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Show HELP UTAH UP. Utah has been an alien province for forty years. She has not h,ad part or voice in the great affairs of this country . She has been ruled like a British colony. She has suffered taxation almost without representation. Her people have been estranged by peculiar pe-culiar social and religious problems. They have been arrayed against each other in hostile camps. Great in wealth, in population, in industrial development develop-ment and natural resources, Utah has rested under the ban of public opinion and her development has suffered in consequence. Now at last, after twenty years of strife, the day the country has long looked for has begun to dawn. Polygamy Po-lygamy hr.s gone down before the force of enlightened public opinion. The state has outgrown the power of the church. The unnatural political align- j ruent has been broken. National politics and American ideas are being discussed in every newspaper, on every platform, at every fireside. The opportunity is most favorable. At no time since the war has the differ euce between the parties been so clearly clear-ly marked. It is protection on one side and free trade on the other. It is the supreme moment in the industrial development of the United States. This ib the time of all times to organize political thought in Utah on the solid rock of American politics and to forget the bitterness of the past. In the matter of electing a delegate to congress every citizen should be a Republican or a Democrat. A vote for either of the great national parties is a vote to help Utah up. A vote for the party that still proclaims the old animosities is a vote to keep Utah down. Every man who believes that Liberalism Liber-alism was right when it contended that our people should be like all other j Americans owes his vote now to one of ; the national parties. Every man who has pride in the great names and great traditions of the Republican party, and confidence in its present policies, owes hi3 vote to the party of Benjamin Hak-iuson Hak-iuson and Whitelaw Reid. Now that the opportunity has come at last, help Utah up! Don't cast a vote to keep her down. Let the motto of our people be, "Upward and Onward," On-ward," upward out of the ruts of prejudice, out of the mists of hate, onward to the great destiny that awaits Utah now that her people are really free. |
