| Show A T THOUGHTS twenty ivars years ngo ago theeo mountain galleys wele cpa a ing so forbidding and apparently m uninhabitable that the wild solitude soli tyde and seeming C barren bar reness ess of df ih instill still inato uan han sage sag b plains can glye give but d a very faint idea f it there were not only olly no toads roads here no bridge soyer syer thel rivers rivens azid aad rio no open routes of communication tau yau muni cation but there were lione none forn foin e or ali where rd ds S lait L 1 citano Ci blands 4 the 1 came here a little I 1 1 I over nineteen eaic eais gafa ago ngo ag the first settlers in these western regions region K an and d w v 0 this remembered they made roads which h llave ave ive been t graveled raveled rave led ger bine sine hr y many thousands who never paid aught for tile the use of them they brid bridged ed streams and rivers broke up the sterl sterlie le looking soil planted and reaped and have made the blessing so god pod this country what it is e I 1 pu gilligg this work they have haye noti noa nok sought to injure aily any living being they have over ever striven sti str iven to do good and lulia ayi they thep they have scarcely contended inalienable rights of which they I 1 more I 1 on I 1 1 lff iff wan ce navot been ahr threat i eat abed 1 persecuting spirit which iroe aroe diore thein them r from orom ramt thel therl fhern ie ro east feast and compelled them W ref q g followed hem aud and continues to work with the hopa hope of gf sometime bringing still more edilu pon lon them men have tided theoans the fhe roads made iafe by the 11 Mo imons 11 to io e onlo come herc here aud and abuse the very people who are clothing and feeding havo the audacity even today to td look iilo around nd them them and claim as luiei their t pir pip personal abai fial property that which spars epars years of hard bard unceasing alsin C toll in the face of privation ana and Mi dangen danger inger Cuger lids has alone made valuable J and they plot together to rob the pres pies of tt beyond yond doubt in a plea pled pied rw iea led e r T orhea I 1 woe boe goe t unparalleled audacity could coul scarcely be found than that manifested liere here by persons who never tu turned afif a it foot of soil inthe lathe in the tho territory I 1 w whose c advent into it itt after a couf country itry had been bean re calmed reclaimed ani and ahi a community built buil tup in prosperity was accompanied baga by nibling gambling drunkenness and prostitution when those person assume the alfs alls vf hardy bardy pion plon pioneers eer white wh lre they they yo would uld fala fata nat fat al 71 drife driVe I 1 pioneers juo nto the nho nuo to aek eo pek A shelter land find woodad L f i tife alfe very latest manifestation bf teb the deig delg fria chic 4 ailin allin nate fate these aisis common y called caged claim jump ingy in inthis this they judem to be adepts judging by the reports that reach re achus us of the tile mallner manner mauner in which they go to lurk but it might be as well if they were to examine and see whether there malhot may max hot exist actual tuai and legal elai clai claimants mints fo edthe the lands they seek to preempt before comm corn menacing lb in and thereby save themselves tro ule uie there is a law touching this matter matten thau that in bf their haste hasta they llave cave 0 overlooked V vr looked and ana if it might pay them better to find it and study its provisions before acting contrary to them but it is neither land nor law that is sa T by these individuals th there ere is isan an abundance of unclaimed land ind and in we territory ory nry open nor for any any ans and all citizens to locate r allf on f a and ana 2 id de occupy eudy cupy A 1 if they simply desired land and homesteads why ay not t ake take u ap p and improve this unclaimed and unbroken soil it li is to make trouble troubie with the th mormons cormons Mor mons monk that they avon avor work 1 k and fon for this purpose they seek to j jump ump on om to land in or contiguous to this the principal city of th the e territory land that has been claimed and owned by citizens before these same Rame jumpers ever thought 0 of coming C to utah there is not an acre of laud land reserved for public uses for public benefit or the good of our citizens but they would seize elze if they could with the double view of or obtaining 0 valuable property and stirring up the thic citizens to resent the robbery what city is without out its public squares its places of cool and shady resort in summer and pleasant sanf promenades in spring and fall that does not wish it had them what city lacks parks and places of public resort that does daei not liot strive to tb yet obtain them this was forseen ili ill ill fil planning blannin our eity city rh this 1 s eve every ry person person of ordinary judge ma ment at knows yet i the public squares reserved for suell such imposes here striven to be jumped on to until the municipal authorities tut horMes condescendingly co fenced them in hot a place of resort not oven even a ri mace race 6 trao trad or oia opa a parade ground tho teo though ugh claimed by private citizens years ago would be efrom safe from these miserable harpies who arrogate to themselves 4 the title fitle of regenerators C of utah hiie while hile those who actually made the country valuable J and nd have years ago dial clai claimed nied the land in question are anre expected to stand by patiently und and submit to this thi spoliation it is one of we tile most flagrant acts of attempted plunder and deep I aid laid conspiracies against i th tub peace and liro lyro prosperity of df a combar community nafy that lias has ever been attempted in the iho nati uati nation 1 on in the midst of their knavish scheming ingi ingo assisted by embittered and vanal egal legal they never think that either cither they are consummate asses or the tiie mor mons worse orse nia nid jhan than n fools do they never think do da they not know that the land to which they aue are seeking ta lay las cial elal mj ha hlis ben und uen claimed years ago ig and anil th the e statutory provision 0 ngit complied campli ed with we again say it will pay pity ti them leill bet better teri flo fio hunt huntur up chelar hes bey I 1 ove overlooked overl I 1 poked arid and we further say that t is the right of every man to remove tress passers from his propel property ay iy when they will not leave at his ic request laege the vary very vers land over r jordan thab that has been ij jumped re recently was wag claimed years year ago wag was wag tv ice iee fenced in hf and tile the last i time iha the fence tence was taken ake forcible fore forc ble bie c pos session bession session of or stolen to use a plainer phrase ph ra se byl 1 byi government onn ami nd 1 burned to make malie their fires private citizens in this city and territory have opened up ull roads at great expense to get timber for their avi own and the public benefit and men who came here but yesterday as it lvere ivere ere arc would actually drive lire them from tile the right of 0 f using hose toads and try to reap leap th the 0 full benefit 0 of f their toil and Jn vested invested capital the legislature Legis latine lattne here has hag wisely vo conferred I 1 grants jn accordance e the power vested in them for the benefit of those thosa public spirited citizens who have aided in n opening up the country and dovel devel developing op in g its r resources 6 citizens have bave combined and with united labor have dug canals cut water ditches and carried streams ants anis from froni their natural channels to irrigate the land and part of the elai clai claimed land contiguous q to this city still lies uncultivated until water can be brought to it lt ihl which ich has been already obtained tile the p present resent sea son ta taa a very consider considerable abie abIL extent yet in the face of these things gra grasping Aping turbulent men talk of ot ir nights rights I 1 ats I 1 I 1 and nd government lands while they are seeking to rob others of their nights rights and as if they were the government and owned all the land out of doors whether claimed preempted pie pre emited empted or not when any person locates on unclaimed landbo land he m may cay c ay 1 r rest e i sh assured i ared that his rights willbe wil l respected by the entire mormon normon community when he jiampa on to the claims of oti feis seeking to rob them af their rights he be may also aiso rest assured it will vill not be tamely submitted to the local laws which govern goven land chums here are accord according ln g to the best legal authorities the tile organizing of mining districts and the laws which govern them are the result of custom and not based upon legal lega I 1 author authority ty we jve have ever res respected P acted these custom appointed laws have viewed districts being organized zedin in the territory feet dispo disposed ed of and mining claims barci parceled aled iut gut sut to diffie different rent part parties les ies with all the quietness and good feeling imaginable yet these very same individuals would trample our local leo legislation ielati 04 under co foot at rob us of our property jump oil on to the claims held by the original za settlers and af pf pioneers and drive us from the tho possessions 1 we ie have bave wrested frem tile tiie the wild er erness liess iless by fin P industry I 1 ind 1111 tollit toll toil it if they could please mako make the dwi contrast |
