| Show A FAIR FAM REPORT thi THE new york meta Yera tot lct of auguet august slat contains a report of an interview with brother spencer clawson who is now in that city Q on n business for Z C AL 1 I As anything fair touching oil on the mor mons mond and their leader has been rare of latefa latela the her Eer acl acT wo we publish some bome extracts after consider able conversation upon the probable effects of president youngs death upon the church the following colloquy ensued llo Jle porter how will business affairs be affected by his death will the same commercial institutions A be preserved I 1 mr clawson I 1 see bee ho ilor re reason safi why they should not continue yet I 1 would hot pre presume sunie fo 0 o amk abr others thid question beeh beeb iselma to ave been beeh anticipated at home and I 1 received a tele telegram giam glam thi this s morn mom ing on that subject jee JRe porter A private telegram elfr clawson no it was waa sent to me for use among the therma with whom we do bubines yoi yol gan san can see cee it if you your desire deske mr cla cia clawson w son 1 handed banded the follow i ing circular which speaks for itself ZIONS COOP CO OP ins lys I 1 balz BALI lf L laae olty tiry utan UTAH now new he york office benedict halla ddll cog cot co braud street new york 1 ui 4 ost auga t 30 dean deab siri sini am to receipt of the following despatch S SALT ax LAKE laen ciry CiTY AugUst pres president ident brigha a loun koun atter utter a brief dillmes nim him ES died at tour four p pm in lett a apprehensions arise prejudicial to the interests ct of toe institution ution say to our trie ads ada that his lils death will lu in no way affect the or management continues of the in stutt Q u aich continues continued as heretofore its tina financial cial clai condition warrants us in lu baying saying that obit will be met with the game fame promptness which has characterized character zed ail its transactions mckean i w H HOOPER I 1 1 11 S ELDR a bior I 1 I 1 11 CLAWSON B t director directors 1 0 CALDER calber 1 I 1 JAMES JACK J i 1 WILLIAM wllliam JENN stockholders J r FREEZE very respectfully az crawson Be porter reporter this was a church in J ution was it not mr clawson yes yea it was waa established by the counsel of president You young ngin in 1888 1868 and began operations in 1869 reporter HM it been a success or a failure from a commercial standpoint mr air clawton Claws we think it a success for some years it paid twenty per cent dividend and hince kince the stringent times came on we WO have lost loat no money it has hasa a paid p aid ald up capital of soo JOO wo we are satisfied sned with its prosperity Be reporter mr ur clawson did you yov know your late president very weli well mr clawson front my toy earliest recollect recollection ign ibn of anything I 1 al always way knew him intimately ardd arid iid ild aflee tion tely Jie the tho public has had so much from those who were vereon opposed to him I 1 would like to present the views of a friend it y you ou do not feel it a task I 1 would like to report your statement fully I 1 mr clawson it iq no task to tome me nie to speak of president young and after the many abusive things I 1 have been forced to read in some papers here about him I 1 shall give you my version of hia true character I 1 always found president young to be an honest upright man he has been to my roy fathel father and to myself a good kind father and arid I 1 never knew him to do an injustice to any one intentionally it would d man who had as much to do with BO so many person as he had to do with and for such a long period of time that he be did not hurt somebody and make enemies where he had reason under other circumstances to look jook for friends he was no exception to all ill other men of prominent tion tlona tiona a target to shoot shook at and because he was so eminently success ful fui fulin in the tho handling of iff hia bin business mairs affairs if that was an additional incentive to pick at him re potter reporter without trenching tren china ching upon privacy what do you think he hel was really worth at his death K X mr he could not avoid becoming rich with all the busl busi business nes opportunities that his position brought to him kb no man of his hia great ability and his capacity for the direction of labor could fall fail to become wealthy in a new country it would have been beed ain aln gular guiar indeed had bad he not overtopped over topped everybody in utah men with a great deai deal less ability than he ho had got rich there luch much of his wealth accrued to him in directing the labor of bf others and as their labors grew in value so did his pro property p erty j grow in value va lua iua with them he H 0 had bad a whole people willing and desirous to serve himi him and they discovered ere d nothing good or valuable but bat what they wanted him to td share with them I 1 I 1 Report reporter cr IS said to loave have been an the poor poof mr clawson it is 13 easy to make charges against him or against an any person he was kind au hu d liberal where he judged it right td 6 be so but he ho bacr a horror 1 and he be instructed everybody who 1 had means to give labor imbor to the peor and not alms aims no person ever over famished for bread in utah and in the winter iwin enin tier seasons when strangers were among us without the menna meana of existence he has taught the bl bishops hops bops to tip set iben ihen theli to work so that they might have food food and not be forced to steal for for vor self seif tion if for no higher consideration 1 he be taught wight ta the people to be careful of the tho poor bor |
