Show METHODS A LUDICROUS attempt was recently made bythe by the unscrupulous salt lake tribune to show that the 1431 mormon ormon church neglects the poor when wh en it is an established and mid acknowledged fact with all who are arc familiar with the character and zenius genius geni gent u s of tile the religious organization that caring for the indigent ent is one of its chief features A s solitary case caso of alleged distress of a family living in the southeast suburb of the city was cited as conclusive of uie ule correctness of this as well as false statement any thoughtful person able to weigh matters for fur himself would at once perceive ceide that the citation of this solitary case admitting that it de be i ulna is one ol of the highest compliments that could be paid to the charitable character of the church for in nearly every eve other city of the same s size ze ont outsider sider 0 of utah could be found scores if not hundreds un of cases to which the one 0 out u t of which the tribune made so much capital ica would be no parallel in pol poi point n t of urgency one une ot of the most amusing features collected with this affair however is the ostentatious way in wilch which which the tribune editors posed as philanthropists in reference to 10 this case it was decidedly tunny funny goodness knows in what role roie they will posture next their self seit asser aseer asserted averted ted benevolence about which they made sucha such a blow is about as consistent as their claims to being american gentlemen both assertions will need much more proof than they have ever f furnished urnis hed to cause people leopla to believe them their own friends as well as those by whom who 1 in they are not held in an excess of esteem The these seass assumptions ump are in harmony with their claims to being moralists mora lists in the face of the f fact act of their having advocated the use of the drinking saloon gambling ambling den and house of ill fame ds as a means of drawing the young mormons cormons away from the religious restraints of the mormon priesthood which seeks to preserve them froin the ions to which such men as those who conduct and empathize sympathize with the sentiments of the tribune 2 abune would dra drag them down although when that she sheet e t found a notable case ease of a corrupted youth who had strayed from the fold of 11 mormonism it character characterized lz ed his departure from morality as 11 struggling ilaug upward from ai mormonism 1 the tribune should hunt up another case of alleged destitution that its conductors may do a little more horn hom blowing and pose as philanthropists at a trifling if any cost in ollars dollars I and cents |