| Show IMPUDENCE AND INCONSISTENCY THE HERALD does not propose to offer an argument in favor of the immediate admission of Utah to the Union When the Senate Committee last winter reported re-ported against the admission and the report was adopted by the Senate people peo-ple here ceased to regard it as probable that the present Congress would do I anything for the relief of the longop pressed Territory It is little else than a waste of words and of effort to ask the Fiftieth Congress to admit Utah We refer to the matter now only for the purpose of calling attention to a con spicuona enemy to this Territory and one who never permits an opportunity to pass without stabbing poor Utah We refer to BenatorStewart Nevada not with the view to saying anything against him bUt merely to show that ot all men in Congress he should be the last to oppose the creation of States hailing as he does from our Sagebrush neighbor on the west There may be some propriety in a Senator from New York or Pennsylvania or Ohio or Illinois Ill-inois offering an objEction to a sparsely settled Territory being made a State but when a Senator for miserable miser-able barren povertystricken Nevada the opposes any Territory being given rights of Statehood he is guilty of an offense against propriety consistency and common decency Let us look at Nevada and see what is back of Senator Stewart which gives him the right to talk about other communities com-munities In 1870 the population of the State was 42491 about as many people as are in Salt Lake County Two years later Nevada participated in a Presidential Presi-dential election casting all of 14619 votes just onethird of the population of all ages and sexes voting It is impossible im-possible to say how much the population popula-tion increased during the next four years but the vote in 1876 was 19691 In 1880 another census was taken when the population was shown to be all told 62265 or less than onethird the number in Utah today The same year there was a Presidential election when Nevada polled 18343 votes that is to say practically W per cent of all her people voted As there has been no census since we must take the proportion pro-portion of voters to population in 1880 the census year as the rule by which to ascertain the population at later periods At the Presidential Presi-dential election in 1881 Nevadas vote was 12797 which being 30 per cent of the population we find that in the year named the Sagebrushers had decreased de-creased in number to 42000 Coming down four years mora the total vote last monthwhen a great effort was put forth to get every eligible citizen to the pollswas further reduced to 12278 telling of another considerable falling off in the population With such a declining de-clining and decaying community Back of him Senator Stewart stands up and impudently says that Utah with her 200 000 thrifty progressive people her peace and prosperity and good order and her steady substantial growth and developmentthat Utah which is five t times as great as Nevadain all the qualifications qual-ifications for Statehood is unworthy to be taken into the Union But this is not all Insignificant as is the population of Nevada in the matter of numbers it Is no more creditable credit-able otherwise Of the 62266 in 1880 42019 were males and only 20247 females showing that the community was not one of homes that it was not such a community as American3 j take pride in and which gives good government Again of the 62266 In 1831 25653 or nearly half of all were foreignborn Further among the 62265 which have in the nine years dwindled to about 40000 were included 2 803 Indians and 5416 Chineseone fifth of tho population being of the noncitizen and nonvoting class We dont object very much when a 8 nator from New York suggests that it is unrepnblican and unfair for one of these sparsely settled Territories to wield the same power in the United States Senate that is given to the great Empire State with its 6000000 of pso pie but we do protest when a manlike man-like Stewart who represents but one I man t0 every 120 represented by the New York Senator assumes to say anything against the admission of a Territory |
