The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-04-07

OllOW1 Again, nceQ we ask you: VINO
have been the intreducers of drinking
saloons, gambling dens and brotheis
into our towns and cities? Or who
have been their patrons and the aiders
and promoters of every form of licen-
tiousness, which. even when we came
to these mountains, we hoped to have
left forever behind us? We call upon
you to guard and protect yourselves and
families against their corrupt and in
sidious influences. Their WAYS are the
ways of death, and their paths lead
down TO destruction. We exhort you,
therefore. to preserve your bodies and
spirits pure, to protect the virtue and
honor of your wives and daughters, to
live your religion, to deal honestly and
honorably with all men. and to main
tain inviolate those glorious principles
which have been revealed unto you.
And, Furthermore. do not permit any of
these abuses with which we have to
cope, to tempt you to retaliate in kind,
or to violate any Constitutional law of
the land, You will remember that
Joseph Smith has said that that sacred
instrument was given by inspiration or
God, and it becomes our bounden duty
to sustain it in all its provisions. And
while men may, in their blind zeal, seek
W oPPicSS US anu uiiuE uS iiSo pohu16o'
we must not be provoked to do as they
do; but to maintain the rights, immu-
mites, and seek for the happiness and
well-being, as well as to maintain the
freedom OF all men of every name, color
and creed.
In conclusion. we solemly testify to
the Latter-day Saints and to the world.
as we have done so often in the past,
that God has established His Zion, and
His work will roll forth, and that ali
those who fight against it will perish.
You have seen this fulfilled to the letter
in the past.
We pray God, the Eternal Father, to
bless you in your families, in your
fields. and flocks and herds, and in your
business and in all your righteous I'M
dertakings, and to preserve you from
the hands of all your enemies, and to
eventually save and exalt you IN His
Celestial Kingdom, in the name of
Jesus Christ, our Savior and Redeemer.
Amen.
Your Brethren,
JOHN TAYLOR,
GEORGE Q. CANNON,
First Presidency of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints.
After the reading of the foregoing
Epistle, Apostle Heber j. Grant offered
the following resolution:
" In view of the statement IN the
epistle that we have heard read, that
the proportion of the male members of
our church who are living in The prac-
tice of plural marriage is but little. if
any, more than two per cent. of the
entire membership of the church, and
the injustice done to the great majority
of this community by the action of the
Federal officials, l move that commit
tee be appointed by this Conference to
draft series of resolutions. and pro-
test to the President of the United
States, and to the nation, in which the
wrongs the people of this Territory have
suffered and are still suffering, from the
tyrannical conduct of Federal officials
shall be set forth specifically and in
detail, and asking in respectful language
for the same treatment to winch other
citizens of the United States are en-
titled, and report the same to a mass
meeting which shall be hereafter
allied"
The resolution was unanimously
adopted, ana the following named
persons were nominated by the Presi-
dent of the Conference to compose the
committee: John T. Game, William
Jennings, Feramorz Little, James
Sharp, Heber ]. Grant, John w. Taylor,
Orson F. Whitney, John Q. Cannon, j.
F. Wells, Charles o. Card, Abram
Hatch, William w. Cuff. willard G.
Smith, Lewis w. Shurtliff, Oliver G.
Show, Thomas e. Weber. Franklin s.
Richards, Samuel K. Thurman, Joel
Grover. Rees R. Llewellyn, B. H.
Roberts, Joseph Kimball.