Show A DECLINED ARTICLE editor deseret news the accompanying accompany i UK letter addressed to the editor of the salt bait lake tribune was offered to that individual by the writer the editor could not afford he said to adver advertise tige me in a fight against his own course etc if you see eee fit to make use of it do so the letter contains nothing that I 1 have not said before save that it gives a correct version of my brief remarks in the tabernacle and denlea denies the insinuation of the tribune that there was soy any col lusion between president cannon and myself C E A LETTER PROM FROM CHARLES ELLIS to the ow editor addor of the tribune permit me in your issue of october 7 your reporter makes merry at my expense over what I 1 said in the tabernacle tuesday afternoon to the amusement it afforded so solemn an individual he is heartily welcome I 1 like to see people happy but to his bis misrepresentations I 1 demur and ask the privilege of setting the matter straight before your readers your report says he myself began to rehearse the k way essay prepared for him and intimates that president george Q cannon had arranged with me to say any what I 1 did at that time it is not necessary to deny the insinuation here but your readers outside might bemb be misled ded I 1 can bear the results of my own actions and ask noue none to share the burden let me assure you th tb enthat neither george Q can non nor any an other person said a word to me at any time about what was to be done at the tuesday afternoon or any other meeting of the recent mormon conference what I 1 said was purely the result of an impulse an aiu inspiration spira no doubt that stirred me when I 1 listened to the resolutions and saw what to my mind was an important amisson om isson all of the papers that is all that I 1 saw reported my hin language guage differently and even the tribune 7 fane did not report me correctly let me give you exactly I 1 what I 1 did say BAY mr air presidents 0 1 I like these resolutions and would vote for them if I 1 were a saint and with your permission I 1 will vote for then their as it Is IB they are good as far as they go but I 1 would like to see added to them something like this whereas the people called Mor cormons mormons mons have conceded every demand made upon them by the government of the united states therefore they as american citizens lova loving ng their country as having the best government in the world and P pledging their posterity in loyalty to it demand in return the same rights and privileges the name equality before the laws the same protection to property life liberty and the pursuit of happiness that are guaranteed by the government to every other sect that in ia based upon the bible 1 I have said the same thing many times and shall continue to repeat it until the free and independent voters of the country see and understand the truth in regard to this utah trouble and take the cry from my lips and compel the nation to do justice in spite of the interference of envious protestant priests priests and office seeking politicians if f the mormons cormons are wrong the bible ha w wrong if the bible is wrong every so called christian sect is wrong and the action of the governments government if it takes any lies not against abke the mor mons or a against methodists and what not but against the bible not against the deluded people but against goo GODO the author of the wrong the delusion and the crime if crime there be about men women and children in the united states believe that the bible is godys gods word aej will and that they will be eternally damned if they do not so believe our government does not hold bold any belief upon the subject but it does say that these beliefs of the people shall be respected and that the believers belleve shall be protected in freedom of conscience judge cooley says he who shall examine with care the american constitutions will find nothing more fully or plainly expressed than the desire or of their framers to preserve and perpetuate religious liberty and to guard against the slightest approach towards inequality aliby of civil or political rights based upon difference of religious be lief no matter what the Cath catholics olim the Calvinist sor the Episcopal eans may have done before there was an american constitution they are all free and pro protected in the united states if we were to try them by their history and condemn con devan them for the actions and language of their predecessors they would all be hung as murderers if we condone the past of so many believers in the bible why should we throw judgment to beasts and condemn the mormons cormons Mor mons for acts and words done and uttered in the beat of anger and the old years of murderous persecution you may say that the government already protects the mormons cormons in all respects I 1 say bay it does not and has never done don e so I 1 say that until it does so our national administration of equal rights is a covenant with death and an agreement wit with b hell bell until the rights of all citizens are am equally protected our boast of liberty is a brazen lie let us then either protect all the sects or condemn them all but as we cannot condemn them without destroying the very freedom of the government that is in our boast let UR up say my that all sects shall be equally recognized respected and protected as an long as they respect and obey the laws the mormons cormons have yielded obedience to the laws it if they are ace not sincere the nation will soon know iland they alone will be sufferers from their duplicity until t they bey do show a spirit of rebellion and a disposition to destroy the government they are entitled to and should receive all the consideration and protection bestowed upon any other sect based upon the bible thit this is all aall I 1 have ever claimed it is all I 1 desire to claim soon or late it will win your reporter calls me an atheist I 1 believe in and advocate the rights Z of kanj man therefore I 1 believe in god he who by word or deed endeavors to weaken withhold or destroy the rights bights of man is the atheist no matter how he may cover himself with professions of love of god respectfully CHARLES ELLIS |