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Roughing It

CHAPTER XIV
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I see no fault or flaw anywhere.' "Then Mr.Young turned to a man waiting at the other end of the room and said: 'Take this list of names to So-and-so, and tell him to have these men here at such-and-such an hour.' "They were there, to the minute.

So was I.

Mr.Young asked them a number of questions, and their answers made my statement good.

Then he said to them: "'You signed these contracts and assumed these obligations of your own free will and accord ?' "'Yes.' "'Then carry them out to the letter, if it makes paupers of you! Go!' "And they did go, too! They are strung across the deserts now, working like bees.

And I never hear a word out of them.
"There is a batch of governors, and judges, and other officials here, shipped from Washington, and they maintain the semblance of a republican form of government--but the petrified truth is that Utah is an absolute monarchy and Brigham Young is king!" Mr.Street was a fine man, and I believe his story.


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