The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-31
TIE FINAL CANNON ARTICLE.

The final article of Senator Frank
+. Cannon s series, ''Under the Proph;
et in Utah, =" appears in the August
number OF Evervbody's Magazine
When this series began in the NoTem'
ber number of that magazine last year,
i, was stated that il would probably
enntinnc for ten months. The ten
months limit expires with this num-
Der. and the concluding article appears
as originally planned. II has been
powerful series all through; It has
given inside views of many things not
known before to more than avery rev
nersous. There has been no denial
worth consideration by any one men
toned of any of the statements made
in this series, and but two attempted
denials all told The charge was made
in a former article Of the series that
President Joseph F. Smith performed
the marriage ceremony uniting Abra'
ham n. Cannon and Lillian Hamlin in
plural marriage. To this Lillian Ham-
lin has made denial; Joseph f, Smith
has not. Inasmuch AS Abraham Can
non was Frank s brother, it IS difficult
to see how he could have been mis-
taken in this matter, Undoubtedly he
had the facts both from his father and
from his brother.
Another attempted denial was by
Matthias F. Cowley of an interview
with Frank Cannon on politics, when
Cannon was chairman of the Demo
cratic State Committee in Utah. Cow.
ley's denial denied too much, for II
denied that he called on Cannon at
all, when the proof is ample that he
did call on him. The conversation be-
tween the two was private; no one
else was present, no one else knows
what was said. Mr., Cannon gives the
gist of that conversation; Mr.. Cowley
denies the conversation altogether. a
denial like that, however, can hardly
be expected to be accepted by a candid
public; SO that in fact there has been
NO denial worth consideration of any
thing whatever said in Mr.. Cannon Is
articles.
This final article of the series is en-
titled "The Prophet and Big Busl-
ness II enumerates ten business
of Joseph F, Smith, viz,
Utah Idaho Sugar Company, Inland
Crystal Salt Company, Zion's Savings
Bank G. Trust Company, State Bank of
Utah, Zion g Cooperative Mercantile
Institution, Consolidated Wagon g. Ma
chine Company, Home Fire Insurance
Beneficial Life Insurance
Company, Salt Lake Knitting Com
pany, the Deseret News. Following
this enumeration of commercial and
business presidencies, the article pro-
leeds to show. the great changes that
nave been enforced in recent years as
10 the collection and disposal Of the
.ithes; as to the commercial operations
IF the hesd of the church, both for him
self and ostensibly for the church; his
business connections with the "robber
oarons;' his rigorous rule; his fierce
,xactions; and the despotic avaricious-
less with which. he administers every
affair that COMES under his hands.
The article is rich in facts, in illus
;rations,. and deductions, 1t is an ar.
icle which, in and Of itself, would be q
triumphant vindication of Mr.. Can
ION 8 claims from the first, There can
DC no mistake about it, this series of
articles of Senator Cannon's has
aid bare the inside workings |
II the despotic hierarchy in way
neyer before approached. We under
tand that the articles are to be print |
ID IN book form, and there can be no
question but that the book, when it ap~
,ears, will be. an eye,opener to thou
lands of people in Utah
The Tribune prints this morning con-
siderable extracts from this final ar
icle, and the readers can Judge for !