The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-17


church has been telling the people in
| the East
The Mormon church is good instl-
| tuition. II has taken the poor man and
made him rich. but never the reverse.
Naturally the Deseret News quotes
| that utterance with great approval, 1t
saws that the lecturer has been telling
the Eastern people exactly what Nor.
monism really is; that he has been con-
veying to a waiting world the truth of
the Mormon mission.
With that lecturer dissertation on
the theology Of the church The Tribune
makes no issue. He is a pretended Gen
tile. but he has doubtless been coached
by the prophets, seers, and revelators
until he fully understands the doctrine
Of many Gods But with his assertion
that the Mormon church has never
made any man poor, but has always
made its poor people rich, the facts of
current history not only make issue but
afford absolute contradiction.
A man died in the Weber county
poorhouse within ten days past and was
buried at public charity. He had paid
tithes to the Mormon church through
his years Of productiveness. Had he
placed his money in a good savings
bank il would not have been denied TO
him in his time of old age and infirm-
ity; the bank would not have cast him
into the poorhousc to escape RESPONSE
bility for an accounting OF the money
which he had deposited in its vaults.
The Mormon church Impoverished him
by its eXac tions and left him, as far
as it was concerned. to die in a ditch
and I'LL pauper S grave. The man was
Abel c. Dunbar. That is one case
which contradicts the paid Mormon
lecturer, and he stands branded with
falsehood.
Robert Lsvisch, an inmate of the
Salt Lake county poorhouse, was for
many years a tithe payer Of the Nor
mon church and was employed by the
Deseret News. church institution.
During his period Of service in the
News bindcry Office as a bookbinder,
his tithe was deducted from his pay
each week. After many years of work
for that concern he was attacked by
bookbinders paralysis; and, having in
vested his savings as tithcs in the cof-
fers of the church, he was thrown into
the county intirmary. Circumstances
required that he be brought into court |
as witness IN a certain case, and |
that poor wretched paraIytc, on win
ter day, appeared before public tri. |
bunal clad in overalls, shirt, thin !
coat, straw hat and shoes, without |
any stockings or undercIothng. The
poor wronged creature was shivoring |
in his cold and misery. Before that |
court he testified to his having been a !
member of the Mormon church and tcs- |
him by Mormon superintendent Of the |
almshouse. Had Robert Lavisch in. |
vested his money in savings bank. |
conducted by honest men, he would |
have been spared the degradation and
misery which the church inflicted on
him in his old age. There is another
case which fatty contradicts the paid
Gentle lecturer for the Mormon
church.
Multiplied details could he given, but
they are unnecessary. That paid lee
,urer is as much of falsifier as the
chief hierarch is CRATER They form
a precious pair. The tithes extracted
from the poor people by the greed of
the hierarch arc paid TO the lecturer
to 60 away and spread plausible lies
in favor of the hierarch and TO blind
his poor dupes.