The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-23

other statements / have heard from the
authorities.
The facts | place before YOU arc
actual, visible, physical facts aud con,
di,ions. ANY man NAV look about and
see them They cannot be denied. The
conditions that are TO follow the con
tinuous payment OF the tithing tax are
the sclf-cvidcnt truths of political
economy and the absolute conclusions
of mathematics. One eve and a little
arithmetic is all that any man needs
70 figure out the results, These results
are the truths of mathematics-th
truths Of science and reason-God :
truth. Why do not the Mormon pco-
pie sec them?
Alas, maDy Of my people have been
taught and trained and humbled until
they hear and obey only one voice, aud
that voice is the voice Of their de.
stroyer. Long ere this nations, tribes
and peoples have been pressed TO the
rear. trOddcn down and made TO bear
burdens for others. The scales have
fallen from my eyes and ! see plainly,
clearly and surely. conditions and
causes at work which will inevitably
reduce the mass of my people TO the
conditions Of scrfs and grouudllngs for
the Gentle The false prophets fore
spoken of holy writ are responsible Tor
these conditions. and the things ! have
shown are the sign that they are false
prophets.
Mr. Editor. for the present, mt least,
my business calls me away from tan.
Upon my return, with your permission.
| shall publish another series OF let
tcrS TO my people. wherein | shall show
what a blind, brainless, blunderIng or
ganiZation the priesthood of the Nor
mon church is now and has been Tor
many wears. | shall show. first of all.
how, from most sordid motives OF per
sonal envy and jealousy. the control
ling authorities of the priesthood nave.
AS "A rule of The order, discrcdlted, sup.
pressed and destroyed every man OF
any brains or ability who ever attained
To any prominence either IN church Al
fairs or among the Mormon people; ana
how the operation OF thlS rule, by con
tinuously eliminating brains and ability
from the priesthood. has at last reduced
tho body of the priesthood TO 4. set OF
sycophantic. ignorant selfservIng In.
cumpetcnts.
| shall next show how this body OF
self selected sycophants and self .serN,,
ers. having vast powers for good ana
for evil in their hands, have thwaried
every movement for the welfare OF my
people, if that movement did not yield
an immediate cash return TO them.
] shall further show, in some detail.
how this controlling priesthood. through
ignorance and incompctcncy IN some
Instances, and through fanaticiSm and
personal avarico at other times, UNI
tormlv chose the worse of the two
ways for my people at every crisis,
and how the American party was
evolved. not out of The hatred of any
one man or set Of men, but out of the
acts of this small Drained priesthood IN
foSting Smootism upon the state of
Utah, and thereby making their plans
and policy n political issue.
And throughout it all | shall demon
stratc that the Mormon priesthood is
the real foe of the Mormon people;
that the leadership of this priesthood,
up to the present. has held in leash
the material. intellectual and moral
progress of the people. and to that cx.
tent disabled and cncumbercd the peo-
pie in their struggle for advancement,
and that the future of the Mormon
people, if obcdient under such leader
ship, promises nothing but intellectual
and physical serfdom.
Thanking YOU for your kindness, and
thanking my friends for their apprecia-
tion of my poor efforts, I am
Very truly yours.
NEPHI i. WILLIAMS.