The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-16
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Theodore Roosevelt helps when he an
nounces that hereafter the men entrusted
with great wealth must submit 10 the
demand of the Nation that they be also
men Of great principle and OF interest In
the public welfare His declaration Is In
perfect keeping with the principles OF the
United Order as announced by the pro-
phet Joseph, and the stand taken for
pubuc economics at every step in Utah's
early progress by Brigham HoungE-Des-
erct News editorial, November II, 1908,
Let evory man render over his property
with an eternal deed that cannot be
broken. II you do not bring your sub
stnnce forward and lay 1t down at the
Brethren. tumble your interest into this
great reservoir. aud We Will drink up the
earth, and Il you do not do 1t, as the
Lord lives. the first presidency or this
Sermon Of President Eeber G. kinball
reported in Deseret News, March l, 1851
II a man has the purse in his pocket
and he apostatizes, he takes IL with him: :
but if his worldly interest Is firmly united
. To the kingdom OF God, when he arises TO
so away he finds The calf is bound, and
like the cow. ne Is unwilling TO forsake
IT, II his calf Is bound up here. no will
be inclined 10 stay--Sermou of President
Brigham Young In Salt Lake tabernacle.
April =, 1863. Journal OF Discourses, vol
umc l, page 2o2.
There is 40 harm, of course, in the
Deseret News quoting President Roose-
welt as a sort of prophetic authority,
provided the President does not object
TO it., but is is not quite fair for tho
church organ 10 charge the Chief Exeeu-
tive with such lack OF originality as TO
be obliged to resort TO the teachings OF
Mormon hierarchs for ideas.
However, there is not the least SINH
larity between the Roosevelt doctrine
and the prophetic teaching. The Nor
mon leaders have always been selfish in
the extreme They demanded that their
followers cast all Of their earnings and
their substance into the laps Of the
titheseaters. They have claimed the
right TO make such disposition of the
property Of the people as would best
suit their own purposes. President
Young even went so far as TO say that
the day would come when every wage-
Garner in the church would turn over
every cent of his weekly pay TO his
bishop VINO would be entitled 20 dole
out 70 the worker and his family lust
what that ecclesiast would deem TO be
necessary for their support and no more
The prophets, as may be seen by the
third quotation hero given, went TO the
extreme of utilizing control OF individ-
ual property as d means of retaining
. man in his religious faith, believing
that "wlere the money is the heart
is also Not only did the fanatical
Mormon leaders claim the right TO alb.
sorh all that belonged TO their followers.
but they fatuously imagined that God
had given them the privilege 10 gobble
all that the earth contained. The
"United Order of Euoch' WIS fiat
and dismal failure, because it permitted
of so much dishonesty in the favored
few, 10 the shameful robbery OF the un-
protected many, that human nature nat
urally revoltcd against it, aud would
have none OF it. The scheme was tried
IN many of the settlements in Utah, and
the hierarchs used all thc power and nu.
thoriiy Of their "holy priesthooCt" TO
forco Il apen the people, but despite