Show 1 BEST OR NONE AT ALL r r r t Brigham Youngs Place in 1 the Hall of Fame Jii WILL TAKE NO SECOND PLACE r I r t tI I Bishop Whitney Voices Sentiments f Senti-ments of the Mormons 1 J r Ilie Man Who Redeemed a Desert and I f Founded a Mighty State Muse Have Front Rank r 1 i The statue of BrIgham Young should lie placed among the greatest In the haJJ of fame or it should not be placed there Jit all lie is worthy on place among the host or none at all it is true he redeemed a desert Jio was the greatest pioneer and colonizer this country has even seen ho made It pose pos-e fllolc for peQplo to come here and amass great < fortunes he made It possible for the poor to come here and become rich he founded 200 clUes and many tern pick he built o mighty State antI yet he Is to bo ranked as one of the lessor great men They expect me to fall down and worship men who have amassed mill mil-l lIons for their children to quarrel over il I r und J tell you that I will not do it They suggest placing tho statue oi1 Brigham Young In the temple of fame among the I lesser or our great men 1 repeat that he should be among the greatest of the nation or not at all The above were the earnest words of Bishop O P Whitney in the Tabernacle Taber-nacle yesterday The Idea was suggested sug-gested to the bishop by a visitor who learned that the Theater had been designed I de-signed by Brigham Young lie was reported re-ported to have midi mid-I It was too bad Brigham Young did not remain in inn East and been educated edu-cated lie could have made his mark and died many times a millionaire If he had remained In the East and secured I an education I Bishop Whitney seemed to have a 11 j special grievance yesterday against I 1 the money power and the commercial n spirit of the age It Is the spirit of tho Gentiles he paid to exalt the temporal above the spiritual They are the builders of railroads and steamships the developers I I develop-ers of mines the accumulators of great 1 fortunes They are of che earth earthy And I dont respect Latterday Saints iv ho play tho part of Gentiles The i Gentiles have their mission they are clvilizeis and beautifiers but they often ioiret their mission to meddle In the aftahs of their neighbors I have 1 not a word to say against the hankers the merchants the railroad rail-road builders Their special gifts are in that line that Is their mission But there are Latterday Saints who suppose sup-pose that the power to make money is the only gift from God and they fall down and worship that gift That Is the Gentile way for looking at it They bow down and worship the man who l has scraped together a little of the dust of the earth while they despise the I poet the philosopher tho artist A friend i said TO me and he was a Latter day Saint t too speaking or a neighbor He Is a good man but he has nothing 1 wonder how that man would have j rated the Savior when he was on tarthr1 Following l this Bishop Whitney argued ar-gued that It was wrong to despise any mans gifts His Idea was that God needs business men and financiers but that money and Property should he used as a mean to an end and not besought be-sought after as tho end 11self This he said was putting the carL before the s 1 t horse The bcst thing said of Apostle Brigham Young at his funeral he said fit his proudest 1 plume was that he had not given up his life in a struggle for I tho things of the earth I Leading up to these reflections Bishop I Whitney gave the Mormon Idea of the creation the fall of man and the redemption 1 re-demption lie espoused the Presbyterian t Presby-terian idea of Iorcordinatlon by saying that Mormonism holds that the fall of d f Adam was foreseen and provided for and that the Lord always knew what men and women would do I |