which may seem trivial now but which was the first necessary step toward success at all.

In thus helping to strike down the Liberal party by the hand of the official
national power of the Republican party, I gave assurance to almost every Republican of
influence and prominence in the nation, and to everyone whose help I finally succeeded
in gaining, that despite of the past, when Republicanism and Mormonism were made to
stand as deadly elements of opposition, the future would be one of fair play and one in
which your people would act on the lines of the future and not of the past. There was
the natural fear, of course, after the Republican party had enacted and enforced the
severe laws against Utah, that there would be treasured up in the hearts of your people
the natural feelings of enmity and revenge common to human nature. Utilizing all the
facts Colonel Trumbo had given me, and nearly always having him with me to bear testi-
mony to what I was saying and to answer every question that might be asked, I succeeded
in convincing enough Republican leaders to control the majority of the party that the
future Mormons, all of them instinct^lled^ with patriotism and love of country, all of them
believing in protection to American interests and industries, and all of them animated
by the common purpose of all Americans to serve the republic in its government of free-
dom faithfully, would be found and indeed would be forced by their own destiny as a
people to gravitate toward the underlying principles of Republicanism and Americanism.
The question was a mighty one, and nearly every prominent man to whom I talked when I
revealed to him the fact that this was not merely a Utah question but that the Mormon
people were spread through the valleys of eight or ten western States, and that sooner
or later they would hold the balance of power in the election of every Senator and of
every electoral vote for President in these States, was apalled at the fact and afraid
to trust to the forbearance of a people who had been so severely dealt with as a people
by the Republican party. I mention these things, which were the foundations on which I
laid our efforts to change the Republican party from being a party of opposition to
your people to one of friendship and support, that you may know how deeply the founda-
tions have been laid and that you may understand the expectation and confidence with
which the Republican party has come up so bravely at last to the line of doing justice

which may seem trivial now but which was the first necessary step toward success at all.

In thus helping to strike down the Liberal party by the hand of the official national power of the Republican party, I gave assurance to almost every Republican of influence and prominence in the nation, and to everyone whose help I finally succeeded in gaining, that despite of the past, when Republicanism and Mormonism were made to stand as deadly elements of opposition, the future would be one of fair play and one in which your people would act on the lines of the future and not of the past. There was the natural fear, of course, after the Republican party had enacted and enforced the severe laws against Utah, that there would be treasured up in the hearts of your people the natural feelings of enmity and revenge common to human nature. Utilizing all the facts Colonel Trumbo had given me, and nearly always having him with me to bear testimony to what I was saying and to answer every question that might be asked, I succeeded in convincing enough Republican leaders to control the majority of the party that the future Mormons, all of them instilled with patriotism and love of country, all of them believing in protection to American interests and industries, and all of them animated by the common purpose of all Americans to serve the republic in its government of freedom faithfully, would be found and indeed would be forced by their own destiny as a people to gravitate toward the underlying principles of Republicanism and Americanism. The question was a mighty one, and nearly every prominent man to whom I talked when I revealed to him the fact that this was not merely a Utah question but that the Mormon people were spread through the valleys of eight or ten western States, and that sooner or later they would hold the balance of power in the election of every Senator and of every electoral vote for President in these States, was apalled at the fact and afraid to trust to the forbearance of a people who had been so severely dealt with as a people by the Republican party. I mention these things, which were the foundations on which I laid our efforts to change the Republican party from being a party of opposition to your people to one of friendship and support, that you may know how deeply the foundations have been laid and that you may understand the expectation and confidence with which the Republican party has come up so bravely at last to the line of doing justice