Show utah jr Royie wed EDITOR HERALD in your issue of the 3rd dinst I 1 see that utah jr considers me ais disobedient obedient to parents unthankful unholy without natural affection A man matt at thirty years of age Is not supposed to bo be obedient to parents one of my parents ie is dead the other Is not beteg here to counse counsel 1 lamn ane e 1 how 1 0 lw does utah jr know 1 lam a u unthankful n th a n 1 I ask him to prove that I 1 am unholy and without natural affection 11 I 1 am moat most pronounced and uncompromising in in my 0 opposition to polygamy an and C church rule be because c ause I 1 k know now the one degrades women and the other robs robe man of bis his individuality but this docs does not prove that I 1 am unholy bohl y or devoid of natural affection why V dont be he answer my arguments instead of insulting me personally utah jr further farther says that I 1 would imprison my father for life this is a base slander and my father ran can truthfully call this man allar why should be he make euch such unwarranted statements when the fads are all anni I 1 can call upon david eccles my fathers family and a thousand other witnesses to prove that these vile aspersions aspera ions are without a foundation in fact what are the facts hit jf it were not that I 1 might injure my father I 1 would give them all but I 1 will make this assertion without fear of contradiction that I 1 b have aye done more for my father than any other man in this country baa has ever done I 1 worked for my father until I 1 was twenty four years of ago age without wages and thes the work vork that I 1 did would have cost him per month lie v was as at lt ono one time penniless penn ilesi and I 1 started e d a subscription and raised him in contributing gentiles were just as liberal as mormons cormons Mor mons three gentiles gave each and two pave gave 10 each not in the interest of polygamy in y but in the interest of humanity I 1 could have had my fath fattier arrested re i ea long ago if I 1 were one tenth as base and unnatural as this tries to make me I 1 could add to this if necessary enough damaging proof to bur bury utah jr so 80 deep in the pit of b his ay iy 8 own falsehood that ho he could never be exhumed from the oblivion he so justly merits yours truly B DAnD nov xong 6 1880 |