The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-20
Mr.. CANUOu'S
FLAT DEUZALS
Continued from Page ~

one OF the original incorporators, aut
that for seventeen or eighteen year;
after 1t was established neither my
self nor any other stockholder derived
)! a dollars profit from it. Several be
came discouraged and disposed of tleil
stock ! thought there was future
1or the bank. ana retained mine, anC
encouraged others to retain theirs
I This is the height of my Office in con
neet1on with the banking business. The
I STOCK that [ own l paid for, and nc
human being can truthfully say that
personally, or that myself and associ
ates, ever took the least advantage OF
ene people or in any manner made pro
| ut out OF their confidence.
The next charge is that am a mer-
chant because ! am connected with
| lions Cooperative Mercantile InStitu-
| ton.
| If connection with that institution
makes me a merchant, then 1 suppose
am a merchant. When the idea of
| cooperating together for mercantile
! purposes was first preached I took hold
OF 1t earnestly and used all the fnf1u-
ence had, both in writing and in pub
lie addresses, to set forth the advan-
| taSes to the people Of such Il method
of doing business. 1t is a matter of
! great satisfaction to me that l have
| been connected with lions Co-opeTa-
| tive Mercantile Institution from the
day of its inception to the present
| time. For many years [ acted as one
of the board Of directors without re-
| ceiVing cent of compensation In
| fact, it is only within the past six or
seven years that I have received any
| remuneration for services. and in that
! time have only received the same
amount as the other directors.
The next charge against me is that
[ am an editor, and though this anony-
nous writer gives me credit for ability.
! he complains that I have an excess of
! caution, which destroys my gift for
writing and speaking and that when
| people turn to me for light [ deliber-
ately refuse to emit it.
| This is unfortunate-for me, at least;
| it may not be SO great loss to the
public.
The next accusation Is that 1 am a
! publisher, and this is set down as a
something that is very wrong-at least
| judge so by it's being made one of
| the counts in the indictment against
me.
am publisher ] started the Jul
venile Instructor nearly thirty years
ago. My chief motive in doing go was
the deep interest I felt in the ,educa-
ton of the young. [ saw them grow
ing up without suitable literature 1
aspired to furnish the children with a
periodical that would be of benefit to
them. For years 1 spent means on
this little magazine, in order to get 1t
started. OF course, 1 did my own
printing. But it occurred to me, as
my children were likely son to be at
an age when they would require EN-
ployment, that I might provide them
with the means of making a living
through an establishment Of this char
acter. have always had a dislike to
having my children dependent upon
my influence for positions in which to
earn their bread. I have seen the
painful consequences which have fol-
lowed the death of men whose infu-
ence had furnished their sons en-
ployment, and l have desired that my
children should learn to be self-sus-
tanning For this reason I have en-
deayored to make the publishing house
of George Q. Cannon & Sons company
an institution which would furnish
employment for those of my children
who might have q taste for such work.
Is there anything improper in this?
The next charge against me is that
one of my sons is the editor of the
Deseret Evening News, and another
has business control Of varied publ
cations, including the News.
y
lease the Deseret News property, no
one connected with that paper i'm
agined they were obtaining a good
thing On the contrary it was feared
that they would lose heavily or be COM
PEELED to throw up their lease. This
was my own fear: for my experience
in this line of business was sufficient
to make it clear to me that there was
no money in the undertaking, with
the conditions which then prevailed
Yet I studiously avoided having any
thing to do with the leasing of the
property to them. Throughout the en-
tire transaction, as president of the
Deseret News company, ] left every
thing to a committee, explaining to the
board of directors my reasons for do
ing so-that it might be said it was at
my suggestion or through my infu-
ence that these young men obtained
this lease. All who are familiar with
newspaper publishing in this town
must know how puerile is the charge
of family aggrandizement in this; for
if anyone has made money out of
newspaper publishing in Salt Lake
city, the fact has not yet come to my
knowledge.
Allusion is made to my brothers
holding church positions; and to dis
torting this fact to make it appear
that through my influence this was
done, is as baseless as the other
charges. At the time my brother An
gus was appointed president Of Salt
Lake stake, [ was in Washington.
knew nothing of the appointment IN
til it had been made. I had never
heard his name mentioned in conNec-
ton with it, and his appointment was
quite as unexpected to me as it could
have been to anyone else. I can say
the same respecting the position that
placed there at my instance; it was
done in the first place by President
Brigham Young, and altogether with
out my prior knowledge.
am accused of being a prime fac
tor in establishing the sugar factory,
and it is intimated that 1 derive, in
some way not described, great advan-
tages from it.
In order to obtain an attendance Of
the members of the board Of directors
of the Sugar company, it was decided
to allow $3.50 to each member who
should be present at regularly called
board meetings. It has not been my
good fortune to attend very many Of
these meetings, consequently [ have
not had as naAy items of $3.50 as some
of my friends on the board. But this
IS the only enaoIument or benefit Of
any kind that I have derived from the
sugar factory A more despicable
falsehood never was uttered than that
which intimates that the faithful
were improperly invoked and induced
to take from their little savings to
contribute towards the encouragement
and establishment of this institution
It is intimated that became rail-
road proprietor through the use of GER
tain moneys given for the express use
uses Of the Saltair railroad and beach
interests.
The writer mlno thus ISLANDERS r,na