Show a 4 MUZZLED LIPS MUfFLED VOICES AND CLOSED DOORS tN IN OGDEN OL Fi I force Heber Out of the Betterment League and Cause Caine Him to Write a Letter Declaring the League Has Outlived Its ts Usefulness Usef Message of is Sent to Nephi L IL Morris i sn in Sa t Lake i 4 Resignation Sent Bluth leber Scow croft has hns thrown 11 a 1 bombshell Into III to the th camp cam of or the Bet Det league by b that his resignation be bc accepted and antI stat stal stating statIng ing Ins that the league has hns outlived Its usefulness In an open letter addressed ad addressed addre dressed sod to this paper ho he says To the Editor of or the thc Standard and to the tho Citizens of o Ogden and antI We Weber her ber county countr Unable to tu resist tho iho pressure long longer er el and to answer the thc continuous can i In n ies as to my mr Inactivity and si sl silence silence lence lenc Jn In this campaign after being Instrumental Insl In organizing some thirty Betterment leagues In Weber i county count countI I want to say sa to Lo the citizens of Op Os dent and county count that my mr si 51 silence silence lence and Inactivity Is not ot of 0 my m own volition and will but but I 1 am a victim I cUm of the tho Instructions issued to close the houses In lu which I have ba vo been preaching civic betterment for nearly nearl a u year car When I loft loftt for New York on Octo October October ber bt r the last words ai al con an en to lo me mc minutes before train time by h C C h first of the Ogden Ogdon Betterment league ari acid u d tanking ranking authority in the absence of David Dald 0 O McKay who left the thc samo same day da for California was to get set back backwith with ith all haste that he would handle the league campaign as outlined tho the Wednesday night before wore then I could take it Jt up UI where he left leCt off ort leaving him free freo to attend to his own political campaign I returned on October and re rev j ported to Vice t Richards for duty dut and was informed that my mr services which were expected to be ho bea hoa 1 0 a continuous speaking campaign could not be he us ug lI d as the places of o meeting had been heen closed In iu my m face and the faces of those with whom I 1 was associated in ht Betterment league work This Till refusal to allow the use of ot meeting places for league purposes after being used for that purpose for fori i months was Influenced J I am tim told by hj local Republicans and tai the Republican lican party I art some of or whose whoso candidates I are arc the local representatives of tho the IS gamblers S and liquor dealers I 1 am willing to be bo bl quoted as having haing havinga a belief bellor which could only be bo strength strengthened strengthened ened by hj actual observance and knowl knowledge knowledge edge eds of or a liquor deal that Utah Is In ht tho thu grip of or the tho liquor Interests and the present rulers of the Republican party are aro responsible for that grip My Illy II attitude aLtitude and position Is sot forth in III the following letter sent to John Bluth secretary of o the Better Betterment ment nent league loague Signed R I In n with the tho above publish my m letter to Nephi L Morris i and John V Bluth Signed HEllER Letter to Bluth Ogden Utah Nov Not 0 3rd 1010 Mr Ir John V Bluth City My I Dear ar John JolIn Find enclosed my 11 check for COI fifty fitt as per pel promise a day II j or two be bc before before fore Core I left leCt for New cw York to replenish the treasury of or the thu league And AntI 1 I do doit doit doit it now to help holp defray derra expenses of or orthe the tho Soft Pedal campaign the cam calli campaign camu of muffled voices and antI muzzled ed cd lips that tIlot is pursued by b the league le Please resurrect the resignation tendered by bj me rne and antI read red without any an action sonic some weeks ago ngo and request for Cor mo me the acceptance of tho the same sarno for I am through with any an attempt to bring brine about abouL any au reform with the present forces and power arrayed against It by h Influences that should stand for truth but love lovo a lie better I than tho rho truth that Ulal ought to be ho in inthe Inthe Inthe the light but love loc to move noo in the tho dark rather than be bc In the light 1 I feel that the tho Betterment League has Jas outlived lt Il its usefulness or probably ably nIJI more properly rl stated swallowed up UI In disaster 31 Iy y Dear Bluth When party ct ex is made maLIc party policy and that expediency demands the tho sacrifice of o moral and civic betterment on au the altar of or party success when an all or organization I created and brought into being for the Choral uplift and Im Improvement provement of or a n community and for forthe tho the spread of or civic righteousness is I brushed aside muzzled and Its influence once enCl crushed I think that league workers are arc waging n a hopeless fight For this reason I wish to withdraw and turn my sty 11 attention and time to less les discouraging work Signed Yours Truly HEDER to Morris Mord Ogden Now Nov O lib th Lh 1010 uno I Nephi L I Morris Salt Sail Lake City Utah One people 1 In tho the G GOgden Ogden Theatre tonight received with prolonged applause and antl then some N tho reading of your our loiter letter to lion B BH II H Roberts vindicating him hint of tho iho slimy aspersions of nf an nn Ananias news newspaper paper But uL principally applauding l your heroic and many manly of C tho the campaign of o duplicity that Is bo be being ing In waged by bj the bosses of the party Il rt to which you Oll and 1 Ogden tonight to tonight night t reechoes with approval and good SOOIl words for you OU It Jt is now up to Bishop Nibley and M 1 to do likewise From one ont whoso whose voice yO Ice ins has been muffled and lips muzzled in this campaign Signed Signee Hr DER I Chairman ex Ogden Better Betterment A merit ment League c |