| Show CHARLES ELLIS LECTURE to my mormon friendt friends byway or introducing my recently published lectures let me tell you how I 1 I 1 came to prepare them I 1 came to utah with the common eastern conception of the mormons cormons and their system of faith but with no prejudices I 1 simply took it for granted that what had been said ot them for years was true I 1 met none but anti cormons mormons TOor mons here for a long time and heard no good word said of the hated people but I 1 have always looked through my own eyes and I 1 saw so much difference here between the home facts and the eastern fictions that even before I 1 had spoken to a mormon I 1 was satisfied there had been gross mil representation misrepresentation the first five months of my stay I 1 associated more or less with so called liberals I 1 offended most of them by opposing ng their continuous denu denuncio acia tion of the mormons cormons Mor mons gradually they worked themselves into a feeling of hatred towards me that surpassed if possible their hatred of mormons cormons Mor mons at let length th they boiled over and made a public fight against me through their paper they shut every hall ball against me imp where they had influence and I 1 stood alone facing the wall of prejudice at that time I 1 had never made a mormon acquaintance there was wa no paper to give me a hearing save th the little sheet that al A 1 sorensen Soren aen was running he knew my enemies and gave me a space ce at a sacrifice to him himself Belr men seeing how the anti mormon paper was waa fighting gb g me asked what I 1 intended to do A wisdom greater than I 1 cat can claim replied that I 1 should tay right here and kill the whole liberal outfit I 1 had no idea I 1 presume that anything of the kind would happen and yet vet there is no ito liberal party outside of salt lake and if the people had bad done what they might have done there would be none here up to the time of the public attack upon me I 1 had gone no farther than to insist that the mormons cormons were to say the least just as good christians us as any of the other sects and were entitled to all the rights and protection guaranteed to the others I 1 allowed myself to rest real upon the conviction oat hat probably what was said about brigham young and the early years of the church iu in utah was true but the venom of the attack upon myself met et me to thinking and working and the result was that I 1 went into a careful study of those early years 0 ind and came out of it as aa sure that the whole fight against the mormons cormons was malicious as aa I 1 knew the fight against myself to be that is bow I 1 came to take up the he mormon question in utah I 1 became so deeply interested te in it that I 1 abandoned my own work and for nearly two iwo years have lived only to help fulfil fulfill the prophecy I 1 unwittingly made in the outset of my struggle with the tyranny of ami mormonism As a result of all this my purse pure which was never heavy has fallen in fin collapsed I 1 find myself busted dead broke bankrupt I 1 make this confession with no humiliation it 1 is a poverty of which 1 I am proud it is I 1 the result of work in a cause so glorious that it will r hine rhine when my and your enemies are dust but while I 1 have triumphed over my opponents f I 1 now face one against which I 1 am powerless starvation to keep that grim enemy of life down I 1 have published four of my recent theatre lectures and tiow offer them to you the four are only forty cents or including my utah five lectures lecture for fifty cents lam I 1 am not begging beggi cg I 1 offer you the worth 0 of f your money I 1 am taking steps to procure names ju in the east you can help me and do a permanent work towards creating a public opinion in the east in favor of the equal rights I 1 have been demanding as an churched un man here I 1 have spent about in utah and received less than 2000 these lecture which I 1 offer you cost me for printing n advertising and commission n not ot lets lees than five cents each I 1 offer them for ten you see even if I 1 yell sell all I 1 make but little I 1 will inform you by and by of the result of this appeal thousands shousan de have said to me god bless you here is an opportunity port unity to show how much they want him to bless me when I 1 am tu iu need CHARLES ELLIS |
