Show 0 o AN OPEN LETTER R worl ivora to mar marrinee rinel it 11 ax tell if 11 tio vernor or of utah nail from a no ballf adlon disarra r much mitch 13 19 1875 I 1 beayon beg yon to believe that in writing tho the following communication muni uni cation tation I 1 do so BO in all candor acid sincerely for tho the purpose herein hc rain ex prenod IreBa od and not through any I 1 ol of unkindness or a desire deiro tot for a little tomp temporary notoriety having been your political friend aal supporter in allow mo me to lo preheat that fact act as a slight blight claim to your consideration era tion file under hero in utah as formerly in california is ia in mining and believes that ho he is ia fully cognizant of tho the beat banti monte anil and wants wanta of of tho the class clasa to which ho he belongs as alie lio of the entire non mormon population of tho the territory saw now you may regard it as a narrow limata climata c but J 1 cannot avoid tho the aion that in ia so fur far As ai tho the general ec prosperity is ia involved the thomi billil g interest into roat above all others is ia the ono or of tho the greatest national importance and there forit claiming an aa adequate share of the ha attention lention al ol of government officials towards its of van coment ve 0 bad in the iho ency eacy of mining in ia utah the most tiong overt and covert LITY OP OF TILE MORMON I 1 deorie JE OriE to encounter eon egon some ot of their members of great prominence and ability sir mr harrison mr goalie mr anil others being cx aroet membership solely on the ground of their advocacy or of the ho tho the mines nl hough 11 such BUCU advocacy WM was hued upon the plea pica of 0 the tha general benefit to to the territory this hostility can only bo be explained by the just jant fears enic named by alo church that their arr m or op POLI rOLY GAMY might bo be endangered by an influx of paplo who entertained views in a accordance cor dance with the views of all civil ilea of 0 the iho world in relation thereto chis the party to which you yon now belong liaa has very justly entitled the iho thiu acho of bar bari barium tm i not on only ly I 1 in a r respect CS P ec t t to 0 polygamy but in all ad otner has this church in fa squire an allon in to the ibo government and people of the united stales from in ice initial point at kirtland ohio and undeniably so boce biseo that 0 ol 01 I 1 barbarism barba was waa mido made a erimo in 1863 1862 but we camo camet hereto hero to better our condition by developing the resources of tho the country cou alry as we had a tight right to do dlo a cf tho the stigmas cast upon pusi w of being trespassers in traders and vagabonds vaa bonda nod not in any manner to interferon inter lero fero with their thair principles or practices ces only in so far as they might our rights ri glita it can be ba mado made I 1 to 0 appear however it if facilities and not act obstructions are allowed by sea and set aa honest judiciary that hat wo have been becu perno perito bated even to tho the death and bun bua brads of ilia so iso called trespassers tres havo have been li II in cold blood at the dior di of the norman makarina ilo Mo kaoni karina by bittor bitter cx X peri ence wo we have arrived arri vei at the iho unpleasant pleasant ot conclusion that tho the mormon theocracy and their associates adders and abo tors stand bland ai our our prosperity mainly so EO by road crine cring insecure tho ilia investment of cavi capital til by withholding needful legislation or by enacting that of an adderie among tho the officials who have boom treat hero bore to represent tho the govera meet soma have shown high exam plea of have officiated with a high sense of tho the duty which they owed to tl t l tho ho whole people and nd to 0 o tholIa tho nation tion and lave have stood like walls malls of adamant against the encroachments encroach ments of tho the church upon whom they would tia fain detroy doa troy among those I 1 will mention your immediate and our wet worthy thy chief justice both of whom lot let me suggest ing gest ane ABE fourny or 01 EMULATION obbera there again havo have shown an unaccountable countable poun table dereliction of duty duly ignoring ing a class nod and Oclus exclusively ivelY with the pirty party which our laws lawa have denounced as criminal whose history has been marked by contempt and defiance of legal restraint and an otter after disregard for tho the ri ahti of those differing from them in a religious reli ginns bolit 1141 now friend ISamu baquol cl i there is so no cono concealing wing the tha fact that there is u ge generally U an ominous foreboding that you yon belong to the latter class of officials the mormons cormons Mor mons openmouthed claim you as s THEM OWN OTO DEAIL BEAU GOVERNOR was this tho tha intOn intention tiOu of U S G grant rant cut loose from the harems hares occasionally io nally sod and come coma around and see us all wo we will treat you kindly and do bo be our governor too take my word tor for it wo we have had a time hero here yet TOO no have behaved as becomingly as any people over ever did in a new 0 country one 17 bettor better indeed than the tha b boys did in in california when yon an and 01 I 1 were shaking the ho rocker in the old days clays in ia tile tho gulches you havo havi heard tha ilia remark perhaps that there is ia a point beyond which forbe arria on ceasor to be a virtue juhn john smith made that observation the other dy day and it struck me as ai lavin having g some thing in it W wo 0 have borne in much no b and borno borne long and borne borna wi with th what patience pali wo we could YO yours urs aa WILLIAM |