The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-06
WHAT HE LOVES TO DO.

When Joseph l.. smith, IN reecuC
sermon, said. "There IS DO dIfnculty Tor
us TO do that which we love 10 do. he
undoubtedly uttered the truth; bat no
neglected to go into detail. However
there is no lack Of evidence concern'ug
what it is thnt he loves to do, nor
whom it is that be loves--aiso TO 'do.
In the first placc-nnd nearest of all
TO his heart-he loves 10 edo - The
members OF the Mormon church to the
tune of about two million dollags an
nualy; and in return f,r this amount
ho presents TO his victims a report from
his personally reconstructed auditing
committee, - containing the minute m
formation that everything is ., X, ~
While that is all that the sd,uys get odt
Of it, no one will run away with The
idea that Joseph s receipts could hc
enumerated in 80 tcrsc Il stItcm,p5.
And, according TO tho prophetic word
itself Joseph f. loves TO tax" MS
chances against tho law b. breaking
the law; be loves TO boast OF this 10 the
world, aud te charge that people who
are not Of his way of thiAkiug wink
the other cyo' while he lives an un-
lawful life; he loves TO declare most en-
phatically ut Washington rbaJ there h@s
been no ncW polygamy IN the Mormon
church, and 10 say at Salt Lake that
thc wonder is that there has not been
more Of IT. than has occurred, he loves
10 stand in his divine m& &icsty in The
-. I
who worship hun that he has he'd in or
der 20 escape the traps OF his enemies,
he loves TO confess that his lusttul ma
turc, which shamciessly recognizes no
thing but ''thc kernel IN tho nut, . viii
not permit him TO adopt the sentiments
Of civilization in his home life,
In very deed, thc prophet has loves
many of them-and he INDUCES them
TO the fullest extent. But fancy any
Of these being directed 10 The service
Of the Lord as he claims them TO be-
To hear the public professions of Jo-
seph i. Smith. one would be led to be
lieve that his was tho most sanity.
meek and religiously~modest nature
ever fashioned after the divine pat
tern. But those who know the facts
his -adulaton. They can picture
how, as bashful young man, ii was
necessary to lasso him in order to bring
him to his first conjugal altar; how he
snorted and reared and paved up the
} earth III an effort 10 get away from his
u ~ fhoN- will ,CDli-n la!
he was like unto all other bashful
men-oncc started IT, was hard to stop.
| lie began to learn thnt the world was
/ full of designing women. He bad read
somewhere that there were over eight
hundred millions Of them, II became
perfectly plain TO him that he could not
| escape them all so he accumulated the
marrying habit and took on as many
liGe-partners as tho church would sup
port. Yet, for all. this, one can ponder
how his real, shrinking, modest soul
would turn TO blushing repentance
whenever he could quietly contemplate
the frequency with which he had> been
ensnared.
All tic world docs NOT know what
it owes to the difiideut Joseph. Never
can humanity sufficiently appreciate
the beautiful example of the. demuro
Smith Not in this world will human
kind hope TO make compensation fol
the sclf.sncrifce of the skittish proph
ct, the timorous revclator, the unobtru
sive seer, the shy, shnmcfaced, sheep
ish and willy-nilly recipient Of two mil
lions per!