| Show ANOTHER correction it is if always better for persons persona who ander undertake anderzak tak 10 to 10 criticism criticise critic ise loo other eibers and nd to make quotation to be fair and honest than to misrepresent the adversary anu and to make garbled extracts from his bib writ aggs with this ibis sentiment uppermost to in my mind I 1 desire to say lay that it to Is a of regret that your late correspondent J D nutting did not see bee proper when me to quote the entire sentence objected to but instead gave merely a portion ot of it leaving a false impression on the minds of his readers I 1 do ao not propose now to say ay much on the question of prohibition having said aid in my letter printed in the he all that I 1 nave bare to say anu it if I 1 bad been fairly quoted I 1 would not have troubled you again mr nutting say he myself sir further says ay in substance bub stance the delegates are under no obligation to regard tae sob present or future wishes ot their constituents the following to la what I 1 did says aay and had bad the critic observed the rule referred to he would havo quoted it in order that the reader could judges judge ah to what my sentiments are on the question at as issue iesue As an your correspondent truthfully says there has baa been but liitle liale agitation of the question by the people and thai little has only taken place since the election of the delegates to the convention and consequently the delegates are under no obligation or at leask may not feel under any obligation to be influenced by what whai may bay have been sold said or written since the election in the absence of the ex expression pro sion of public opinion on publio public questions prior to the election of delegates delegated to conventions the delegates go and are the sole sale judges of of what their duties to their constituents require them to do there can b be no DO doubt I 1 think that thai it ig to is the duty of mt members abers of conventions lad and of legislatures legislature to properly represent their constituents constituent ot aud abd to carry out their instructions whenever it ig can be legally and conscientiously done but there must be s at me means meane by which the instructions instruction of the ibe people can reach their P anil an 1 in this ease nothing short of a majority mojo rity of tbt voters voter by petition loulu 1 be unless the question had bad been previous to the election of delegates dele gatei and themselves elected on such platform As ag there has been no DO ouch uon CAU can vats vas a petition from a minority ot of tb the voters would not be binding un on the convention A low few more remarks and I 1 will close it would seem that the blood of this thie suppo ebo son ion of a revolutionary here bolls with indignation 22 because I 1 want the people to canvass the prohibition question and when they havo bavo made up their minds minda as a to what bat they want that they should instruct the members of the legislature to carry out their wishes I 1 regret exceedingly that I 1 have been instrumental in causing the gentleman Kentle pa revolutionary blood to boll boil because I 1 do not believe hot blood to be conducive to good health not noi being a regular MD M D I 1 cannot pre scribe for my friend sod and merely UK geat that a physician be called in blood poisoning seems to have gone out but there here are various prescription prescript io 9 perhaps less leaa dangerous danger ouR leeches for instance and ice fee applied to the head of path nt mr nutting intimates that the members of the convention who art ar representative men of utah would not be so BO liable to be corrupted by the entire liquor power of the whole united states as would the members of the future legislature ii who I 1 feel q quite alte certain will also be mon men has haa it never occurred tj my critic thai if the liquor power la is handed banded together in a life and death alliance gagnat restrictive and aad lip ie conscienceless in its methods and more than human in its resources resource 9 ss it would be an aa likely to bring ith resources to bear on of the convention who as aa all experience teaches achee le 22 are only men sod and therefore not infallible as aa upon members of a mure legislature H D JOHNSON |
