Show AX HONEST VIEW if a leading litral caun DR mm 01 I 1 finly tiling alic foan alls adian on tie from li A 11 aff 0 o ac cay I 1 suppose it to bo within cope 0 any mans prerogative to give expression to liis opinion when the good name and delfiro wel firo of alie city town or hamlet of which lio is an accredited denizen is at etile tins much being conceded and I 1 think none v deny it I 1 plunge at once into the of this communication muni cation gentlemen you and I 1 leavo been telling our mormon bora sli alie cara eliat their impracticable ethoda tu acre crippling alia cites and hat one day alie people would tiro of running municipal by revelation and when that time came the would pass out of their hand and we would show them a teller efty well alie time did come when their wheel was broken at tho fountain and the prestige 0 their former victories could berve elections no longer and on eliat auspicious day we saw the run and moon and starn stand baill while the ballot was being counted the result showed that we had the most votes but U was supposed to be a victory of ono method over another instead of a onliest of one barbarian tribe over another alie defeated looked quietly and patiently on while for a day and the streets of our city shook with the tread of marching thousands and the air throbbed the falcoa of nr tillery and the listening car of flight was charmed with the appeal of alie orator quiet came at last and you were in into oll ce have you kept faith with that largo minority that are now as helpless in your lands as it they hail been conquered for purposes of slavery are you not neglecting the cites interests in a fruitless endeavor to blot out everything that is pleasant their to every vestige ol 01 their name from the history of the thrifty town that their industry planted the names ot streets gentilc nieu aro remembered with ferluga 0 allec lioa by cormons mormons and Uen tilea alike because aliey are old land marks and because they are ou original part and parcel of tha queen city of our mutual love who that never forgets tho old reo standing ill alio llio path of li 3 tiel fro luent cd rambles however gnarled and twisted its trunk and however disfiguring to tho landscape but contemplated tem plated feelings of compunction the preparations mado for its destruction truc tion and when for the list time you stood under iu broad brandies while the birds overhead were singing funeral dirges and you paused for a moment to watch the woodman whose swart brow was steaming with alie liot exercise did your eyes not moisten as each blow of alie deap sinking blade found a echo in your heart when alie old log cabin was beio pulled down to make place for a more that should measure alie ears of our prosperity and i oil saw the Hor knien tuning it ilia did you not turn iway to ande your motions and when at last the anchor was broken that held ou to the fond memories of the past did you not say here ia where my young viita and I 1 pat in alio silver light of our honeymoon and budor bright rainbows that spanned the rustic covering over our heads we challenged together alie morrows threatening storms here our children were born and here they grow to man hood and womanhood anil over chii threshold we bauo the little girl that today to day deepa in alie bosom of tho green hill and now Kentl ernen with one of alio llio pen you pek to blot out memories as holy as these with an hours deliberation ou tear down landmarks chodo names by oft repeating wo leave learned to love there are plenty of new streets being upon which ran lavi tili a of hi areat lamca all venerate a d ia leaving youns and M ila ai art mhd 1 I no man will ballor tim inich nortee nor tew a cost haa ha a to tho defeated minority with whom we to live and build a great city tarther taC ther us suppose tor the bako ot the argument that you are in overturning these old time id la 13 will you have accomplished anything except to make discordant boina that would vibrate with harmonious sound if placa upon by the angels of our better natures and two years clience w ill not your successors in office following your precedent lalo down the names that you nul at the street corners and put names in their places are ou gentlemen that your action is ent irely legal T I 1 well remember acme cars ago that alie city of hoston wished to change the name of ann streel toNo street and it took an act of the mas legislature to do it streets leave been as well dedicated to the public use is leave been tho streets of boston but it following this rule will need abo some higher tribunal to anaka conr octa leal I 1 do not know maybe your attorney lias alie desired information at liana but gentlemen honor bright does chii mormon people deserve thia degradation ra yon havo taken from them every vestige of and only the lingering hollow ness of a memory is left them and will you rob of that deny U however macli you may it waa through trials and with tilde eliat hafl fow parallels that tho foundations of this city were laid they planted the tree of our prosperity 3 fruit wo nowr enjoy and it they prayed for ita growth und the tip reaching of ita branches through movillia moi illia practiced in deceit and full of fanatical bigotry they yet watered it with tho sweat of toil and the bitter tears of wid self denial for these da they this aft af t of vulgar faite I 1 put it to von they do not deserve it and you cannot all ord it hy thia act you mako yourselves the law IMS cuckoo that never hullda a nest but leaving found tumbles the newly discovered agas into tho lays there her own and by tho white aced abon eliat elio built alio nuu and it ia aicra gentlemen loither repeal that act tor it i laule lexa alian infamous or write over lie doors of air temple of globate hii rt arfi cum A y CONDOM |