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Show a uraiM'D akticm:. 1U "Trlbuo," l.rfusi, to (iirrict a Vlirrpriirntalloii. FMor IhMTtt Aeu A' riio Accompanying letter Addressed to Iho editor uf the Hilt Laka Trt&uuc a, uflVruil to thut lnllvldual by (he writer. The editor could not Aftorl, he asld, to Alvtttlso mo In n fight Against hi own oaurie, eta If iou loo fit to make use of It do so. The letter uoutaln nothing that I havo not stld before, etvo Hint It give a correct version of my brief remarks In ho rahernai le, and ilente, the Insinuation ofthuTViou'iethrtttliiro was auy collusion col-lusion ttotweeii l'resldmt Cannon and myself. o. L. a iriTui runii oiumia imh rOll.cfiU r oMe frioime! lerm iii Inyourl'suoofOitoler I r ri r ,ii, ni,rry at my tn ulmi I II in ihoTutier tick fui ,jy ufklnoou. To the iniitrmeat It ai rded so s 'emu an n JiMoualho is heartily we ,me I lire to ecu i-poph luny Hut hi his mlsre rtseutatlniia I demur amlnsk the privilege of setting the mailer stialght before your readris. Your report says "He (myself) lagan to rehtaise tho eetsiy i repare-o for him, and Intimates that l'mldentOeorgott Cannon hat arranged with me to say what I did at that time. It I, not necessary to deny tho Insinuation here, Imt your readers outsldiimlght be mUled. I enn bar the results of my own action, and ask neno tosharetbe burden. l.it meaoauru you, then, tint neither Oeorge ) Cannon Can-non nor any ,i ther person sold a word tomeatmiy time about what was to be don at the Tuesday Afternoon or Any other ine-ttlng of the recent Mormon Conference hat I stild was jtirely Ihureeultefnn Itniiilso an 'Inspiration" 'Inspira-tion" no ihubt that stirred me when I Usteneel to the ri-aohillona and saw what to my mind waa an Imjiortant omlston. All of the papers, that Is, all that I nw, itporte-J my langusgu dlllerently anl even the 7-i6unc did not report me correctly, lit me el vu you exactly what I did snyt ilr. i"refc.W "I Ilka thrsu resolutions and woul I vela for them If I wereaHtlnt, anl, with your i-vrmliedou, I will vom for then- a It It They are good m far e theygo, lilt I would like to seuaJded to tlitin something llku this: hrreres, the .eoplo calle-tl 'Monuoiis' livvu oon-a-e-ded vvery dera-ttid made uiott the m by i lie Rovvrumeut ot the United Htalef, therefore they, n American cltltens, loving thclrcountry m having the l,et government Iii tho worUaud pleilglng thrlr posterity in loyally to It, dtniHtnl lu return tho some right and I rlvlltgtv, tho sneno rejitallty befere thu Itwe. tho same relet tloll to iroperly, lire, liUrty Aim tho ursult of hapj Ines that ai guaranteed I y this Eovrrtiturut to every other tee.t that I vsed UOli thu Jllble." t liavu said the same thing many tlntcs And shall continue to re-eat It, until Ihofrte and In lepe n lent voter of the country eu and underetand the Irulh In regard to thla Utah trouble, and Ink the cry front my Hi nn I compel thu lialhni to do Justlca III spile of the Interfere nt-e of eiivliusl'rotietant priests and onice-rteklug lltlclai,s. If the Mormons are wrong, tho lllhle I, wrung. If tho lllble Is wrong, every ao-oalle-d Christian sect Is wrong, an 1 the Action of llio government, If It tAlia any. lies not agiilutt tho Mormon Mor-mon or agalust Meth ,dll anl what not, hutagalnat the lllble, not against the deluded ptople, but against (Juli, tiiei author of the wrmg, the delusion anillherrlme, If i rime there le. Atiout -M.DOii Otkl men, wimeu and ehlldrell In the Dulled Htate l-lleve l-lleve that the Illbls 1 Uod's word and III, and that they will te denial-lydamntd denial-lydamntd If they Uo not so hcllovu. tur government di-e, not hold any U lltf upou the suljecl, but It doe say Ihat theso Ullcfs of the eol lo shall le re sfiected and that tho believers shall bo rrolected 111 free-dom of conscience. Judge Coole y tnys: "llo who shall examine with care the American constitutions con-stitutions will find nothing mom fully orlalnly expres-od than the desire of their tramers to preserve nn 1 1 rpetu ato religious liberty aud to ,uid against the a Igbteel a ( n nch towards Ineipiallly of civil or llllral rlghta, based u-oii dltTertuco of religious belief.'' be-lief.'' No matter what the Calholle'S, the Calvlnlstsor the 1 plsceleans may have done before there waa au American Ameri-can constitution, they are all frut and rotected lu llio United Wales. If we werototry them by their history and condemn them for tho action, and language, of their predecessor,, they would all bo- hung a murderers. If wccondoiiotheiout of so many bo-Hovers bo-Hovers In the lllble, why should we throw Judgment to leasts and con-dcmti con-dcmti thu "Mormon" for act and words dono an I utUrod lu tho licit of anr;er aud tho oil year of murderous persecution? on may aythat the government alreaJyjro tect the Mormon In all respects. I e,y It doe s not and has never .lone so 1 eay that until It does so our national almlnlstrstlon of"s-riual right," ls"a covenant with death and an agreement with hell " Until tbo rights of all cltlxcns are equally rr.tettfU our boast of liberty Is A biazen lie. Let us, then, cither protect all the setts or condemn them all. Hut m wo e an not eendemn them without destroying tho vory freedom e f tho government that la our boost, let ua say that all sect shall he equally recognlzod, reriae.tjd aud protected as long a Ihey rrsiect and obey the laws. Inu Mormon liavu yielded obe-dl-eucetolhulavts. II they aro not sln-eerolho sln-eerolho nation wlUsonti know llanl liny alone will lie sullen rs from their duplicity. Until they do show a spirit of re belli su and a disposition to destroy the Koverumtnt, they aru entitled to and BhtuldtecelveAll the cmiilde ration ra-tion and t rotectlou bt-stowed upou auy other eecl based llioll llio lllble. Tills I all I havo eve r elalmo.1. 1 1 la all I desire de-sire to e-lalm Hoou or lato It will win. Your reporter colls mean "atheist," I liellevu In and advocate llm nights ol Man; there fore, I liellevo lu Uod. Ho vt ho by word or de-esl endeavor to weaken, withhol I or devlroy the lllghta of Man I tho Atheist, no matter how ho may cover lilmevlf sltli professions of lotuol Clod, lteailiectfillly, (.Itiltl.M 1 II1J |