Show 1 ANSWERS QUESTIONS why He Opposes Association and the seem to have in r of the Utah Is his es Is he If light the enemies of Why has he fought ier people ever is 's 1 all such inquiries f I am not a Hor-J 1 have a r expect to be been a member nd have- no idea My has iy church and never a although the Christian the no that are m V nor have I Mormons to I have never even requested or anyone alse e done in the to the policy of or as to what it Tiffin Of while I wat and lent in woi land and r real estate coni and I read ues very lf articles on fertile and 1 by E. Curtis the Chicago Bear River Early in I came lo On of that with Tom D. Pitt as a I visited Bear River It was then nothing but a wilderness of sago I saw there more coyotes and jack rabbits than The land lay and the Bear River canal was large and well providing abundance of water for I knew that the Bear River Valley had a great I selected twenty acres of this Had Heard About That was my first trip west of the Mississippi I had read the wife by Anna Beadle's Among the and many of the newspaper anti-Mormon tracts yarns and published by the Methodists and I had many misgivings during my first visit to I was on lookout for Destroying angels and blood I expected to see long whiskered Mormons with lash whips m their wives their driving around like I saw that the people of Utah were progressive and I saw less saloons in Utah than and fewer state 1 in any other AN ORTHODOX I attended the every 01 1 dm there-that church 1 begged in the Eastern I also inquired of a good Methodist sister of about 65 summers what had become of the and Destroying and where they were flaunting I told her I had visited Brigham Ogden and Salt Lake and had not seen She informed mo that the good Christian missionaries had practically driven them out of the places I but that and other interior towns were full of Advertising I returned to I praised Utah and the Bear River Valley so highly that I was appointed as on agent to sell the Bear River Valley During 1893 and I was very I brought out many people from Kansas and Wisconsin and and sold them land and with two exceptions all who bought more than Ministers Got On the Ministerial association of Salt Lake City sent out a long appeal to the people of the United This appeal filled over three columns of It stated that the a vile of polygamy in Utah was increasing so rapidly that it was spreading into the adjoining states and defiling the American woman and corrupting the American that Gentiles m Utah who were upholding the American flag were utterly helpless the hands of unscrupulous Lelich's Fine The Rev-John I L. superintendent elder of the Methods presiding Missions in sent letters T. 7 which were published in the New York Christian Advocate and other These letters were the last One stated that is a most difficult task to impress upon the of the people the Eastern the true condition of affairs in that mission work is most to the fact that the force arranged against God and evangelical church under the garb of that its people arc superstitious and unlearned and and Under the domination and oppression of that the basest passion of humanity are pandered that vices and sins arc and every sin is overlooked so long as obedience to the priesthood brings social and bini-ness and the process of starving out unknown to any people in any country the T. C. The Delos The John D. Nutting and hundreds of others wrote letters for had or lectures- through the country when I was getting settlers for Bear River Their whole talk was slanderous in the some of them advised settlers to keep away from In other words there soul savers were greatly interfering with and injuring my at the same they were passing the hat and filling their own Peet Got v Let me state right here that when any man is doing an lucrative and when a preacher or anyone else sticks his nose into other men's business tells lies and drives away it is the right and duty of that business man to get warm under the collar and strike I I began to hate the sight of any of these Utah for I knew that ninety-nine out of every one hundred would take pains to stop emigration to They were a night mare to One preacher among a band of prospective settlers for Utah was worse than a hungry coyote or a wolf in a sheep A Double I thus had a double duty to perform Jo round up settlers for and to fight the Coyote The Utah preachers were busy all the fighting my business and knocking They kept the Eastern preachers well supplied with the Devil-Fish Whenever I heard that a preacher was going to lecture on Utah and the I attended the if I called that preacher and some times broke up the Fighting preachers was not a financial The rail road companies and a few business men came to my rescue and furnished me expense For preachers today it is not so profitable and not so real a just to get busy and lie about Utah on the lecture Utah's Worst But the thing that finally killed all emigration to Bear River valley and Utah was the Salt Lake The opposing land and emigration companies who were selling lands in Colorado or the Southern or Northwestern states discovered that the Salt Lake Tribune was a traitorous ingrate and an arch enemy of James Jay Smith a large real estate firm in the Marquette in were agents for the Twin Lakes lands in That firm got out a four by 11 telling what a and unsafe state Utah was for settlers to go Every word of that circular was taken from the Salt Lake Tribune and the circular gave the Tribune due credit for its That circular was mailed all over the hundreds of them were distributed among tho land and agents in some large rail road offices in Chicago kept several copies of the Salt Lake Tri bune on with choice passages like will not sell land to not wanted in is in Utah boycotted and starved out by the These Tribune tid-bits were carefully and whenever it was learned that a person contemplated moving to Utah he was shown or mailed the Jay Smith anti-Utah or marked copies of the Salt Lake It would take a book to tell even a part of the injuries that the Salt Lake Tribune and the Ministerial association have done to from my personal I placed the matter before the Real Estate association of Salt Lake City but while they deplored such they were afraid to They will have to wake up and act sooner or Two of the number had the anti-Utah Tribune dagger stuck into their own clear to the during the Grand Army convention A Recent The following from the Herald-Republican tells the Instead of coming right out in open and stating that it was Kearns anti-Mormon A. 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The Herald-Republican merely said it was a morning the knockers a greater Salt Lake have extended their operations to the real estate field is evidenced by refusal of two eastern men to buy property here on account of an editorial appearing in a Salt Lake morning newspaper during encampment This editorial alleged that living was excessively high and the inference was given that Salt Lake was not a desirable place in which to live for that The local prominent realty whose deals were blocked by the knocking was severe his condemnation of the two one a professor in a Kentucky college and the other a well-to-do resident of came to Salt Lake to attend the encampment with the intention also of making investments here if conditions and prices were said the real estate were royally during their and thal were lower than in of the I had all Sa p deals with them thousands of dol-Prim their attention was jo the knock editorial and doffed it to had a and no ent on my part could them that the living ques- was not a The deals called I pointed out to ito the fact that although sev- of the articles that enter into daily household needs were price than in some cities still workmen here Repaid correspondingly higher Goods generally are as Lp as m the cities from which hut after the knock it j hard for me to future issue of the I may in more some of the names and the of settlers and who were frightened Utah by the Salt Lake V. 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