The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-07-24
A PATRIOTS VIEWS.
A Park City Writer Discusses the
Proclamation.
To the Editor of THE HERALD.

10 tuG Va M aGEALD.
In reading the proclamation of ore
Caleb w. West, Governor, it seemed to
me almost incredible, the importance a
man assumes upon an appointment to
an office in Utah. He forgets, as soon
as he arrives here and gives over his
manhood TO little clique, that he is in
a republican country. and concludes
that he is an absolute monarch. not only
over the people in Utah, but also the
rest OF mankind. The Church Of Jesus
Christ OF Lstter-5sy Saints. of whose
existence he gives the world due notice.
has been in fiourishine condition for
over half century, during which tim /,
its doctrines have been preached ana
converts gathered from almost every
nation upon the earth, books enough
have been written about IL to make a
good sized library. Every religious de-
nomination. as it has held conferences,
has spent more time IN attending TO
MOrnion business than its own. and tie
imprisonment. for conscience sake, Of
those of that faith, has been publish, d
By the press and exultant priests all
over the civilized world; and now
comes Caleb w. West. "a youth to for
tune and TO fame unknown" and,
over the great seal of the Terri
tory, prOclaims to mankind in general,
that such a church actually ex SIS
and warns every nauon, kindred,
tongue and people net to join said or
ganizatiOn. The kanakas of the Sand
wich Islands, New Zealanders, Mexi
cans, English. Scotch, Swiss, Danes
and Dutch, will, of course, come TO a
dead halt and refuse to be baptized TIL
they get his royal sanction
True or false, Caleb w. West cannot
advertise MOrmonism; but By a certain
course. through it. his name like that
of Herod, Plate, Nero, Calvin or Muir
ray may be damned to everlasting fame;
but it will be impossible for him to OBJ
tain the first rank, whatever he does;
he can never equal Eli Murray in pure
History gives no instance.
of such q malignant, bigOted and des-
po:lc administration being duplicated
by its successor; but. l suppose we
must excuse Ell. as he came here Sc
verely afflicted with anli-Mormon
venom, which has grown worse on him
ever since. and still follows him where
ever ne EDES, SO L0dL ne QtNOlcu Ol6-
half of fourth of July Grafton TO the
Mormons. as If they had m de the
fourth of July, and he came as near the
truth as he usually does, when he
stated that the people of Utah were tie
only ones VINO had defed the laws,
when really Utah is the only place
where the laws have not been defied.
The mobs in almost every city in the
Union. the killing OF nearly one hun
dred Cinnamon in different places. and
the killing and wounding of sixty
policemen in Chicago does not count at
all against eating a meal with two
women in Utah. Surely, whom the
Gods would destroy they first make
mad"
The success OF the Peoples ticket at
the coming election is quite Ger
tain. The intelligent voters of
Summit County begin to real
ize, that for the sake of ofiiSe and its
spoils, an agitation has been kept up by
a few demagogues who claim al the
honesty and all the loyalty in the Ter
ritOry, which has parslyzed all our in
iustries and brought distress upon the
.aboring classes, and l think after the
ldes Of August, the cry OF these aspi-
rants for Office and other peoples prop
erty. will be. 80, Lord. deliver Us from
our friends" PATRIOT.
PARK CITY. July 2lst, 1855.