Letter to Brigham Young Jr., 29 June 1888
Salt Lake City, Utah, .
Elder Brigham Young,
Dear Brother:
Your brief letter of the 17th has just reached
me. I am not surprised to hear from you of the fatigue and lameness which you feel
in consequence of the hard trip that you have taken. You have passed through a very
rough country, and if you have had many miles of road to make you have had a tedious
time.
There is nothing particularly new since I last
wrote to you, excepting that we are still progressing somewhat in our attempt to aef-
fect a settlement of the Church suit; but as we progress the hunger of the officers
seems to increase. A comparison was made to us by a man not of our faith that they
reminded him of wolves sitting and licking their chops, waiting for their prey. Their
eyes glare at the mention of property with the same eagerness and hunger that wild
animals have when they scent their prey. But the Council has decided that we had
better do everything we can to effect a settlement, even if it takes all the property
that they claim. We would liked you to have been with us to have given us your views
upon the subject. It wis with great reluctance that we do this—the same reluctance
with which we have yielded our property in days past, when armed mobs have stood
