Show A reply PORTLAND or jan 24 to the editor of the telegram I 1 desire to saw a few words in reply to II 11 E sic j farland in regard to the silver service that was presented to the battleship utah bearing the head of 0 brigham young I 1 take it the citizens of utah knew sir mr young far better than persons living in some out way ivay placeit pla celt is lph known faa CA isalt sit Laky city ogden and provo take the i mail lead in this matter and it is amo also a f fact act that in these cities what is known as gentiles are predominant the placing of the head of brigham young upon the silver service was not done in honoring him as a mormon but as the pioneer and founder of the state and it is an attested tact fact that as a pioneer and founder of that commonwealth he has never had an equal at E sic me farland refers to the bible I 1 am therefore led to think she believes in it if so I 1 wonder what she would say were the name or head of moses presented in like manner he is believed by the world as the greatest lawgiver known but in being so honored by the world do they honor him for his polygamous proclivities ile he had four wives and one of them an ethiopian woman in comparing brigham young with one of tile the lepers in tho the north end the writer allows bitter prejudice to get the better of reason the one honored or sustained staled su those women as mothers of his children as his bis follower and disciple B 11 II roberts said in the halls of congress 1 I have married these women and though you hew the flesh from my bones wiil not deny them the other lives off the earnings of these women in the commission of a crime both against law and morality to say nothing of god I 1 would ask which of these Is the more honorable and which would you trust sour mother or sister with the writer says we all know hilow 11 how was authority obtained to speak for wo we all and who Is ig this we all that she bho can speak in their name to besmirch the name of a man a horn the state of utah bees fit it to honor and hand his name down to future generations as the founder of their commonwealth the people of utah seem to be more charitable they let the faults of brigham young lie lit in the tomb but eulogize his great deeds to all the children ot of men paul says charity I 1 am nothing ar DR GEORGE W CROCKWELL |