The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-31
mer Senator Advocates Withdrawal of National
Sympathy and Support as Remedy for Evils of
Mormon Hierarchy
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| issues his edict OF protection as "the
vice-regent OF God on Earth" to tho
Mormons; and ne communicates and
| ostracizes, In thls world and the next
the Mormon protestant who dares rebe
against his highly developed commercial
! monopoly.
Gives No Accounting.
:, He receives between two and three mil
| hon dollars year In tithes. gives no ac-
counting OF them, and has no RESPONSE
bility FOR them, except to God and his
own conscience. He Is able TO use this
weight OF financial pressure that would
oVeroalance any such single power In the
community. AS trustee in trust" for ths
church, he has the added income from
stocks and previous Investments. and he
has practical control OF the wealth OF all
the leading men OF the church to assist
s!stance. He uses HIS financial dictator
ship TO support monopoly against the
assault OF Gentle opposition. and he com
peIe the Gentile to pay tribute as the
Ho backs his financial power with his
control OF legislation. Ho can not only
bf5eVent 5e ento. the passase Of any laws against
case OF the smeltors) he can reduce In
dependents TO submission by threatening
them them WIN Hs procured Laws to penalze
troubles OF the state by controlling the
obedience OF the Mormon laboring mon
He can influence judges, officers OF the
law, and al the agents of local govern
ment by his power as political boss
and the same influence extends through
his representatives at Washington, to
tIo can check and govern public opinion
among his subjects by announcing "the
VIII or Cod TO them through the officers
religious administration. He is. there
fore. at once political car the social
despot, and the lnfallibe pope of his
Just men fight for the retention of
a throne and the maintenance OF a
dynasty, so he and his courtiers defend
his rule and maintain his autocracy with
as royalty. while possessed OF unlimited
wealth: has never lacked mercenar.es,
press bureaus and all the sycophantic
defenders of crown. so Smith is able
TO command an array Of service as great
MS any ever brought to tho defense OF
social system. This singular and enor-
movement OF domestic reform; and. by
its alliance with tho national rulers in
finance and politics, It is saved from the
danger OF foreign" Intervention,
Subjects Crushed.
I'll,
IS crushing tho life out OF Its subjects:
Tor In spite Of the industry the thrift |
and the abstemiousness Of the Mormon
people. they are, sinking under the bur
Utah became territory in 1853, and |
lad its we'll settled towns at that time |
body for the, upbuilding of It's material
prosperity before any OF the surrounding |
states had received an organic act as a |
.erritory. Utah does not retain her
md enterprise OF the typical western
have been relatively lost.
In this process of degeneration. one OF |
he most promising. modern experiments
II communism has been frustrated and |
brought TO ruin, In the early nineties. |
Dr. Josiah Strong OF New York City
crested admiration He saw that by
and cooperation, and arbi-
ration, the energies OF the people were
,etter conserved and the products of
var then prevalent elsewhere, He
bought he saw In Utah a possible solu
ur civilization, But, few years ago.
lie confessed that the Mormon system
vas no longer worthy OF study It had
Community distributions were being
!sed for individual commerciallsm and
he ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF leaders. The aged
through ali the working period OF their
ives, were being thrust into poorhouses
'he ambition OF the earlier prophets to
nnnity p prospePity eP and happiness ines 'frn hnd
cen lost in the new desire OF the head
I the church to exhibit that greatness
nGn ny In ,ad ms bSSn own person 1%a The Mormon
+ finincial and political and religious
utocracy, and Mormonism was no
onser anything but hopeless failure
il Is difficult to say how much OF this
allure was due TO the character of the
resent. prophet. and how much to the
he success OF democracy In every state
I the union. II would seem that the
onditions were ideal for the production
{ just such a man as Smith and that
reatest growth under Just such condi-
ions: He came 10 power with none OF
le which the earlier leaders showed
lie considered that the people lived for
i'm. not that he lived for the people
Ic regarded the Mormon system as an
Establishment of his family. to which he
ad the family right OF inheritance and
q waited with sulky impatience for
be deaths Of the men who. stood between
i'm and the control OF his famllys
hurch 1t was as II he accepted his
Immediate predecessors as exercising
hei" powers, during an intcrregnum, by
aw himself acceding to the throne by
amily right and the order OF divinity.
commercial Greed.
He had no financial ability; he had no
considerable property when he became
resident Of the church at sixty-three
Sor did he need any such ability. The
ontinuous inflow OF moncy-to be used
Without accountability TO any onc-and
he wealth Of opportunity offered by the
nen who wished his aid In exploiting his
cope, made II unnecessary that he
houd have any creative financial vision.
n cd Wit Is |
unity, along the line Of least resistance
which was also. with him, the line OF
hoicc.
He had. through all his years. shown an
bvious envy OF any member OF the
hurch whose circumstances were better
han his own II was apparent in his
lanner that he regarded such success In
he community as an cncroachment upon
he Smith prcrogatives. As soon as he :
anlc to power. he accepted every oppor ,
unity OF self lf-aggrnndiZement as new
mith prcroEativee And the system OF
MODERN capitalism appealed at once to
is ambition, by the older methods Of
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