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Show their opportunities it would seem that Ihe men of the district are quite as well equipped for exercise of the prerogatives preroga-tives of local self government as are the men of Utah. Hut there seems to bo a dearth of calamity howlers in the district, and so we hear nothing of ' oppression" and "wrong" emanating from its residents or from its newspapers on account of deprivation by congress of "sacred rights." The calamity howlers have mainly moved west to grow up with the country, ami Utah has received her duo proportion of them. I'TAH AND l'lli: DISTRICT OK COLtM-!tl COLtM-!tl A. With the example of some l'tah politicians poli-ticians furnished so rcceutly, one would think that some political schemers and stump ranters resident in the District of Columbia, thirsting for ollicial honor and emolument, would set up a howl lor "home rule'" in that district. During tho administration of President Presi-dent Grant the district possessed a j local governmental organization nuitu similar to that of Ihe territories, but congress saw lit to abolish it some years ago, and now, with a population of nearly a quarter of a million, quite equal to that of l'tah, it hasn't a vestige of home, rule further tlui that common to municipalities that arc exercised by tho cities of Washington and Georgetown. George-town. One reasoti assigned for abolishing abolish-ing tho territorial form of government there, was that such a large proportion of the population was composed of illiterate negroes, but tho fact that the whites largely outnumber ihe rolorod people in the district, us they do in all of tho southern states with two or three exceptions, should not have bcon assigned as an ejection, for those people in Washington anil Georgetown, ftossetsing greatly more of the. advantages for acquiring eduea lion than the members of their nice in many of the states south of Mason and Dixon's line, and having improved |