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Show MULTIPLIES PRESIDENCIES. . The Tribune feels to congratulate the multifarious President Joseph F. Smith upon his matter-of-fact way of proving prov-ing our commercial case against him. We have slated from time to time that his real God Is Mammon; that his affections af-fections and aspirations are toward wealth and temporal power, and not toward to-ward spirituality; and that he Is burying bury-ing all-that ever was In Mormonlsm, save the commercialism and communism commun-ism in it always holding In view the point that the commercialism is his, and the communism Is for him. The others may commercialize, and may throw their earnings Into the common pot, but it must always be understood that the pot 13 his when it is filled with coin. . . We referred the other day to the multifariousness of Joseph F. Smith's presidencies; he was, besides his presidency pres-idency of the Mormon church and various branch societies connected therewith, President of Zion's Co-Operatlve Mercantile Mer-cantile Institution, President of thefstate Bank of Utah, President of Zion's Savings Bank and Trust Company, President of tho Utah Sugar Company, President of the Idaho Consolidated Sugar Company, President of tho Consolidated Wagon and Machine Company, President of the Utah Light and Railway Rail-way Company, President of the Salt Lake & Los Angeles An-geles Railroad Company, President of Saltalr Beach Company, President of tho Inland Crystal Salt Company, President of the Salt Lake Dramatic Association, President of tho Salt Lake Knitting Company, That was only last Sunday; and yet he has had tlmo since then to become tho real commander of the National Guard and mako it his personal guard; and ho has had tlmo also to add another an-other presidency President of tho Sanpete & Sevier Sugar Company. It is pleasant thus to have a man who is weaned from spiritual affairs and devoted to business, take on his true attributes, openly, unafraid, and unabashed. |