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Show cling to the un-American notion of union ot church and state, and seek to engraft such heresy in the organic law of the incoming state or into its statute books, they, as a part, will be crushed between the revolving millstones of national na-tional and state power and parties. It is too late in the nineteenth century to decant the poisonous dregs of the dark ages into the new bottles of this day and generation, and attempt to force the unpalatable mixture upon men who know their rights and dare defend them. No, this mountain 6tate will breed no slaves, nor will it disgrace the flag of the republic. The line will be drawn between the two great political parties, and Utah will emerge from the contest as a loyal and Republican 6tate. Let the campaign of argument and education edu-cation go on until its glorious consummation consum-mation shall be signalized in the creation crea-tion of a free and intelligent commonwealth common-wealth replete with every material, social and educational advantage, and honored in the national councils as the , peer of any of her sister states in the Union. UTAH AS A STATE. "Mr. Speaker," said the rattled congressman, con-gressman, "w here am I at?" Combatants Combat-ants in the recent national contest, ea-y ea-y pecially on the Republican side, may - ( . weH ask the same question. Even the W" t'JcVt' Democrats who, with much noise and confusion, tried to paint the town red the other eight, are in a dazed condition, having barely escaped defeat in the recent delegate election. Utah's soil is prolific in producing hydra- headed "problems." No sooner do we harvest one crop than we are called upon to wrestle with another! Sid-hold, Sid-hold, back-hold, catch-as-catch-can, until we may justly claim as problem-solvers problem-solvers the championship of the world. The statehood puzzle emerges from the national contest, and under Democratic Democrat-ic auspiocs and Impelled by Democratic party necessities, it stalks to the front with the hope of bolstering up that pie-bold pie-bold party by the admission of Utah as a Democratic state in the Union. But in the settlement of this statehood question, ques-tion, forced upon us as the result of the national Democratic victory, our free trade conspirators must remember that no "Solid South" and no solid slums of ! great cities support their assumptions of Democratic help from Utah as a new ; state. On the contrary, she will moat likely side with the party which would ,f elevate and sustain the high standard j of wages paid in this republic " ' to artisans and workmen, ea- l abling them to live in their own homes, to educate their . children and sustain educational and ' religious institutions and to foster the multiplied and multiplying industries of the nation. That party is the grow- ing Republican party of Utah, which, in tfet recent delegate election in this territory, reduced the Democratic ma-, ma-, jority ot lajt year one half, and there is reasonable certainty that when the final struggle for representation, on the part of the state of Utah, in the councils of the nation shall come, it will result ' in the certain defeat and orerthrow of the Demooralio party in Utah. The tried and discipfined veterans of the Vanished Liberal party will fall into ranks on the consolidated Republican line of battle. With thera will march shoulder to shoulder the progressive " 1 and intelligent contingent furnished by "young Utah," native and to "the manner man-ner born," and true as steel. la tna Dgbt oi swirt passing events, it seems providential that the tardy organization or-ganization of aggressive Republican forces, on national lines of political movement, prepared the way for victory vic-tory when the final struggle on state issues shall come. Verily, in the mo-uentous mo-uentous affairs of the creation and organization or-ganization of etatea and nations, "man proposes, but God disposes." The issne here in Utah is not only simplified and freed from enteoglement by the results of the national contests in that the line is clearly drawn between the American system of a higher standard of wages for workingmen, and a reasonable pro-I pro-I tection of our home industries by state f and national legislation. If, in passing i from territorial pupilage to state independence at the dictation of natiocal parties and party leaders, it shall appear that any considerable number ef persons in this territory a : : |
