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232 Cedar Av., Minneapolis, August 30th, 1915.
Hon. Wm. Spry,
Governor of the State of Utah,
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Sir:
In the humble capacity of a working stenographer,
unofficially appointed to send the enclosed petition to
you, I wish to raise my voice, with the tens of thousands
who already have spoken, against the execution of Joseph
Hillstrom.
I am an American, and trace my ancestry to the War
of Independence. Hillstrom is a Swede, but persecuted
by the same spirit, the spirit of unjust exploitation and
interference with personal liberty, that forced on the
American farmers and merchants to their revolt. I, and,
I think, anyone, who has carefully followed this trial, is
at bottom convinced that Hillstrom is not guilty of the
crime for which he was sentenced.
So far the appeals have been to your own sense of
justice. Should these appeals prove unavailing, would we
be responsible if some individual, who might know and love
Hillstrom, would attempt vengeance on some of the constitu-
ted authorities responsible for Hillstrom's death? Some
individual who believed in the Biblical motto, "A life for
a life."
Harry Howard