Il
was partly built by money do
mated Tor the completion Of the
romplej. In all OF those vas. enter.
prisss President CAnnon's connection
Is referred 10 a. though It were blame
worthy; and yet there 10 no soiu-
tnla Of truth in a single unworthy
motive attributed to him or In any
charge Of single improper OF suspicious
business Transaction. Ho 10 the arch.
o1nsplralor who, Of all those associated
with those companies, 10 the one that
has to occupy W much Of the 7.msI
writer's attention anu W much Of tue
Tms' space.
We have not yet reached the charges
OF his political influence, ranging
not only all over Utah, but developing
itself also In tue Idaho politics Of
TOW yeab ago. what with "tost oaIhs,'
and conhlitutiOu.makiug, and change
Of front and no on nnd no forth, tho
Salt Lake correspondent Of tho New
York Tunes has found much matter Tor
his poisonous assimilation. But tho
continuation Of the subject viii do for
another day.