Show JUDGE AND THE TRIBUNE in yesterdays issue of the salt sal t lake like tribune appeared the following I 1 letter otter ED EDITOR I 1 TOR tribune in your issue of the 16 h I 1 notice you give place to 11 the communication of mr reasoner Reason cr 11 from payson and from your treatment of tho the subject aa as he be presented it giving him credit for honesty of purpose I 1 feel encouraged to ask your consideration of a few points in roz a volica red in that ae letter t ter and your comments in noticing the first proposition that mr reasoner lays down you assume that be and those who view joil e tha the situation here as he does have I 1 on only y in view the disintegration of th the a 1 liberal beral party with a possibility of the i disintegration of the peoples party this is not the position wo we take I 1 our position is a complete and radical reconstruction of political matters 4 in utah the total destruction of the actions factions aa as they now antagonize each other and the organization of political ia parties on national party lines yon you eay say but bat suppose that should be dene can h he e not see that it if the saints pleased they could pa go in and capture every office and take absolute possession of the territory this is what we consider the vice of 0 I 1 the liberal party its scramble for I 1 office the fusion of supposed oed republicans and democrats for no other reason than to acquire numerical aumerl a I 1 strength sufficient to capture every office and take absolute pomes possession sion of tho the territory 11 governments are not X created for the benefit of political parties but forthe for the benefit of the people 4 I 1 p le deriving their juat just powers from 1 the consent of the governed it is claimed that the mormons cormons I 1 have very little acquaintance with t the lie spirit the theory the genius of our american institutions that their the ir education on oil matters pertaining to our government haa han had the tendency 11 to weaken their loyalty and u un n I 1 americanize them suppose we concede this where could they receive belter better schooling than by being admitted in full fellowship into the republican or democratic party B and from my standpoint as a republican where could they learn better r tho story of loyalty where con could id I 1 they learn better the story of freedom the rights of mankind and natio national libil progress ress than by connecting their political fortunes fort unea with the republican party the ogden STANDARD breaking speaking of the republican party and its I 1 glor glorious lons history says its grand triumphs will brighten the pages of history so long as men live to read the records of political parties for it was loyal and true at times when opposed oppose d 14 to it was a tangled mass of treason I 1 conspiracies assassinations murder it rapi rapine tie pestilence and robe rebellion I 1 lion I 1 I 1 would like to bear a I 1 few ew more af I 1 good go men a few more mormons cormons 1 talk t kahat that way I 1 afta ifta am a willing 0 to o tale take t my chances with men having that kind of political faith let lot their religious faith or want of faith be what it may I 1 here is something I 1 am totally unable to understand I 1 ocote in full 1 1 this correspondent asks if this Is to con f I 1 dinue for or several years until statehood I 1 how ire are people P to be prepared tor for bateh statehood iii at last in I 1 0 know but the object behind til all this division on party line lines Is for immediate statehood stat chood lor for the diction election of the t h p V 1 next resident lent and it means mormon at fhate e 0 h hood ladd la ia which be lie could not get a civill la in BUY sly pot la in this we territory it if the aa lints ants could prevent it tint that we mean no i i matter how worthy he might be no matter I 1 how industrious or capable be he be be he I 1 I 1 would hare have to depend upon himself and the 11 gentiles to obtain any employment by which I 1 be could earn his bread borne some of us are not riot anxious tor for statehood under conditions e dit ions lie ile thinks it would bet great help 9 it they con could id bat have e books and tracts and fre re meetings why what Is there to hinr 11 I 1 gent or that now what hat la to there to hinder it except the determination of 0 this people not to buy the books or the tract tracts il I 1 B before I 1 moved to utah borne some three t years ago I 1 had road from the tribune and from quotations ions from the 1 tribune in other pipers that gentiles Gen tilea I 1 were entirely ostracized ostracised socially in in I 1 bus business ineis and in all respects respert 3 this to I 1 1 1 i in nay wife lie w was g a great objection to briw bring children hil dron and attempt corear to rear i them in a community like that was I 1 out of the question leaving my family m I 1 in kansas I 1 came to provo I 1 b began e 1 investigate I to I 1 stepped into a I 1 fayers fa lawyers office I 1 found a gent gentile ile and i a mormon constituted the legal firm I 1 I 1 I 1 found in other business concerns the 1 I same thing I 1 found as a rule that 0 the gentiles some that had bad been here hero tor for thirty years and more were I 1 belter better off financially than his mormon I 1 neighbor some too that claimed t to have suffered martyrdom had with all their sufferings at the same time the pleasurable experience of making positive gains to their am amount 1 1 t of this worlds goods rhe rho bu bulk aon of I 1 I 1 my business camo came from mormon patrons i alter after a residence of about three months I 1 concluded that someone it W was as mistaken I 1 moved mv family h here ere I 1 have been here throe three years and as faras far as all these matters are I 1 concerned I 1 am content to remain I 1 do not want to give rive of fence but I 1 mast must ask if the tribune was in oar ear nest when in speaking of the books II 11 and tracts it asked what ia there I 1 to hinder it except the determination of the people not to buy the books or the tracts my experience of 0 furnishing 4 the people political literature is not to some one around solicit il IX ing in the people to buy them I 1 waa was once secretary of a congreso 1 elonar committee and books and 1 t tracts and speeches it es la in tact fact anything that was cons considered dered nee necessary emary ral 11 tor for the information of the people i would come by the wagon load and P we were only too glad to give them away let u us once have a live kep aay publican ab aa territorial i corll C committee 1 and I th the B people will not go without books and tracts just because they dont 1 I buy thorn them I 1 bui the ho trib une further says esy e we do not rint see the changed conditions 11 well aro are we wo to understand from that 1 that the condition ot of things as the they y 1 exist in utah today to day has abw always 1 8 1 existed it that is true all the el claim N 1 of the liberal party fills to the I 1 ground in provo we have lave a cha chamber r rund r of commence Theof the ficere a and n d I 1 members are composed of both grini I 1 tiles and mormons cormons Mor mons thay both jam jia t I 1 in advertising the tho ni vantages advantages of the city they ath jain in inviting pao pan i plo PIG to come here they both donate I 1 their money for 0 the ae above purposes this advertising these invitations are I 1 t not made to mormons cormons Mor mons but to gentile I 1 sand gentiles that have responded 1 ai to these calls calla after coming corning here formed business busl busi noss relations with with mor mons mono A ball was given givan by the chamber of commerce the elite of both classes were present the wives and daughters of the gentile were led out by the mormon and tha tho wives and daughters of the mormon by the I 1 Ye Oen atile and all passed off very en 11 V I 1 I 1 k if 1 1 t 1 17 4 1 I 11 1 0 I 1 I 1 I 1 0 I 1 ak 1 a a W 1131 1 71 i pr z 11 I 1 1 11 V 1 joy ably the families of 0 both classes v isit i I 1 e each a c 1 0 other I 1 er 1 in n f fact a c 1 w e seem to 0 gis get t along ion g together phe r fi fire r t r afee 1 till I 1 11 we como come to politics and then 0 0 then I 1 now as far aa as the manifesto concerning polygamy if they bad had c CA claimed mod a revelation direct from the A almighty I 1 should have bee been one I 1 t think bl it came in the right t way the civilization that had made its way here was against it the laws of their country were against it they were ere beine being prosecuted ted convicted and funi punished 81 bed altogether her it was beco becoming g a great hardship hanJe hip on the deop people le e affecting not only the guilty bat but the innocent offspring of that relation their citizenship was threatened what V hat was the proper thing to do I 1 I 1 think just what they did do and even if it was for the purpose that the tribune suggests to hold bold their citizenship and political rights I 1 know that to retain my rights as a citizen under a government like ours I 1 would ellb subordinate ordinate everything it is is because I 1 love the e institutions of m my y country that I 1 am not willing to strain etrain them I 1 responded to my count rys call when she was in need I 1 carry the marks of my loyalty on my iny person what little I 1 did was to preserve the union the political r rights of mankind the ly ty 0 of I 1 all h her r institution tor for the welfare of man today to day I 1 look over our territory I 1 see a es thousands of young men thousands of young children shall I 1 not interest myself somewhat in their we welfare their political welfare when I 1 see so many young men without any knowledge of the questions that di v i ade the people of this country shall 1 I deprive them of the opportunity of acquiring that knowledge a kno knowledge w I 1 that every CHI citizen aen ought to have it is forcibly clear to iny mind that the present attitude and relations of what are called hero political parties cannot continue much longer without serious disaster to those I 1 have mentioned above the young it is is my belief that by some means there must be secured candid patriotic operation cooperation co in political matters of all the citizens of the entire territory the conditions as they appear to me the political conditions is nothing more than two factions arrayed aga against dinst each other each intent on securing carlu curlu g by whatever means may be necessary political control theone the one intent on an securing power by the dost destruction st of the other I 1 do not blame or rebuke the desire 0 of power but what power that is is all the question power to destroy the lions liona limb and the dragons breath not so power to heal to redeem to gui to guard power of the sceptre and shield the power of the he royal band hand that heals in in touching that binds the friend and looses the tie captive the throne that is founded d on the rock of justice and virtue and descended from only by steps oi of mercy assuming that you are honest in your convictions on these subject and that you will concede to those who feel they cannot follow the policy laid down by the tribune the same honesty 91 of purpose I 1 submit this com communication munica tion PROVO march 25 N now ow Intel intelligent igent people that sounds like the utterance of a brave truthful man and a close observer does it not what do you suppose wag was the luader answer just two and a halt half columns of general cussedness cu antediluvian a rot jaundiced discontent all of which might have been summed up in the tribunes Tribune 8 favorite expression we are still waiting fore more moro light any ona one who is not thus waiting is a jack mormon and a scrub the closing paragraph of tha the triune tribune screed is so characteristic asti a of the tribune and is ij so typical of the entire article that we reprint it atthe lestr letter r wp wo publish it feeding tbt the writer is perverted pener ted but willing be he should have bis his bay because it Is a free country we believe be bag has been cajoled into his present view views a we e believe he never did have any horror ot of polygamy or any horror of church rule and hence that be he is is in the right frame of mind to always accept anything that is is ordered albept by the first presidency of the mormon church as the most proper ang thing that could possibly be done |