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Show THE FINAL GANNON ARTICLE. The final article of Senator Frank J. Cannon's series, "Under the Prophet Proph-et in ..Utah," . appears in the August number of Everybody's 'Magazine, When this series began in tho November Novem-ber number of that magazine last year, it was stated that it would probably continue for ten months. The ten months V limit expires with this number., num-ber., and the concluding article appears as originally planned.- It -has been a powerful scries all through; it has gjven inside views of many things not known before to more than a- very few persons. There has boon no denial worth consideration b-- any ono mentioned men-tioned of any of tho statements made in this series, and but two attempted denials all told. The charge was made in 'a former article of the series that President Joseph F. Smith performed the marriage ceremony uniting Abraham Abra-ham H. Cannon and Lillinn Hamlin in plura.1 marriage. To this liilliau Hamlin Ham-lin has made denial; Joseph F. Smith has not. Inasmuch, as Abraham Cannon Can-non was Frank's brother, it is difficult to see how he could have been mistaken" mis-taken" in this matter. ' Undoubtedly ho had the facts both from his father and from his brother. Another attempted denial jwas by Mnthias'F. Cowley of an interview with Frank Cannon on politics, when Cannon . was chairman of tho Democratic Demo-cratic State Committee in Utah. Cowley's Cow-ley's denial denied too much, for it denied that he called on Cannon at all,, when the proof is ample that he did call on him. Tho conversation between be-tween the two was private; no one else was present, no one else knows what, was said. Mr. Cannon gives the gist of that conversation j Mr. Cowley denies the conversation altogether. A denial like that, however,-can. hardly bo expocted to be accepted by a candid public; so that in fact thero has been no denial worth consideration' of anything any-thing whatever said in Mr. Cannon's articles. This final article "of tho series is entitled en-titled "Tho-Prophet and Big Business." Busi-ness." rt enumerates ten business presidencies of Joseph F. Smith, viz., Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, Inland Cr3'stal Salt Company, Zion's Savings Bank & Trust Company,- State' Bank of Utah, Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution, Consolidated Wagon & Machine Ma-chine Company, Home Firq Insurance Company, Beneficial Lifo Insurance Company, Salt Luke Knitting Corn-pan', Corn-pan', the Ddserct News. Following this enumeration of commercial and business presidencies, tho article proceeds pro-ceeds to show, tho great changes thut have been enforced in recont year.s as to the collection and disposal of the tithes:, as to. tho commercial ..operations of the head pf tho church, both .for him.-, self and ostensibly for tho church; his business connections with the "robber barons:" his ricorous rule: his fierce exactions'; nnd' fli'e despotic avaricious;, ness with which., he administers every' affair that corries finder his hands. The article, is rich in fa'cts, in illustrations, illus-trations, and- deductions. "It is an ar tide which, in nnd of itself, would be a triumphant vindication of Mr. Cannon's Can-non's claims from tho first. Thore can be no mistake about it, .this serios of articles of Senator Cannon's has laid 'bare ' life" inside workings of thq . dpapptic hierarchy in a way ney.er before approached. We understand under-stand that the articles are to be printed print-ed in book form, and there can be no question but that the book, when it ap-pear's, ap-pear's, i--will "beah eye-opener to thousands thou-sands of people in Utah.1 The Tribune prints this morning considerable con-siderable extracts from "this final article, ar-ticle, and the readers can judge for themselves -of its high merits. |
