Letter to Robert Wallace Sloan Sr., 18 June 1888
Salt Lake City, Utah, .
R. W. Sloan, Esq.,
Chicago.
Dear Brother:
Your favor of the 13th. inst., written at Minneapolis,
has just been received and read with interest. Since our last reply to you we have
received several papers containing interviews with you.
We see nothing objectionable in your statements, when we
consider the duties that you have assumed. In any other capacity than that in which
you are acting, of course, different statements would be made. If you had not ac-
cepted the position, doubtless some other person would have done so who would perhaps
have made much broader statements than you have made, without giving information
that would mitigate the bad effect, so far as our people are concerned. If you
should be judged harshly by some who do not take into consideration all the circum-
stances, or who may not know the motive you had in accepting the position which you
occupy, it will not be the first time that motives have been misconstrued and wrong
judgements formed upon us; but we do not anticipate that there will be much of this.
We are glad to hear that Dr. Miller, our old-time friend,
still feels so kindly towards us and our rights. He has been, so far as we know, a
constant and an undeviating friend and a liberal-minded man. When you return you
