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Dec 19, 1888

Journal Entry

December 19, 1888 ~ Wednesday

19 A hand pointing to the right I signed 19 Recommends. I received 10 Letters
I wrote 20 Letters Public I had an interview with Br Budge

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Letter to Brigham Young Jr., 19 December 1888

Salt Lake City, Utah, . Elder Brigham Young, Salt Lake City, Dear Brother: Our attention has been repeatedly called to the apathy and indifference of our people in regard to their political rights; while, on the other hand, our enemies were never so well organezed, so thorough and united, nor more determined in their opposition than now. The experiences that we have had in the "irrepressible conflict" between the Church and Kingdom of God and the world, from the days of Ohio, Missouri and Illinois down to the recent experiences of our disfranchised people in Idaho, proves beyond doubt that the "price of liberty", to us, "is eternal vigilance", and implicit reliance upon the protection and mercy of Almighty God. The malignant animus and the wicked purposes of our relentless foes were not more apparent in the mobbings and drivings from Missouri, or the martyrdom of our Prophets and the expulsion of the Saints from Illinois than they were in the infa- mous propositions embodied in the Edmunds and the Edmunds-Tucker laws, the appoint- ment of the Utah Commission and other Territorial and local officers to rule over us, the confiscation of our property, and many other things open to the view of all the people, which are in themselves mild and humane in comparison to measures which have been proposed to Congress for the destruction of our rights and liberty, as Latter- day Saints, and the subjugation of the Church of God, which have not as yet crystaliz- ed into penal statutes against us. Among them the proposition to compel wives to testify against their husbands, and to make the status of polygamy, as well as the act a crime punishable with excessive penalities, to disfranchise all Mormons and the utter

Letter to Brigham Young Jr., 19 December 1888

Signed W Woodruff.

Letter from Warren Marshall Johnson, 19 December 1888

Lee's Ferry Ariz President Wilford Woodruff Dear Brother I have not written to you in reference to the Ferry bus- iness, thinking that perhaps you would send me some instructions in reference to the same. Since the Ferry was bought of Emma Lee, I have not had a settlement with the owners. Erastus Snow said to me at one time, "if anything is paid on ferry bills that you need, use it." When you returned from Arizona, in 1880 I believe, you said you thought it could be run for 1/3 of the Ferry Bills. Nothing else has ever been said to me on the subject. At that rate I am running behind every year, being now in debt between 2 & 3 thousand dollars and I do not know as I have property enough to pay it. If the persecution should commence again in Arizona and I have to leave, there is no one here to take my place I have been here nearly 14 years. My

Circular to the public, 19 December 1888

TO THE PUBLIC. It having been stated that Mr. A. J. Stewart, of Utah County, has repre- sented himself, while in the East and in Mexico, as an agent of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for the purchase of lands in Mexico, and for colonizing our people thereon, I have pleasure in stating to the public through this notice that Mr. Stewart wholly disclaims having made, here or elsewhere, any such claim. Mr. Stewart's operations in such matters have nothing whatever to do with the Church; and the Saints hav- ing business in Mexico, or who con- template investing means or making homes in that country, would do well to consult with Elder Moses Thatcher at Logan, Cache County, Utah, or Elder A. F. Macdonald, at Juarez, Canton Galeana, Chihuahua, Mexico or with Bishop Wm. D. Johnson, Jr at Diaz, Canton Galeana Chihuahua, Mexico. WILFORD WOODRUFF.

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Dec 19, 1888