Show THE REPLY of hows That elor to I 1 powe snowie now letter Iett rr 1 log logan gail dec 12 1890 elder lorenzo snow president of the twelve apostles dear bro your our recent letter written for publication in ill the deseret news at the request of five young men of salt lake cit city demands an ail answer from me ine in in the interest of fairness friends family and tile the I 1 saints the world the duty is a 11 painful one so pain tul till indeed that pers personal oual considerations side rations ous would be a motive insufficient to il induce me 1110 even on a matter so vitally important to me hiie and minu to take up lip my pen in in self defence I 1 have read and reread re read your open letter and have purposely delayed ic ie plying to it hoping and praying that a sense of ri right 0 lit and justice may dictate whit I 1 write to one holding za the alic bioli hig and responsible position you occupy in the ch church 1 1 ch anti and for whom i entertain sentiments of profound bund respect no iio matter what you may think or say about me ine 1 confess astonishment not at the letter but it the spirit of your communication for as a I 1 have always understood der stood your disposition I 1 your ideas of justice and your love of mercy that communication does docs not appear to your advantage lorenzo snow as I 1 have known k hint him durier during 0 all the years ears of his presidency over the quorum of no where to my mind appears in that bitter and acrimonious communication our political differences in utah have unfortunately and is as 1 I believe unnecessarily I resulted e in ill criminations crimi nations and recriminations crimi nations and the resurrection or of misunderstandings lonc since explained or settled bez belore lore their introduction 1 never saw you turn a deaf ear to pleadings i n gs for fl 0 r specifications on the part of an accused brother 1 nor ii is it like you to ignore fornore in my illy ear nest often rel repeated bated requests ur or calar charges 1 es af against me lile which you furnished 1 by the column with evident alacrity for a public eliut in order to 0 gratify the apparent curiosity of five young t iiii of salt lake city if as i s you siy sav I 1 I 1 was not entitled eu titled to a pt public illic hearing P ai a i my lily case was not dot a 1 public ni matter atter why did you make inake public charges charges against me in a news newspaper paper when when you refused to give 11 me 1130 even evell an all of them thein in in private jt is difficult dini cult for me ine to under batall why you have publicly aroused me ille when privately you would not why you presented charges against me ille after my lay custe instead ad of belore 13 why you so readily readdy granted tl tle request of tile the five young n r men lucil when you oil persistently persist antly refused fused mine milie why you gratified ratified their curiosity and that of tile the public concerning an affair iu in which you declared I 1 was alie till principal party interested ested this treatment this discrimination is difficult for me to comprehend nor can I 1 conceive the object of young brethren in asking LL a further explanation of the conduct of your quor quorum util to wardi me ine tile the entil 0 correspondence on oil the subject being in their flicia 1 possession 0 sass 1011 the deseret news had already declared officially J fici ally I 1 that the action of depos ing me ine had beell bc en inspired dictated die authorised authorized and approved of god holding the news statements in view it may seem strange ge to many of the saints ali that at the young men inen should ask further reasons reasons for my and stranger c still that you should deeni it necessary to furnish hr them besides the PU published correspondence was complete it told its own story of the patience and forbe forbearance aranco which had been shown me the appearance of those letters in secular sect ilar newspapers and I 1 infer from your remarks that the deseret Desere fc news is not secular was vas probably bro bably brought about by the direct personal attacks ot of the news which haa not appeared to be friendly to nie me under its present management 0 and why should I 1 have gone gone 0 to tile the news when it its columns were daily filled with misrepresentations of my conduct and position when it was falsely declared that I 1 had been pledged political politic I 1 support for months when it was forcing me upon a platform I 1 had never constructed ted and attributing to tile me words I 1 had never uttered but have you not seen even official declarations from those occupying hi hilier higher 0 lier positions than I 1 ever held 1 appear first ill in a secular paper and in tile the organ of the church why should you be called upon to meet some borne of tho the statements contained in that public correspondence were you not satisfied silis salis fied li with ith the judgment of tie lie people as to the writs merits ot of tile controversy tro versy sv your side was placed before them bliem just aa fulinas fully as it had ham placed before lue if yun Leli relieved eved a further was due why lid did you not give it to mo me when I 1 requested it time and wain pardon me fur the following harsh expression from your letter tile the evident purpose in p publishing tho those co communications was to excite public sympathy athy anti and the unnecessary and superfluous appeals they cantan convey the impression impress iun that i hey atre concocted forthal lor that purpose jud judging ing from the way ahse appeals were treated they were indeed superfluous and unnecessary had I 1 known that the they would have been b en so regarded I 1 never would havo have made them I 1 m will ill confess they were appal app alp al not to the but to my bi ethren they were cries of anguish irom from a heart racked with pain they were pleas for mercy prayers for light for information as to my offending but why ehwald au imagine ine that were published publish ea to excite public sympathy do you consider that to re the natural result of their publication an appal from one in distress in jeopardy is not concocted Rath rather erdoes does it not require the deliberation of 0 a trained skilled and diplomatic mind to close tin ears tad and hearts of men against such app appeals vals dousay you say during that til it interval april 1 to mot er lie he was visited by many of his bretl irvn n some of them and tio no change was effected but ho he failed even to attend the ocoler conference or to manifest a disposition to conform to the principle 3 of tile the declaration it is true that chevas lie was in it vor poor bodily health during that period dut but lie was as not too ill to brethren who ho tried to impress himwich him wibb tile dinger danger of ills his position nor to accuse bome of them of having blanketed their conscience iti in signing the declaration did N wu ou president snow ever hear nn say anything ff f the kind which of the brethren did I 1 upbraid ui braid or accuse tin his conscience yorio you do not guem aware of the tact fact that of all the and members of the fint presidency only one apostle F D richards ev cv r laland N w ith rn mn about tho the mauli aei M 0 since tile day it was present presented cd to 10 me itie fur for my sig true brothers U R hara asid and t tilled one day just as I 1 wis was leaving my re residence idencio in salt like cov fir the depot with quests and ad we talked a few moments while hafle ilia die carri carange ge was waiting at the dorr conr at another alithe r unto tim I 1 said lo 10 brother john henry smith how could on knowing as ai 3 ou do of my work in in the e i lurch for a of a century vote vot for my sus peu ion simply because b caute I 1 could coul I not see my illy way clear to agri s gu the could you von adjudge rno me guilty condemn tile me a and nd ex cute judgment all within a few bours ind and without a ll 11 hearing aring ue he replied ip plied 1 I will not talk w with th you aliat ali jt th thit it for you ar too ill a aad n d conversation on oil that aab subject i act will make miko you nervous nerv I 1 then s aid id which brother john do yr u would make me most nervous and ill to have my brethren humiliate and de derade degrade rade tile mo by cropping drop pin nat ni out 01 0 my place or talking about about it after the deed is done alla said liei 1 am with my brethren dirt duding ing all ailiese weary months inon tha whilo while friends and physicians believed I 1 was on the verge of the grave I 1 was administered to only once by members of our quorum although lay day after day att engagements made for that purpose were lor for reasons to tile me not kept and after the manifesto wits returned to 3 you ou unsigned none ol of tile the apostle excepting except mt tho the three mentioned ever carue camo to my hoube or visited rile me for any purpose whatever N hate cr I 1 do not ruen mention tion ill thia is by way of complaint but bee because anse from general meral tone and certain statements in iu your letter i ou on do not seem bunn to bo be fully acquainted I 1 with these thesa facts to be ba continued |