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Show WHAT HE PRODUCES. "We are producers,' Bald Joseph F Smith at the B. Y. summer school In Provo Inst week. This sentiment, with the fiing at "sectarian" preachers and a sneer at doctors and lawyers, constituted consti-tuted the essence of his address What does Joseph F. produce? Mostly Most-ly hell. He has succeeded in stirring up the brimstone fires for his community, and it Is hts apparent Intention to keep the cauldron hot. What driveling rot Is his attack on preachers! He Is a preacher and not a very good one. What does he hope to gain by Injecting his bigoted dislike Of Christian ministers into every counsel coun-sel that he gives to his people? Men who have consecrated their lives, their time nnd their talents to a betterment of thrt world; .ire entitled to and among decent people they receive grateful consideration It matters not whether one agrees with their creeds. Or their manner o; stating their creeds As they are nearly all filled with desire for humanity's uplifting and willingness willing-ness for self-sacrifice In their labors, as they seek out the lonely and the despairing, the sick and the needy; as they follow as nearly as they can In the footsteps of their Master; they re-i re-i IVfl no more than that to which they are entitled, when society honors them for their work and holds them In Its reverent esteem It Is a reflection on his own Intelligence, upon the faith which he professes and upon his people, peo-ple, that ihls bigoted autocrat of the Mormon church constantly goes out of his way to rail at "sectarian minis ters." If he had the slightest sense of propriety or humor he would kick himself him-self or laugh at himself for the ridiculous ridicu-lous posture In which he must stand In the world's gaze when he derides "preaching for hire and divining for money." for that Is his own and only trade and very profitable It Is, too. Of course, to make his address complete, com-plete, he banged away at doctors and lawyers, as nnn-:roduoers and cormorants cormo-rants of the community. On occasion he delights to tell that he counsels his boys to follow occupations in whit h they can produce something? It Is noticeable, no-ticeable, however, that he does not hesitate to boost them out of occupations occupa-tions requiring manual labor and Into situations of "non-productiveness.1 Mr. Smith Insists that the Mormons are "going to keep up their practical work." D this he undoubtedly means that he will continue to graft the producers pro-ducers of his church to the amount of two million dollars a year, and Invest I"" in'Tnys in nnui.-n iul pursuits under un-der his e.wn direction and for his own profit, direct or indirect. His appearance as a public Instructor Instruc-tor is becoming farcical. Any informed p'-rson can take anv address dillvtr.-d by Joseoh F., lay It to Joseph F.'s own life and career, and find that his own conduct brings him under his own condemnation, and that his attempted praise of his own sentiments and doings do-ings I. merely a sharp accentuation of what he does not do In life. |
