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Show DAILY UTAH MARCH 21, 1901 MONDAY, STATE JOURKAL, WILL PARTISANSHIP CONTROL ? UTAH STATE JOURNAL OGDEN, UTAH. frank j. cannon, editor. IS GRATITUDE IGNOBLE? Of the many letters received from Utah made by men, commenting1 upon the compact the people of this state with the government in order to secure the enabling act and the admission of Utah into her sovereignty ; only one communication criticizes this papers contention that the people should be as grateful now as they were anxious then to secure the . "blessings of freedom. One friend writes Liberty was our inherent right. Sovereignthe nation, but ty did not come as a gift from inbelonged to us. It seems ignoble now to sist that Utah should make concessions to the demands of other communities of the nation and that anyone in Utah should admit that she is not entitled to run her own affairs in her own way. That correspondent raises a definite issue. It had been decided by the supreme authority of the United that congress had absolute control over the territories. This was the condition when Utah applied for her statehood in 1894. For her nearly fifty years of life Utah had been without a vote in national affairs. Her people had suffeid in their feelings and in her material growth to an extent unnecessary now to relate but which all the generation of that time remember with poignant anguish. The territory had been in open controversy with the nation. During one period, ranging from 1885 to 1890, thousands of leading citizens of the territory had been sent to prison or driven into exile. Then when the fight wras closed and the leaders of the Mormon people enunciated the revelation called the manifesto on plural marriage and polygamous cohabitation, and when they made satisfactory promises that they wquld not attempt to intefere with the political freedom of their followers ; the nation looked with favor upon the people of Utah ; amnesty was granted to all for past offenses ; a most liberal statehood bill was passed ; the church property was restored ; vast grants of public lands w'ere made to aid the institutions of the new state ; and no commonwealth ever entered into the union with more popular friendship than was extended to Utah. Were these things no cause for gratitude to the nation ? Let the correspondent carry his mind back to 1887 and 1888, when the heavens seemed as brass over the heads of the people of Utah, and ask himself if he would be willing to return to that time and that con dition. If w'e were back in that awful woe what promises wrould we not make to obtain rescue ? Did we not make promises ? Did w'e not gain relief from the unbearable sufferings of that time ? The nation has performed its full duty and kept its statehood covenant with us. Is it ignoble to ask that we should keep our solemn covenant and perform our sacred duty to the nation which has lifted us from lowliness into a high place ? f EVEN CLEVELANDISM IS PREFERABLE. In another column appears an article from That pahe Times of Washington, D. C. to the per has been particularly friendly cause of Senator Smoot ; and its present rank acknowledgment that political reasons are actuating the committee on privileges and elections is a confession which, if not unauthorized, reflects very seriously upon the It is senators who compose that committee. preferable to believe that the Washington ?imes is merely speculating in the matter, and that the committee on privileges and elections will act in the Smoot case entirely without political prejudice or political The assumption that a report is to e withheld until after election this fall, in order to secure the vote of two or three west-statfor the Republican party, is as severe a criticism as any Democratic opponent would utter and this is the statement made by the Washington Times, a strong Roosevelt organ. Is that the quality of Rooseveltism and Republicanism ? Is the Smoot inquiry being leld as an ax over the heads of Utah and daho voters ? It is unbelievable that the senate committee wrould descend to such pettiness. The Smoot case presents one of the argest questions ever confronted by the people of the United States ; and its decision should be entirely uninfluenced by partisanship. Besides, Republican leaders at Washing-o- n are not so callow as to imagine that the vote of the intermountain country will be permanently affected by any decision which may ie made in the Smoot matter ; unless the dominant party should unmistakably and lagrantly utilize this case to coax and mlldoze the Mormon vote in which case, the )robability is that this vote would go the other way. pur-)ose- s. es THE Ha, ha, revenge is sweet ! When the was being great Ogden and Lucin cut-obuilt Salt Lake papers and Salt Lake people ff had an unfailing fount of joy in the thought that piles would disappear and cars would sink in, the mud at the bottom of the lake near Promontory Point. An electric car jumped the track in Salt Lake yesterday and landed on the paved street. It sunk half out of sight in mud and according to the Salt Lake papers it took twro construction trains to drag it back to the floating track. It now'. 1 The Salt Lake correspondent of the Boise News Capital says that the business men of m landism throughout the country. It is safe to say that hundreds of thousands of conservative Republicans perhaps millions o them would prefer all the risks of an administration by Grover Cleveland than to see to the presi Theodore Roosevelt dency, with the almost certain disasters to follow that event. Looking back on Mr. Clevelands career as president it is clear that he was as hones as his friends claimed and his enemies admitted. It is true that by his obstinate methoc and Wall street affiliations he disrupted his party ; but Democrats are willing to forgiv in the present hour of national peril and for patriotic reasons, if not for party advantage they w'ould very much prefer Grover Cleveland to Theodore Roosevelt. Much strcngt is being manifested for Cleveland in the South and it is possible that despite his own express refusal his name may be presentee at the St. Louis convention. It is not likely that Mr. Cleveland can be nominated ; it does not seem possible that the Democracy would choose any but its strongest man and Mr. Cleveland is not at the present time that strongest man. But, as between ed Rooseveltism and Clevelandism. Democrats generally and many Republicans would pre fer the latter. in the wrhat is going certainity hanging over everything that makes the capitalist button up his pockets. Well, all that was expected, and was even invoked when many of these same business men voted for Reed Smoot for senator. Claude Johnson of Pigeon was in Ogden yesterday. L. K. Kerbaugh of the Inland Type foundry of St Louis la In the city. Mlaa Mary Wafe of Salt Lake la visiting Miss Maud Geiger at 641 Grant avenue. teeth-showin- g, JOSEPH CLARK, LAST SEASONS BIG SUCCESS. Manager. Thursday, March Murray md Mack went to Salt Lake today. Mrs, M. A. Breeden, who has been visiting the family of J. T. Hurst has returned to her home at Salt Lake LAST AND SEASON'S MU8ICAL BIGGE8T SUCCESS, City. A NIGHT ON Riley Skeen, who is teaching school at Layton, spent Saturday and Sunday In the city and in Plain City with his parents. Fred Peppen and Jack Reagan, witnesses for the defense In the Foley $CN fRQM ACT case Rawlins, Wyo., were in the city MR. PHIL HUNT Presents ths Ro. yesterday. mantie Comedy-Dram- a Mrs. Ezra Harris and children left for Point Lookout yesterday. She has been spending the winter with her parents in this city. Interpreted by a 8plendid company Charles E. Hudson, of the brokerage Including firm of Hudson, Sons & Co. of Salt Lake, passed through Ogden yesterday on his way to Chicago. John E. Hanson, the popular city editor of the Deseret News, accompanied Prices 61.00, 75c, 50c and 25a Seats on sale Monday. by hie charming wife, spent the day In Ogden yesterday. DOWN BY THE SEA Miss Fannie Curtis Buy an Incubator and make poultry business pay. Skeen & 65! Twenty-fourt- the Co. street h for Rheumatism. I have been suffering tor the past few years with a severe attack of rheumatism and found that Ballards Snow Liniment was the only thing that gave me satisfaction and tended to alleviate my pains. March 24th, 1902, John C. Degnan, Kinsman, Ills. 25c, 50c and $L Sold by Geo. F. Cave. Invaluable Lyceum Family Theater SAWYER remarkable singing company illustrator, presenting of Friendship." "Altar GREENWALD A MURRELLA The Eastern Top Liners. THE CARTERS Comedy Sketch Ar- tists. NEWAL & GOLDIE Ths Imitators. HARRIS A DAVIS Prize Dancers. MISS GERTIE STARK In Illustrated Song. Seats on sale Wednesday. DIGNANS DANCING ACADEMY. REGULAR DANCE EVERY " EVENING. u mounting, can be found The "Slur On are EUSHMER8. at the kind that atev on. All defect of the eye GLASSES. Corrected by RCSIHIERS of eye-gla- J.T.RUSHMER . 2412 Washington Ave. ARRIVED I Fairyland," introducing ss soprano singers. The newspapers are making a great story BARTELMOUS because George Gould walks around in the The worlds greatest foot Juggler. coldest weather with no overcoat. Just KENYON and WILSON little more dividend on Missouri Pacific, anc Those comedians In probably George will be able to dress as com that funny act, "A Bunch of Dust" fortably as a street car driver. laugh-provoki- ng Minnie THE NEWMANS Mss In their clever vaudeville review, Caught Car." THE KALETECHNOSCOPE Producing pictures. up-to-d- ADMISSION 10 CENTS MONDAY The Latest Style THE NEW SUITS HAVE They Are Strictly in Style Up-To-D- ate and Price CLARKS 2356 TO 50 -- 25c, 50c, 75c, and $L MOVING PICTURES. Admission, 10c. CLARA MORAN and JIMMY RING In the refined comedy, In "Dugan MISS MORAN The peer of all high-cla- of . Prices AVE. BOB KENYON Song A Proprietors Week of March 21st EDISON'S 2406 WASHINGTON & YOUNG, BROADWAY grave-robbin- And then again there are others who are ill when they are wanted as witnesses. Post master General Payne will give testimony in the case against Senator Burton of Kansas provided he is able to leave his sick bed. 24 THE FUNNY FELLOW8 F. E. Lewis, manager of the Union Pacific hotel and dining car system, ' Some Eastern Republican papers contain articles headed, The White House Hyena. As they are distinctly friendly to President Roosevelt, this title will be accepted as reference to the gift of a grinning, g brute, a real hyena sent by King Menelik of Abyssinia as a present to the chief executive of this nation. At the same time people who merely read hea lines will experience a great shock. HOUSE GRAND OPERA HOUSE OPERA Tuesday, March 22 4 Man About Town is respectfully reminded that the reaty of Guadalupe was not effected until .848 and that in July 1847, when Brigham Young, Wilfred Woodruff and the pioneers claimed this region in the name of he United States they were patriotically anticipating the cession by Mexico. It seems a little unfair on the part of The Man About Town to reply to this paper that the action of Wilfred Woodruff and the pioneers in set-in- g up the flag of the United States on En sign Peak and claiming this country for the nation laid them open to ridicicule. GRANT BY Jos. Clark, Manager. Personal Pointers The Salt Lake Tribune That the thoughtful people of tha Unitei States appreciate the dangers of Roosevelt-is- Utah are growling at the uncertainty is proved by the startling revival of Cleve Smoot case, APPROPRIATION GRAND 1 Ogdens turn STABLE PROPOSED 2362 WASHINGTON AVE. |
