Show proclamations AND THEIR 0 OB B SERVANCE dear subscribers and the public generally take notice that tomorrow to morrow ia is thanksgiving day president IT S grant has issued a proclamation to the people of the entire republic declaring it to be such and requiring its observance governor V H vaughan also has issued his bis proclamation to the people of the territory of utah appointing that day to be observed as a day of public thanksgiving prayer and praise this therefore is a proclamation that comes to all with authority first the president of the united states requiring its observance then the governor of the territory following to the same effect now the legal luminary who for some unexplained reason loft the practice of law in chicago to enlighten utah with the scintillations of his weak brain informed the people in court this morning that the governor of this territory by virtue of the authority of the united states in ther organic act contained has the right to issue orders and proclamations and when they are rightfully put forth they have the force of law and must be obeyed this is authoritative there is no evading this interpretation of the force and binding effect of a proclamation there must be public thanksgiving ngi prayer and Pral praise sell tomorrow to morrow the being who saved unto us abundant crops from the pestilence of last summer must be remembered with humble loving and grateful hearts or the proclamation will be violated this is a duty which we are proud to say the larger portion of the citizens of utah territory observe they do so daily and wait for no proclamation to enforce it upon them but how about those who instead of giving public thanksgiving prayer and praise habitually and publicly blaspheme are the spies who went to the ward on monday going to perambulate peram bulata the streets to morrow to see who violates the fiola piola proclamation if so they should keep beep close watch upon the men who actively figured ia Is prosecuting the case which has baa just been tried they will all bear watching A person cannot stroll down east temple street without having his ears assailed by language in which the being whom the proclamation bays says must be remembered with humble loving and grateful hearts ia is blasphemed Is this the style in which public thanksgiving prayer and praise are to be observed tomorrow to morrow or will there be a court held and the viol violators aters of the proclamation be bound over to appear and answer at the next term of court for their disobedience if the orders and proclamations of the governor have the force of law why should they not bo be enforced in one case as much as another I 1 let the men who have been so active in the ottinger and others for training I 1 g be made to respect this last proclamation tation liet let them be taken on their own ground and be dealt with by their own owl words let them get down on their knees tomorrow to morrow and utter public prayer and praise instead of public oaths let them breathe the spirit of humility instead of the fumes of bad whisky let them be sober and peaceable instead of drunken and quarrelsome if they do not this they confess that the appointment by proclamation of aday a day of thanksgiving is but a farce |