shall be taught to know the value of his services, I am sure from what I know of the
Mormon character will be true.

The story of the struggle of your people, as a people, and the later story of
the struggle of your Territory for Statehood, are both so interesting and absorbing that
it is hard to confine any analysis of it to anything like the proper limits and space
of a letter. But I feel it is due to you, who have been remote from nearly all the
phases of these struggles in the eastern States and out of your own Territory, to be
told by someone who has known of them and who can make the recital impartial something
of the details, to be left in your records in a form that will endure as a part of the
history of your Church and people. I take it up here with the attempt to disfranchise
your people in Congress in 1889, when a bill was introduced to add this further indignity
to the cruelties and wrongs of the Poland Act. It was then that Colonel Trumbo appealed
to me for help, feeling that I as a western man, as a man who had tolerance of opinion,
and especially as a man who was then in an official position of power, could help him
in resisting this further visitation of wrong upon you. He and I craved of Mr. Blaine
the use of his far greater power in your protection, and with his help we went before
the committee of Congress having this proposition of further wrong before it, and were
able to defeat it. If you could have the words, which seemed almost to be the words of
inspiration, as they fell from the lips of Mr. Blaine, protesting against this further
wrong to you, protesting against such an outrage upon any portion of a free people,
asserting that no republic of free men could tolerate such a wrong and li^v^e, I am certain
that they would be treasured in the affections of your Church and people as being only
second in comfort and power to the words of divine speech. I have always regretted that
no report was ever made of his appeal to that committee. It came up suddenly, was very
informal, no one thought of anything but what Mr. Blaine was saying, and he spoke so
deeply from the heart and from the best thoughts that ever arise from the human soul,
that his words came almost unconsciously to him and he was never able to repeat them.
I asked him afterwards if he could not, and he said that they seemed to come to him as
if on wings at a great and critical time, and they had passed away as suddenly and com-

shall be taught to know the value of his services, I am sure from what I know of the Mormon character will be true.

The story of the struggle of your people, as a people, and the later story of the struggle of your Territory for Statehood, are both so interesting and absorbing that it is hard to confine any analysis of it to anything like the proper limits and space of a letter. But I feel it is due to you, who have been remote from nearly all the phases of these struggles in the eastern States and out of your own Territory, to be told by someone who has known of them and who can make the recital impartial something of the details, to be left in your records in a form that will endure as a part of the history of your Church and people. I take it up here with the attempt to disfranchise your people in Congress in 1889, when a bill was introduced to add this further indignity to the cruelties and wrongs of the Poland Act. It was then that Colonel Trumbo appealed to me for help, feeling that I as a western man, as a man who had tolerance of opinion, and especially as a man who was then in an official position of power, could help him in resisting this further visitation of wrong upon you. He and I craved of Mr. Blaine the use of his far greater power in your protection, and with his help we went before the committee of Congress having this proposition of further wrong before it, and were able to defeat it. If you could have the words, which seemed almost to be the words of inspiration, as they fell from the lips of Mr. Blaine, protesting against this further wrong to you, protesting against such an outrage upon any portion of a free people, asserting that no republic of free men could tolerate such a wrong and live, I am certain that they would be treasured in the affections of your Church and people as being only second in comfort and power to the words of divine speech. I have always regretted that no report was ever made of his appeal to that committee. It came up suddenly, was very informal, no one thought of anything but what Mr. Blaine was saying, and he spoke so deeply from the heart and from the best thoughts that ever arise from the human soul, that his words came almost unconsciously to him and he was never able to repeat them. I asked him afterwards if he could not, and he said that they seemed to come to him as if on wings at a great and critical time, and they had passed away as suddenly and com-