The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-15
That Pompous
Relief Charity

Take heed that ye do not your aims
! before men. 10. be seen OF them other
wise ye have no reward of your Father
which is In heaven.
Therefore, when thou doest thine aims.
do not sound a trumpet before thee, as
the hypocrites do in the synagogues and
in the streets. that they may have glory
OF men.
Thus does ST. Matthew (chapter 6,
verses l and . repudiate the hierarch-
zeal hypocrltes who gave performance
IN the tabernacle on Sunday afternoon.
Let Joseph answer this question:
Has the church ever before passed
resolution to enable you to make any
given expenditure from the tithing
| fund2
The truth Of the whole matter is that
the sniveling Smith outfit desired TO get
little cheap potoriety, and they hit
upon the plan of making a comparative
ly miserable contribution to the starv-
ing Chinese, Their principal object was
to publicly fawn upon the call of the
President of the United States, while
yet they secretly hate the very, ground
he walks upon. Their disloynl hearts
could not feel a throb of genuine char
lty--that which extends its benefactions
without ostentation. But no; they
must make a. great outcry; the trumpets
of Israel must be made to utter n
world-startling blast; and behold! The
prophets. seers, and revelators civeth
meal and corn TO the poor and the
needy
Read the language of the resolution.
and note the pharisaIcal sophistry and
blatant notoriety of the hypocrites in
the synagogue:
Whereas, The President OF the United
states has called national attention to
the existence OF the sore distress in
N N.n t.r,, of fa,, ,l,,.-H
Whereas, The Lord has greatly blessed
the Saints and the interest of the church;
and.
Whereas, Our relief societies have
stored up grain against a time OF need:
and therefore. ] move that the trustee In
trust be and Is hereby authorized to ap.
of the poor. famine-strckcn In China
twenty tons of -four.
Joseph f, Smith, nor any other Of
the chiefs Of the church, has ever be-
fore asked the passage of resolution
by the conference to enable him to
make such a paltry expenditure from
the church tithes or the relief funds.
The present bogus, prophet knows that
II he wants to loot the tithing Golfers of
the money wrung by superstitious force
from Woodworking. poor people, all he
does is to reach his hand in and take
four hundred dollars-four THOUSAND
dollars-four hundred thousand dollars
or four million dollars. He has done
1T time and again. He has expended
vast amounts from the tithe collec.
tlons without resolution, and even with
out afterward saying what he had done
with the money.
The reader will notice that the reso.
luton reads that Whereas, the Pres
ldent of the United States,'' etc. That
is the secret Of the whole deceit. The
traitors who drew up that resolution
cast insult at the Chief Executive ey.
cry time they utter his name or make
even indirect reference to him.
resolution, indeed, to enable the
biggest prophetic fraud that ever lived
to send a little flour to China That
rot from q man who has spent millions
of the Mormon people 5 money and has
failed to make single accounting of |
mill of the money! But if there were |
any doubt of the object in passing such |
resolution, let the Deseret News fin |
ish the picture. In yesterdays issue /
the organ Of polygamous prophets said; |
The donation of -four was very timely
and an act OF Christian charity toward |
fellowmen OF q strange race and faith.
But now that Joseph F. has secured
the passage of the resolution, authoriz-
ing him to send twenty tons of flour to
China, some honest
men in the church ought to see to it
that the flour really goes to the starv-
ing ones. NO HUMBUG.
Provo, April 13, 1907.