I had never heard of this letter before. Not sure how William Salter was exactly. Someone high up in the organization at some point.
I didn't go looking for this, I was rooting around on Doc Bob's site looking or the baptism questions and I stumbled across this letter that Salter wrote to Rutherford.
He just comes right out and calls Rutherford a liar. Not once but multiple times. WOW.
In talking about the socieity's financial situation Salter says:
And at the time I was relieved of my duties there was not only a large sum in the bank as customary but also over $25,000.00 in cash was lying in the Society's vaults at 40 Irwin Avenue and had for years, which could be used for the needs of the President or those whom he might designate in case of an international emergency - and the dear pioneers? Well, of course they could go hungry. Poor gullible friends!! My, were we not blind, and how blind the friends still are! And yet the annual reports tell of our great losses and how it is hoped the Lord will make it up. Well, it is said, "figures don't lie, but liars do figure."
Then in talking about the 1925 failed prediction, Salter says:
...i n other words, it is what the Lord speaks of as "false dreams" and He say He is against such and therefore I must be. Was the Lord please with our false dream concerning 1925 and the zeal of the friends in that connection? He was not. Was it a lie. It was.
Salter is my hero!