Show UTAH AND STATEHOOD The Chicago Tribune one of the most I doderate of Republican papers says Utah Las been kept out of the Union because of the Mohammedan polygamous practices oft J of-t Democratic population This Republican paper conveniently for that Wyomingwas admitted notwith 1 ptsthat < Womngwa adited standing that a largo number of Mormons are found therein because the Mormons in Wyoming were largely Republican in politic ticTho Tho Chicago paper says of polygamy in aft a-ft of overrighteous wrath that until that accursed institution is extirpated the people of this country will not listen to any suggestion for the admission of Utah The only polygamy that exists in Utah is tho bigamy which is practical in every 1 community The Mormons have given up that institution and for at lea two years past no polygamous marriiges have occurred oc-curred among them In Chicago on the other hand bigamy continues rampant quite discounting anything Utah every did i that direction The people of Utah are not begging for statehood however They can stand the territorial condition for an indefinite period They aro not so anxious to increase their taxes to the extent of several hundred thousand dollars a year as many people imagine they are GTho crowning feature of the Chicago papers tirade is the following There I but one way In which Utah should get into the union and that way Is by Incorporation Incor-poration with its western neighbor Nevada Tho latter 1 a decadent state Its population and resources have diminished below the point that a minimum state should have and apparently appar-ently the decline cannot bo arrested except by some miraculous discovery of water which shall attract and hold setters Once in a a state it cannot l > e got out and i must remain a a rotten borough To annex Utah to it would Increase the formers population aid tho Mormonism and Gentiles in coping with the would rescue Nevada from its present decaying condition Here is impudence and no mistake The Republican party having admitted a state that cannot support itself and is sinking into hopeless bankruptcy now proposes to attach to ita Democratic territory in order that tho latter may pay the dobts of tie former In the line of this beautiful policy vo suggest sug-gest t the Chicago paper that it advocate tho annexation of Missouri to Illinois The former has a state debt of SS59U000 and tho latter has no state debt The annexation annex-ation would enable Missouri to pay off her debt Why would that arrangement bo any worse than the one suggested by the I Chicago Tribune |