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Show i', 'I TnE GOTEKXOK IX A DILEM3A. S t The report of Governor Thomas W , to the Secretary of the Interior baa S j been piUIibsI la the "f II ! orcan. It 1 claUtl November Otb, ii and conUlnsconsiJerable matter In II ' reference to tbe J'traaS " . W do not prop-just now to,at7P Ife these Ucrl Hems but -vill mate H 3 one quotation- It 1 thU: H g , : 4.rjnjer iui system of piTernment ' ml heCtiarehhltonewyof dean-B' dean-B' Ml ' lng Its r.Uon, and Jt is li.va pnblic L III declaration eilbw from the bead of the B ' S ., Church addressed to the people, or by H ! p '- theae-tono. ibe iwplo la conference H Sfc . r mwembled. Xo aeb declaration has i M 1 len mxde, nor action taken, and K 1. '. robiUrnertrm be. There U no g 3 ' ' reason lo believe that any eirthly m Efe jwwercan extort from the Church any BL WC mob declaration. K ft; "II may be trolbfully raid that the fl Chnrch has determined that, II polyg-H polyg-H f amy Is to be uprooted, the goveru-LH goveru-LH i "I j tnent most perform that task, as it f-i wjH never do on its own art any 3 I action that will indicate an abandon- E '" I ment of polygamy." B ; j It will t tvtu tb.t Governor H . 1 Thomas vr a little toa -previous" H Isi forhlsoTnoousUtncy 3ndhIown (ambition. Tile objsct of bis efforts is clearly revealed iu his recom-mendaUon.that recom-mendaUon.that Congress shall place In tho bauds of the Govermr the power to appoint local offices now In the gift of' the people, thu making hlra dictator and giving lilm the aaaaaag j , official control of all the counties In H r the Territory. To excuse this he m h r I makes a pretext of the old cry or m ' ' ' polygamy. Au J to show that there Is H ! ; i n likelih xkI of it cessation houses jB ' l i the language we have ijuted. R t But unfortunately for the Gaver- Hj ; t nor's scheme and mlsreprBSeii- ,H J I J" tatlon, "tlis head of the Kf) fi t A Church" did mak9 a lublle Bti 1 r lm declaration" that the Governor al- HB j i '" ' . S leged no 'V-irthly lower' could H '' , iS "'extort. What wa tle Uover- B ,? Sf' - nar'a course wh-n (he verydeelar- B x ' 7 j atiou be said w ould be the proinr B i ' k v' for Uie Church to define its B I : loeitiou was nude and given to the !' I 1 publit? Did he frankly admit he , ; was mistaken in lyln; it wouldnot i' bemxIe,orac-eptitia thesplritiu BH :' which it vrai offered? Xo. Hut iu BE ! , , a mean and contemptible way, by BJ : Jj'i having publWied a preten Jed inter- B! j view, he declared that the very BBt 1 ii means which he bal alleged was BB 5 theproiwrthinjtodo wa not the BBj !t usual channel," an I cast a doubt on BBj . ' its effect, and queried whether any BBj A opinion or proclamation would be BE ,i 4 effective "so Ion,; as the Mormon: BB 1, , i believe" thus and s. BE v'4 V He alsy) added the annouutemcnl BfiBE ' ( that, '-The semiannual Conferenw EBj f i ortheCharcU will o5U be helJ: BjBJI which has the jower to plare Ihi Bflfl , '' Church on record in unambiguous BBJ languaje." TheConfirence has con BBfl vsn"d, the Church has placed itsel BBh on record, and now will the Gover HSS '' nor get himself interviewed again HflE f 1 I and tell the pre? that bath tbi BBj ; methods which he declared en BB! the '-only way whereby the Churcl Hfln i't c-ulJ ,lert!,B ll"' l,';',ltio" iiaT HBJj I lieeu follivcl aul tint his predic H9J tion tint neither of those WJJ HB , would be Ukeu a mbtake? BMBJ bit If Iie '"'J t,'"' we khM lnil BMBJ f f little higher ti-timslion of bl BESfi t honesty an-1 ciuJor than we uoi MB ' . cnterUIn.and be may thus do somi BH L f 1 thing to rrcdeem himself from th BBBB ,h - unenviable position which he no' BVjl -." i i U occup'e?, in the light cast by recet BBBf 1 t: ' cventii upon the darkness of h BKBJ if '' ?-? report an 1 his purported lulervitw |