Show FIFIV YEARS AGO T Song nut Was Compostd ty diaries L Walker ET OEOHOE Utah May 18 180 To Ibo Editor 1 I notice lu the DESERET EVENING I NEWS or the 131h lost a song entitled Fllty Years Ago purporting to be be ocmposltlou of Brother B L Adams of St George I with to stale on unequivocal i authority ttatlheoc Ire song was manufactured Irom a ong Marching Through Dlxk composed by our townsman Broloor Valuer over twentyCivil yiar ago and that the first verse and Ibe chorus wltb Ibo exceptlsu of a word or two Mr A baa substituted are Identical with the original In my possession also ptrt ol the other lines are true to the old Bong Mow Mr A certain must be aware or r this Ilisrant piece n plagiarism as be has simp Ihu rou maoy tlmnlo Public alld I prlvll X aabeisa I blacksmith I would kindly ugliest Lot blm that Bitalol Steel LO more Fair play Is I a Jewel With kindly feelings to B L A Omctiven Wo do not understand that Brother Adams claimed The authorship of the song but forwarded a OIPY 10 Ih Jubilee commission probably vrl h u saying who tbo author was tin It bn > beD commonly known is a Ioe n Brother Charllt Walkcij compost tlou among those IUloloJ will that lyric poet Brother Adams nat Ibe > oog < iter and tflered to nlUnd in tbat part ol the Jubilee The laUD ducllon to the lleui IB lubllsLoJ I Sell which jntalnrd tbe error as tu nu thorsbtp was not made by the NEws but was lurnlshcd by the Jubilee u < mtislou bureau which Is I not tcrkut f Informed ou riouter ustterr m a wn more eve1 enrrorllon that heve by < mdn by the 1iinrer oirr sjioudiult I Ibo Ktws Up NEWS |