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Show The Tribune Receives Encouragement I from a Present Resident of Los Angeles 1 Editor Tribune: Although somo distance from Mormondom, I still tako a deep Interest In-terest in. the happenings in the stale where I made my home for seventeen years, where I still have real o3tnlo. and where I still have many friends. The I rinuno reaches me regularly, and I doubt very much If any copy of your paper is read by a greater number of Intelligent and thinking people than the copy that, reaches nie. They all lake a deep interest in-terest in the. fight that you are putting up for real Americanism, that The Tribune Trib-une has always put up for It and always wll , mull tho day, which is coming slowly slow-ly but surely, when victory, spelled with a lilg "V. ' will reward your efforts. California, like other slates, has Its grafters, but. one gentleman, in reading of the "tithe report," In referring to Joe Smith, said: "Well, that old geezer has got San Francisco skinned in two hundred hun-dred thousand ways." I never realized until T came here' how completely they draw tho wool over the eyes of strangers. In the parks and out to the beaches. I frequently run Into tourists who made a brief sojourn In Salt Lake City, and incidentally visited tho "Bureau of Misinformation." They were astonished to find that polygamy was still practiced openly In Ctali. Of course, I "put them rlhf us to the real conditions that exist there. I ex- plain tho political situation, how the formation for-mation of the American party was a case of "got to," as either Kepubllcanlsni or Democracy In that state was only nn-other nn-other name for Monnonlsm. f point out to them how a "gentile" can live In peace among the "saints," provided that he hears, sees, and suvs absolutely nothing noth-ing about the lawlessness that exists m I 'tali. How, otherwise, ho Is liable to prosecution, on a perjured charge, by somo old polygamlst. so sensual and devoid de-void of human, Instead of animal, feeling, feel-ing, that lie would even make a public scandnl out of his daughter's f.'ilr name In order to punish the one who dared to question tho hlerarch's right to rule our republic. I havo In mind one old sinner, particularly, who has done as much as anybodv. In recent years, to convince the world that the Mormon church was behind tho Mountain Meadow massacre, and that their "destroying angola" an-gola" of early days aro not a myth. Many Mormons but T don't call them real Mormons, that In. of tho old-time variety var-iety disapprove of him. but I notice the church Is hard enough up for members to carry him on its books. T find that I j can do much' for the American party, even here, and tlioao who watch my movements move-ments can see me doing It. Let the good work continue. GFORGE M. VJ21LR. Los Angeks. April IG. |