Letter from Charles E. Malmström, 8 January 1890
Add: Springville .
Utah Co U.T.
Wilford Woodruff Esq.
Dear Sir!
The situation your Church is in, and
as you are the head of that Church; your
situation is at present extremly precarious,
I have a scheme to offer you, that would make
you and your Church triumph and gain a complete
Victory, and I garrantee that Utah would be-
come a state within five years if you manipu-
late this scheme as I will tell you. I am surpris-
ed you have not hit upon it long before now,
it is not against the principles of your faith; and
and is nothing worse than what your people voted
for in the late Constitution, yet the scheme is such
that the Gentiles can not possibly discover the trick
at all, if you but have from 25 to 50 thousand of
your people you can depend upon; that would do
as you tell them, when you first get to hear it you
will be extremely glad as it will save you from de-
struction and disgrace, and would cause all of your
