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Show I MONEY IS NEEBEQ H; Every MemLct' of Church Who - Attended Conference Is Ap-Hf Ap-Hf pealed to for Dollars. B. MANY BIG ONES REQUIRED . H TO RUN A CAMPAIGN HjL Tithe-Payer Declares Burden So Great It Cannot Longer Be Carried. HF i It costs money and lot? of it to keep tho first presidency and the quorum of , tho twelve. They Hvo in luxury. The ccneral fund of tho church has to bo B tnppcd freely for this purpose and thou where campaign assessments have to Hjf'" ho met to aid in tho election of Apos- ilo Smoot and Elder Howell and the ex-B, ex-B, traordinary expense of keeping up a B morning and an afternoon newspaper, it H makes a tremendous hole in the tithing "It is a constant appeal for tithes," said a well-known saint to Tho Tribune, Thursday. "Thero is no lot up. Of B( courso it is a lieavy burden ou me, BL though I have a fairly good income. But upon the large majority of the members K' of our church it is getting to be an H'' awful load. my "There is not a meeting of any kind but what the question of tithes and 01-B 01-B ferings is ding-donged into one's ear, ' until one is forced to exclaim. 'How .i, long, oh, Lord, how long will this grind : go on '7 Will it never cease?' H J "At the recent conferenco even member of the church who was present B; was handed an envelope like this," and lie handed Tho Tribuno the envelope. Bi --"'Yes, you can cop3" it." It follows: H'i , , . , . . , , . ......... ? TITHES AND OFFERINGS. 4- .? WILL A MAN, ROB GOD? B 4' "Bring: ye all the tithes Into the v B storehouse and prove me. I will R 4i pour you out a blessing, salth the HK 4 Lord." B. Tithes $ Hl 1 Church expense v K i -I- Church debt $...,.. B ! Foreign missions $ n- B. Educational fund $ HT) Por fund $ ly, Special collection $ -f B J- "God Loveth a Cheerful Giver." fr 1 "Well done. Enter thou into tho Hl joy of thy Lord." -I Bi' Ki' Name H. j- Address 1 '-t-i. .... . . , . . . . ,. t Kq- For General Pund Only. HA 'Understand.' ho continued, "this HAl appeal is for the general fund only. HJfT Tho other demands are as great a bur- Hr den. In fact they catch us two ways, m ' "both going and coming. I for one Hj f am getting ready to stand aside, and H;- '( there are man' others like me. "Politically, I am a Democrat, and 4 it galls mo like everything to put up H:" i good, hard cash and then have that B cash used to fight me. And there are B hundreds in Utah who arc liko me. It B' costs money to run newspapers, and to to- ask mo to contribute to a fund, a pare B1 ' ' of which is used to keep two papers i going to fight me and the party to B J .-which I belong, is pretty tough. .' "'As I said, there are other demands , "beside tho general fund that are cou- 1- istanily being made. Hero are a few ; of them: "Ward maintenanec. mj Quorum dues. B Mutual Improvement donations. B Dime Sunday (Sunday-school). B' Nickel Friday (primary). B Benefit entertainments for departing K l onlsalonarles. B? Benellt entertainments for returning B missionaries. (They catch us both ways, V going and coming). f Special donations for stake houses. m: Special donations for new meeting mi . houses. H?; Fast day donations. Bj- Smoot-Howell Fund. "The one thing I am surprised is B that there is not a special demand made for a direct fund to support Smoot and Howell, now that President Joseph P. Smith has issued a command upon all members of the church in Utah to vote for these two men. I tell 3'ou I'm gct- H't ling pretty tired. k Regarding the command of Joseph F. K Smith to the church voters to vote for B Smoot and Howell, the Ogdeu Journal BJ; I Somebody should rush to the front of H I the stage right away and assure us again Hii ( that there is no church Interference In f politics in Utah no union of church and m' wtate no dabbling by church leaders in public affairs. "We know that It Is weak BJ' And sinful to doubt; but the flesh is weak 4 nnd thero are so many things hard to Hft understand. Just about the time wo Hi Jiavo convinced ourselves that there Is Hk i 310 such thing as church Interference; B just when we have satisfied ourselves Hkj that the church leaders are absolutely T out of politics: ju3t when we are satisfied B that even'thing is nil right anyhow. H along comes some little incident that H ' completely upsets our equanimity, some- B ' thing that throvs us back Into the slough H jr, of doubt. Two years ago it waa an edi- f I lorial by Joseph F. Smith of the Church Hf( of Jesus Christ of Lattcr-dny Saints, In H ! the Mutual Improvement Era, telling the H3j snembcrs of the church how to vote. Yes- tcrday it was President Smith's procla- Bl' snatio'n in the conference indorsing ij Apostio Keeu srnooc lor iiio uimeu w , States senate and Congressman Joseph 7, Howell for another term in tho house H.t 'of representatives. Of course, these HP-ii things can all be CAplalned away. We Kjjl have heard it done times without num- HftVI r,en I1 ls a m 10 even ask or expect an K' explanation. We trust that some good B man will arise and explain without com- BLl pelllng poor, weak mortals to expose K their doubts and fears, their sins and Hl shortcomings, to an unsympathetic t vorld. Bi Should Mr. Taft be elected president, H; i or should Mr. Bryan be elected presi- H, dent; thero will bo a woopin' and a Hf j waihn' among the church Republican Hm and the church Democratic crowds of K Utah when it comes to pass around tho Vf official pie after either is inducted into Hj ' office. A smooth game was worked upon H ( on the church Bepublican crowd when H the petition to put the Hearst electoral Er ticket and the Hearst congressional K ticket upon tho oiTicial ballot in Utah R Tras placed in tho headquarters of the Hu Young Men's Republican club. The VM church crowd walked up liko lambs led 'j t -to the slaughter and appended their H1; a gignaturcs to the document. Then to ' clinch the fact that they did sign it, each one was sworn by a notary, for tho petition on file with the secrotary of state contains the following: Personally appeared before me each of tho foregoing signers of the within petition, peti-tion, and each for himself, and for no other, made oalh that he In a voter within with-in and for the political division for which such nominations are made, and has stated his residence therein. The church Democrats who signed it appended their signatures when the petition pe-tition was handed them in their offices or on the street. However, whether Taft or Bo'an is elected, when tho voters vot-ers who signed the Hearst petition aslc for a cut of the official pie they will be called upon the carpet, confronted with their signatures to the Hearst petition pe-tition and their affidavit that the signatures sig-natures are their own, and then the official offi-cial bouncer will quietly proceed to thrown them out. I -J H Mr. Georgo Roberts of Ilenefer. Summit Sum-mit count.y, was a welcome- visitor at Tho Tribuno office yestcrda-. He was enthusiastic at tho political outlook in Summit, and noted signs of a great revolt re-volt thero against the dominant pricst-b' pricst-b' rule. He says that Americanism is talked b.y men and in circles where it is a surpriso to hear it; and ho would not be astonished if tho Americans carried car-ried Summit count3r this 3rcar. it t Valentino Gideon has decided to accept ac-cept the nomination for district, attorney attor-ney in tho Second judicial district, which was conferred upon him by tho Democratic .-judicial convention, during his" absenco' in California, where he went for the express purposo- of escaping escap-ing the nomination. Judge Gideon said that he intended making the raco against N. J. Harris, tho Republican nominee, although the job was not of hiB seeking. A number of voters allege that the registration officer in tho Seventh district dis-trict moved the office from the placo designated vrithout giving any notice whatever, hence they wore unablo to register and. were put to much -incon-vonionco. |
