The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-23
THE IMPUDENT MONSoN,

Perusing the Penny Illustrated Pa.
per (London, England), of July 80
1910, we find communication from a
Mormon missionary named w. P. Mon.
son. Excepting as to one point we de-
sire to pass over the matters contained
In that letter as being simply an eff
fort to pile up abusive words, with no
other apparent object in view than to
pile up abusive words.
Elder Monson appears to adhere
strictly to the Mormon doctrine of
Mind your own business.' He tells
the editor of the Penny Illustrated pa.
per that whatever any adherent of his
faith, or any promoter of that faith,
may do or choose not to do, it would
be none of his business. cit is none
of your business to quote Elder Mon
son as the Penny Illustrated paper
has him saying, eff we desire to live
the law of the Lord with respect to
the precepts of Jesus Christi
But, protesting TO pursue that course
and yet not pursuing it, does it not
occur to Elder Monson that 1T is the
business of other people who are en-
gagged in the work of endeavoring to
bring humanity to right living? Elder
Monson is promoting the cause OF
Smithism in Utah-Ct is no longer
Mormonism )-under which converts are
robbed Of their money by means of ex-
actions In the name of religion, the
money being afterwards spent in every
cause other than that of religion The
mission of Jesus Christ had no such
purpose. Mr.. Monson is not good
Mormon missionary if he does not teach
IN his proselyting that adherents to
his belief must render implicit obe
dience to the Mormon priesthood,
whether right or wrong, and that it is
not their business to inquire into orr
complain about the acts of the chief
priests. He is not fulfilling his mission
II he does not teach that Joseph f.
Smith is prophet, seer, and revelator;
but he is n splendid proponent of his
propaganda when he tells people that
1t is none of their business whether
the man he represents prophcsies or
does not prophesyi whether he is en-
dowcd with superior prescience or is
as dull as the dullest human; whether
he has revelations or does not have
revelations. He is bit inconsistent,
though. in asserting that it is nobodv's
business if the man by whom he is sent
chooses to profess to ''live the law of
the Lord and at the same time of
6cIally declares that he has the right
to obey or TO disobey God, Just as he
pleases. The mission Of Jesus Christ
was to cast the money changers out of
the tetmple. Elder Monson is advo-
eating Il Smithism that is intended to
permanently install in the temple the
cash-grabbiug Shylock, who demands
from his people the pound of flesh prom
Iscd in the CORY oath of allegiance
administered to them in that "holy
of holies.' He is laboring TO make of
the Mormon church, together with such
supporting adherents as he NAV be able
to add to the fold. heritage for the
descendants of the particular Smith
-" ""o S""iS"oSu tH"I He II hTcdkeT
of the laws Of God and man, and who
has cheehly announced determination
to continue in pursuance Of that lawless
course.
The chief thing about the Monson
letter is its impudence-uppermos be.
ing the Monsog Mormon assumption of
all-wIsdom, together with 4 contemptu.