The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-14
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The Commercial club Y. NJ. c. A.
canvass for $4,000, which has just
been closed up. ought to convince any
fair-minded person at home or abroad
that the citizens of salt Lake City
have no trouble I'm uniting and pulling
together for any good purpose. Indeed
II will be recalled that as far back as
the Johnstown flood, seventeen years
ago. a grand concert was given i'm the
tabernacle in which musicians Of all
denominations and no denomination at
all participated. George Q. Cannon
made the opening prayer; Dr. T. c.
Tiff pronounced the benedietion, and
5000 was raised for the Johnstown suf-
ferers.
This canvass for the Y. NJ. c. A. was
q spontaneous uprising Of citizens Of
all creeds and classes for the benefit
OF that worthy institution. There were
twenty-eight active committees, four
teen Of business men and fourteen Of
young men. The chairmen of these
committees We're selected by a commit
tee Of business men composed of L.
l.. Terry of Brown. Terry & Woodruff
Co. H. Vance Lane, president Of Rocky
Mountain Bell Telephone company; JOY
II. Johnson, president of the F. J. Hill
DRUG company, and Attorney Frank B.
stephens. without the slightest regard
10 church or uon-church affiliation.
After the campaign was over it was
found that so far as was known the
religious Affiliations Of the twenty
eight chairmen was as follows. Nor
mon ten, Jewish three, Baptist one,
PRESBYTERIAN two, Congregational three,
Episcopal three. Methodist one. Christ
ian one, no church four, and the gem
eral chairman Of the entire campaign
was a Catholic. These figures are GER
tainly worthy of the careful considera-
ton of people who think we have a con-
tinual church war here, and that mem
bers Of all churches, the Mormon church
included. cannot pull together for a
common good.
The first presidency of the Mormon
church sent a letter as published in
yesterdays Herald enclosing a check
for $500 "as an earnest Of their good
will" while the Young Mems Mutual
Improvement society, an organization
IN the Mormon church doing a work
somewhat similar to the work of the
Y NJ c. A, sent i'm a subscription Of
500. The teachers of the Latter-Day
Saints university sent in 800.
Believing the many demands for phil
anthrophy which are made upon the
average clergyman constitute sufficient
excuse for his not taking a hand in
so large an enterprise as this, it was
not intended that they should be So
licited. But nevertheless, no less than
three Of the most prominent clergy in
the city seng I'm their voluntary checks
and hearty appreciation.
Is it not now time that all good citi-
Gems IN salt Lake City stop talking
about the Mormon question or the Gen
tile question. and realize that we are
one people working fer the upbuilding
of this commonwealth. Three thousand,
seven hundred and fifteen subscriptions
10 the Y. NJ. G. a. fund are expressions
of peace on earth and good will toward
men. Generous wealthy men gave Of
their abundance. those able TO do but
little gave with equal willingness. the
subscriptions running from fifteen
thousand dollars to fifty cents.
Let the world understand that the
peop'a OF Utah are not different from
other people. except that a worthy
cause viii undoubtedly find more gen
erOus support here than anywhere else
IN the United States.
The very few fsult-finding and quar-
relsone people who are now left realize
that they are I'm a hopeless minority
ard the real watChword is a united
and greater Utah