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Show "WHERE DID YOU SET IT!" When a man has possession of III-gOtten III-gOtten gains, he resents any and every effort made by the law or by his associates asso-ciates to find out how he got his money. In Croker's prosperous Tammany units, the insistent demand. 'Wheri did you get It?" was flung at him when-i when-i rer be made a big payment or investment, invest-ment, until he fled the country and took refuge In England. He was determined de-termined not to show where he got It, and didn't. An instance significant of the same stale of mind has Just transpired In this city. Not long ago. Messrs. Charles A. Smurthwalte and Don G Musser brought suit In the courts here to compel Joseph F. Smith to account for the tithing he receives in such mighty streams every year, in gross anion nilr.g to a million and a half annually. an-nually. Did he come forward and make the accounting'' Not a bit of it; he denies, quibbles, and demands a bill of particulars. He Is an enormously wealthy man all of a sudden, a captain of finance and monopoly, nd Is determined deter-mined that he won't show "where he got It." An incident in a bankruptcy proceed-' lng a day or two ago exemplified the same trait, He as subpoenaed as a witness In the once, and that subpoena was more powerful than a foTee-pump In bringing tho ease to a settlement Why? Because Joseph f. would havt been nsked about lh tithing alleged to have been paid to him or his order, from the assets of the concern that wag under investigation. Consternation reigned. It would never do to allow any such question to bo asked as "Where did you get It'" or words to that effect. So the case was brought to a prompt conclusion; the contestants at onee compounded their differences and the investigation was stopped. And so once again did the hlerarchh ruler escare that awful question, "Where did you get It?" |