^William^ W. Gee, Jun Oct 7, 1890 Recd Oct. 10. Fayette Sanpete Co. Utah Oct. 7, 1890. President Wilford Woodruff Dear Brother, I write you in Regard to your Manifesto concernning the rReport of the Utah Commission and Poly- gamy (so called) there Has Been considerable contention among Mem bers of the Church and as A Ward Teacher I have been asked the following questions and many others, do you Believe that we have given up the Practice or do you think it ...

OFFICE OF THE NEBRASKA POPULIST. FRANK MARKS, Proprietor. Norfolk, Neb., Nov. 10 1893. Hon. Wilford Woodruff, Salt Lake City, Utah. Dear Sir: I have an opportunity to sell my paper, The Nebraska Populist, (sample copy in this mail). Will you kindly inform me at your earliest convenience what inducements, if any, will your people offer to the right parties to establish a real live daily paper in your city, providing you have the privilege of controlling its policy on all matters affecting the ...

Pamphlets continued Utah as It is Arguments made by delegations from Utah before the Senate Committee on Territories. 1st. Sess. 52nd Congress Utah and Statehood. Objections Considered By a Resident of Utah. Official Declaration. Dec. 12, 1889. Pleas for Religious Liberty and the Rights of Conscience Arguments in the Supreme Court of U.S. Apr. 28, 1886 The Great Contest. By R. W. Sloan A Review of its Decision of the Supreme Court of the U.S. in the Case of George Reynolds vz the United States. by ...

THE SALT LAKE TIMES LAST EDITIONN SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1891. VOL 5. NO. 228. HEADS OF THE CHURCH Interview with President Woodruff and President Cannon on the Present Political Situation in Utah ABSOLUTE GOOD FAITH PREVAILS. The Leaders of the Church, in Unequivocal Terms, Declare That There is No Desire to Re-Estab- lish Old Conditions. Polygamy is a Dead Issue-The Church Will Not Attempt to Exer- cise Any Control Over Its Members in Political Matters -The Present Status of Affairs. The only arguement put forward ...

2 speaking, a dependency or ward of the United States; but in a State capacity we would be freed from such dependency, and would posses the powers and independence of a Sovereign State, with autorithy to make and execute our own laws. And being such, we would, in the event of the disruption of the general goverment, be independent of all earthly powers and clothed with legal as well as divine authority to assume the possition in the earth of God has designed or may design us to fill in such an event. As Statehood seems to promise ...

Sept 5th [188]7. Elder A. K. Thurber South Scituate, Rhode Island Dear Brother, Your very interesting letter of Aug. 28th has been received and read with much interest. We are glad that you were kindly received by your aged Parents, It certainly must have been a happy meeting with you all. Your journey must have been interesting to you through the South as well as through the North. Your visit to your fathers family, we think was quite timely, as you were enabled to gather a ...

pletely, and there was left to him only the memory of his indignation at the wrong proposed and of his duty to resist to the highest limit of his power such wrong and encroachment. Of course, your people know something of the courage and loyalty of Mr. Blaine towards you in oppression; but the summit and sublimity of it all was reached when he stood in this small committee room and smote down with the giant strength of his indignant wrath this further attempt in a free government to degrade still further a people already wronged too ...

you to use your judgment in making known to others in authority with you, and the actual facts of friendship and enmity. I very much coveted and so did Colonel Trumbo the ad- mission of Utah to Statehood through a Republican Congress. Through our system of effort, through the assembling of influences reaching into every State of the Union and almost every neighborhood, reaching into the Churches, into business elements and corporations, we succeeded in getting the bill through the House and in gaining practically a unani- mous vote ...

people ever had. These are elements, as you will notice, outside of Congress. In Con- gress we had at the start the powerful help of Senator Allison, who was then the most influential Republican in the United States Senate, and Speaker Reed of the House, these two men furnishing out the most of the power we have utilized on the Republican side in Congress. When Congress was Republican these were our leaders and main helpers. This brings us down to the expiration of the Republican Congress on the 4th of March. It is ...

human power and wisdom has been in this matter for its guidance from the first. No one could have believed that in the same House where for so many years the name of Utah and the word Mormon had been used to excite bitter contests, and where the Democrats always stood to challenge the Republicans for their course towards Utah, the time had come when both parties would act together as one man to admit it as a State. There is a blessing in this for the State and its people, I am ...