| Show FOR A CELEBRATION Mr Denney Mikes Some Explanations Explana-tions and Farther Remarks Its IIIU 011 1 b1 As Iue C111191 IN I So N 17 lbl7 Ipol HALT LAKE CITY Dec 4 1894 lotho IMltor Will you kindly give me space In your columns to reply to reply to the article In the NEWS of last evening entitled Unfounded Aspersions etc t which referred lo my Communication of Dec 2 I understand that from reading the NEWS article and also from a personal Interview wilh Judge Colborn and Mr Ilognon the latter I believe being secretary of the com mlltee that they emphatically deny that There li any thought or a moneymaking money-making scheme on their perfect on the Part of any member or the commlltce on celebration Ii conuecllbu with that event 1 gives me grill pleasure lo have this aiiurauco and alto to know that the celebration ll I lo be carried out ou purely palrlolln principles I with alto lo Hate t hero thai I had not the slightest Idea of costing any reflectumi 00 themembers of Ib committee ID my Communications aud 1 regret that they should have to construed I M7 only design In writing was I elated lu Ibo heading lo nave the celebration done right and nol lo pul a block In the way of He ibelnR carried out by any meant at I explained to Mr Colborn In conversation with the latter gentleman last evening I learned that the Denver carnival cost In the neighborhood neigh-borhood of klityrlre oueand dollars and hp thought our celebration should far excel Ihelra In lUlHceucenhlch ofcouteo meantagrester outlayozy evenly lo eighty thousand dollars I would ask where snail all this money om from Have we private iillzrna patriotic enough lo donalell irlalhocomlne t Legislature aud city councils etcto be ailed lo appropriate ihenrtatpriortlonof I I from the pub 10 I lundit That Is I a question that ltoUld be considered now Many or our ctllzeoB already complain that our taxes are all they can bur Bull another toore or 10 01 thousands of dollar cast be Illy spared under present oDdl Mont I bJ is conversation last evening with the chairman of the Twenty fourth of July celebration or a ftr years ago which wan the largest over held 1 In this CITY up to tbe present living last years carnhal and he assured me that the conllugonl ex pensee blcb1 I am not mistaken were largely donated by the Mormon Church did nol amount more than bout a Illbo of a hundred where nova nov-a thousand dollars II thought to t bo required Wo Surely can crlelbrjuu meijuincenlly 100 without iolns lo a great au epeno tile mllnlon flint of the 1laneeri entrance Into these valleys Audio I wish to repeat and 1 any I ndvltodly that In times pail tire vail Quo OOIHnlou find me a germ thought I an honor to be called la 1 lake part In making Ilouoir Djy a great success and they did It cncirfully arid event their lime arid means too without asking for or expecting ray for I and It cm Le done again I If the right hl fr oC I material contecllon I wilh I ihe com mlllco apfolnted by his icellency i Ua < nor Wells Is brought Into use I and that fact without brlnittuK much 01 a burden ou IhD I People I CIFII |
