Show THE TEURITORIE4 The Washington special to a Chicago paper republished in THE SUNDAY HERALD regarding the admission of the territories to tho union is interesting but so far as Utah is concerned the correspondent writes at random He says that bills will at once be Introduced for tho admission of Arizona New Mexico and Utah and that the nrst two territories will be admitted by the present Congress though not in time to figure in the next presidential election elec-tion but Utah will be held back awhile This may be true as to the other two but it is certainly not correct as to this territory in so far as it asserts that an effort for statehood will tie mide by the people of Utah Nq such effort is contemplated contem-plated and none will be put forth at least by our own people When THE HERALD said and it has so said many times during the past two years that the people of this territory ter-ritory cared very little about statehood and tould not bother themselves further with the business it has stated a well known fact and expressed the sentiments of the great majority of the community Wo would not be understood as saying that the people of Utah are indifferent to the privileges > > and advantages of a state 1 government or that they would fall to ap predate those things but that the prevailing ailing sentiment Is that so long as there U a suspicion extant that the state would note I not-e properly administered and so long as the territorial government is tolerable wean we-an await the pleasure Congress with a large degree of contentment and a consid erable saving of cash that the thing will come in good time and when it comes we will be prepared for it financially and politically tically THE HERALD does not believe a bill for the admission of Utah will bo presented but if one shall be introduced U will come from other than a citizen of this territory and will be neither championed nor op osei by the people of Utah As to the other territories named they should and probably will be admitted as uggested by the correspondent They are better prepared for statehood than some of the dependencies which have recently been emancipated and inasmuch as their politics can cut no figure in national affairs for the next four years the Republicans can find no excuse for objecting to their admission The peo plo of Arizona last February adopted the constitution formulated by the convention last summer and will present that document docu-ment as an earnest of what they will do asa as-a state |