Show THE REPLY of kocl Tha to A phillo snowa letter continued from froin last wick week I 1 did not mention my last contribution to the temple in the way of a boast but the fact remains that the temple 1 was as nevert nevertheless beless constructed constricted with funds contributed by the saints but wile when president joseph joseppi F smith declared that I 1 only gained admission t to 0 its dedication by the skin of in my teeth a statement your own owl letter seemed to corroborate I 1 could not recall any hesitancy on the part of any one about asking M or receiving 1 uly my donation during the period of its construction on Ar another locher paragraph in your our letter is truly remarkable and especially wherein the public is informed that silence in ill my in terest had been maintained by president cannon now absent as s you yon say from the state how far that bumpess bui transaction between two members of tile the church has had a beating bearing on oil guv my affairs as recently made public from the pulpit and press I 1 cannot say but future developments may show its relation to past p ast and present conditions dit ions its frequent iteration in garbled forin is as in this instance stil stance lice and as it has been beell told in public and private on highways and byi byways shows that it is is no secret and so far as ai I 1 am concerned there is nothing in it that I 1 would have anybody any body trouble himself to keep as a secret I 1 will endeavor to convince you president snow that you have not been well posted on this matter forthal for that however I 1 attach ro blame to you you for the story of bullion 13 beck eckiss is a long iong 0 one I 1 shall ilo not f hesitate to face willi willingly llly 0 I 1 my part in tile affair here is ail AH extract from froin your letter when president george c Q cannon after the decease deboa s e of president taylor was ill in prison lor for infraction of 0 tile thu anti poly gamy laws moses claimed that bro cannon had defrauded him and ile he threatened d in ill tile the prie presence sence of president woodruff and others of tile the twelve to sue hini him at law lav and thus bring 0 inan many y private affairs before the public le through the courts only on beiji emphatically xi warned arned by president woodruff and others that such a course particularly particular 13 in ill bro cannons condition would result disastrously to him in ill his church position did lie desist on oil pi president cin 0 release fi from fiolli olli coll confinement ailt the matter was fully investigated r and it was demonstrated that eliat instead of bro cannons owing 0 wing him lie he was in ill bro cannon canno ills s debt to ill an ali amount lount which 1 lie he subsequently paid pai for his insults and hard language towards bro cannon lit hf lias has never apologized nor made iliad any ana amends ends this ilis incident is referred to in president cannon 8 absence from froin the state he lias alwa always y s pre preserved dived silence oa 01 this alm matter and did not wish it mentioned against bro thatcher but i it t is important in showing howin moses thatchers t cirit and d bearing eat ing toward his brethren the clo closing in i sentence no doubt satisfies the public as to tile the re reason csoll tor for bringing 0 the I 1 i ia ltv in U up 1 I 1 am not sorry you mentioned it as it givel tile me au an opportunity port unity to correct the rumour which hai heill well circulated among the people lit in answer to a I 1 letter written by president ident woodruff on the ath ot dec 1888 on thib his very topic i 1 wrote dec deca 7 or two days later makin making 1 the fol following lowin c n 0 statement of 11 my v position in conclusion you will permit me to say bay that I 1 have ro no disposition and never have had to take advantage of any ally of ida brethren in the position in which bro cannon was placed for I 1 regret liis his imprisonment csont ilelle 2 I 1 believe quite as sincerely as adv any 0 of f my brethren upon eliat point I 1 hardly think that bro cannon himself entert entertains ains any doubt for the present at least there is no need to go go into further details reo regarding n ardit bullion beck matters ex except capt to correct your assertion that atin instead of bro cannon owin owing him lie was wai in bro cannons cannon debt I 1 can call think ot no explanation so brief and authentic lis as a copy of the receipt I 1 gave him in settlement of our financial daffe differences bences ren ces it I 1 reads calls know all men by these presents that I 1 do hereby chereb y acknowledge now ledge 0 tile receipt from pres geo Q cannon of in an order signed by him and dated an ang 5 1889 on oil secretary george georg e reynolds for the transfer 10 lo myself of twenty three hundred and sixty eit eight 1 lit lg 16 2368 1663 16 63 shares share of the pooled stock or of the bullion beck and champion mining n company ind and that I 1 have received all the dividends declared and paid by said company on the said 2368 16 shares as shown by the books of the company less one fourth or 25 per cat cwt cent on oil all dividends declared and in paid by said company since since sept 1 1888 the said 2 25 15 per cent having baving been paid as 18 1 I am informed to the bullion beck and california alenin alining company this receipt is intended and shall operate as in full of all demands and claims 1 by myself heirs and assigns assigns arrain against st arcs george Q cannon on account of said 2368 16 6 shares of stock when the same shall have been transferred on surrender to the secretary of the company of the proper stock certificate upon which said transfer may be made ind and it is in full for the dividends thereon as specified herein moses boges thatcher salt lake city sept 0 4 1889 these shares for which iliad I 1 biad daidre paid represented a value to me at that tim i exceeding an amount I 1 did not feel able and willin to los loie lo ie my arix bety about it WAS natural ii if not aidon able and now let me call your aten tion to an their agoni astonishing shing assertion isser tion in ill 3 our open letter of information to th tha youir byj anz inn you say in he pro ro claimed in public discourses ideas a and 2 pre fictions linns not en lore od by his brethren AtLe wislon cache court county ty intes tt ere re taken ot of liia hii utterances and published nn nil a fl falleaf leaf HM 11 vaas n as subs vi written ritten toby taylor and liis answer is on lile while lie he claimed that lie ha i not been acau re potted lie gave his own language under his own hand to the effect of predict predictions ione 0 ev tits t i i ivr five years which i fulfillment fulfilment and which art an founded i on erro erroneous in in of scripture lie he winte I 1 far P publication 1 ti 1 a oil of which rea really 11 lic t took 0 nothing no back lint but merely ChAil chaillee led partial errors in tile r report port of ilia remarks not one word nord I 1 liv by tile tin on oil the occasion referred to ok a prophecy ev as coming from nip me nr lid I 1 predict anything li ateer mv belief nann numerous t foldier but pre nothing I 1 q lif lifted glinted ted somewhat extensively irim the abe bo u ks of relt r elt on tie I 1 iv by uras ui as ortho dov and also fr fir in the lii tory of the alie Pro rhet jo aph smith I 1 IN was as not net an ani i could not be tiel liell I responsible for or loigi liand reports of what I 1 said nor lor type ritten or printed alpa said to have been multiplied and circulated among artong the tople p ople besides it is veil mell understood t by y I 1 lie le saints ahat ahe sermons even alren of apo ales are nt reg r led as doctrine I 1 have con bantly ord cr d to abc avoid ad teaching ing anything berrone oua u or out nut rf f with the cevela tins of the aird while in mexico in Iwas ritten to by presidents Preci dentS tailor and gunnon re garding this matler atter ni binl wl in I 1 stated in s instance ib stance what I 1 had qaid in lewis tn hn 0 coorsh exact ois I 1 had hied bit bat 1 clobes my letter as follo olliah ol loaH 8 if in amir view there ss in in 11 leifso be ie remarks 1 barks errin erroneous eotis contrary to rf re cor led revelation an aal antory or contrary to 0 the spirit of revelation and d in dritt iiii in you or if their utterance by ino v n or do it me tile tho kindne a ii at your vaili st t buvell bonce to point the aine e out mit killi the inmans best calculated c in ill your judgment to orect orr ct the same I ill alir en closed mice v oilier it you think beba cabi an he be bet to lo llie bews yews lor for publication be ba i to t step the ali e R ll ion awl anil arnon the saints Sai of erroneous reports of ma my rem irks as 11 toilie to ioie mentioned nien lionil |