The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-09
SUFFERING FOR SMITH.

The Deseret News credits Joseph E.
Smith, president and prophet, seer and
revelator of the Mormon church, with
the following expression GU Friday
last IN his address at the opening Of
the seventy-seventh semi.annual confer.
ence &C his church:
IF / have wrongcd any man.
spiritually or temporarily in any sense
or III any form, I pray him to como
10 me and let me know wherein T have
wronged him OF done him any harm,
and L will go more than half way-I
will go more than the whole distaa.o, if
necessary, to make it right with him. -
The files of the Deseret News Will
show that this is an old way that Jo.
seph T. Smith has Of making good, -
if the familiar expression may be per-
mitted, with the saints. Whenever the
president wants to pose rs righteous
man in his church and saint before
the world, be plays the hypocrite in Just
so many words as are quoted above.
When Senator Overman, in the Smoot
investigation at Washington, asked Jo-
seph +. Smith, eff that is a reve-
lation, are you not viol- sing the laws
of God?" the president Of the Mormon
church replied; "I have admitted that,
Mr.. Senator, great many times here" +"
Did not Joseph F. Smith there con.
TESS that he had wronged every man in
the Mormon churcb}
But let any man In that church make
complaint because of that wrong, will
joseph f, Smith make it right with
him - to the extent of going Nhalf
way7" Experience has taught his peo.
pie that he will go f'more than the
whole distance TO get his scalp.
At the same Smoot Investigation 10.
seph T, Smith answered question pro-
pounded TO him by Senator Bailey in
these words: ''You are correct so
far-that / have confessed here openly,
and it has gone to the world-that
/ have not observed the law against
cohabitation with my wives. That is
all there is to it. -
Did not Joseph F. Smith there confess
that he had wronged every man in the
State of Utah and every man in the
United States Of America9
But every man in the Mormon church
Will eventually be able to take care Of
himself, and every man in the State
of Utah outside of the Mormon church,
and every man in the United States of
America who is a citizen, is thoroughly
able to take care of Joseph Z. Smith
and the event is not far distant,
And for this reason; Chairman Bur
rows of the Senate Committee on
Privileges and Elections presented this
proposition to the president of the
Mormon church: "Then you could
educate your children and clothe them
and feed them without having new is
sue7" And Joseph T, Smith
answered, "Well, yes; probably could,
but that is just exactly the kernel in
the nut"
Did Joseph t, Smith there confess
that he had wronged every woman in
the whole lands
But let any woman in Utah, or any
woman in the United States, call Joseph
F. Smith s attention to these wrongs
against them, and he sneeringly says
that they are impious, that they are
merely twaddling, and that their com
plaint is nonsense.
Now let every man and every wo-
man III Utah take notice that the fate
of Joseph F. Smith has been declared as
a verdict upon the unoffending heads
of those who would elsewise devotedly |
deem themselves to be his faithful fol- |
lowers, Read the language of the
report of the ma iority of the Committee
on Privileges and Elections of the |