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that account, and for that reason I The young people have a choir,
write you.
and they rendered several songs
in the bearing of the breth-
ren, at the close of meeting.
We were pleased during the after-
noon with a roam over the hills,
through the woods, and along the
river, viewing the sluices and
waterfalls and canal. We were de-

On October 4th I left Copenhagen Helsingborg to Goteborg, in Swe den, where we held meeting on the same evening. All the traveling Elders of the Conference, eight in number, two visiting Elders and

Make him a couch in the sunset's light,
Give him sweet rest for a new beginning.
'Tis long since, for Adam and Eve in Eden
Sweet angel faces with Houri's eyes
Beamed soft from the wond'rous clouds all President A. P Renstrom and my-lighted with the rich and romantie

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self were present. Through the la-
bors of the brethren, who were gladly
assisted by the resident Saints, the
hall was beautifully and tastefully
decorated with flowers, pictures and
evergreens, making it attractive and
comfortable. The reports, which
were given on Saturday evening by
the missionaries, were of an en-
couraging nature. Three meetings
were held on Sunday, the 5th, at
which there was a large attendance.
An excellent feeling prevailed in
all the meetings, so that a free flow
of the Holy Spirit was experienced
by those who spoke, and it was
poured out abundantly upon the con-
gregation. The many strangers who
came were attentive listeners to the
testimony of the speakers. The
Elders are united and energetic,
faithfully endeavoring to perform
the work assigned them in their
various fields. On Monday we held
a Priesthood meeting at which in
structions to the Elders and local
Priesthood were given.

scenery along the canal to Trellhattan, no less than with the worldfamous surroundings of that place, where nature seems to have culminated in a special outburst of thrilling beauty.

On Thursday we were on the road to Christiania, Norway, where we arrived the same day at 9 p. m. after a ride through the delightful valleys of Sweden, surrounding Lake Venern, and through the glens and around and over many a pine-deck ed hill and wild and desolate fjord and rushing torrents of Norway. We were greeted by President O. H. Berg, and spent a pleasant season with him and the Saints until Saturday evening, the 11th, when the first meeting was held. On Sunday the 12th we held three services at which the principles of the Gospel were explained to crowded houses. The commodious hall will seat about 400, and it was full of people each time. About half that number were friends and strangers who listened attentively to the discourses and testimonies. Norwegian evergreens interwoven with flowers tastefully displayed formed the decorations of the room. On Monday we held a Priesthood meeting at which instructions were given to the missionaries and laboring Priesthood. On the same evening the Early on Wednesday morning, Sunday school children had a wellthe 8th, in company with President attended and pleasant sociable. The Renstrom and three other Elders, members of the choir who had so we took one of the Gota River well assisted in the Saturday steamers to Trollhattan. In the and Sunday services were again evening we held a meeting at that place to a crowded house of people, most of whom were strangers. The greater number remained during the services, listening respectfully to the testimonies of the speakers. Some, however, seemed to be present merely as a matter of idle curisity. But they heard the word, and the responsibility rests with them. The prospects for the spread of the Gospel in this neighborhood are somewhat better than formerly.

On Tuesday we all visited the grave of the late President John Quist, who died while in this land. A polished granite monument marks By courtesy of Apostle Franklin the resting-place of our faithful D. Richards, we are enabled to pub-brother, in a new graveyard, lish the following letter addressed to him:

President F. D. Richards, Salt Lake
City:

Dear Brother--I left Ogden on September 3rd last, and arrived here after a pleasant journey, on Sunday afternoon, September 28th. On Monday morning, President Fjeldsted turned over to me the affairs of this office, and on the same evening left for his home in Ziou. The conferences in thi- mission had been appointed by him, and after a stay of five days, in which I familiarized myself with the affairs of the office, I set out to attend the various conferences. I have already sent President Brigham Young an ac count of my trip, and thought perhaps you might also be interested in

reached after a long walk through
the woods and glens of the romantic
Slottsskogen.

on hand with songs and music, and also recitations. Refreshments were served, the children receiving free cakes, cocoa and milk. On Wednesday evening the sisters of the Women's Society held a fair, at which they realized quite a sum of money for the benefit of the poor. Here also refreshments were served, music and songs were given by members of the choir, and by the missionaries who, by the bye, are good musicians.

We all enjoyed

ourselves much during conference enced in the conferences before
week, and a good feeling was mani- named. There are four Elders from
fested both by Saints and strangers. home and two natives in this con-
The prospects for the work of God ference.
are promising in nearly all parts of
this field. The brethren at present
labor under the disadvantage of
being alone in their different fields.
There is only one conference in
Norway and that has ten branches,
and only eleven Elders. They are,
therefore, required to work alone in
order to cover as much country
with the few laborers at hand.

Wherever I went the people spoke with the highest praise and kindest feelings of the kindness and fatherly care displayed towards them by Early on the morning of the 29th Apostle A. H. Lund, Elders N. C. we left for Aarhus, Cestral Jylland, Flygare, and C. D. Fjeldsted, whom where we spent the time with Presi- the people love as children do their dent N. Fredricksen and the Saints parents. They all wished to be reuntil Saturday evening, Nov. 1st,membered to these brethren. when the first meeting was held. I pray God to bless you and the We hell three meetings on Sunday, servants of God everywhere, that at which the Saints were encouraged we may continue to grow in the in their dutier, and at which many knowledge of truth and all good strangers were made acquainted works. I am sure if you could find with the first principles of the Gos- time to write an epistle of encourpel. A choir has been organized agement for our Star, the Elders and an organ rented; so that good and Saints in this mission would be music is given during the service, greatly delighted to hear from you. under the direction of President With kind regards to all, I reFredricksen. On Monday morning, main, Nov. 3rd, we held a Priesthood meeting, and on the afternoon of the same day took leave of the brethren and arrived at Copehagen that evening at 10 o'clock, having spent a pleasant month in the mission.

Your brother in the Gospel, EDW. H. ANDERSON. COPENHAGEN, Denmark, November 7th, 1890.

SITTING BULL'S BELIEF.

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Standing Rock Agency, Dec. 17. 'God Almighty made me. God Almighty did not make me an agency Indian, and I'll fight and i'll die fighting before any white make me an agency Indian." This was the declaration made by Sitting Bull to General Miles, and the des tailed reports of the great mediciLe nan's death which began arriving at the agency yesterday gave to the declaration the full force of a prophecy. All the eye witnesses agree as to the facts that, every circumstance considered, make the final tragedy involving the extermination of probably the brainiest Indian that ever lived, one of the most picturesque and characteristic incidents of American history. That the government authorities, civil as well as military, from President Harrison and General Miles down, preferred the death of the famous-old savage to his capture whole skinned, few persons here, Indian or white, have a doubt. It was felt that Sitting Bull's presence any where even behind an iron door

Taking leave of the good people of Christiania on Thursday afternoon, I went on the train via Charlottenberg, passing over the most picturesque Fortion of Central Sweden, to Stockholm, where I was met by President A. P. Anderson and other Elders on Friday evening at 10 o'clock, Oct. 17th. Here the Saints hire a commodious hall in Hornsgaten, No. 80. Beautiful decorations graced the building, and at our first meeting on Saturday evening the hall was full of people. Taken altogether, the cause of Interesting reports of the work God is prospering in this mission, of God in this part of and affairs are in a satisfactory conSweden were given by the dition. I did not have the privilege missionaries, from which it appeared of visiting the Malmo and Copenthat this is the largest conference hagen conferences as they were in the mission, and possibly in the held before my arrival, but matters world, and that the prospects for the are in good condition there also, spread of truth in this region are although little progress is made in very flattering. There are over southern Sweden. During the past 1,400 members now in the church, six months 312 baptisms have taken and during the past six months 99 place, and while I was in the varihave been added by baptism, and ous conferences I attended two many are investigating the princi- baptisms. We administered to ples of the Gospel, especially in many sick, and blessed some chilDalarne and other northern parts.dren, the power of God being maniThere are seventeen Elders in the fested in our administrations. conference, only eight of whom are from Zion; the others being natives. A religious wave seems to have gone over Sweden, and many are breaking away from the darkness of the Lutheran forms of thought to the light of modern truth, the truth as taught by the Savior, and as practically illustrated in the teachings of the Latter-day Saints. On Sunday three meetings were held. At the evening service the hall would not hold all who desired admittance. Powerful testimonies In Norway and some parts of were borne, and the principles of Sweden the newspapers gave us The expedition which started the Gospel were explained in sim- very fair notices, and there is a from this agency for Sitting Bull's plicity. A special meeting of the disposition to let us have a fair lonely camp, forty miles distant, Saints was held on Monday even- hearing. I never met a more to take him, dead or alive, with ing at which were heard the reports polite and kinder people than I the chances ten to one of his of the local Priesthood, which show-have come in contact with in these death, was no haphazard foray of countries. There are more intelli- semi-savage Indian police and gent, well clad, and noble people ill-advised army subordinates. There here than I had given the countries is every reason to believe the credit for. Of course the poorer classes are in a state of servitude, and there is much vice; and the darkness of Babylon is no brighter (but probably darker in some respects) than in our own land; but with all that, there are yet thousands of honest Israel in these lands that I think will welcome and embrace the Gospel of Christ.

ed that the Saints were energetic in the performance of their labors and the duties that devolve upon them. Having spent a day or two with the Saints in this Queen City of the North, I took leave of the brethren on Thursday morning, passing down the eastern part of the country and thence to Copenhagen, where I arrived on Friday, the 24th.

As a rule the Saints are energetic in their duties, cheerfully living up to the requirements made of them, practicing also the principles of the Gospel which have been taught to them, realizing that practice and excellent works, more than words, are characteristics of the religion of Jesus Christ, and, therefore, of those who believe in it. The Elders are well in health and spirits, full of the Gospel of life, energetic and united in the cause of God.

was a menace.

whole affair was a carefully planned military maneuver, originating with no less a person than General Miles himself, sanctioned in the War Department at Washington and authorized before President Harrison's cabinet. It is conceded On Saturday the 25th, in company that the operation against Sitting with Elder C. E. Thorstensen, of Bull's personality was suggested by this office, we continued the journey the effectual quelling produced by to Aalborg, Northern Denmark, I have been pleased to make the the removal of Medicine Arrow, where we were met on the same acquaintance of the Elders and the the great Cheyenne leader, when evening by President C. M. Jensen. Saints, and enjoyed my travels very the Cheyennes threatened an unA meeting was held that evening. much. The Saints treated us well, precedented uprising. The promise and on Sunday three other meetings and the missionaries were often in- to "die fighting" quoted above and were held, all fairly well attended. vited to dinners which they, not made by Sitting Buil personally to The brethren here are laboring without just cause, consider practi-General Miles on the occasion of under the disadvantage of restriccal testimonies of good feeling and their first meeting, had much to do tions which are general in Den- faith. In a number of instances also in shaping the determination mark, but which are not experi-strangers also treated them to meals for a sudden decisive assault as

and beds.

well as the old chief's oft-expressed wish to be remembered as the last Indian on the continent to give up his rifle.

battle when they fell into the hands of the troops was pitiful.

JOSEPH COOK.

were pushed now for all they were worth and before Sitting Bull's dazed adherents had half a chance The soldiers and Indian police to realize the situation a dozen of commented with awe on the pecul When General Miles left Chicago the police had pulled their panting iar circumstance that the mystic heading in this direction it was the animals up short on all sides of the number thirteen marked the numbeginning of the end. Simultaneous chief's abode No time was wasted ber of deaths accompanying the with the General stepping quietly in ceremony. The proud old med- demise of the noted medicine man. aboard the train at the big railroad icine man was hustled out, hoisted None disputed that, no matter wha depot in Chicago, the expedition on a waiting pony and in a trice controversy there had been as to his which had been with equal quietude faced toward civilization. He raged status during his long stormy under preparation at Fort Yates, and sputtered in a fary of rage for a career, he had died like a big chief, which forms part of the agency, was moment, then straightened up, a man among men who had the also ready to move. Almost at the shouted hoarsely, not for help, but misfortune to be on the losing side same moment that General Miles' a command to his followers. Despite in probably the last great struggle car glided out for the northwest, the the threatening of the police Win-between the two races. members af his little command here, chesters alternately directed at his like so many automatons guided by head and those of his kinsman, the his will, silently took their depar-old medicine man retained his ture and were quickly lost in the presence of mind and with powerful inky blackness that enveloped the voice continued to direct his own REV. JOSEPH COOK, of Boston, wilderness stretching to the camp of rescue. Suddenly there was a puff recently paid this city a visit. He Sitting Bull on the banks the of smoke beside a tepee and the delivered an alleged lecture in the Grand River. sharp crack of a Winchester. The Presbyterian Church, and after a The van was led by men of Sitting policeman at Sitting Bull's right. Bull's own blood, superbly grasping the chief's bridle, reeled in short stay departed. Besides getmounted and accoutred, and every- the saddle, and toppling over was ting off a few stale anti-Mormon” one wearing the bright brazen but- trampled under the hoofs of the nothingisms in his supposed lecture, tons and showy blue cloth uniforms ponies. Now all were ia the this reverend egotist prepared himof Uncle Sam's service. This was mad helter skelter retreat from no mere concidence. It was to be the village. The shot was instantly self to tell all about "Mormonism" part of the great object-lesson to the answered by a volley from the police and the "Mormons" to the people ghost dancers, and a demonstration at their blanketed tribesmen, many of the east. A local cotemporary of the value of General Miles' new of whom were already mounted and says that while here he had a special method of solving the Indian prob- in frenzied pursuit. The police lem by turning the Indians by volley told with deadly effect and meeting with "twenty-five diswholesale into soldiers. One thing the firing in a moment was general tinguished citizens and left well is certain, the band of well-fed, on both sides. Sitting Bull could posted." This means that he met warmly clad, copper-faced athletes be heard in the confusion, still at with twenty five rabid 'anti-"Morthat led the way for the white sol-tempting, though captive, to direct diery bent on a mission of utility the fight. Raising his gaunt form, mons" belonging to both wings of were a striking contrast to the he was beckoning his sons and war- the crusade-religious and political starving, ragged, crazy wretches riors on when, without warning, his-and left well stuffed with antithat with such a cunning body straightened rigidly, then "Mormon" misrepresentation and leader as Sitting Bull formed such a dropped limp on the hard prairie. menace in the Grand River camp. The police halted round the corpse, Close behind the blue-coated Indian not knowing for the moment but it horsemen's hardy ponies, but taking was a trick of the wily old chief. a slower pace on the frozen trail, This sudden movement and the fall came Captain Fouchet's cavalry of Sitting Bull disconcerted the purcommand. The cavalry were en suers, who, remaining at a distance, cumbered with two pieces of modern suddenly fired at intervals toward light artillery machine guns.similar the police. The latter held their to those which so speedily settled ground, knowing the cavalry under the fate of Louis Riel's half-breed Captain Fouchet would soon be at followers when his noted lieutenant hand. To the surprise of all, how Gabriel Dumont made a stand ever, the hostiles who had been conagainst General Middleton in the suiting among themselves began a British north west outbreak. To the movement to close in from all sides. rear of Fouchet's cavalry, and at The rattle of Winchesters was now times taking a double-quick to keep redoubled from both parties, the warm, for the night was bitterly police using their own ponies as a cold, the infantry command of Col. protection. It was at this critical Drum swung along in the darkness. juncture that Captain Fouchet's A weary, difficult march it was, too, men dashed up, and the machine the depressing monotony broken guns, which had been put in posi at intervals by an infantryman's tion, opened upon the redskins. The proportions. His mental contractcurses as he stumbled over an obsta- latter were too dismayed at this un-edness is disgusting when it is cle in the road or awkwardly tripped expected onslaught to stand even against a nearly benumbed com- for a moment, and all bolted for the placed in juxtaposition with his rade. The distance and the capa-river. The cavalry followed only profession. bilities of the troops to withstand a short distance, deeming it better the fatigues of such a journey had policy not to drive to desperation!the Kansas City, Dec. 19.—A. J. been figured out to a nicety, and Morris, the well-known packer, rewhen the first faint light of dawn In the village, excitement reigned turned today from an extended visit appeared, the expedition was with- supreme during the fight, the to Mexico. He says President Diaz in easy distance of its destination. squaws running hither and thither, has issued a call for a convention of The broken order of a tripple sep- wildly, preparing ammunition. the governors of Mexican States to aration of forces had been carefulld From the moment the police first cousider the advisability of the preserved, and the Indian police struck the camp, the women had abolition of interstate tariffs. were the first to sight the huddled takeu an active hand. Anunearth-convention will doubtless recomcluster of ugly looking tepees only screech from one of Sitting Bull's mend the abolition. Morris regards the river bank. Despite the early wives was the signal that brought this convention as one of the most hour, all were astir in the village, the braves thronging around the old important events in the history of where on every hand was evidence chief's tepee when he was seized by the republic. He also says Mexico that a hurried exodus was contem- the officers. The stolid despair of is very anxious for reciprocity with plated. The ponies of the police the women and children after the the United States.

now leaderless mob.

falsehood.

Doubtless he got all the information he wanted, as Joseph Cook is noted for taking that kind of mental pabulum only that feeds his prejudices.

Hence he gets his suplies of statements about an unpopular

people from their bitter and unscrupulous enemies. He takes nothing from the people themselves nor from those not connected with them who wish to do them justice. He has no the truth when it is favorable to those against whom his prejudice is enlisted. Joseph carries around a very small mind in a body of liberal

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"The worthy rabbi altogeter misinterprets the spirit of the editorial in question. No 'insult was flung at observant Jews' or people of any other race or creed. What was intended was to show that the strict letter of the dogmas professed by many religious sects is not in perfect harmony with the laws of this country. Even the rabbi admits the truth of this while questioning the information of the writer, for is not polygamy "tacitly allowed by Mises," a penitentiary of fense in Texas? Does the worthy rabbi find nothing in the thirteenth chapter of Deuteronomy that, if strictly adhered to, would bring the devotee not only to the prison but to the gallows? No one can have a more profound respect for the teachings of the inspired inen of Judea, than the Post. It does not say that wherein the American law departs from the Mosaic it is for the better, but that there is a departure is self evident to the most superficial observer. The Post deals in facts, not in quibbles or conjectures."

THE PETITIONERS FOR DISFRAN-
CHISEMENT.

A SHORT time since we published
a brief clipping from the Ogden
Union (Gentile), which stated that
those who petitioned for the passage
of the Strubble and Cullom bills for
the disfranchisement of all members
of the "Mormon" Church, were
mostly office-holders and office-seek-
ers. We commended the assertion as
practically correct. This has awak-
ened the morning anti-"Mormon
another of its ludicrous blunders.
organ of this city into committing
It is becoming notorious for laying
down propositions and proving their
opposite. In its issue of yesterday
morning it said:

THE Houston, Texas, Post recently published a pertinent article in reference to the "Mormons," claiming for them, in common with all other religious bodies, the right of freedom of belief, even though the practice of that belief might be unlawful. And incidentally it asked what would be the consequence of obeying the Mosaic law. We pub"The NEWS says the Ogden Union lished the article, as it was simply a tells the truth, that only the officeword in favor of religious liberty in-seekers of this Territory petitioned to side of the law. have the Strubble and Cullom bills passed. The reader can obtain a clear But the rabbi of Houston took ex-idea of the character of the men who ception to the remarks of the Post signed the petition by the following and addressed a letter to that paper, names, taken from the roll in this city and Ogden." which we here append with the very proper response of the editor to the rabbi. It needs no further

comment.

"To the Editor of the Post:

"Houston, Texas, December 3.--In today's editorial notice on the Mormons you ask: How long can a man comply strictly with the Mosaic law and keep out of the penitentiary?' The answer is easy enough, 'A lifetime,' and if a man would have as many lives | as a cat is reputed to possess, I could answer with 'Nine lifetimes.' To hint at the above question shows a gross lack of familiarity, both with the Mosaic law and with prison statistics. The fact is, that all who are in penitentiaries were put there for breaking Mosaic law, except it be for polygamy, which is tacitly allowed by Moses, but is aways mentioned in the Bible as exception to the general rule. Hoping you will put this answer in as prominent a place of your paper as that held by the insult flung to all observant Jews. W. WILLNER, Rabbi of Houston."

Then follows the petition, which it is unnecessary to reproduce here. Appended to it is the list of names referred to in the foregoing quotation. We here present them:

Utah, ex-Deputy United States Marshal and Warden of Penitentiary. Bolivar Roberts, Territorial Treasurer, Utah.

G. W. Bartch, Probate Judge, Salt Lake County, Utah, appointed by the President of the United States.

O. W. Powers, Chairman Liberal Territorial Committee and ex-Associate Justice, not confirmed on account of bad "record" in Michigan.

William M. Ferry, Member National Democratic Committee.

George M. Scott & Co., merchants. Mr. Scott is "Liberal" Mayor of Salt Lake City.

C. C. Goodwin, editor Salt Lake Tribune and defeated candidate for delegate to Congress from Utah.

Alfred Sorenson, editor Salt Lake Times.

Frank H. Dyer, ex-United States Marshal.

Joseph R. Walker, several times candidate for Mayor,Salt Lake City. A. H. Nash, Territorial Librarian.

P. Edward Connor, commanding military district of Utah, 62-66, and aspirant to the office of U. S. Marshal for Utah.

Jacob B. Blair, Republican in Congress, W. Va., Thirty-eighth Con

gress.

Richard Mackintosh, miner and merchant.

M. B. Sowles, late office-holder in Salt Lake City.

Henry Page, department commandCommission and defeated "Liberal" er G. A. R., Secretary of the Utah candidate for Recorder of Salt Lake County.

Thomas C. Bailey, Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue.

J. B. Rosborough, member National Democratic Committee for twelve years.

John E. Dooley, late "Liberal" City Councilman.

W. H. Dickson, late United States Attorney for Utah.

T. R. Jones, banker.

I. A. Benton, postmaster Salt Lake City.

James H. Bacon, banker.

F. P. Addleman.

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Arthur L. Thomas, Governor of lately Probate Judge by Federal apUtah.

Elijah Sells, Secretary of Utah.
C. S. Zane, Chief Justice of Utah.
T. J. Anderson, Associate Justice,
Utah

Charles S. Varian, United States Dis-
trict Attorney, Utah.

E. H. Parsons, United States Marshal, Utah.

¡G. L. Godfrey, Chairman Utah Com mission.

R. S. Robertson, Member Utah Commission.

Jacob S. Boreman, Commissioner

Public Schools, Utah, and formerly
sociate Justice.

Hoyt Sherman, Jr., Receiver Land
Office, Utah.

Frank D. Hobbs, Registrar Land
Office, Utah.

pointment.

Thomas Marshall attorney, Liberal Member of the Legislature.

Nicholas Trewick, mining superintendent.

Parley L. Williams, Late Commissioner of Schools by U. S. appointment.

John J. Daly, delegate to the last National Republican convention.

O. J. Hollister of Salt Lake Tribune, chronic U. S. office holder for over twenty years. Got the complaint bad. date for Delegate, 1881. Allen G. Campbell, Liberal candi

William Nelson, ex-United States Marshal.

J. Brainerd Thrall, Pastor First Congregational Church, Salt Lake

Arthur Pratt, Territorial Auditor, | City.

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C. E. Allen, Member Legislative Assembly, and now Clerk of Salt Lake County, which office he obtained through the throwing out of legal votes of his opponent.

A. L. Williams, Member Legislative Assembly.

Frank Pierce, Member Legislative Assembly.

H. S. McCalium, Chairman Liberal Committee, Salt Lake County, and exRegistrar whose conduct in that office was of such a character that Chief Justice Zane directed the grand jury to investigate it.

Robert N. Baskin, Attorney, late Assistant United States Attorney and "Liberal" Lobbyist.

P. H. Lannan, Salt Lake Tribune.
Allen Fowler, M. D.

E. R. Clute, Assessor, Salt Lake City, and late "Liberal" Registrar under U. S. Commission.

tice, Utah.

R. J. Anthony, Elder-in-charge
Josephite Mission.
Hugh M. Dougall, Registrar Utah
County.

as it is now," and in support of the
assertion says: "General Murray,
the former Governor of Utah, is
spending the winter in Washing-

ton."

certified to a lie when he tried but failed to seat his friend Campbell in Congress, and in doing so violated his oath of office as well as the moral law. He did the same when he

It is quite likely that the corres- deceived the President of the Unitpondent put the word "anti" before ed States into sending troops to Utah "Mormon" and it is omitted in print. to put dewn an "uprising" in this If so, his statement is intelligible city that never took place, was not and consistent. There is no "Mor- contemplated and had no substance mon lobby" at the capital, the anti- or shadow of existence. The word "Mormon" lobby is double-headed. of such a person or anything relatTwo ex-Governors are "running the ing to the "Mormons" is utterly and machine"-Murray and West. One notoriously unreliable. is a radical Republican, the other an alleged Democrat. Both hail from the South, both were in the war but on opposite sides. Murray was a gallant Union soldier, West was a guerilla and a rebel, and now finds it to his interest to affect gushing veneration for the flag he fired at and did his worst to destroy. They now shake hands, not only over "the bloody chasm," but over the latest scheme to destroy both republicanism and democracy in Utah in order to crush the "Mor-ican citizenship and is everywhere mons."

way.

Church.

The other head, or the "Democratic" half of the head, of the anti"Mormon" lobby, is of a coarser stripe and commoner grain than the Republican half, and not a whit more entitled to credence. He has spent much time at Washington in misrepresenting and falsifying the "Mormon" people. While the Governor of Utah he labored hard to obtain the power to appoint those local officers, the right to elect whom is an essential part of Amer

vested in the people. He did this in The dispatch states: violation of his duty which re"Governor Murray says that poly-quired him to be at his post, and gamy flourishes today as it did in received executive information to the past. The law is evaded in every that effect. Since his retirement John W. Blackburn, Associate Jus-that polygamy is the smallest objecGovernor Murray says, however, he has spent time for which he was tionable feature of the Mormon paid to work for material interests, He says that the over-in striving to bring political deshadowing feature of the Mormon struction on the majority of Utah's Church in every walk of life to the Utah ring, and to work the Demothe doctrine of the supremacy of the citizens. He is a fitting tool for the Government. It is a compact organi- cratic side while Murray moves the zation, which is in constant rebellion in disturbing any religious organizato the authorities. He does not believe Republican side of Congress. The correspondent wires what he tion in worshiping according to its honest belief, but when such belief calls Murray's "remedy" for the becomes the basis of a gigantic politic-evil alleged above. He says al conspiracy, he would so adjust it is very simple." So it is. Associate Justice. As the administration of its affairs as to

Walter Murphy, Attorney, County
Attorney.
Joseph M. Cohen, Chairman "Liber-
al" Committee, Summit County.
E. P. Johnson. Probate Judge, Box
Elder County, U. S. appointee.
Henry Shields,
Probate Judge,
Summit County, U. S. appointee.
H. P. HENDERSON,

Church is the fact that it inculcates

make such political rebellion impot

ent."

To this"simple" but antiquated and exploded notion we can only repeat the objections formerly made when it was discussed:

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It will be observed that the naines simple as it is time-worn and stale. presented by our blundering cotemIt is, in one phrase, "A Legislative porary belong almost exclusively to Murray has not been in Utah for Commission." The correspondent the office-holding and office-hunting some time. He was played out discusses this as though it were a class, most, if not all, of the excep- completely. The bar-room became new proposition as to Utah, though. tions to this rule being those of sec- his most frequent resort, and free he says it was tried in Louisiana tarian parsons, who are interested drinks his common consolation. and Michigan and in principle prein the disfranchisement of "Mor- They dwindled into infrequency vails in the district of Columbia. mons" for religious reasons. Thus and he sought more congenial the means taken by the chief climes. He now turns up in Wash"Liberal" organ to refute the state-ington, and will, no doubt flourish ment of the Union endorsed by the there for a while, as he has many NEws places its correctness beyond pleasing qualities and the reputaall question. By the way, why not tion of a dashing soldier. What he publish some more of those names? knows of present "Mormon" afThe people are doubtless interested fairs is simply that which comes to in knowing who their friends are. him by hearsay. He only repeats what others tell him. As to his statement about the Church being in "constant rebellion" and inculIn a special to the Chicago Trib-cating "supremacy to the governune, repeated to its local namesake, ment in every walk of life," he T. C. Crawford, the Washington simply romances. correspondent, states that, "The Murray's chief acts of distinction Mormon lobby was never so strong were brazen official falsehoods. He

LIBERAL "LOBBY."

No Territory or State in this Union was ever relegated to the condition proposed in the Legislative Commission scheme. The form of government provided for a small and scattered community before being fitted by numbers and importance to receive a territorial organization, is entirely unsuited to a commonwealth.that has had that organization for forty years and is larger and wealthier and more compact than several sovereign States.

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