Show PETITION AND ITS SKiNK FILS KS becoming alarmed ala at the apparent inactivity ot of congress la in regard to the be pl passage 61 special legislation for utah having in view view the annihilation of it tho he mormon mermon people as a religions body tho the anti mormon conspirators find would be robbers rob borg with the suit salt lake tribuna as their mouth piece e C a urged by the frantic and desperate pleadings of their follow conspirators 0 0 goodwin bad and it II abaskin in ia washington lava have formulated find sent to all parts of the territory ft spy pe composed of the usual of auti mormon rot this petition reads as follows I 1 T to the senate and hamis of nf fives f lie united states slater your humbly represent lat vs we V are gentile citizens of utah aoth democrats and republic Ile publio nus fid we practice the we work ork the mines we curry carry on raer mer cantile find and commercial business ye wo represent largo capital and overy every kind of 0 industry ad we are slaves politically to mormon rule which ia a theocratic des ath the mormon church as all political affair es 0 a its communicants to violate the laws lawa and shield them in criminal tH ath our territory is rich in an resources and a promising ono one for it flourishing flou rishi aff state eth now law is ci chiv v is turned back and can institutions are ignored with due submission we say buy give giroua us shearing and wo we will prove these things we demand consideration of our wrongs and redress of our grievances for full statement of our wrongs and sue estion of remedies we refer to hon suggestion sugi it t N baskin our trusted representative NAMES occupations tho the petition is ia at present being in circulated in in every place where there is the slightest elih test prospect of a signature being procured for it even in this city where appeals of such auch a character rarely find enough en dorsers to form a corporals guard the petition is being carried around from house to house froni froin storo store to store and from shop to shop it is gratifying to learn however that low faw sympathizers with such buch a barefaced fraud end and scheme for plunder have been found the character or rather lack of character of 0 the man who poa aiss the li libel bellous loua document ar around 0 and is enough to condemn it in the estimation of respectable people why a 8 simple glanco glance at the follow fellow would nt at least momentarily cause some people the utmost it they happened to have anything valuable on their persons he came here a characterless tramp picked up with a woman of questionable repute with whom he be joined an anti mor raon mon church and got religion there is nothing or unusual however in the selection of this per son to peddle a petition of the des crip tion named about town lie he is only one of that class who have everything to gain by mormon spoil spoliation and plunder like Mac Alac awber he is is constantly watching and wait ing forI tor something to turn up it is 13 the only hope and chance he has in life no decent man not even the he most rabid abill an mormon who has the 4 least bit of chir character acter or self respect left would undertake such a job it is only creatures without any character or self respect w who lin can be ba in deuced to in such each a dishonor able occupation as that which been entrusted to and accepted apted b by y the creature we roter refer to As an ad dit ional proof of the troth of our as fifer bertion tion we have bare only to say ay that the man who in the jury r room oom engineered iffla acquittal is ii performing the same disreputable business in ila springville Spring ville this fellow is a gotori ous oua bummer and loafer shomo means of subsistence for yo years are has baa been a suba fictor wonder speculation and guess work vork on the part of his nearest neighbors neigh bon ilia his selection as the pe peddler is therefore perfectly consistent with anti mormon or lib oral eral tactics r few I 1 ow respectable people have so go far bee been a induced or coerced into signing the paper wo understand that tho the bulk of the signatures obtained in salt lake are those of osbar bar room bummers era street loafers gamblers black logs ie nod and roughs boughs some few however of the merchants lawyers and profess ional men who are so linked up with the projectors ot of the movement that they dare not withhold their names 4 for fear of the black guarding and abuse to which they would be ell by the ring riep have the tha ve pe such anen are truly its aa the petition sets seta forth alanes poli lica 11 11 though not to mormon rule role to all intents find and purposes seft they are I 1 i alm to rule 11 one dintleman gintle gf alleman man residing if ait this city who though a lion Lou Mormon claims the divine right or american right it whichever you choose to sign what he chooses find how he chooses lash or no lash saw raab the point of ali abia th the other day when the he petition was bub bitted to alim pointing to those very lines linea he asked the opium eating Inbe imbecile in bocile cile who peddled the iho document bout aio do you think I 1 nia ala such finch an aw s 1 fi as to put my name to that paper binl ni n I acknowledge that I 1 bin am a 1181 slave ave no bir I 1 niu am an american Anie citizen aud and a gentile and na its such I 1 have too much respect fur for myself and the country I 1 owe allegiance to tu io make baich it admission still wo tire itra informed that there thera have bavo loen been us its many as ai forty furl so BO called free born american citizens in provo who signed that same petition and me mailo to the humiliating cg admission that they apro slay ps |