| Show AS TO 10 uCO t tIn In Ills his testimony before the commit lee Ifo on privileges privilege and elections election tit lit President Joseph Jos ph r F I Smith L not liot only o answered questions question concerning concern Ins inK lils hll personal family relations Which lie he might reasonably end and lawfully have havo refused t to disclose c but bill ho he nien nl u replied f r rr t to concerning hili connection with n number of ot enterprise In UtAh tS i lio lo that In not mort of ot them then liln hla M hili hie personal on line worn wore decease the Iho share he lie owned would s o id other in instance In Instances PUB tote to his hie In edme s me stances stance he ho was WR u n stockholder an RA ni Trus Trustee tee ln trust for tor the Church of Jesus Jeus J Christ of cud that t r they would past pass to 10 his ora In ollee It 11 did dh not appear and l It II not trill Into run that In thin tho named mimed the Church ChUIch controls control the tho or Imn hUR invested In Invested vested to tho thu exclusion of ot other 1 ho desired le to Invest All the Ies that hove have b been en time hum and nd lignin again that tho ho Church dominated have been heln sheer In Inventions concocted to lu the monitor matter In n a falsa taIRo light thin Ihl American public people nt at t homo know that those statements about tho Church Chuich anti its It att lU attempt mi t tn to n hinder hu inert on u I the pert part of nt are utterly falto toles and large numbers of ot thorn them havo expressed their their disgust at lit the continual repetition of ot ouch mich n untruths To Tn rend the tinny dally outpouring of vI vl pious flours mendacity with which the tho road tug public ova nh nil uninformed person mIght Iw he l led lell d to suppose that the iho of or in Mormon Church hunch had taken new n w dep In rot ref trance to e attaint and that lint ho he had Imd diverted from runt th the lines line followed by b Ills hula and was so eo eng engaged fd In that ho he hind Imd M no 11 1 time for any ony Church hutch duties Th truth I Is an nil Trustee in tar for time Church he lie to the tio h he Ih Ili II that In ht tr II companies that have hlo been boen and that he hI was WAR n u IU ut t I il with his 1111 In the rhe Ino a ho hll on hit lilo own awn they thoy heing nien al n In lu Inthe Inthe the time and anil of ot thus those H Ho i thoro there U Is I nothing now non no In the course I or of the present Preel President dent of lit tho the Church III In th these e and ail that Is III well known knowlI to tn hula hi nine nod to lila lea gener generally ally lIlb I If It had Hot lIot been bt n for far C r tho ho nl Irrigating financial milling anal other temporal works Inaugurated I nUl 1111 IK anti and en eni i I In iii by h the respective lenders leaders 1 of ot tho Mormon Marmon people Utah could not possibly have lc n built tin upon n a 1 bar barren ha r ren re desert null month mado thu tho prosperous commonwealth which It U le I today Front From the tho ho very at as II vf tho the world worM calls our system lute hoe been beon proclaimed BH as H a practical religion em mom tracing everything every thine hint U le I for tor time the wel welfare we fare of oC Young on OR arriving In ht Iola Ihla valley went to work directing lr th the Uy lay 11 11 m H 1 ing out alt ot of and and the tho II of ot tempoal work for the time nu eue 1118 and comfort of ot th the i people to tu tobe tube be he brought In from tram too nations of or tip th world orld Everyone of or his hili hi line hea followed along In the tho he set to tu their mesas and their op They were nut col nil 1111 en q i ed to the seine nam degree with the h peculiar gifts which lie displayed In the direction of for tor the material ben ban benefit eat of ot the tho people hut but they merit each entered jobe hlo that Ihal which is III ROW now denounced ns RII an tie though Jt Jl veto alo a 1 slut flu for tor the President Ire lent of ot the time Church ChurchIr to tn do anything hut but tail pray Ir T and sing ling dud In exhort and spiritual ordinances anti and consolations President Joseph P r I Smith Is le ins sits lamed by the body bod of ot the tho Church ua as the they I y 5 r for tor till nil Its hn It r properties and He Ire does docs not lIot own or claim ti n solitary cent of ot any of IU Its prop property P properly t p erty erly In hl tiny nn shape or form torm Ho holds It ID In trust for the too Church and the mem memo here Jerl of o that body bady of religious wor war worshippers shippers hav have perfect In his hili Integrity ability and faithfulness and nna andare lire are under no ho anxiety concerning these theao temporal affairs The of ot the tho Church under hi direction his receive cud and RII the tithing affairs affaire and their ore perfectly kept anti are um un der by the Iho local throughout the Church affairs emro of ot no proper concern to people that do ilo not belong to the Church They Thoy may talk about bout 0 them hem nn OR notch much n Ia as thoy they please and It will wilt make no nil difference to t tho the Solute Since Hince the death of Itt President Young not lIot ono one of the Church ch leaders wan more anxious for far time the of at the thu resources r of uC Utah and th the HUr our rounding fOil 1111 II It r Blons occupied hy by 11 Latter duy bout was wan time the trIte Into President President dent Q 0 Cannon Ho Ito was Ill not only an nn Apostle and nn ono one of ot tho the First Presidency of ot the Church sustained nn is 1111 a n 1 prophet n II seer and a 1 revelator but represented Luau In Congress for tor several terms timid and was a 1 stockholder In u a 1 er of ot companies amt corporations u a director In many and also n a 1 president or therein He tic left lef considerable property on out his decease although he ho spent t f M of ot his time In tn preaching counsel tog Ins and helping to over ow the Church of ot Jesus Christ at f lat latter lIt lItter ter duy ay We have havo no fault to In find and with hit liH hi KO so hut huh what mutt Is In thu difference between It IL und and that lint on In Iii Jr by h among tho Ihl lurch lenders l It comes with a n 1 verv velY poor war trace grace front from ono oJO of his Nona COMB on by a 1 plural plum wife to raise n dally howl hosl Joseph K I for engaging In III mt similar pursuits to 10 o those tho of ot our lamented tl I brother und and friend his hili associate In ulna tho Church Presidency who NIO was one of ot thu th strongest tr of ot this com coin and also of ot plurAl mar marriage ring c that the Church rum line had from time the theW W Wo Ve honor his hits memory und and no upon his mis character or his works work We merely mero atten attention tion to tho time feet fact lint over word woM V F I Smith In III regard to his business reflects upon Hie the course of ot tho the Into halo Q Camion We lire are led to touch on this subject through reading rattling an In the Morn Morning orn log ing Examiner of March Murch 20 O 1905 1906 pub flub l hell nt nl Ogden It 11 Is In BO so pertinent to this that It II Is le reproduced on an another another other othor page of ot this Issue of ot the tha News New We AVe l jo to publish I anything of 11 a 1 personal nature but since In 11 alms who occupy n a high place In the af at of ot tho ny Saints anti J JIn In the esteel en of the tha general public are aro assaulted by be beings lags ings whose character would woul 1 not bear heRr lI In IA print pant it U may become necessary to t expose e their false falsehood falsehood hood mid their In no terms However however wo We now new simply quote what Is I said by u IL pa paper paper per pel which sets lets forth nets facts that MO lira well enough for tor the tho public to 10 understand nod we wc therefore copy them verbatim again that lint to us ue they the convey nothing in the tho wily Way of at faultfinding either of President Q Cannon or of ot President Joseph P F I Smith for tor forc forwe we c 0 concede the limo right of any man In ht this the Church to In such business pur pursuits of ot suits nulls nil as he ho chooses and the time right companies corporations to 10 choose whom they the will as a their directors mind and officers At tho the same time limo wo we deny the with It not connected right of person them to Interfere In 11 their affairs or to hold up to public publiO condemnation any Individual who engages In lawful un undertakings become because he Is In s a I member or officer rn tr or Pr President of dC the Church of ot Jesus Christ of ot Saints Tho The Church will attend to Us Its In own concerns con erns min mid of ot all nl tho time great men who have hn ve con conducted In dueled ducted them none nOlle have been held greater deserved deserves honor respect love loyo and amid confidence thou tho the man who now stands at nt tho time mend Ilene of ot the Church ChUIch ns as Its President Ir and tin time tn for far forUs Us its business affairs |
