Show SALT IMKE CITY PUNCH Sugar Lemons and Rum Certainly But Ao Water To the Editor of the New York Times In a note upon the Utah election I ventured vent-ured the opinion that a strong belief In protection derived from the teaching of Brigham Young greatly influenced the votes of tile people lour Salt i ake correspondent corre-spondent In his letter published in the Times this morning takes exception to this and goes into a labored argument to prove that the motives of the prophet were not political That docs not alter the fact that he was an outandout protectionist pro-tectionist and a most consistent one too as he believed in the independence of Utah as against the United states as wen as against the rest of the outside world It does not matter at all what his motives mo-tives were his people believed his teachings teach-ings on this subject as well as upon all others so when the church party and the Liberal party both came to an end as organizations and were merged in tne Democratic and Republican parties the appeal of the latter to their oldtime prejudices must have had no inconsiderable inconsider-able influence The writer of this letter in attempting to disprove my statement that the Democrats counted largely for success on me fact that Mormon persecutions perse-cutions had emanated from Republican congresses ends by corroborating it I fully agree with him in what he says on the influence of George Q Cannon in the church and among the people but even this notorious trickster was obedient to the order of his nominal superior in not preaching politics from the pulpit while he used the privilege which so many other politicians claim of lying from the platform Your correspondent thinks that 1 am deceived with regard to the Republican Repub-lican promises as to wool free coinage and son on Well I did a little election eering in that region myseir ana came I constantly in contact with these arguments argu-ments It was my endeavor to rebut them and I did so with more or less success excepting on one occasion when I came to grief and I am not ashamed to acknowledge ac-knowledge it I was addressing a large audience and on coming to the wool question I made use of an illustration which I thought would commend itself to the habits of my hearers Free wool I said will advance the price of domestic do-mestic wool The demand for a manufactured manu-factured article increases the demand for all its ingredients Many cloths and car pots require an admixture of foreign and domestic wool so the more foreign wools used the more domestic wool will be needed Take punch for example To make it you require lemon sugar rum and water Here I was interrupted inter-rupted by a shrill voice from tho lower end of the hall withOh hI we dont want any water with ours After giving the audience time to cheer the critic and hoot at mo to their hearts content r changed the subject JOHN CODMAN New York Nov 25 1895 |