| Show A REPLIES balem SALEM utah july 19 1883 1683 editor deseret news through a letter referred to in your issue of the dinst a charge of selfishness la is preferred erred against the people of ealam eslam la in not letting jetting inthe the stranger stra nger uger within their gates have a chance this charge Is ia unfairly applied and has haa no foundation in fact as presented in the press building lots and und farming fanning land laud can yet b be obtained here at reasonable prices but here as elsewhere in the country people value their land and will not sell seil it without come show for the pay during their natural lives I 1 have never nevery at any anytime time during the last 15 years seen a time when I 1 could not purchase land or city lots in this town if I 1 was prepared to do so 0 but doubtless there have been cases that persons have made application to purchase pur chase chaee and the impecunious circumstances bf of the applicants have induced the landholders to make steep propositions or to decline to sell I 1 am convinced from experience and observation that when any man with modest feelings and moderate or 0 ordinary exactions will harness up for fon the labors and duties of iffe life fie as they lie before highe will always be successful but for fao factious Fac to make makke his failures to date a matter of publio public vindictive censure and insinuate upon the people of a whole settlement when he ought to know that he be is mainly to blame hi himself alx lx leela is in my opinion very unfair and impolite yours very truly timotny TIMOTHY |
