Show I NOT A CRIME To Demand Statehood Is the Inalienable Bight of Every American Citizen To the Editor of THE HERALD With your permission I should be pleased to utilize some of your space In regard to the article on The Parties n appearing in ° the Tribune of June 24 i At the recent teachers association held in Salt Lake City the committee of which I was one appointed to draft the constitution constitu-tion and bylaws recommended that the organization be called The Utah Educational Educa-tional Association A motion was made to substitute Territorial and being I asked by the committee to defend our wording I did so by saying that The Territorial Teachers Association Associa-tion is a trite term and to this new organization a new name should be given that will stand Utah is destined to become a state this may be in a few years from now or who knows but that it may beat be-at our next meeting which time is understood under-stood to be next summer My words were heartilly received In fact they were enthusiastically applauded apparently by the whole audience assembled embracing teachers of many distinctions and beliefs When I concluded a nonMormon teacher in the public schools of Ogden followed with the same chain of thought to the effect that it was no use to name an organization organi-zation and then change its name soon Now 1 wish it distinctly understood that what I said upon that occasion or what I now write was and is done as an individual entirely upon my own responsibility and not as a representative of any people or party and in my opinion the article is an indication of the meager material that is at the command of the Tribune to sustain its position Is there anything wrong for a young man bora in America of an American parentage whose ancestors were identified r with the struggle for liberty prior to and during the revolutiont and who assisted in framing the constitution and forming that glorious union of states is there anything treasonable for this young man attached to the constitution of his forefathers and wishing for the growth and progress of r the union to suggest in a teachers meetIng meet-Ing that probably the time was not far t N distant when Utah would take Its rightful f position as a state Should such a suggestion > sug-gestion be branded as infamous and should re y tne author be consigned to oblivion If the writer wishes to charge me with insincerity in my political attitude and in my desire to see Utah clothed with the same political powers and enjoying the same immunities as other states and to be one of the union in every particular where each and all citizens irrespective of race creed or color will stand upon equal privilege privil-ege and enjoyeqnal rights 30 long as they t live in harmony with the lawsif the writer thinks I am insincere he is most unqualifiedly and emphatically mistaken While willing to concede that the right to govern goea with the right to acquire territoryI e if Congress has aright to acquire ac-quire territory it has also the right to govern the sameyet the territorial form of government gov-ernment is inimical to the constitution for the constitution guarantees to every stateS state-S Republican form of government when then the-n asary conditions are complied with as the people of Utah territory have done At the same time the political movement which is progressing rapidly in Utah was not started to secure statehood but bet be-t cau many citizens of the old local parties tired of the narrow issues which are now dead that have so long retarded the pro greM of Utah have declared a desire to come into line with the broad principles of national politics L for one expect as an R outgrowth of this division that Utah in the words of Commissioner Boreman delivered = de-livered the same Teachers association will become the brightest star in the galaxy gal-axy of state To show that I am not alone in this desire de-sire I hereby submit the opinion of Gov a ilAOt Tho M tha He delivered before the 1 a 1 ak n r z a x s r alumni of the Deseret university June 10 1891 as taken by the Tribunt reporter The future of Utah was a bright ORe and in the days to come the wealth of this young commonwealth would rank with any of her sisters in the union The educational facilities of Utah were growing and with the broad school laws of the territory the time was not far distant when she would rank with the best of her companions under the flap The present population was doing all that it could to place Utah in the position in which she belongs and he was glad to note It He thought the people were proud of her He was and never did ho make a trip to the crowded east but that he was always glad to get back The people were prosperous pros-perous and happy and there were conditions existing now that when wholly developed will make this territory a grand state He would be glad when the time shall come when Utah shall be called to take her place among her sister states and join in the grand march of progress that the west is mak I ing ingIn In my opinion if the August election should demonstrate that there is a fair show of making Utah a Republican state which is not probable thenmany of those who at present are vehement against statehood will be eagerly zealous for it JosErn S PEERT |