Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-08-12

umnS OF eastern newspapers with thn
purport of some of Apostle Penrose
editorials. From the amount of spaca
Mr.. Meakin is able to secure in eastern
newspapers, he must be one of the
highest salaried officials on the church
payroll"
According to the above logic anv.
| one who speaks or is interviewed in
| the eastern papers or says anything
in favor of Utah or the Mormons. is .
salaried official on the Mormon nav.
roll. The Hon. Simon Bamberger was
interviewed at Los Angeles and he
praised Utah and her people as high.
ly as Mr.. Mealxin and by Todkin's rea.
soning he must be a paid official of the
Mormon church. Mr.. Fisher Harris
Mr.. w. S. Mccormick, Mr.. o. J. Sails.
bury, Mr.. Samuel Newhouse, the Rev
Elmer /. Goshen, Bishop Seaman and
hundreds of others who are inter.
viewed both at home and abroad. AL
ways speak of Utah as highly as Mr.
Meakin and according to Todkins lit
tie knocker they are all salaried Of
lficials of the Mormon hierarchy. Mr.
John P. Meakin is doing good work for
Utah In the eastern states, and if a
few more of Utah's citizens would 90
and help him in one year from now
the reverend knockers who go down
east on a campaign of SANDER and
graft would find their occupation gone
and they would either have to "plow
corn" or go hungry Whenever one
of these reverend knockers goes into
an eastern town and finds John p
Meakin's pamphlets Uplifting
Thoughtful Articles" or the special edi
ton of Truth of May oath, cold sweat
drops will stand out on his brow and
goose flesh will creep over his body.
He sees in these pamphlets and pa
pers the hand writing on the wall"
Compare Mr.. Meakin's interview m
the New York Journal and DR.. Paden
in the Chicago Tribune. Mr.. Meakin's
interview is like the morning sun over
r old Wasatch predicting a glorious day
for Utah. Mr.. Meakin speaks of our
mountains as the monuments of God
and their snowy SUBMITS are Crowns
upon their hoary heads" He tells of
wonderful canyons and beautiful val
leys and our farms where the hus.
band man unites his hands and brain
with the soil and the water, and brings
S forth crops in great abundance He
I praises our mines and smeters, our
, schools or churches and our insttu-
= tions and people. He uplifts Utah in
every way and puts it in proper
light before the world. His mission
q is for Utah and her people first, last
and all the time. Now look at Dr.
y Paden's interview in the Chicago Trib-
v une. 1t is like a sunset over dismal
e swamp after a dag of carnage, prosti
tuition and deba berry He pictures
Senator Smoot man of pure char
acter and marke,, ability as unfit to
J. sit in the United States senate along
O with Thomas Kearns, Frank ].
. Cannon, w. c. P. Breckenridge How
e dark disloyal and foreboding does this
preacher picture Utah and then covers
it all over with a hideous looking
Devil Fish" Mr.. Meakin upbuilds
Is and uplifts while DR.. Paden traduces
a. and tears down. Which is the better
le Christian? 1t was only a few years
ago that ministers of the gospel
thought that the only way they could
make converts and brighten people
into the churches was to preach hell
fire and eternal damnation. Every
S winter they would hold revivals in
H. which they would stir up the smoul-
dering fires of perdition by using in
as lfantS for kindling and old sinners for