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Show If! IWtt Row Is Not Over Gospel, Imt onjlf f Account of Big Round H i I Dollars. f DIYYY OF THE TITHING ifl FUND IS THE CAUSb! Tins Is Why There Was J g forced Adjournment of the f Ki Recent Conference. ? feg "I learu from the public prinl'thai $Jt, the causo of the recent hasty adjourn fflP' mcnt of (he Mormon confereuco watj! f due to tho prohibition sentiment aniont 'nal thc larger portion of the Saints anrliK1? that an outbreak was feared upou tbiE jfflQ question which would put somo of thoi' i-higher i-higher ccclesiasts in a peculiar prcdica--mcnt." said the Prominent Politician? F TV to The Stroller on Sunday, 011, "For once I am confident that tnft4? press is in error. It. was no trouble to11D muzzlo Apostle Grant. He hus bceu1i ffl upon all sides of every question. I unir? dcrstand that he .now pases as a Re--iEl0C,1 publicnn. but when ho was ordered to'1 change his coat and lcavo the Church'-' Ps Democracy I have not learned. You'i itio know, he was set apart to bo a Demo- ai' crat at the time the. nllegcd division". i upon party lines occurred, when thou-A'm sands of voters in the church becnmoiin th Democrats and Republicans at the wavoi a oft of a high acclesiast's hand. z . Heber J. Set Apart. i ? rj, "Hcber J. was, as I havo said, sotS rt apart to be a Democrat. Ho carried? K out tho command by becoming vice? "c president of the Herald Publishing? 0 company when fifty-oiie-hundredths ofi'itha tho stock in that paper passed to tho'tion control ol t ho Gentilo Democrats. Apos4 Hit tie Grant and 3ildcr Penrose, siuco mado 4 tho an apostle, represented tho Mormon1.' "-ort democracy in tho Herald. I mention Ubill this because it is alleged that Apostle J3 in Grant is now a Republican, and I don't'' i pro want people to forget political his-: i,m tory. ' ' &m 'This member of the hierarchy was11 set apart; to bo the. temperance monkeys' h7 in tho late campaign to pull tho political'1011 chestnuts from the firo for the Church8 P Republicans, who. had mado the tlcal Tr0 with tho brewors to deliver tho statcf e 3S to the Republicans. He did the work.', .,.-His .,.-His mission ended when tho legislature l-?" adjourned and he was commanded to?; .-"f 1 keep his mouth closed upon tho ques- sn Hon of prohibition. Ho did so. 33utJ 'IiR01 1 am getting away from my subject. Row Over Tithing Fund. 'The hasty adjournment of the con-to stx ference last Tuesday was not duo to fljjfcit tho temperance or prohibition questioujot at all. It was due to a revolt that isimts v on against the Smith dynasty, and theXfe"gttii tithing fund is tho bone of contcu-ftfce ' tion. Zm on "The custom, as you well know, isfmitye to hold a priesthood meeting tho cywt-f, ing before the assembling of the soTHi- ).fm annual conferences, at which mooting r the programme and plans for the con-1 ferenco are arranged, which always go R-' through. But no priesthood meeting,? ?Ji,P was held uutil the Mondny evening fol-i lowing the second day of the confer-..: ence. f "tt" "Thcro was a meeting, however, several of the higher ccclesiasts audi 5-T! bishops held on Friday evening i)reecd-Jj W3" ing tho couforenco, but it was a serai-ijr-V' secret meeting. Tts object was to oallff r " for an accounting of the tithing. Vrc-fJM, P li miliary steps wero taken, so I oaut? :!nr told, and Tuesday afternoon the lnawiggff-0"-was to have beeii sprung when it eanjrjT-.-$ to snstnininrr tho authorities. mtWl : '1 rna t Threw Dust in Their Eyes. f; , or a "It was a knowledge of this t hat; ije' .at caused the. address of Presiding Bishop i rCp0 Charles Nibley. His sermon ou the; nre a; great amount of money which tho' atton church was expending lor the purposq1 ft nu of advertising Utah in tho way ot , an entertainment which cost tho people' as he said, nothing, was purely a; no fe blind; it was to throw dust in the eyes se'i of his hearers. 1. 1 "The fact is that the tithing fund. u&B has got to bo nu enormous sum This; s too, despite tho fact that many Saiutsr tfy a, havo ceased to pay. The buildings tie p which the church is now erecting oiv; Whil tho church blocks show conclusively that the tithes are coming in. But- ijepoi still thero is a constant appeal f or,: i provis more. The reason for this is that tho) idt'cn hierarchy, or a part of it, is digging! ptc into tho barrel a littlo too deep for, iMhy the others who are only receiving thoi C0 po crumbs, and it is this thnt hurts. !fct iin "You will remember that in the,1 1 of several sermons delivered by thoso- ifotli-who ifotli-who were engaged in mission work "ijipj-that "ijipj-that thcro was a cry for more missiou-." i.elinn: aries in the forcigu field, but the cull; Jdutic from 33ox B does not ring. Why 7 Be-; wwo cause every time a missionary is sent'; &ps abroad the local field loses a good! tithe pnycr and really puts indirectly jj-tn a charge- upon the church, hence orf- In keep them at homo means moro revc-fj K tl nue for-the tithing barrel. It is this? clo failure to keep up the mission work; ft a that makes the more radical of the , ?od hierarchy angry. The Smith dynasty, jn however, is looking after itself, hencoji t tho silence of Box B. J?.Va KlmDall Gave Secret Away. b , ''President J. Golden Kimball, in his? & cxi roiuarks at the overflow meeting Sun tl v:d day in tho Assembly hall, gavo the sc-i 'dnlies. cret away when hu said: 1 Qtn I. know some other quarters in which 1 -j r. . thero Is noL complete harmony. I'll tell you what I've noticed whilo slttlnp on ana the fence the saints arc not all united.. tax the priesthood Is not united. I don't-' lng mean In regard to tho gospel, but onj Hhia some Important questions. tfy "This let tho cat out of the bug., W bin Thero is an internal war in tho priest-: ? The hood and as Elder .Kimball says, it iS; !hjral not iu regard to the gospel, but in tem-1 'Q An poral affairs. r j "You will likewiso recall the fact: jS4 th that but few of tho prominent Saints r, a 2 in Salt Lako City outside the lner-1 th archy were present at the conference gai They were waiting and would have heenj present Tuesday aflernoon, when therOj jor would have been a difforcnt showing; vLt of hands had not the forced adjourn tcr meht been taken. It was snap 3af? fcna'to mcnt upon them and they are pretty tariff soro over the matlor and &evcral a.r0 A4tonie outspoken. The revolt is growing. u.ii- tho x iron hand of tho hierarchy niaj; fn.'Wjj Tcp0, onco too often aud evorv indication iswltee n that it will. It was the Inst strawwk ' that broko tho camel's back. , (TsPf8Pr V is ono thing. Money is nnothcr. thp r is tho grasping after tho latter thnMfljJgyca na certain to break the back ot n0.Mlvrcu(i church, pt?,n'tt |