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Show SMOOT AS CHURCH. AGENT. No Mormon over has bocomn a public chargo.Apostlo Reed Smoot to Department Depart-ment of Commerce and Lahor, Washington, Washing-ton, D. C, September 2. IPOS. If there have boon ;i very few Mormons Mor-mons who have boon In the county poor-hoiiHe, poor-hoiiHe, wo are all taxed nnd these Institutions Insti-tutions aro helped to lie maintained by our money. President Joseph F. Smith to Pittsburg Times, April 3, 1007. Tt is mcrch' a question of the time, the place, aud tho purpose, as to what tho statement of tho Mormon governing high priest may be. Here was Apostlo Reed Smoot, Mormon hierarch, appealing appeal-ing to a governmental bureau iu behalf of believers in the favorite polygani3' of his chief. To gain his end, Apostlo Snioot mado tho presentation quoted, to tho effect that uo Mormon was over given over to tho public, chargo ns an indigent. Smoot !s fnlsohood was told in order to show that, tho Mormon church did not break tho laws pertaining pertain-ing to conditions of immigrants. Then hero was President Joseph F, Smith pub-licl3 pub-licl3 apologizing for tho fact that Smoot douied, under tho evasion that if Mormons wcro sometimes sent to tho poorhousc, lhe3T had a right lo bo thcro bocauso Mormons paid taxes. That cither Smith or Smoot told a falsehood can not bo denied under comparison com-parison of tho two statements given at tho opening of this article. Smith being tho supremo head of tho church, wo must take his word for it over that of Smoot, who is a subordinate to Smith and in that case, Smoot is shown to bo a falsifier and tho church is found to bo guilty of tho chargo which ho denies. Again, too, we will quoto Mr. Smith, in order to expose tho real reason for soino Mormons finding their way into tho poorhousc, mcantimo demonstrating that Smith, was equally guilty of falsehood whon ho said that tho church had a right to put its members mem-bers under tho public chargo becauso other mombers paid taxes. This is how President Smith also contradicts himself: him-self: I would like to give the bishops a key on this matter. A bishop la under no obligation to feed or clotho those poor who have never had their names put upon the tithing records of tho church. Des-erot Des-erot News report of sermon of Joseph F. Smith at Kanosh, Millard county, May 23, IS99. , So wo have Smoot sa3'iug that thcro never was a Mormon in the poorhousc; wo have Smith contradicting Smoot; wo havo Smith declaring himself to have spoken falsob'; aud wo have tho church breaking the immigration laws, Tn tho meantime', let us ask tho sensible sen-sible Mormon what sort of a church it is ho belongs to, as represented iu its heartless and false leaders. Suppose a new Mormon convert lo sudden- become be-come ill perhaps from a sovero cold contracted in his baptism. Ho is incapacitated, inca-pacitated, from work and is in need of immediate help; This condition prevents pre-vents him from having his name "put-upon "put-upon the tithing records of tho church" because the onl3r va3- in which ono ma" get his name ou this supposed roll of honor is by means of contribution, contribu-tion, aud this tho uufortuualo is tolall-tinable tolall-tinable to make. Suppose the bishop of the ward in which the poor fellow lives shall act under the "kc3"" which Joseph F. Smith has handod to him in this matter. Do you not sec that the unfortunate convert must go to the poorhousc? Aud will 3'ou say that the organization which will practice such doctrine lives up to tho gospel of tho Sou of Man, or can bo called tho Church of Christ? Think it out. But, to return to Smoot "s falsehood. Reed Smoot professes to be a Senator of the United' States from tho State of Utah, representing the entirety of its citizenship before the Nation. Do you, Mr. Gentile, imagine that Smoot would cither tell a lie, or proclaim Iho truth, or exert himself in any wa3" in behalf of an intending immigrant to Utah who was a nou-Mormon7 Think it over. |