Show CHANCES FOR STATEHOOD The St Louis GlobeDemocrat continues to give dally attention t Utah invariably I saying something mean about the majority cluss In the latest issue nt hand is treated Utahs Chances for Statehood and the editor cOLcClest at those chances have been improved within the past two weeks the improvement consisting of the Liberal r victory at tho polls the other day and the supreme court decision sustaining the validity I val-idity of the test oath law He thinks that l decision points out a method whereby the 0 i titit Mormons can be brought under control even in Deseret itself while the Gentile victory in the recent municipal election in Sat Lake city shows that influences hostile hos-tile to the sway ofthe saints are becoming powerful enough to be taken into account when estimating tho potency of the social forces in operation in that region The writer goes on to say that in point of population Utah is by far the largest of the present territories According to the estimate of its governor it has about two hundred and thirty thousand inhabitants as compared with IPIOOO in New Mexico 113000 in Idaho 100000 in Wyoming and 00000 in Arizona It has 100000 more PEOple peo-ple than Montana 30000 more than Washington Wash-ington and 5000 more than North Dakota The only one of tho recently created states which exceeds it in population is South I Dakota Of tho old states Delaware and Nevada stand a long way behind it in this respect I He thinks unfortunate that twothirds I of Utahs inhabitants are members of the Mormon church but says this relationship I relation-ship however so far as regards many of those who arc counted as Mormons is not adhered to very rigidly as the two latest elections in Salt Lake indicate Thousands of the younger men have broken or aro about to break permanently from the old faith There seems to bo a reasonable probability that the Gentile and other elements I ele-ments opposed to the autocratic and retrogressive retro-gressive rule of the church party will soon be powerful enough to control the territory I and frame a state constitution placing the I Mormons in political subjection These 1 are the only conditions under which Utah can secure admission and the knowledge of this fact will undoubtedly have a powerful power-ful influence toward strengthening the forces battling to bring this change about I is simply wonderful that the average editor who resides a thousand miles or more from Utah should know so much about things here That he is so knowing and that ho knows so much which nobody hereabouts has learned are suggestive of a master mind which ought not to bo cooped up within the walls of the editorial sanctum So far as one on tho ground can see or estimate Utah is as remote from statehood as she was ten twenty or thirty years ago and we are inclined to believe that there is less disposition less incliuatiou to ask for emancipation than have existed at anytime any-time during the past quarter of a century One thing is certain and that is that so far as the majority of the people are concerned con-cerned they are disposed to let the next movement for statehood have birth in Congress rather than in this territory Having refused our appeals for right and justice and denied citizenship to which wo were entitled we feel like sitting back and compelling Congress to force statehood upon Utah The territory is in a condition to do any amount of waiting on this proposition propo-sition It can wait as long as tho government govern-ment can and make money out of it |