The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-10-26
Cash IS FIRST;
A SOUL IS SECOND
Tithe-DevOurers Have No Use
Whatever for a MOneyless
Man.
DOLLARS, NOT MEN, Is
CRY OF THE CHURCH
Young MormOns Rated by the
Smith Family as FlOckmaster
Does Sheep.

The following address to young
Mormous is sent The Tribune by one
Of the best-known OF the younger Nor
mons in Salt Lake. 1t speaks for it,
I self.
To Young Mormons-For the past few
! days YOU have been reading in tho
| Dcseret Evening News, the official organ
| OF the Mormon church. certain articles
| which the coteric OF 1.-THE deVourers be-
| hind the News hold the moneyless man.
| OF course. we all know that a mans worth
| is not to be measured by the size or his
pockctbook or by the amount of his tax
| list. According TO the News standard.
Lincoln was never lt candidate for the
presidency OF the United States. As IL Is.
the American candidates pay more taxes
| than their opponents, but that is neither
here nor there The matter was simply
the case OF the pot calling the kettle
black II such a saw applies, and that IS
all there is 10 It Tho only value OF tho
Incident Is the text il furnishes. Take
the text Dollars and not men and what
Utah: '"''" '''1 &c p''''O's' O''' "
a poor woman lone and deserted. tolls
from dawn until dark. day aIier day. Out
OF her scanty earnings, even TO the point
OF denying herself much needed food and
clothing. she pays her tith ng year after
year. Sickness and old age come upon
her and she can work no more. She .s
sent 70 the poorhouse-sent to the poor
house TO die Dollars and not souls is
what we want You know that woman,
She used 10 live In your block. OF what
worth is her comfort or happiness, yea,
OF her soul. TO the dcvourers OF tithing2
Q. those hearuess devourcTs OF tithing'
How many such cases can You find In
Utah How many In Salt Lake City?
How many In your block?
Now, Think 1t Over.
Now word to young Mormons. Think
oil la.a-E he
bishop, the teacher and the authorities
say TO you, Think IT over carefully. They
have given you much good advice. That
Is true. But under it all could you not
detect a greater anxiety for tithinE-for
cold cash-than Tor your own welfare?
IN all this talk-in all this good advice
In all your business with them. does IL
not pretty. clearly appear that cash was
first and that you. your welfare and your
soul were respectively second. third and
fourth in the consideration OF the au-
thorities? I have thought IL over and
over again, i have labored with nv doubts
and ] have med!tated carefully and con-
sc!entiously. and this much ls clear In no
instance have ever seen or heard OF any
act on the part OF the authorities that
Implied or seemed to imply that they
We're willing that l should attend to my
always the opposite-tithinG first, your
welfare second.
What Tithing Is For.
Horace, the Roman poet. says that two
Roman susurs could not pass without
smiling at each other. The augurs we're
the prophets ot ancient Rome, They pre-
tended TO foretell events by noting the
entrails of beasts. OF course. they
charged fees for their services. But our
tithe derourers cannot be heartless
enough TO smile al each other as they
count widows mites into the fund with !
which they i've In luxury The TRAGEDIES |
of uthins are too fearful for smiles. EN-
cept for the manner in which the act is |,
accomplished. ] see much resemblance |
between the title deVourers and tho |
Roman augurs. I believe In the doctrines !
Of my church, but can plainly see how |
from its original purpose into graft" |
The present system Of tithng Is not Justi- |
ned by any doctrines OF the church The |
amount being collected IS far beyond the |
necessities Of the church. The original !
idea was that tithing should be paid 10 |
maintain the church and not that the /
1Tthins was Intended 60 be an incident I
and not the chief end OF the church.
Tithe-Payers, Tithe Eaters.
Dollars and not souls! Where does tce
man stand in the church? There
are the tithe payers and there are thc
1.-THE caters. II was not 50 in former
days. To De q tithe payer YOU must have
money. To oe titbe cater your name
must be Smith, Six Smiths In the 9TH
ing crib. a dozen Smiths eating from
hlht ujsite anu lOEiN more SnlllnS nrSf
the waiting line! President Smith saving
that a mistake was made IN former times
In the succession to the presidency! Apos-
tie Bund saying that the president has
the right 10 appoint his own successori
Fifty Smiths to provide fort Where stands
the man whose name is not Smith? Tith-
Ing-flftv Smiths--doilars and not souIs,I
No wonder that the 1.-THE eaters value
man according 10 hfs tax list instead OF |
according TO his manhood integrity and
The sum and substance OF
II all Is this: honesty. intelligence and !
integrity. in honest poverty pay no tIth
Ing. Money does pay tithing. The thing !
that pays tithing is the thing that counts,
especially with the dynasty OF Smiths.
How You Are Rated.
Think IT over. young Morrnons. Think
It over. You are rated by the Smiths
lust a flock master values his sheer.
onc hundred fine breeding rams, kept in
. pen to themselves, fed well and valued
highly; five thousand good range sheen.
zach producing fleece worth 81 everv
year; one thousand sick sheen worth
nothing either for wool or rnrtton-Iet
hem die on the desert Where does the
man stand with the Snniths?
Think IL over, young Mormons, think IL
over.
YOUNG MORMON.