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Show UPS AND DOWNS. For a great many years Hie I'tah smiths feit thai there was too much Brigham Young in the Mormon church, v.hnii chufch they regarded as pe u-liarly u-liarly their own at leasl this was the current understanding among old-thn- , ers In this State After the death of the great pioneer there was an apparent l urlal of this feeling but it was resurrected resur-rected Immediately upon the accession of Joseph F. Sm'th to the prerldency of tin hurch. Smith B reflection upon th-method th-method of the succession of Brigham Young and the 'order of the priesthood' from the settlement In Utnh down which reflection was made in the conference con-ference of 1901, at which Smith was sustained sus-tained a.s president, prophet, seer and revelatbr Indicates that the grave of his hatred of Young hnel not been dug to any great depth. Furthermore he was heard to I mark in the early days l.'llowlng his induction into the , hit I prophetshlp, that enough adulation had 1 been paid to tho memory of Brigham Young by t'tah and the Mormon church, and It was time to do something some-thing for the Smiths which latter he promptly proci 1 fled to do with all his might and main How the world whirls around! It Is reported, on good authority, '.hat John W. Young, the famous and favorlto son of Brigham Young once a counsellor In bis father and member of the fu st presidency pres-idency went, of his own notion or somebody's Invitation, to attend the unveiling un-veiling or dedication of the Smith monument mon-ument In Vermont. As one after another of !h Smiths arose at those exercises and lauded the Smiths, and particularly the fJlah Smiths, John V Youhh is s-ild to ha e grown slightly restive. And when the services were over and It was found that the only voice not a Smith was that of Penrose, "who knows his master's mas-ter's voice" and barked his adulation even more nauseatingly, an eye-witness sajs that John W. Young left the pis C in disgust, saying. "There Is too much Smith about this thing." Too much Young and too much Smith1 Fight it out together, brethren. 1 |