Show PROPERTY AN TO THE UTAH commission gentlemen lend your that the jr may revert to tha original owneta to the utah commission I 1 address you act because you are citizens of utah sr that you are personally interested in tho I 1 hall call beur attention to A residence K thousand miles away and but an occasional visit to baur haw of labor necea aridly your opportunity for correct information but you are citizens of the united states and as adueh no doubt to re the graec principles that tatt fathers forgat for and upheld and perpetuated that the emergency buet be indeed extreme before any be advised or admitted that acal b citizen f utah ara happily with few laust be conceded NV obscurity may ehte existed however much we may hare been considered debased with regard to our moral practices whatever may hava been the for office of hi chyon are he to day we all arery f utah whatever his political affiliation whatever bis religious behof are proud we ara living ander a system of government chieh the experience of a years must be pronounced and must be acknowledged ane beet the wisest with greater more liberal guaranteed guaran teea ot freede oi and which we are the world to announce aan ounce ax its greatest As yo are under the act ef congress providing for escheat proceed ina of the mormon church realty thera ii a question 3 to what should be done with what remains I 1 aak you to rec amed to Cong reea that tha further ion of the law bs copped sopped the aw repe aleu and abi property pro revert b ick to the church where ita original bonora intended it should fi Is there any reason why it assigned aa an excuse far enacting the law does not now eliat I 1 am BO sermon I 1 never donated one cent to thi fund or for thene buildings but as a citizen cf tho united states as a member of the republican martyns party ns ne that to remove ayery thing that may be calculated to continue the past differences and do any thing that may fee calculated to establish peace happi nesa and liberty I 1 write you to help by beur influence to have what ie laft of abia Krop erity remain in tha haag of the church to whom it was originally donated this is asking no moro than justice dictates it would illustrate as was illustrated after the civil war how extensive how are our views with regard to p arsin il liberty civil and religious that the exigency must be extreme before the government would stretch forth its hand and take to itself one cent of money one inch ol 01 ground that any even the least bud for a of ita own and which in no way affected the govern A provo utah dec 2 1891 |