The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-13
lie Can Be Depended on to De-
fend the Brethren at All
Times.
HE GETS HIS REWARD
IN PETTY PREFERMENTS
How Governor Brady Bemeaned
His Office by FulsOme Flat
terry of Parkinson.
BY q. e. ARNEY,

BY y. Il, AhNEX,
Special to The Tribune.
HEISE, Ida, Aug. l2.-There ha:
been some speculation of late among the
newcomers to Idaho as to who should
be entitled TO be known as "jack Nor
mons
There are many erroneous notions
about "iack Mormons, the most prev
alent one being that an "apostate Nor
mon' is a 'tjack Mormon This is
as far from the correct notion of the
situation as is the idea that lack
Mormon" is one who through apathy
does not pay his tithes.
An apostate Mormon is one who abb
solutely, Of his own volition. leaves
the church and refuses to countenance
any of It's teachings or to in any man
ner whatever contribute to its success.
In the earlier difficulties in Idaho with
the Mormons. few apostatized and re-
mained true to the departure from the
religion of their birth, Some among
my acquaintances became Episcopalians,
some Methodists, but chiefly they re-
manned entirely outside Of active church
work of any sort.
The apatbetic Mormon who does not
pay his tIthlng is not 'lack Nor
mon He is a poor Mormon, He has
little standing in his church and is sell
dom given any preferment whatever
He believes the doctrines of the church b
stinginess is not a contributor of a
tenth of his regular earnings
The Serviceable Jack
But the most interesting type is the
"jack Mormon. He is non Nor
mon who defends the Mormon. To the
scheming, questionable, crooked Nor
mon-the one who wishes to practice
polygamy. or 10 exercise influence IN
politics, the "jaell Mormon is of par
ticular value.
He goes out and apologies for the
Mormon. He lies for the Mormon, He
excuses the thing the Mormon does
which is intolerable, and gives out a
plausible reason as an excuse, an apoi-
ogy for the act
If Mormon is living in polygamy
with a wife on either corner of the
street. the ''iack Mormon will walk
up and down the street and chide men
who deplore the relation. He will de"
liver plausible sentences like this: you
do not know; how can you know that
'Nephi practices polygamyg II may
look suspicious, but you should know be-
fore you make a charge so serious as to
reflect with discredit upon the morality
Of your neighbor.'
If '.Nephi'' is the strong man set
aside TO go TO n convention, he chooses
this "lack Mormon to go along with
him all the way ell the time, as sort
of affidavit man. AT the convention
"Nephi' is accused of being n polyg-
amist and quickly Mr.. Jack Mormon"
is called in TO lie for him! He rushes
in to the lobby and gives out language
like this: 'fNow. boys, you all know
me- You know / am no Mormon. You
know / was raised hard-shell Baptist
and I live among these people. They
are the best people ever. They do not
polygamist and, tell you. boys, somc
one will get into trouble if they do not
stop suggesting bad things about these
good folks They are the best, the pur-
est. the soberest, and the most patriotic,
and, boys, during all my life among
them-and you know mel have never
seen a Mormon take drink of liquor,
very few of them drink tea and coffee.
and they are as honest as men can be.
How many, many men about conven.
tions, state and county, have heard that
lingo about William Budge and Walter
Hoge Of Paris; Arthur Hart and George
c. Parkinson from Preston, and other
high churchmen who have brought along
to conventions "iack Mormons to do
their bidding. to he for them
The American citizen Of Idaho today
Norm on in comparison with a "jack
Mormon, The Mormon pretends to
believe in doctrine He has a faith an
his leaders and in the teachings they
announce. He is TO the manor born
But the ''iack Mormon knows in
stinctively all about the Mormons He
is more familiar than anybody with
49, all %ha,-
itics, their commercial dictation, and
ofttimes their absolute disloyalty Yet
he trails along in idolatrous devotion
and lies for them; offers excuses, be-
yond the possibilities of any Mormon
to do. and too with greater effect among
the uniformed
In remuneration for his services he is
rewarded for merit He is favored! He
IS taken care of.
Mayhap, he is made a sheriff, sent to
the Legislature, given a lucrative state
appointment. or made into a governorl
A "iack Mormon is always obedient
and in order to gain high station his
devotion must be pure and his obedience
prompt and OF that stultifying order
to do entire justice to the particular
situation.
Brady and Parkinson.
Less than two months ago Governor
James Fl. Brady went over to Preston
to give an address to the students of
the Mormon stake academy. He was
fully aware Of the lack of character OF
George c, Parkinson. president of the
Oneida stake of Zion He knew that
Parkinson had been discharged as a
member of the state board of regents
Of Idaho's university by his distin-
guished co-partner in politics Frank R.
Gooding, because of his thefts against
the people Of the Oneida Irrigation dis.
trict. He knew that Parkinson had rid,
den on railway passes all over southern
Idaho and charged the fare for these
trips to the state university; to the
Oneida Irrigation district. and as we'll
to the Utah-Idaho Sugar Beet company;