Show MEAT MEAKIN FAREWELL MEETING of Salt Lake City Turn Out the people of Salt Lake I and remember favors reward a fought the good fight the song I was made manifest on y June at t Congregational church where a large farewell ent was tendered and in P. Val Jean labored and rough a life and suffered for his friends as not until his tottering his old shattered palsied s in the dark shadow of that his true worth and humanity was really Good men and women I e spent their whole lives good have been 1 and driven hither and the mad rush of wealth s not until their 1 scarred bodies were laid aye that the people woke r real and then y to atone for their gleet they rear over their in their praise mS resolutions their charity and e for The Lake did not wait till had passed over the they took time by here and now ana did ur-brother and loving while he has Y years to live and enjoy the esteem and confidence of all those who attended his royal If you really love a man and desire to do him do not procrastinate till his eyes are dimmed his hearing impaired and old age palsies his but do it here and Do not wait to do my good that comfort comes too like a pardon after That gentle given in had cured me But now I'm past all comfort here but What took place and how the conducted is of minor meeting was importance when compared that caused so to motive many people from all walks and conditions of life to assemble to God speed to a new bid a brother field of seemed to audience That great divided between be equally Jews and Democrats and Kearns' and then a goodly number of Christian whisky editors army shouters and holy all through the audience and on Odd and dotted the audience like stars on a clear supreme dressmakers and washerwomen were all there and all were happy in the one John P. Political religious social standing were were overcome by the one John P. While money poured in at the music and intellectual pyrotechnics illuminated the Governor Spry was the chief engineer of the occasion and he opened the throttle with a short timely which was followed by Judge who gave a very interesting and instructive Horace Ensign sang a characteristic song for the occa Lon Haddock recited an original referring to Meakin in a very original and pleasing Miss Maggie the sweet singer of Zion entertained the audience as only a great singer E. F. Tout also sang to the great delight of the And then something happened before the Governor could announce the next two gentlemen ascended the One of them was a short stout man just about as wide as he was high and a good deal farther other was a tall slender man carrying a roll tied up with a colored The was John city in he is the real John between the father of waters and the great Mulvey stated that when the great herd of Elks in Salt Lake City learned that Meakin was about to leave Zion for greener pastures that they all locked their horns together and by a free and unanimous vote tendered Meakin a life membership in that go People on Earth Mr made a good talk and sincerity was plainly made manifest in his every one or two over sensitive and extremely virtuous ones in the audience had a sudden attack of the because Mulvey a saloon keeper stood in a Congregational pulpit and did a very kind act of brotherly Let me say right although 1 have never spoken to Mulvey and I did not know him at sight till he ascended that that I have always heard of John vey as a man of his that his word is good under all circumstances and that when you have John Mulvey's friendship you have a friend that closer than a John Mulvey sells beer and but he is no worse for so doing than those who buy and drink such stuff and two-thirds of all the people throughout the country patronize in onu way or another the liquor Mulvey in selling beer and whisky is no worse than the United States which for the small sume of will grant unto Mulvey or any one else the right to sell beer and whisky to any boy or man or woman at any where the American flag An honest saloon keeper is a better man than a hypocritical The other gentleman with was M. M. the roll that he carried was a set of beautifully engraved resolutions from the which granted Meakin his life Warner read them in a distinct tone and with so leel-ing that Meakin was come by the gratitude of his brother Meakin made a short and timely response to his brother-Elks for their Then another thing Langdon arose in the audience and gave a few happy reminiscences of Meakins boyhood in before he came to Adams Kiskadden was the last number on the she told of some of the boyhood pranks of Meakin in Salt Lake City and then recited in a very pleasing and dramatic manner two selections suitable for the occa- The Editor of the Utah Independent was delighted to attend and give expression to a meeting where all elements of society gather en masse and do honor to a brother who is trying to make the world brighter and Another Meakin On this there was another Meakin meeting in the Unitarian of this there were 18 people five of Meakin's friends and 13 followers of Benedict Arnold and Tom The call of that meeting was to grant unto Meakin an ordination as a Unitarian so that Meakin could get a life long position as a chaplain in the United States a position to which Meakin was well a position that would have been an honor to the Unitarian Society and an act of kindness that would not have injured any one in the slightest But here was an opportunity for mean people to commit a mean act to stab a brother in the who had preached to who had entertained them and done them Thirteen of that number had their knives unsheathed and when the opportune moment when the vote was cast they stabbed Meakin in the Although their pastor had given Meakin to understand that he would be ordained without a Compare the two one where several hundred turned out to do a brother good and the other where 13 Kearns-American haters skulked behind a Unitarian voting privilege and shot a brother from that Tribune Reports of the Look at the Tribune reports the two Its report of the acts of the 13 Unitarian traitors was spread on the first page and then carried to the in large display It was something it injured a citizen and a lover of Utah to injure such a man the Tribune gloated in ghoulish The Tribune report of the meeting in the Congregational where several hundred citizens besides governors and judges and the great men of the state met to do good to the same the Tribune only gave about a two inch notice in small type on the second The man and woman who worked so hard to keep Meakin out of the are now out of a job and it is a question if they ever get one in Salt Lake a pit They it deep it for a brother But through their sin They did fall in This pit they V. 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