| Show I 1 SHALL DIE RICH KICH EDITOR J we have not had our pay about the salt lake lahe boom would it not be nice to have tl the he city lot we once owned a little west of the R R depot and sell pell it for say fiat fifty y to one hundred thousand dollars yes put it up into building sections and have each lot covered with bright silver dollars as purchase money would that not be nice we could have our coaell chali and four our fam ly as well as dress in the finest style we could speculate on stocks purchase real estate from the poor at less than one half its value and sell for its worth of course we would only advance about ten dollars and pay the balance when we found a purchaser the fhe poor need not think liard hard of us but should consider us their benefactor as they would own more mor e cash than they ever saw before of course the homes of the mormons cormons Mor mons so called have not cost them much Q simply imply the purchase sc money and improvements now they are offered many times that amount why not tho the poor aged workout latter day saint say like tho indigent g gild gid id seeker thank god gad shall de di e a rich vian man yet what a glorious thought a die rich of ourse there are a few things vre must ignore especially we saints but then as tho the scriptures say money covers a multitude of sins we cani cannot jot just point to the passage but think it is in the new testament Ve and if we mistake 1 ret in the book of dimes d i hom homes es 0 of f tuii this i s people are the price c cf f a great sacrifice that prior to locating here they had not sold their homes barties but had been driven from them by ruthless mobs while their children tu to rare aavo their lives fled across burned prairies where they could be traced by the bllou of their feet on the hard stubble we must forget the tragic well at t haunts hauns mill leill missouri and be oblivious to tile the cold storms sand and starvation niile eifle fleeing from the stae ot ol Alis missouri after bein being robbed of all aa we possessed while some were killed and others imprisoned including L the prophet and patriarch Patr iare h some dying on the road and others being born under the open canopy 0 heaven beaven in n tile severa severe winter of as 9 we must not remind them of their sufferings and deaths in illi apis where their beloved prophet and patriarch were slain and tile the many deaths of and all ages from the untimely born babe to 10 the veteran of ninety years tt lt winter quarters quarter sl and on the plains mention not the fact that over five hundred of their husbands fathers brothers and sons were called to go and 6 fight I 1 lit ohp th battles of their country tr and leave their fj fa milies destitute 0 on n the open prairie and ages do I 1 i othine that when they set tied this country than a portion of ha great american 0 to the republic of mexico that aba t mountaineers who were better postell posted than any others offered one ne thousand dollars for a ripe ear of corn raised in salt aaice Vt valley and that there were killing frosts every month in the year for far if these things are arc brought to their minds and especially that chati it is just gs as morally right for ono one t bosell 74 his homo home as another and if one may all may inny arid and the s saints 8 again be without hornes homes five wa driven and now boosi loosing them or fooling them away on alie th volition of their own wills H r mr editor wo we are arc contented we do not want cliel boob when taking 9 the second sober thought it occurs to us that tile tho highest prices offered for our beautiful tul 1 comfortable homos homes is riot not a niale on tile the dollar of their actual cost for they cost all of the he sacrifice flee named and the half has not bee been untold fold A of A course cours e all are mora moral I 1 agents and will do as they please meis do not understand me as writing to bar strangers from froll settling ift among us this is of this article the pol point n t is this let us not break ourselves al 8 up to ac com stran strangers stranger gei but let jet them spend their money in making homes hornes m for themselves vei this w would develops 40 op more of the country and in crease its population and aritt interest rest they would not have ato to i suffer as we wa did not being a thousand miles from civilia civilization aaion railroad and having only ox teams to haul our supplies and without without funds with which to pum purchase liase bothem then they k could obtain supplies ea here at reasonable figures and make irr prove ments n chaper than the citizens can afford to bosell tl theirs their as they really cannot afford to sell at ft all I 1 will say howe however yer in in con cl elusion that if people will ill be blind 0 to their own interest and dell their homes and squander mean as many doubtless dettrey athey should aboul d not blame the cho burcl purchaser haier a r but lament their own folly ci ens of southern utah this means i and all to whom it may apply s well a as S salt lakers bakers as the boon 1 will some day strike us pu guthat that in your scrap I 1 adlo book 1 l aa buo BUD |
