Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-03-18 | Page 1 | Hierarchy Has Abandoned Worship of the Master

v 4 "l- "J v 4 v J J 4 4 5 t HIERARCHY HAS ABANDONED WORSHIP ? I OF THE MASTER J J Has the Church of Jesus 4 4- Christ of Latter-day Saints be- 4 4 come a commercial institution 4-4 4-4 instead of a religious one? Hate 4 4 it abandoned the worship of the 4-4 4-4 Master for that of Mammon P 4 4 Ask Josepli F. Smith, its presi- 4 4 dent. He knows whereof he 4 4- spealcs. He told a committee of 4 4 the Senate of the United States 4 4- that his principal business was 4 that of president of the church, 4 4 but he was engaged in numerous 4 4 other businesses. He named 4-4 4-4 these: 4. 4 President Zion's Co-Operative 4 4 Mercantile institution. 4 4- President State Bank of Utah. 4 4- President Zion's Savings Bank 4 4 and Trust company. 4 4 President Utah. Sugar com- 4 4 pany. 4- President Consolidated "Wagon 4-4 4-4 and Machine company. 4 4 President and director of tho 4-4 4-4 Utah Light and Power company. 4-4 4-4 President and director Salt 4 4 Lake. & Los Angeles Railroad 4-4 4-4 company. 4. 4 President Saltair Beach com- 4 4 pany. 4. 4 President and director Idaho 4 4 Sugar company. 4 President and director Inland 4 4 Crystal Salt company. 4-4 4-4 President and director Salt 4 4 Lake Dramatic association. 4 4- President and director Salt 4 4 Lake Knitting company. 4 4 Director Union Pacific Rail- 4-4 4-4 way company. 4- Vice-President Bullion, Beck 4 4 and Champion Mining company. 4 4 Editor Young Men's Mutual 4-4 4-4 Improvement association, a peri- 4 4 odical; the Improvement Era, 4 4 the Juvenile Instructor. 4 4 Since then the grasping hand 4-4 4-4 of the hierarch has reached out 4 4 and the life insurance business 4 4 of the State is pulled in. 4 4- All the above, with the escop- 4-4 4-4 tion of the Union Pacific rail- 4-4 4-4 way, pay tithes to Joseph F. 4 4 Smith and the apostolate. No 4 1 4- accounting thereof is made. 4 4- "WhyP Is not the church com- 4-4 4-4 mercialized, Almighty God set 4 4 asido and Mammon placed on 4 4 the pedestalP 4. 4,4,4,4"4444,4,4444,44,444