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Show VALUABLE COLLECTIONS. A correspondent of the Spokane tWnph.) Spokesman-Revlftv, rebukefl thst paper for its utterances concerning concern-ing the defeat of th hierarchy In Salt Lajce City on election day; and with the facility characteristic of thoso who take hi aide of the i use, be rushes into a general compliment to the Merman Mer-man people as If they lmd bfen attacked. at-tacked. It seems Impossible to Impress upon th. minds of some Obstinate and selfish men nt the head o' the Mormon i bun h und upon the minds of some of their chosen or seif-appointori lauders, that there is no Issue In 1'tah involving the . bsractei of the Mormon people as a mass, or Involving their right to any religious fslth which thf-y may choose The sole labor of the American party and of The Tribune Is to expose the law-breaking and the tyranny which the false prophets practice and enforce; en-force; and to redeem this Slate from the same kind of a curse thai held humanity in check for hundreds of pears In other lands and ages. s a specimen Of the folly which Accompanies the defense made by emissaries of the hierarchy whenever those emissaries can gain access to newspapers or audiences abroad we quote one paragraph from the correspondent corre-spondent In the Spokesman-Review. VThe Mormon church, let It be remembered, remem-bered, calls for no hnanclnl tild from any one who Is nOt Of that persuasion; neither do they Indulge In Ice cream festlvnls. cake socials or other money making scheme so frequently met with In other organisations. They pay their tenth if so disposed, but can not be dlsfeilow-shiped dlsfeilow-shiped for nonconformity. That Is either wholesale lying or wholesale Idiocy. There Is not one word of truth In It The Mormon church charity collectors collect-ors call upon all classes of people for financial aid. The local church organizations organi-zations do indulge in Ice cream festivals, fes-tivals, cake socials, and an Indiscriminate Indis-criminate lot of other money-making schemes. The Mormons do pay one-tenth one-tenth of their annual Income, whether disposed or not. and they are dlsfellow-shlned dlsfellow-shlned for nonconformity. Outside of the financial aid extracted from the Gentiles, whom Smith calls his "enemies"' (the word Gentile In lTt("h means Jew as well), and outside of all the socials, festivals, dances, ward fairs, stake fairs, and all sorts of other methods to obtain money, there are specific collections made by the church and Its agents as follows. Ten per cent for tithes General collections for the poor, including in-cluding fast-day collections, bishops' Collections, teachers' collections, and relief society collections. Collections fay ward mc-etlng-house s. Collections for ward amusement halls. Collections 'or stake tabernacles Collections for stake schools. Collections for temples. Collections for ward Sunday-schools, i idle. tic.iiM fur -lake Sunday-school board. Collections for church Sunday-school board. I Elections for ward mutual improvement improve-ment association. Collections for stake mutual Improvement Improve-ment board. Collections for church mutual Improvement Im-provement board. Collections for general church schools. Collections for missionary work. Collections for elders' quorum. Collections for seventies' quorum And in addition to all these . , male Mormon adult la expected to spend from two to five years, entirely tit his own expense or by the charity of the outside world, In the missionary fi-eld. "liter- will be no denial that every one of the foregoing exactions Is Imposed Im-posed upon the Mormon people, there will be no denial that the charitably Inclined In-clined Individual not of their persuasion per-suasion is solicited for help, there will be no denial that all sorts or festivals and money making schemes are also a part of the collection system, and there will te no denial that failure to pay til hen )s ground for dlsfellowshlp-Ing dlsfellowshlp-Ing the Individual member. The writer to the Spokesman-Review certifies himself as having been active, for many years, In the Mormon church. If In- knows anything of the system whatever, he knows that every stute-ttitnt stute-ttitnt In this article, except the quotation quota-tion from himself. Is correct; and, as to that quotation, he knows that It Is a silly falsehood. |