| Show MORMON we believe that lieutenant B H roberts voiced vo iced the I 1 sentiment of a vast majority of the people of utah when he appeared before the legislature and took exception to the gove governors enors plan to abandon the monument projected I 1 to preserve the memory of the terrible ible suffering and an d sacrifice madei m we by that small body of patriots known as the Mor morman rilan battalion who nearly three quarters of a century ago carried on foot and preserved our dour flag on that terrible march from fort lovenworth Leven worth to SanD over desert plain and mountain through hostile territory and arrived a their journeys tourneys tour end in tiT time neto to greatly assist in the holding of the great southwest st for america and Amre ican civilization the honor of at least a mon ament andra and a place in our history is loi long ig past due themi them and nothing should be put in the road of ofa a speedy completion t 6 of the taid plans which have already been too long in the A making dehate we hate t to 0 think that our boys who have sacrificed so buchon the bloody fields of the old world might have hab ha b to wait fifty or a hundred years for recognition for their brave brav 6 acts abt by a forgetting peo people ale |
