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Show t THE HOME SENTINEL Published at Manti, San Fete County, Utah THAT PROCLAMATION AGAIN. The proclamation of Governor West, which has puzzled the minds of the people at large since the sixteenth of July, A. D. 1SS6, the date of its issuance from the gubernatorial pen, may be now said to be in a fair way for its hidden meaning to be made public. The Senate of the United States, composed of the brightest minds and legal luminaries of the age, not feeling fresh enough to engage such a herculean task, at such a late date, being in the last throes of a very fatiguing session, has as a last resort confined it to the tender mercies of the commit'ee on territories for elucidation. This committee will certainly have the prayers of the people of Utah Territory to aid them in their labors, for to them, if to no other people, this famous documents meaning, if it has one, is important. To them it requires no proclamation, attested by the great seal of the Territory of Utah to enlighten them that there is an organization in Utah denominated the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints, nor does it require the erudition of a governor to impart the information to them that said organization is also known as the MorIn the first part mon Church. of the governors initial u Where-a- s there cannot linger the important reason for the promulgation of this ponderous document nor yet can it lie buried in the d for congress, and the merest tyro in modern history knows that a system of immigration has been carried on by the Mormon people for upwards of a quarter of a century, not in hiding, but fair square and above-boarcarried on under the sanction of law, a system which has done more for the amelioration of the condition of the poor and oppressed of tne nations of the earth than all the charities supported or endowed by any or all the loud mouthed reformers of tnis fair Territory. A system that has helped to gather to this fair land the bone and sinew of the mother country and given them a start on the road to independence, which never would have been theirs only for this system. The second Whereas is an assertion not susceptible of the slightest substantiation, the nearest approach that the worst enemy of the Mormon people can come to it is the refusal of those whose unlucky lot it has been to be caught in the toils, and have the sword of Damocles suspended over them in the shape, not of a threat of punishment for what they had actually done, but of severe pains and penalties in the event of their not promising to do that in the future which no law, human or divine, required at their hands. Not that they would not cease to cohabit, for the evidence showed that this had been complied with for years, but that they would utterly ignore and cast adrift to the tender mercies of an unfeeling world those whom every instinct of humanity called upon them to remember in love. It was not enough, that the Edmunds Bill under which they had been prosecuted declared their wives, no wives, but to satisfy the cravings of the hirelings, who wished to gloat upon their sufferings, they, the husbands of those women, who in their youth gave their pure love and virgin bodies to them as the holiest of holy things, wives, were called upon to give a stab to the heart of those same trusting women, a stab thought of only in the hearts of human beings more worthy of the name of fiend than that of men. A stab never contemplated by the Edmunds Bill, or its authors'vindictive as he is. The third whereas declared that which is common news, and by none more forcibly realized than by those whose hearth fag-en- stones are rendered desolate, as much so as if a plague had swept across the threshhold of their once happy homes and left sorrow, mourning, and the biting few pangs of poverty where a heard short months ago, were songs and praise, and the joyou3 prattle of innocent babyhood, fostered and cared for by thoughtful brain and willing hands of noble husbands and fathers, now in banishment for the sake of that which, to them at least, is dearer than life. The fourth and last Whereas seems to be a wail in behalf of Uncle Sams coffers, as being the most likely to touch the heartstrings of the nation, but how sincere it is let the court How records bear witness. the of violators many suspected Edmunds Law are dragged hundreds of miles, with hosts of witnesses, guarded by legions of deputy marshals, past numerous willing U. S. Commissioners, for the purpose of swelling the costs and favoring an impecunious pet commissioner, but in the face of all this the economical Caleb, mourns the drain on the national treasury. Then oomes the warning that these things are so, in fact and in truth are in existance, attested by the authograph of a real live imported Kentuoky governor, obtained at the enormous expense to the nation of $2300 per year. Wrestle with it ye hard worked and imposed upon committee find the kernel on territories amid this sack of chaff ; save our governors reputation as a dont let this, his first ' school-boy qffort, the bantling of his milk-teetdays, be cast aside as meaningless ; find a meaning for it be it ever so minute, and the people of Utah will subscribe a fund for a pedestal so that it may be raised aloft and placed side by side with Bartholdis statue, and called West enlight ening the world. pro-claim- where there is land and water in If a man wants to abundance. must go where he soldier be a be to are fought. battles There is room enough in the halls of glory for all ; there is no necessity for one devotee to stand aside to make room for another. 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