Show editor progress review in your p paper aper of the dinst I 1 no itcea a few errors under the heading short lived live d country papers the errors were unintentional and it is belivea that you desire to have bave your statements historically correct and because of that belief and the further fact that the statements concerti concern your corres correspond von nit ent a little space is asked for foi corrections you do me the undeserved lionor honor of having stai started ted the bladel blade at deseret the birst pap paper or eade excepting ting a few editions of the deseret news ever pub dished in millard county the blade was by cho chas C goddard Goa 10 edard dard at oasis with mr jacobson Tac as ai editor type sticker and devil the nature of mr jacobsons duties as thoy thay are arc listed might well bo be reversed goddard godda rd was on the ovo eve of bury ing th infant when I 1 offered to furnish the nursing bottle aiau ab god father and enoth mother to the farni famishing shing orp orphan liall mr jacobson mina remained ined as wet nurse the infant blade subsist on it a diet of wh whiskey ikey I 1 pool and poker the result was that abe wet nurse was fired ht went to fill more and started the brogi progress Pro giess ess an and d which was the second not the first paper that had the di distinguished honor of having been beed born in millard mi hard county in ili continuing the history of t the lie blade you say after some hated conro controversy versy between the t two wo editors jacoba jocobson son all and d gibbs mr kr gibbs withdrew and moved his blade to nephi where lie he shortly after suspended publication mr ridi editor tor you have unintentionally ally done me a great injustice J asti ce so far its as I 1 re remember 1 bembe r I 1 never was accused of running running away 11 w ay f from ro in a 1 controversy heated or otherwise the reason for the removal of atie blade to nephi was the falli falling ng out of the bottom of the ibex bourn boom at the daum mountain district during the campaign f 18 1891 96 1 unwisely from a spiritual viewpoint under undertook took mhd ed editorial iLoriA work on the provo dispatch a democratic six times p per er week evening paper my controversial propensities weitso far as to criticise criticism critic ise some of the leaders of the dominant church for what I 1 considered and what I 1 still consider to ie be ted interference in the political affairs of the voters by igind vertance vcr tance one of these criticisms found its way into the blade I 1 had worked the subscription list up to and the blade was war aso also prosperous in its advertising ver business after my return from my iny political mission in provo prove I 1 discovered that my mv influential bre brethren diren i in in nephi had given me ame the klondyke sli shake aice the situation was accepted without protest P r t e s t tho the blade plant and business were leased to those who had cufr aci chient caution or ho horse arse sense 1 1 to ke keep 0 p t their heir mouths closed on af political politic a I 1 conditions in utah the lessels lessees transferred the business without my consent an and 1 1 I lost every dollar adolfa r that rep represent ed two of the hardest years w work 0 rac I 1 over did yet there tire are n no 0 regrets also u intentionally mention ally you yogi credit me with having started the freo lance lanc a j marysvale Marys vale and with having suspended its public publication atio 11 to the first part ot of the indictment I 1 am compelled to plead guilty financially the freo free 1 I lance was a success a money vl maker in a small way after running gy it a couple of years I 1 sold the plan tand business to the proprietors of the richfield reaper it survived nearly it a year when times throes became dull in this thi s locality and the reaper people buried the ambitious youngs youngster ter please accept advance thanks for this this privilege of setting myself right on my connections with short lived country papers also for the pleasure of once more saying id hello to those men and women in in milla millard i rd county who once stood by me when publishing the blade as well as duri during ig one of the abe most crucial epochs ill in my I 1 life i fe a and ii d fo abid bid th them e iii G god 0 1 i i speed with deep deed re for 10 1 r yo your U 1 self and since sincere ie y f for or you in in your occupation as idi tor and publisher of a cou country gitry weekly I 1 am as ever your friend and well wisher 3 fribbs FG ibbs we gladly and cheerfull cheerfully Y give space to the foregoing from an old friend and thank lihn him for the corrections suggested as W we e would rather he be right than 4 t wrong and we especially ampre 11 chate the good natured naf cured and friendly view view in which it is ia written there was a time when wo 40 two saw eye vo to eye religiously A politically socially and etc but as we have revised our ical view and brother gibbs cribbs has changed liis his religious trend we now differ but we can differ as friends brother gibbs is it a brillant find and for forceful cibil writer and we wish that his superior ability as such could always have been employed on the right side |