Show f 1 WHAT THEY THINK THIRK OF or IT F I t. t r r Y J J OPINIONS z OF nC Tilt rIm OK On li J RULE KOljU E BILL BIU ILL 1 I-CR I OR CR UTAH Ir i f Our ban friends have professed c t to the people that they were in favor of N J lical self government and by thus proS professing pro pro- S 5 5 1 t 4 Messing have gained some adherents to j the the party We shall now see how sin in- in cere core the Republicans and Their heir newspaper organs were in the matter f The bill ullI now before congress is intended to home tul rule for Utah from font com the making of the labs laas to their enforcement enforcement enforce enforce- ment by the electors Opposition Oppose tion to Lo the bill by bV will prove U ss of recent platform and andr ii r Of course Jt Lake Herald r upon It lL may go o i 1 sic ic House with a whoop possibly there J. J ai are are enough h Republicans in the tha Senate A who will vote with the Democrats to pass It there but President Harrison would woul I w never give I his liS approval I I It t would Id sm sent tt t ply be an impossible thing foi him hint to do do t u fir 1 w It in the e future meats means a state without without m if i d it means a il stale state without respect Abroad without a at home f It practically gives to the I man mail who would f t- t be be governor to the L that t would make the laws and judges to es who Would have bave control of the courts couns ted without t power j It lacks every essential of wisdom it la lacks ks every essential of common cummuns s honesty for or it is but an aa attempt to yet get 1 something that does not honestly advocate r t f Bate ate cate what it intends to accomplish Ther The The r l' l supporters who fram framed d it did not dareS dare are S A put out a showing of truth ruth as to what is they intended As a matter of common leading leader Mormons J ought to J j repudiate this bill It puts' puts off the day dayot f. f j f of ot of reconciliation and the debating of it r i will put oft off the day of deliverance inde lode finitely It t will a awaken once more all the old Id bitterness it will kindle le once S S t more the heart heart burnings s which were wore iJ r w J d passing away it will disturb the social 1 assimilation or of the people which was going on it wilf will be a blow to the bus bus- l ness riess prosperity of Ih the territory Whether a fir Jr r l' l lt tt was conceived in sentimentality in i. i malice or in ill mistaken judgment whether 1 the object vas to gratify ambition ambi ambi- J r f flog tion or to toad toady V to the foreign n power J.l. is which his has possessed this territory from the first it is not worth worth while while to M gate gaie g ate It lL is simply a foolish and aud an unwise attempt at something which ought to beK be K qt fi r stamped out by the common sense of the Mormon peo people le th themselves 4 V Salt Lake Times step Rep rS 1 j J 4 Elsewhere in ill our columns will be found y l' the full text of the bill recently prepared d P 1 t Uzi y if jJ i by the Democratic central committee of Utah I introduced in the House louse of Representatives t if if Caine yesterday by Delegate H 1 and in the Senate by bv Senator Faulkner J t which hi in nearly every ry attribute except in I r name vests the territory with the privileges f le leges es of rod o In 11 fact tact little or noth f. f a fog ing could be ad added e by it to give Utah all the attributes tes of sovereign state ex i r. r ept the matter ol of providing for the choice I t of two a Representative and accordingly in the elecy elec- elec t representation y facial college It is is a most peculiar mea meae e much so indeed that it can an never become a law To any intelligent person per per- f o son who has perused it the query will t 7 arise Why make two bites of a cherry 1 i J r Why t not gr nt statehood at once and be done doue d ue with j l It may be answered Lx Oh we well it doesn't provide for i ti t h r s in Congress and the s college How little would signify to the country at large when it is 1 s considered how speak speak- J F l ing ng Utah's representative would ul fi figure figureS ure S in In those bodies Its mall main features are J wholly without t precedent in the construe construction J tion of territorial argal Jr dr r in amen ament t t merits ments thereof There are arc now but lour Jour L wn territorial dependencies left eft and aud ud it cani cannot can can- i t 1 not be longer lunges than a f few w years years at at most Ift n l when all aU of cf them except x pt Alaska perhaps peris per per- per per-c is haps will have acquired sla statehood S' S 1 With this fact tact in view there can be no 2 J need of h haste ste in giving any ote ule of them S the attributes of statehood practically 1 i 5 t as zis as the bill in question proposes to tu extend t to to Utah There Thee are ale no evils existing here hee herein in our local governmental con conduct t that call for such ra radical ical departure froma from frem r k-r a the meth method of territorial government 5 hitherto prevalent especially so when it is considered that it is but a matter of J- J 55 S n. n the comparatively brief period perro-d of four bur or five vears years in which Utah will have become become be be- i come a astar star in the constellation of ouri our i t c k national ensign f C Ogden Standard Rep 4 The bill introduced in both houses of ofU f r U 0 Congress on Tuesday providing f for r t local government for Utah will be found in full in another column It i is a a measure replete with interest st an and important important im im- l' l to the people of the territory of party or creed and by t the e ic regardless lIdless great majority will be regarded with cc much favor It makes no provision that thatis pol cy of is as contrary to the expressed either eithel of the national pa parties as d defied e fi Ie d. d in In iL has but one and essentially their platform of the dearest Am Amert American Amer Amer- l- l ti aim the attainment ment K t local self go If Jf Ur it U itis ican isan right tight r r of its limitations cie ure unique in some ft is 15 t is made that it remember i needs but to fit peculiar peculiar case In prepares to a the way for Jar full and equal statehood hOud fur for forthe and populous terri tern the most pro prosperous the of 01 every erY every will meet lory Cory it v Aid Ard in III that it a j. luts the lite Inc true American territory l Mun un it people eo le of the t a n n p. p 1 will ill calm the thears fears ars citizen i should who ho I dreadful consequences I t has feared I lt r r 5 the territorial restrictions he e reproved rm ed S. Thu Those ua e who ho are now f found und to to j bill without other and better reasons been adduced adduced- may ber be ba than have yet S r classed without qualification i as ob f of aud and enemies of the common common weal 4 t J. J 6 r r j r. r wo Utah Uta l Enquirer Re ReTire Rep R p. p Tire The e election clion Lill bill i r- r by the Dem rats i s rats of Utah and arid introduced in jn inthe the HOl House se by Delc Delegate te C and in the fire Senator F Fau at a more coi compete com com- pete ete l local cill self government in this this' terri tern territory territory tory is nut unta a bad measure Though we indorse the bill so c fat fai as it goes we are little ir inclined ine to the tine theory cf of hav having the whole hog or nothing hen it t W was lS rumored last summer tl t the Democrats Democrats Dem Oem were about to vote f for r a semi semi- state state government the general opinion of t tie to public was was that Utah ought to go goIn goin in hi full td t I. I with all the honors of ef h a sovereign so slate state or Of wait until such unit time should come conic Though the Utah commission commission com corn mission is isan an annoyance annoyance the governors governor's absolute veto tyrannical and the many petty appointive officers foisted upon the people are arc general nuisances s and aid still this bondage has made us many sympathizers public sentiment in the nation will naturally be against such g government in Am America rica when when hen the situation sit sit- pation is better beller understood We that thai even in a years year's us u's time with the con coni led e etI attention Utah is receiving from fromor or r antics arties of cf the country will now of gaining ai chance statehood of f which is provide c measure referred to in the rhe e beginning o othis of this article is that public sentiment sen sen- tiniest in the country at al large is not yet ripe ipe for granting Utah the privileges sought for by this Democratic measure and we we have no best ancy in iii saying that t twe we do o not believe the bill will be enact ed cd We are arc also free to confess that should it ruts rut run the gauntlet it would be bean bean an agreeable surprise to us us Deseret News Iud lud The Committee of Utah of-Utah Utah have sprung a surprise upon us usall all The lull bill Hili introduced by Delegate Caine in the lower and by Senator Faulkner in the upper house of Congress Con Con- Congress gress as stat stated slated d in the press press dispatches was prepare prepared here and sent to Lo Washing Washing- ton Ve We question whether all any in individual ivi ual outside of the committee knew anything any thing tiring about the measure before it was introduced We had not heard a whisper concerning it and and this tints mornings s 's dispatch dispatch dis dis- dis patch was waso our fir fiat t intimation relating to it We should think the strong opponents opponents opponents of statehood for Utah would be gl glad i to support this measure They have been so fearful that an an attempt would woul u be nu nude made e this int into the tae Union Union- that they ha have e been in continual con urinal terror ferror c was vas needless heedless apprehension apprehension hension 1 for a lung long time lime If this bill were t to U. become a Jaw law it U would settle the question in their favor until they would pro probably ably be be-as be as much in a hUrlY harry for state statehood statehood hoo hood as they imagine ethers to be now The bill bil bils is s a surf sort of way half measure a 0 kind of grudging attempt at a modicum of justice to a territory that hat ought to be treated as a full grown state stale and yet ret because of the prejudices bf of neighbors s Is t to be ser served d like a juvenile i ile too big for fur a child but hardly matured enough fur an adult However er Half Haifa a loaf i is better than no bread and perhaps perhaps per per- haps a g great eat many many people at t home will willbe willbe be ready to endorse the bill on that account account ac ac- ac count and aud many marry abroad will thi think lk that thai as much as Utah ought to have at pres press ent ent Whatever may be said against t this movement it must be acknowledged that th the bill has been dra drawn m with care caie m nd end that it provides for fur a system that is isa isa a great improvement on the present It Itis Itis is a st step p in the direction of oi popular government an and taking laking it as a whole would be preferable in many marry respects to tu the vassala vassalage e to which h we now now are sub sub- j ct |