Platform of Principles of the Pretended Reformers of Utah

1881. Platform of Principles of the Pretended Reformers of Utah, An Editorial in the Salt Lake Daily Tribune, March 1881, Salt Lake City, Utah

8 ⅜ x 5 ⅝ inches, 7 pp. pamphlet. Moderately worn and creased, lightly soiled and spotted. Good.

An uncommon printing of an editorial from the Salt Lake Daily Tribune (deemed here an “Anti-’Mormon’ Journal”) of March 6, 1881: “setting forth a platform of principles upon which the self-styled reformers of Utah propose to settle the ‘Mormon question,’ and lead the ‘Mormon’ people to a higher civilization; submitted for the consideration of the student of social ethics, the statesman, the philosopher, the philanthropist, the theologian, and the lover of virtue, truth, purity and progress.” The editorial expresses “What Utah Wants” while pp. 5-7 of the pamphlet include a separate work, Reflections on the Foregoing Editorial,” authored anonymously by a "Mormon" and dated March 16, 1881.

OCLC shows 11 holdings. Item #1846

Price: $150.00