And this fact alone, without any business ability on his part, but with capable subordinate guidance for his enterprises, insures their success, and danger and possible ruin for every competitive enterprise.  Independent of these business concerns, he is in receipt of an income like unto that which a royal family derives from a national treasury.  One-tenth of all the annual earnings of all the Mormons in all the world flows to him.  These funds amount to the sum of $1,000,000 annually, or 5 per cent upon $32,000,000, which is one-quarter of the entire taxable wealth of the State of Utah.  It is the same as if he owned, individually, in addition to all his visible enterprises, one-quarter of all the wealth of the State and derived from it 5 per cent of income without taxation and without discount.  The hopelessness of contending in a business way with this autocrat must be perfectly apparent to your minds.  The original purpose of this vast tithe, as often stated by speakers for the church, was the maintenance of the poor, the building of meetinghouses, etc.  To-day the tithes are transmuted, in the localities where they are paid, into cash, and they flow into the treasury of the head of the church.  No account is made, or ever has been made, of these tithes.  The president expends them according to his own will and pleasure, and with no examination of his accounts, except by those few men whom he selects for that purpose and whom he rewards for their zeal and secrecy.  Shortly after the settlement of the Mormon Church property question with the United States the church issued a series of bonds, amounting approximately to $1,000,000, which were taken by financial institutions.  This was probably to wipe out a debt which had accumulated during a long period of controversy with the nation.  But since, and including the year 1897, which was about the time of the issue of the bonds, approximately $9,000,000 have been paid as tithes.  If any of the bonds are still outstanding, it is manifestly because the president of the church desires for reasons of his own to have an existing indebtedness.

It will astound you to know that every dollar of United States money paid to any servant of the Government who is a Mormon is tithed for the benefit of this monarch.  Out of every $1,000 thus paid he gets $100 to swell his grandeur.  This is also true of money paid out of the public treasury of the State of Utah to Mormon officials.  But what is worst of all, the monarch dips into the sacred public school fund and extracts from every Mormon teacher one-tenth of his or her earnings and uses it for his unaccounted purposes; and, by means of these purposes and the power which they constitute, he defies the laws of his State, the sentiment of his country, and is waging war of nullification on the public school system, so dear to the American people.  No right-thinking man will oppose any person as a servant of the nation or the State or as a teacher in the public schools on account of religious faith.  As I have before remarked, this is no war upon the religion of the Mormons; and I am only calling attention to the monstrous manner in which this monarch invades all the provinces of human life and endeavors to secure his rapacious ends.