Show A PRECIOUS MEMORIAL MEMORIA THE conspirators for the political and financial robbery of utah have circulated the following memorial for signatures to the senate and house bouse of representatives of the united states your petitioners petition ers humbly represent 1st ast we are gentile citizens of utah both democrats and republicans ad we bract practice ce the professions we work the mines we carry on mercantile and commercial business we represent large capital and every kind of industry adm ad we are slaves politically to mormon rule which is theocratic despotism ath the I 1 mormon church Charch as such controls all political affairs teaches its communicants to violate the laws and shields them in criminal crimi ual practices rath 0 our ur territory is rich in material resources and a most promising one lor for a state ath now law is disregarded civilization is turned back and re P bubli can institutions are ignored with due submission we say give us a tearing hearing and we will pro prove these things we demand consideration of our wrongs and redress of our grievances for full statement of our wron wrongs 9 and suggestion of remedies we befler refer to hon R N baskin our trusted representative NAMES occupations A great many miners who only kinow one side of the question and the barroom bummers street loafers gamblers blacklegs and roughs boughs will sign the document and some of the merchants lawyers and professional men who are so linked up with the projectors ot oi the movement that they dare not withold their names for fear of the black guarding and abuse to which athey they would be subjected by the ring and its organ added to these these will be the signatures signature of those who expect to profit by the disfranchise ment of the majority of the citizens kin in the shape of local offices ollices and their emoluments what is the purport of the petition why that the signers are without influence in local politics and want to be supreme if they are slaves politically liti cally what is the reason are they dep deprived of the ballot no they have votes if they are citizens just as much as any others I 1 Is there a single political political right or privilege that as gentile citizens of utah they do not hold equally with mormon citizens not one then why are they slaves As a matter of fact they are slaves only to the ring which by its organ oran lashes them into line and makes them vote as dictated or berates them as traitors and jack mormons cormons if they do not vote to order I 1 tor or if they dare to express a sentiment in opposition to their political masters tho the conspirators conspirator who have drawn up the memorial for their signature if they are without influence in local politics what is the reason there is none except their numerical impotence they have not votes enough that is all now just look at the impudence of their request tl 1 it is this and this alone we are a a small minority and therefore pur votes are lost play congress take away the voting power from the large majority that we may have our way in the control of lo 10 local cal affairs we are gentiles and only a f few e w the i cormons mormons Mor mons will not vote for any of us and they are many As the majority will not vote as the minority wish we want the majority dis f franchised ranchi sed that the minority mayrune may role rule Is not that a pretty proposition to make to the lawmakers law makers of a republic R N baskin who never was an hon though he once tried to acquire the title by falsehood and fraud and was ominously ignominiously ign defeated is the trusted representative of this little thimbleful of slavish elements and the foregoing is the gist of his appeal to the house committee on the judiciary the wrongs for which he is deputed to demand recess are summed up in the inability of the memoria lists because of their paucity of numbers to overcome their opponents at the polls they have no other they are not abridged in ia the freedom of speech or of the press they lie about the majority to their hearts content they hold their little caucuses and flat conventions in which no one figures actively but the ring that runs the movement they fuss fuse all their naturally discordant elements together to present as ap stron strong a force as possible tat elections ang and they amount to a handful of straws against an avalanche it is quite provoking no doubt but whoever heard in the thenis history tory of politics of an exasperated minority claiming that the maj majority 0 ought u ht to be dis franchised for not knuckling k 1 ig g down to the schemes of the defeated few it is sublimely preposterous post poste erous roas and such shameless effrontery fron tery gs as the world has never bever seen before tile names of the signers will be a mat matter ter of curiosity and such as live and fatten on the business support of the p people e 0 ale whom they seek to deprive of e every v ey political right ought to be known to their intended victims the representatives of the people at the seat of government should make a note of this for future reference tile the list fist ought to be preserved as a precious memorial |