| Show SM SMALLS PUGNACITY the published statements in inference to the erous oua financial manip il lations ions of sam small president of the methodist university at ogden are a trifle racy this vindicates our estimate of this reverend trickster we hav hasseld from the beginning that the order of his name ought to be reversed to be in harmony with the nature of the individual to whom it is appended of all the insane antii mormon I 1 rubbish that was ever uttered that which has gushed from the mouth of this rabid exceeds anything of the kind ever expressed in two particulars superabundance of gall and absence of sense the murderous explosions plo of little J wesley hill come pretty close up to smalls fried froth but scarcely reaches president Sam the two together make a team for what the one lacks in anti christian composite in one way I 1 is 11 fully compensated by its plentiful ness in the other the president of the ogden hole in the ground P P has up till now had a hotheaded hot headed beaded friend in the morning anti mornion mormon organ of this city but that paper gives out symptoms now of cutting poor small adrift as will be seen from the following which recently appeared in its ogden department I 1 A tribune reporter had a talk last evening with a prominent mom member ber of the board of trustees of tip tie utah university on the conduct of the president rev sam small whose performance for mance is now exciting so much comment here the trustee said when small was elected president of the new university last summer summer he showed us lecture dates he mad arranged for up to Jar Jal fuary luarY let 1891 representing about and tasked whether we wished all or only part of his time the board arranged to take all of his time sy pay him a year and expenses and take se all the proceeds of his lectures and efforts generally well he be went oft past east and in all the nine months he has bas sent us but small has promised early earla and often to account for the moneys raised or supposed to be raised by him for the building of the u oar erdity and notified us late in the fall of his intention to send us the money never came he promised it for the next month and it never came then there would be a remittance mit mitt tance anoe in february then in march then in april the first week in april is nearly gone aill a 8 ill no accounting from rev bev small beyond the remittance of calling on him to put up tip or explain does no good he merely gets geta hot threatens to fight and do all manner of things in the meantime he continues lecturing and asking for money while all we have to show here is is a hole in the ground plastered over with an indebtedness we can not meet because of smalls 1 I 11 clothing Cao thing be done with him was asked 1 I no we must wait until next conference when we can get rid of him and this will not be until july there is a storm brewing in methodist educational circles there is a balance due on the foundations of the tha methodist university at ogden Og denand and as there is no money to pay the and as they can get no pay a suit Is the natural consequence president sam small is in abe east raising money for the institution but for some reason there has been no accounting from small of funds received the need of money Is pressing and amor dinic to all amounts accounts no reply can begot be got out of him so rev bev J wesley hill of the first methodist church of ogden came in some perturbation of spirit the other day to president P A H franklin the well known methodist financier and president of the niagara mining company and wanted advice he had lost fuith faith in president small and know what to do so mr frank lin in telegraphed on friday last to Smal lat philadelphia account for funds entrusted to you or legal proceedings will be begun mr franklin also wired one or two philadelphia ministers to exercise care in dealing with small instead of amounting accounting as requested small telegraphed yesterday a definite reply threatening to sue aue franklin fo for slander relander the latter remarked last evening with a smile that he know but that small would uld sue him in pennsylvania and zoo for a requisition on governor thomas so the in delightful uncertainty while such exponents as sam barn small and little hill occupy prominent positions in the methodist church that sect is entitled to commiseration we are not so uda unjust however as a to charge upon the organization as a whole the diabolism of individuals even when the latter belong to the clerical class |
