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Show 1 RIGBTW REBDKE. The Governor Strikes an Attitnda and Eecitea a Few Lines on Utah's Prosperity. GOEY LOOK 3 NOT IN SIGHT. No Part of the Union in which Life - and Property are Safer than in Our Own Home-Acting Home-Acting upon the recent expression of sentiment that prevails throughout the territory concerning the sensational legends in an eastern magazine, and in reply to the statement submitted by the committee appointed to draft it Governor Thomas today submitted the following message: Salt Laki Citv, January 31. 1S91. To Messrs. (. olhurn, Pembroke and Onnnellan. Cnmmltte: Gfntlmen-The artlrlaa submitted to me which have appeared In re ent Issues of an Illustrated Il-lustrated Journal prlntel In New Y ork and Chicago, are annmn c?1 by that journal to be the reply of the morn.on iieople t that portion of the lat. message of the president of the United Stites referring to Utah iiff i ri. They are plauiltily written and ralrulated to create a wld npread lmpres-lon that the niornx n people are about to break Int open rebellion, and that life and property aro in d inner in Utah. These articles will therefore have au Injurious effect on the prosperity and welfare of our territory. In my official report to the secretary of tb.3 Interior for 1KI9, I said, amonx other things concerning our territory : "The climate is unsurpassed, un-surpassed, the natural resources are unlimited and life and proper y are perfeetly safe." I considered this statement true at that time, and subsequent developments have shown It whs and still Is true. In 1), in a like report,. I to-ik occasion to speak of the resource and developments of the territory, and to predict an era of great prosperity, aud acoutlnulng; prosperity of tha territory Justifies all that I have said. There Is no part of the union in which life and property prop-erty are safer, and there Is not the least dauber of aiy civil contention or resort to Violent con.-.b t. 1 Jr la wlih y iu and all good citizens In pro- testing against thi injustice done to the people i by the publicat on oi the article rele'red to. J AKTHtj'K I,. THOMAS, (iovernor of Utah. We fully concur In the atove : Ri.mAb Sells. Sec y. Utah o r. C. S. Zane. C. J. John W. I-lujkucms. Justb e Jamfs A. Minak. Kistlra. K. H. Pahsons, U. S. marshal. Ki.Lswohth Daoi.eit, U. S. Sur. Gen., Utah. Fit an ; l). Hours, ruglster U. S. L. o. Hon S .g ima.n. Jr., re elver U. 8. L. O. Hom.ivaii KoliEtna, treasurer of Utih. Akthch Pratt, auditor of punlic accounts. (iF.O. M. S':oTr, mayor of Salf Lake. I.. C. Kahric. city council committee. H. Pi mbiiokk, city roii n '11 committee. 1-alt. I a te cl amber of commerce, by J. P. tionnYlan, acting piendct. M.i t Lake stuck exchange, by R. C. Chambers, Cham-bers, pres dent. Salt li e real estate exchange, by C. II. Lett, pre-1 lent. To tho foregoing the following was added as an expression from the Utah I commission, now in regular session at the territorial builuing: a vlt Lake. Utah. Ken. 3. Isfll.-Froiu our onxervations. we ares itis.led that there Is not the slightest prospect of a collision between any portion of the people of Ut ih and the United States. The laws are thoroughly en-fore en-fore 'd. life and property are safi here as ! elsewhere, and an i r i of prosperity seems to ! have begun, which promises much for th) future. fu-ture. AI.V1N S M'NIIEHS. John A. MccXkhsand, B. S. RollEHTHUN, Members of Utah Commission. The above manifestoes were promptly wired, and are probably at this time on the editor's desk. |