Show THE FAULKNER AND TELLER BILLS THE faulkner bill fo for rhome home in utah and the teller bill as an a preliminary to statehood are receiving attention from the newspapers of the country the views of different editors are interesting and varied and we present a few of them that our readers may be posted as to current opinions the grand junction colorado stars star lays they will have lively times in utah while lethe the home rule file is pending in congress the people of utah especially especial especially lf of salt lake city will be very foolish it f they get up dissensions just now as the tidal wave of prosperity is ri rising in that territory and sweeping it on to greatness a and n d wealth h with the proposed law in full fu 11 administration in utah there will come an era of prosperity never before witnessed in that territory the influx of new people and money will be the largest we predict ever witnessed in any western territory or state the same paper of a later date remarks the salt lake times can put more in a headline than it can in the subsequent article the proposition to give home rule to utah seems to go harder with the times than anybody else else we fail to see just how the ute question comes in save that if home rule were established utah could keep out the colorado contingent which she cannot do in her territorial Terr itoM relation to the general government now mr times do not you think home rule would be a pretty I 1 good thing even it if it did not accomplish anything more than to protect southern utah from the influx of a horde of southern indians indiana home rule would keep the indians indiana out and invite the whites not from colorado alone but from all the states stales who are only awaiting her admission 10 to fill U up her beautiful valleys with active intelli intelligent and patriotic citizens the times should be ashamed of its weakness and its prejudices As a specimen of the manner in which the salt lake times handles this important subject affecting the welfare of this thi entire community we clip from its colum i a the annexed elegant and profound editorial the prospect for the passage of elther either the faulkner or teller bill seems to be dwindling to small proportions the impression is evidently growing at washington that the two measure are links of the same sausage from the same dog 12 the public will judge from the foregoing what kind of animal it is that barks in that fashion I 1 the denver news has a long leader on the bill from which wo make these extracts every device has been attempted by the mormon leaders first a constitution was adopted in which polygamy was forbidden but bat it was seen that without the restraining power of the federal government it would remain a dead letter then came the revelation which ordered the abandonment of plural marriage followed by the party division scheme which was the most transparent fraud of all all these have failed to have any impression upon the country which remains firm in the fhe conviction that until the Gentile Gent ileff of dominate utah that territory should not be admitted an s a state and no now comes a new proposition it to la to the effect that the territory be allowed to elect all of its own officials practically to have all the privileges of statehood without being admitted congress to retain its present supervising power over all the territorial legislation A A bill has been introduced in congress to this effect and in opposition to it a convention has been called in salt lake city by the liberals the proposed bill would if parsed be as bad as statehood and the fact is so recognized by the gentiles of that Territory except excepting Wg of houi se those who have sold themselves to the mormon church for the promises of political joli political preferment it it will meet with vigorous opposition in the territory itself and from everyone who understands the real intentions and purposes of the mormon hierarchy utah is abundantly fitted for statehood but her admission to the union until the gentiles dominate the territory would be a crime without parallel in the history of the country everybody here who knows an anything y lg Is thoroughly satisfied that the church leaders have bad nothing to do with the home rule l bill nor with the statehood bill and everybody who has a sense of justice and regard for republican institutions will perceive the animus which while admitting that utah to is abundantly fitted for statehood wants her exal excl excluded ud from the union until a certain class can gain control of its affairs which is tantamount to indefinite postponement of her political rights in opposition to the irrational views of the denver news here is an editorial from the cumberland maryland limes headed let utah be admitted at once senator teher has introduced a bill in the senate looking to the immediate admission of utah as a state and of course our republican friends who suffered no pangs of conscience at all in creating the koket pocket boroughs of montana and the two Dako iko taa taPs are suffering from an attack of political cholera borbus as a consequence that dathal utah will pos possibly be a democratic state once she is in the union is of course the real reason for their agitation and opposition but they are like mr Peck sniff too devilish sly to say so go their objection is based upon the alleged presence of polygamy we shall see what it amounts to judge charles S zane the chief justice of the supreme court of bah utah has presided at the trials of all the mormons cormons who have been tried for polygamy he is therefore entitled as no other man is an entitled to describe the present situation in the territory judge zane has reached the conclusion that when the president of the church and his advisers formale formally renounced polygamy president r 9 woodruff ru havin having had an inspiration that the church hurc no longer required polygamy as a doctrine they were sincere and that this institution is now dead forever judge zane does not look forward to the early statehood of the territory but he does explain how with the disappearance of polygamy tle the mormon church will deac readily ir ily cease to be a hurtful institution and that men in the territory will divide in their political opinions along the same lines giai that divide men elsewhere more than this we cannot ask and these people should no longer be dis franchised simply because of their democracy mo cracy to this the troy new york telegram legram Je argue it was as doubtless with a view to forestalling a partisan dl discussion that the senatorial advocacy of the movement to admit utah was entrusted to a republic can Senator teller in so far as this consideration alone is concerned the idea to is entirely commendable questions of the fitness or unfitness unfit nesa of territorial candidates for statehood should be decided in every case simply upon their merits the injection into such discussions of partisan feeling is a wrong which has never failed to elicit emphatic protests from the people nevertheless it cannot be overlooked that in this particular instance the utah movement for statehood had no other origin and has now no other hope than the democratic majority in the lower house though this movement bears evidences of gentile operation cooperation co it is essentially mormon in X purpose and control it is true that utah is growing rapidly it is also true that as an organization the mormons cormons have made a public renunciation of the offensive and in america the intolerable doctrine of plural ilar marriages but the coincidence which immediately supplements this renunciation with a concerted demand for statehood I 1 is we believe too transparent to succeed the american people must have more than mere assertion aser tion that the federal taw law will be honestly obeyed and that sms first act as a state will not be a return to its former evils in aggravated fam fashion blon the new york Adv advertiser artuer mays aay it is to tobe be hoped and believed that utah is approaching the point when she will be properly qualified to become a state the polygamy objection has been overrated A greater objection is and has bag been the command of the church authorities has over voters making a state government out of a hierarchy is not a wise thing to do A little further delay in the case of utah is advisable T the bal baltimore ti more sun tal talks ks very plat plainly n I 1 y in this wis senator TAl tellers lers bill to admit utah into the union as a state is a surprise utah has the pop population to justify its admission it had that many years ago it ought to have been admitted in preference to most of the six states created by the last congress its misfortune is that it is reported to be democratic in sentiment this has kept it out together with new mexico it is in alleged that utah is unfit for statehood because some small percentage of its people have more than one wife that is insincere if it were a valid reason for keeping utah out it would be a valid reason for wishing to sut put new york and a half dozen other states fates out the records of the courts of these states show a larger number of men with several wives than utah has it is politics not polygamy that keeps utah waiting the republican policy has been to keep it out of the union because it would probably add two to the strength of the democrats in the senate hence the surprise that senator teller favors admission does he wish to reinforce the silver contingent or is utah turning republican the boston kerald herald has a long editorial on this matter in which this is the most pertinent paragraph athe the especial danger of utah as a state will 11 be at once recognized as ai the institution of polygamy among her people if the proposition had come from a democratic senator we should have expected to have seen it treated as aa a wicked le de vice to corrupt the virtue of the american nation but as it Is IB we presume that doo ale will be a allowed to listen to argument upon th the 0 1 subject this argument t aa agon 0 offered ered by senator teller is that polygamy is dead in the territory and tha hak it need not therefore be a disturbing element in forming dorming the state we assume also from mr tellers action that thag there will be republican votes rotes in the senate in favor of its admission and this symptom seems to indicate that there Republican are hopes of two more Senators of their party faith from utah yet it is i possible that the colorado senator has finance rather than politics in mind he showed in the late congress that he cared more for silver than for party 12 the detroit michigan sun thus thug touches up the inconsistency of certain papers that object to mormons cormons being behig endowed with political power the boston advertiser editorially objects to the admission of new mexico and arizona as states state 11 on the grounds of the influence they would have on silver legislation and the fact of their having too many mormons cormons and mexicans to be eligible sisters in the union the latter objection comes with poor grace from a paper which advocated conferring the voting franchise upon nearly blacks 99 per cent of whom could not read or write the philadelphia press prem has a long correspondence from washington in which this paragraph appears while the mormons cormons are thus united in one solid body the opposition is divided among democrats and republicans until within a few months month 4 there have been only two parties in utah the mormons cormons and the anti but the anti mormons cormons have recently split up and organized into republican and democratic parties while the mormons cormons hold together the danger of giving utah statehood under such circumstances cum stances is self evident and no little surprise was caused today by the fact that mr teller proposed to admit utah as a state without any restrictions it is said that other free silver senators are of the same way of thinking on this matter mattek the mormons cormons Mor mons on national issues are all democrats Democrat or probably because the democratic party has always been friendly to them A bill to admit utah as a state slate along with now new mexico and arizona is almost certain to pass the house at this 1 session and if the free coinage of silver senatore senator on the republican side are going to vote with the democrats for the admission of these new states the bill will also pass the senate senator faulkner recently introduced a bill giving the people of utah all the privileges of local self government without admitting the territory to statehood senator teller says that this is a mere makeshift and he is in favor of admitting the territory to the union of the states it is evident thid thai the press of the country and correspondents at the seat of government still need considerable sid erable ment on the utah situation which they seldom get exactly right it is the mormon people who have divided as aa democrats and republicans while the masses of gentiles in salt bait lake city are holding tg together ether and opposing both the home rule and statehood measures for purely selfish purposes it is very significant that the public journals of the country do not seem to think it possible that a prominent senator or congressman can be in favor of legislation of any kind except tr pr party or or personal ends that justice to a community which has hae every proper requisite for self govern ment can be the motive ot either republican ll 11 or democratic legislators in advocating its to be out of f the question this is a mean art estimate so amate of prominent public men and we are glad that we entertain tain a better ap opinion of the champions or both bills now before congress utah be considered irrespective of its party politics or its ito attitude as to silver its people have done all that ova in their power to co conform laforn to the laws law and and the customs of the country bait now rests with the nation to do what 1 4 right and magnanimous or oo 00 allow prejudice and injustice to prevail va |