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Show OVOMIX'S VOICE OX CT AH. Mrs. Enilv- Pitt Stevens, editor of the Konttr, tle Woman's Etctiij ..ar-ual ..ar-ual ofthe PaciSe oiast, speaks ;liUi cl tbe question of annexing Utah to Nevada: Ne-vada: tuiue ofthe people and journals o; the State of Nevada are dciL-h"ei a; 'he pro5,ect of swai.owing Utah, but Utah would, in spite of a.i the tri.-ki oi the un.-crupulous ieaders of either or both of tue pre-e;it political parties, subordinate tue population of Ncvaia to its own at'i?raiitl.zcuieLt. She ha? both the populati'jn, organized me-thaniria me-thaniria aod skill to do it, and is no; laeking in the will-power, that will be ejualto the wants of the occasion. L the Nevadians don't want to be swallowed, swal-lowed, digested and assimilated to Mor-uionism, Mor-uionism, they had better keep out o: that trap. L;ah wants to assume the prerogatives of State sovereignty. Sne has popjlation and wealth superior to any other J'erriiory,with twice the population pop-ulation of the State of Nevada, and why should .-he not enjoy the privileges privile-ges of self-government'? Save and except ex-cept polytratny there can be no show oi reason. Utah is the wisest aud best governed of any large section of people in the United States. In Great Salt Lake City there is less of rowdyism, drunkenesj, gambling, idleness, theft, conspiracy against the peace of society, and crime generally, than there is iu any other city of the same population in this country, if not on the globe. 1'et the great mass of the population of that municipality is composed, we understand, of poor and illiterate foreigners. for-eigners. Give Utah a State government, govern-ment, we say, but in doing so let new polygamic alliances be interdicted by the articles of admission, and some just aud equitable arrangement be established es-tablished with a view of doing the best tiling possible with existing domestic relations. Mormon society is an existing ex-isting and thoroughly organized institution. institu-tion. As such it must be treated. The statesman's duty is to deal with the world as he linds it, and to wisely bend existing institutions for a better aud higher growth. |