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Show TO AMERICANIZE UTAH. The struggle 1q this territory for a quarter of a ceatury has beea t) maka Utah a thoroughly American community. com-munity. The hope haa been that it woukl soon become like all other states of this union io its habits of political thought. The people of Utah are now engaged ! in a new phase of the old struggia. The old lines of battle have been broken. ' and men are trying to form on new lines. They are those lines on which men are contending for mastery today on every other foot of American soil. The division is between two great par-ties, par-ties, which have come down to us through the generation, and which represent the differing ideas but common com-mon patriotism of all our people. The Liberals ask their old opponents to be good Americans. How can they be like other Americans unless national politics are discussed here as elsewhere and unless we have in Utah the same fierce party contentions, the same hot struggle for the supremacy of ideas, that our fellow citizens have in every other state and territory? Can anyone believe that to maintain the Liberal party on the old lines, to continue the arraignment of one class cf our population against anothei to say to the world that we still have here a menace to our institutions, will ever Americanize our people? On the other hand, is it not as plain as tho sun in our cloudless sky that the j way to Americanize our territory is to j nationalize our politics? Can we ever bo like other people while we keep down the discussion of American political issues aud force to the front the issues that have made thia territory unlike any other in the United States? We believe those who desire to keep up the old fight are wrong forever wrong. We believa those who welcome the new day and seek to obliterate the old passions in the healthy rivalry of gen- uine American politics are right forever for-ever right. Every day that the old things are kept before the people is a day of delay for reconciliation, progress and development. de-velopment. We respect ihe views of those who honestly differ with us, but wc ask them to study this question in this light, and we believe the result must be the rapid decay of the brave old party that has won its victory, and the rapid growth of those new and hopeful conditions con-ditions it made possible for Utah. |