The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-26

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IN me salt Lake Temple the number oi
,li oruiIanCHS Sn a@ per year ten years ago aver
aGeo siee so,ooo' that Is for the living and for
,ne uead' In the other three tomplos
an3tnnr eignty thousand are performed
making 10000 ordinances per year.
shnsp a,n prtpareh pare, to say that the revenue from
sn"S sn"Se temple ceremonies is not less than
S5op;ooO per year. Baptisns for the dead
@ S@leau tnc least revenue. and not often
does thc baptized Day less than ono dol
lar per name. Admitting that he pnvs
Tar less as rule. there are many whn
paz rsEcnInnin moTe. \ large number OF these
Gnurcl heures, are marriages Now as
nc writer was one of those who went
boi bmtipnsm ,roesrr, INC Temple for that purpose to
| nc married: he knows that the least auy
one ever gives is five dollars. Generally
| pa ana ma go through for company
| ano,. Mehl When wcnD. and they pay
sometimes less. Hence each, mari5, ,,io, &c
,a aveI,ageS pretty close to the ton dollar
i,,a, IL, ~ ,nakine the yearly marriage roll
| IN lhe temples as ten thousand the rev
snue sin @ for marriages alone reaches about
fh0o'"go ~" per year. Quite nice sum for
| ceremonies makes a tidy sum Who savs
| tne temples don't pay?
me NJ Mutual improvement Era. the
| niashzine which father ana son take has
subscriptions hat of i2.rcO ono doll5r
per year Any business man will tell
nm,nG EUu mat TT 1T pays about $4,000 per year al
| ioWlhS Tor little leakage, This month.
however. | have heard that the favored
| ones, sons and daughters OF the leaders
| receive small sums at times for In
spirational poems and uplifting articles.
| stories and other literature But Il is
rhm-,;, run as begging magazine dixie all
bm"!Tm bn ans soreness n hcnce The profits should
| DC, ana arc large. YES. large.
The Young Woman's Journal is another
l,,ontnIy i having good circulation and
m1haklng big money. When any man says
these magazines do not make money he
ls elther fco, or liar.
Another magazine which should have
oeen nun bered with the family expense
account. Is ehe Juvenile Instructor This
magazine is rather infantilc. being the
organ OF the religion classes. yet it pays
because It has. a good subscription list.
ihen there is the Giahonah This Is
The greatest magazine of all, but II pays
Dig returns because about all the cX-
pense 1t has Is the office force and some
journal which goes out into the mission
field to inspire the elders. but the elders
at home arc supposed to take II, and
The Book Graft.
There are other expenses which bring
IN The shekels. among which may be
written by Apostle Cowley. Professor
Nelson; Brother Whitney Elder Roberts
Smith. But a book graft which cxcels all
others at present is that OF history of
the pioneers which is being sub
scribed. in this deal. headed by Apostle
II possible. and brief biography Of each
pioneer who came TO Utah between 1St7
and 1868. The price OF the book will be
$50 for which the descendants OF pioneers
must sign. One of the solicitors told
me that 400 bishops are helping round UP
the brethren. 1t might seem that this
but let look into II. From informa-
ton obtained in the towns wherein agents
for this graft have worked ! place the
number OF copies OF the book which will
subscribed
volume that looms UP into big money.
doesn't it% And am ] joshing? No. They
cheap help. for three years, canvassing
every hamlet. village and farm And
when they get through with II every
saint Will have been approached and
mothers pictures" with brief biographies
and paying, or agreeing 10 pay, so for
the book. If the leaders were not in 1T
for the money why do they not take
each subscriber into the deal and divide
The expense pro rata? The saints would
certainly trust the apostles 10 compute
men as Governor Spry are interested.
Fifteen or twenty sugar factories. part
~ owned by the church. and thousands
Of acres of land. bought for nearly nothing
land deals galore. townsite gratis and
side deals that go with opening up new
country. all go 10 make the LORDS
chosen disciples masters OF themselves
because money, not work. is tho power.
Joseph F. Smith is president OF the
following organizations. all representing
church funds: Il. @. NJ. /, Utah Idaho and
other sugar companies. State Bank Of
Utah Zions Savings Bank & Trust COM
pauy Consolidated Wagon & Machine
company, Salt Lake and Los Angeles
RAILWAY company. Saltair Beach com
pany Inland Crystal Salt company Sail |
Lake Dramatic association. Salt Lake
Knitting company. director OF Union Pa
cific railroad vice president OF one or
more mining companies, Beneficial Life
Insurance company. and editor of two or
three magazines, and controller OF thc
Deseret News The church is In the
whisky business in the Lords own drug
store and has n death grip on the resort
and amusement business at SaltaJr and
Wandamcrc Another venture which The
brethren will control is the new Utah
hotel. owned largely by the trustee'in-
trust.
The reader may. perchance. have not
iced that the chief prophet seer ana
rcvclator'' has feathered his nest, and
that his family. especially his sons and
sons-in-law. have rcapcd tho benefit OF
brinc near the tithing crib. Anyway. MI. |
reader look into the matter. that is, II
YOU are Interested.
The Church Organ Imposture.
Eut one OF The most prosperous com
panics handled by the church IS lhc
notorious Dcscrct News. together With
it's book publishing and book store de-
partincnts At least twenty pamphlets
arc required each year TO supply each
member OF The various organizations. and
thcy retail at, n rule, - cents per
conv The monthly magazines arc pub
lshcd in the Lords own publishing house