The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-26
WARNED AGAINST MEXICO.

80 You look out for Mexico - warned
Elder j. Golden Kimbnll at the Nor
mon tabernacle on Sunday, "and those
other far-distant places that the smooth
toneued paint 10 you AS garden of
Eden, Tf the lands there are such
wonderful places, why don I they keep
them themselves? Those banana lands,
with one or two trees on them, are
not what they are cracked up TO be,
and if you don Z steer clear of Mexico
there will be trouble -
And then there ia that big rubber
company, of which Elder u Golden did
not speak-perhnp for one of two
| reasons. Either he did not JOIN in tho
enterprise, or If he did associate hm-
self with the swindlc he was not among
those bitten. II seems, though, that
j. Golden dropped his roll - in one of
those alleged banana plantations that
his brethren in the gospel have been SO
sauvely promoting. But if Elder
| kimball and other easy ones of the
church desire TO know who got their
money, he and they should make in
Quiry OF Joseph f. Smith, John Henry
Smith, Heber j. Grant, "Tony'
Ivins and others of the higher priest,
hood. They have made A 6stful of
money each out of these things. BY
diut Of giving Counsel as authorities
in the church, th,v separated many
Melchsedek 'tsucker'' from his coin,
only to slip the gain into their own
pockets.
IT will he recalled that some time ago
The Tribune reprinted from Nernal
paper n short local item telling how
Elder Henry S. Tanner had suddenly
come into possession of extensive fruit
lands in Mexico. Henry S. is one of
these new polygamists-hi name al
ways appears in our list, for the reason
that we would not for the world de-
prive him of that which he considers
10 be an honor He attempted to prac-
tice law in this city for long time,
but he made poor showing Mt the bust
ness Things were coming TO bad ends
with him, speaking from a financial
point Of view, and he began TO cast
him about for means of mending his
material condition He saw how well
the feeders at the tithing crib seemed
TO progress. and how fat and sleek their
personal appearance. He was not one
of these feeders. bat finally hit upon
the best plan TO become one such.
Knowing how the new polygamist is
favored of the "lord S annointed' of
Mormondom, he went into the business
of breaking the law which as an attor-
Dey he was supposed to uphold. He
stole the sweetheart of one of his
younger brethren in the gospel I'M
mediatcly he was hoisted to high recog-
milton by the bogus prophet, Joseph
T. Smith, And it WASH I long until
Henry s.. hitherto the improvident and
unsuccessful, became as n man of some
property. Undoubtedly the other mem"
bers of the polygamous cult 'put him
next TO the game of swindhng his
brethren and sisters in support Of him
self and his plural households So Henry
S. is more cheeky and of greater
pulchritude than of yore; and the
"divvle' only knows but he might
have got part of j. Golden Kimball g
money. In that case we cannot blame
!. Golden for letting out big holler.
They we always looked upon j. Golden
as an easy mark, anyway, but this sort
Of sting would bring kick out Of an
Egyptian mummy.
President John Henry Smith, they say,
has not lost anything via the Mexican
banana land route, nor by any other of
the land schemes in Mexico with which
it is said that he has been able to
stretch even an imaginary bit Of Mexi-
can rubber TO such an extent as to cause
IL 10 cover a multitude Of crooked pro
motion sins. Be that as it may, John
Henry few years ago owed very
great number of dollars. but now he
doesn t owe cent.
Apostle Heber j. Grant-the much
boasted apostolic fnancier-is said to
be down on his financial back. again.
He made money out of the Beneficial
| Life company, and other church
schemes. but has proved to be less fortu.
nate in the subsequent investment of
lUUSS pfDblSs 81 sudt Uc 10 again bDllpeU
to fall back upon the tithlng crib
| for "what he needs If he wantal
TO earn an honest living, though, he
mioht go on the stage and sing for it.
All this may seem to be aside from
the subject with which we opened here
the mighty roar set up by Elder j
Golden Kimball in the tabernacle on
Sunday-but il ism Z, It is in such
schemes as these that the saints have
been shamefully bitten. The others have
kept quiet in the fear of letting their fel.
lows know that they had played the part
of meal ticket TO the "prophets. - But
if any Of the "lord's annointed'
imagine that they can "frisk" j.
Golden for a dollar.slx-bits and get
away with il without hearing yell out
of one of the first seven presidents of
the seventies-well, they We got bird
seed in their bonnets; that s all