Show rort liA valley tun Ms AIR EDITOR As I 1 have seen no answer in ili your paper to the tb I 1 article published a week or two ago in the siow noun ta incer in regard to the public lands and military reserves of or the territory I 1 propose with your our permission to ofer some thoughts on the subject the authority gut hority of the united states to lacato on anthe the pubic lie lands for the use lse of the mir itara reserves and other p purposes ur poses I 1 wo w believe has las never before been die p atea or questioned until the late procla natian in regard to the reserves about camp floyd bridger and bear river was published this eternal eterna I 1 croaking and about rights and privileges looks wel well coming front from the mouths months of people who vilio ire re banded together for the purpose of ang all they canto can to destroy the 1 bows pows dwir of ot the general government goi eminent what rights can a people have who live I 1 of all laap law both moral human ala aid divine to expect from the government Govern mene what rights can a people have who laferl will eagerness every sunday from tri pulpit and we know not how often to fords of blasphemy and high treason a title to the lands which belong free sons and daughters of the at ata a moderate calculation thre fourths fourt hsi of 0 the people ili in this valley arbot citizens I 1 they come to our I 1 shores with noney money furril furnished I 1 lied perot by the church and are hurried gross the plains for fear they will get son lloa I 1 knowledge of the great benefits 3 and that would belong to them if thy th f would remain in the sta states tes and become good citizens but they have taken no oath of allegiance and consequently have no rights and by their cou conduct I 1 duct ave ave forfeited all claim to the he respect and protection of the general government the d day a y is is close at hand band when congress will take some decisive steps towards driving darivin g forth from her territory arid and domains every live hie representative ot of a people who ho under the cloak of a fanatical religion have haie taken takena a sole solemn ii oath administered w with ith mystic rites and awful cere ceremonies i which it would be death to div alge to raise the bloody standard of treason whenever Le never called upon to do so by their leader shame on such impudence shame on such uc h a people and a deeper shame than fell on cain the first murderer N will ill be the portion of these leaders who i is s to pay the claims now cow held against the V U S governments go crement tor for the millions million s of dolla collais Is stolen from true and lawful citizens of our country while passing through their settlements on their v way ay home i ich with the glittering treasure from california who is to raise and educate the orphans now no in the states whose parents par have fallen victims to mormon avarice and assassination 7 who is to atone for that terrible terr I 1 ble tragedy now known throughout g bout the world as more brutal than the cele berated massacre of wyoming who is is to support the mothers wives sisters daughters of all the victims whose bones now whiten and bleach uncovered in ever ery kanyon kanon throughout the country the soil of the valley is wet v et with the blood of innocent men whose orphan children are crying aloud to the government men t for vengeance and it will come every eiery senator congressman and representative senta tive is is now called upon to do something to put down this desperate fraternity n ity and they will do it the signs never were better congress meets next month a list of crimes longer and blacker than were ever before recorded against any set of peopled people peo plew allbe willbe furnish turnis hf d them the tha reports of the marshal Mar the judges and the judge too will be there congress has the righetto right to repeal all laws that she has made the troops a e on oil the ground and it will take lake but a few words to destroy forever the power ot of the ilat latter day in in utah |