Show communicated to young in accordance with our promise prociso no 0 again address you and be leg leave to respectfully ns as bure 3 ou on of our mo at distinguished consideration trade with the gentile meTe merchants batts still continues good notwithstanding the horrible condition of the public approaches to the city and will gradually grow brisker and brighter cs as the roads become harder and the intelligent husbandmen of the surrounding country can conveniently and safely drive into the metropolis of utah to purchase such articles of merchandise as the necessities of themselves r and aad their families demand towards spring we turn our eyes and visions of mercantile success fill fi the brain high hopes of colossal fortunes to be reaped in the future in this territory by the exercise of mercantile energy enterprise and integrity buoys us up at the close of this year and incites us to fresh notion action it is now one w eek since binco you were addressed on a subject of no ordinary importance to lovers of truth fair play and justice you stepped a little to one side after dc declining clining the proposition of twenty three mercantile firms made in good taste and in a business like manner kanuer to the leaders of the mormon church and you ton mado made tole direct and serious charges against artho icila doing business in the territory no are not members of the mormon Chirr church Ch not one of which you attempted to substantiate by facts although called upon to do so f 1 Y you 0 U chal charge e us with being the 11 avowed a ener enemies energies nies of eis this community we demand your proofs or the retraction of the charge 2 you charge us with mith reeling the disruption and the community proofs are also needed in support of this allegation 3 you chart charge us m with mith ith circulating the foulest slanders it about out the old citizens pray iss wh i enand 1 A iou ch a ge haab N alo vilo have bec rr used to nefarious nefa riou ends in what way do explain I 1 5 you charge us with m ith using the patronage of tho the people to destroy them really bro bib brigham w m ere you jesting if you were not you can call scarcely contemplate that your naked assertion unsupported by one scintilla of evidence and in the face e of a denial and it a demand for proofs will bo be entitled to much respect with the world C 6 you charge that we w v coin the hearts blood of the people here to bring our machinations to a successful issue what machinations you are quite vague in this specification and you are expected to bo be more definite in all your future charges proof or no proof 7 you charge us with having done all in our pott pom er to encourage violations of law lair what law t and when was wag its violation encourage encouraged ed and by whom 8 you charge us with retarding thead the administration min of justice Howand how and when 9 you charge us with fostering vice and vicious institutions this is is a very gr grave ave cha charge preferred by a minister of rel religion gion nga against dinst rge peaceable and law abiding cit citizens eizens who would mould not exchange their precepts of morality with him without feeling they had the worst of the bargain come out with the proof of your charge 10 you charge us with opposing the m will ill of the people unanimously expressed this too is a wondrously va vague accusation and unless 3 ou par particularize ticul arne people will fail to see the enormity 11 you yoh charge us with in increasing creasi n g disorder in in city can you sir sir su sustain n this soft impeachment if 5 3 ou can do so 12 you charge us with having done clone all in our power to change the peace and quietude of the city into lam lawlessness and anarchy Is it true we vie have done fo ao state when the effort was made b by whom hom made and whether success crowned the effort your I 1 corrupt and venal renal press if the use of on one e of your chaste and expressions x pres is per permissible pennis sable has published and republished your calu melous reply and advertises verti ses that the demand is so great for the famed liter literary effusion of your life that it is to undergo SEC still another edition an offer m was as in made do to your publisher of the original letter of one of the signers of the card to yourself to accompany your I 1 reply but was declined the reason that prompted that offer m was as the announcement that the entire correspondence spon dence ni was as to be republished and fearing that an excuse might bo be made that it would not be copied I 1 from the corrupt and venal press the original WAS tendered but no it was not to see the light of publicity by the means in in your power and the flimsy pretext t t that hat it m was as not signed by all the me merchants who ho signed the card advanced for its exclusion that argument goes farther than yon intended the card was addressed to the leaders of the mormon church you individually reply one of the signers of tho the card cara takes you to task for your reckless and calumnious assertions it would mould bo be well for the bane and anti go together it bisno evidence of moral courage to wantonly assail the characters and impugn the motives of your fellow men through the columns of a part izan press and refuse them an opportunity to be heard in refutation error even cari can be safely bolei abed in any community when truth arid and reason are left freo free to combat it no harm could 14 possibly ailse to the readers of your paper by a perusal of both sides of the question if you are correct in your wholesale charges against american merchants in utah controversy sir sir can only confirm your correctness SS but sir air it has been hinted that something ng akin to sordid avarice and cri entirely foreign to D the rity preached by the Naza and his bis humble apostles better than eighteen congo centuries a ago go and which have been handed i down from sire to son to the present day prompted tho the arious fee rions allegations allegation it in in your famed reply after the exaction of the decimal portion of the produce and profits of each year we are cowed into your cof coffars fors osten bly for religion must the remaining nine tenths bo be dix diverted orad into channels where yu you aro are accused of having extensive monetary interests where the least possible amount of me mercantile commodities may be exchanged for the greatest possible amount of money or produce la Is it to become a rule of your faith that you and others blessed wit large fur fortunes tunes and im menso credit at homo home and abroad may purchase puri I 1 with impunity goods in large or small quantities from gentile and jew and that the I 1 ime sime s privilege is to bo be denied to the mass of the people Is not the saving of a dollar or two on a pair of boots or the price of a pair of pantaloons as much of an ob object j act to the honest hardworking hard working laborer labore or farmer r who V ho may have a family dependent on his toils toi 1 s and frugality as a thousand or tens of thousands ands of dollars may bo be to you an and d the merchant t princes you aro are fostering and favora favoring perhaps you au may be surprised that there ora is any ono one who has the hardihood to doubt tho the soundness of your vies viem s on commercial mot mat or call their corre correctness etnes s in question I 1 beg you to io belim 0 I 1 have great faith in the tha cherished principles of free speech and a freo free press the groundwork of Jre american rican liberty and consider them always potent for good go a where tho the condition of society is tot reddo reduced ced to organized igno ignorance rancel and stupidity the sincerity of your religious belief or the correctness ness of the tenets of of your faith are in no wise questioned thatis that is a matter exclusive ly between man and his maker and any officious intermeddling or interference that would rob the creature of afons one motive of devotion towards the creator is little short of sacrilege besides it would be against the spirit of our laws and contrary to the genius of our institutions but when 3 you ou or any one else arrogates to dictate how all the temporal affairs of life aro are to be cond conducted a acted to abou arou arouse so jealousies and prejudices among men instead of allaying theme them and use your immense influence to injure others in their goods and property aye in their good name bo not surprised in finding us publicly protesting it would be strange if the tha representatives of I 1 three million alllan dollars worth of pro property erty in utah and p possessing os a cred credit it of double or triple that amount outside in the atlantic and Pacific States were tamely to submit to houi your 1 efforts involving their financial ruin and that too oil on the soil of a republic Ec public which fosters and protects its citizens in their commercial pursuits and enterprises against oppression and antiago to the uttermost bounds of the earth dodou do you call it fair and equitable to impose mouses licenses upon merchants collect them under pains and p penalties penalties enal ties and ana then poison the minds of the people against trading with them Is that thil the reciprocity that should exist desist when your people as ag you familiarly call them took the produce of their farms faring in ill other days to california nevada colorado idaho and montana and received rece ired tho the highest market price in glittery glit glittering teri 1 rg gold in return you were not so strenuous in in having them trade with each other you did not then use coercion or intimidation intimidate ion nor did you I 1 counsel them as you facetiously sl term working on their eternal hopes and fears by assuring them if they do not follow your counsel they will be cut off from the church and go to hell bell if it is A sin a violation of any of the commands written by tho the finger of omnipotence on the fractured tablet of the decalogue or of the tha laws of love and charity bequeathed beque thed by his chino son to we weak ak on ing humanity to trade with mith jew or gentile is not the discovery quite recent for one supposed to bo be in communication with god and ancl acquainted acquaint edith with his bis laws ch aro are tho the same today to day and yesterday and for forever ver Is it right t honorable or legal when words words nor grass will will do to uso annand to compel merchants to their stores as was waa recent recently lydone done atNo at nephi phi Is it not a weak confession that your people will mill buy where they can buy cheapest notwithstanding your co counsel to the contrary aye sir the timo time may when your abusive discore ait tl t l r bo be out c of 7 ailt yo your people pla and d i 3 ou V big is with h speech hlo in inquire quiro what lat that bolls within mo me i tho the throes of nascent genius geniL ts tho strife of high immortal tm mortal thoughts though ta to find a vent t I 1 I 1 regretting that you have neglected 6 say more on this subject as you led us ils to believe you would allow me to say that as heretofore wo we shall demean ourselves as good citizens wishing you tho the enjoyment of health and happiness we will havo have moro more to say on this subject bye and byo bye ore ONE or THE tem sip rna or THE cand |