Show TO some of our Deno cratic frieada frie adu haughtily insist they ia i a not ocoa opoa od to statehood oh no wo would rather have statehood than home anle but when wo cant get statehood we will luu t next ahti is their un 1 when you hear auch just ask them how they know we cant gat statehood Is statehood anny more uncertain than homo rule THE must confess that it can bec eec u reabon why statehood should not bo granted if utah be prepared for alie Pani knor baino bill neither haa baen gives a fall trial but all precedents are on hd aide of statehood and from our way ot looking at the matter all are also on that side yei ant we want to get rid of the utah commission bays the democrats 1 and the absolute the governor we also want to elect our own officers that is right and au this is obtained by statehood there Is nothing good that can be gained by ciomo nilo that cannot be secured by statehood and we that the enabling act stands even a better eho of being passed than does home ralf if only utah democrats will get out of the way and let the statehood measure have a full and fair trial sut when they sit down in the pathway hugging their rag baby republicans cant get passed them democrats control the lower house of congles Con gres and if our democratic friends in utah insist on the passage of the faulkner caine bill their frienda in tha lower house will undoubtedly make it a party measure but to say they will of own accord favor homo rule rather than statehood is to impute to them motives not actuated by intelligence such a system ag proposed by the faulknor caine bill is not american wo never have had anything like it in the history of the country and many regard the departure as liable to be fraught with great evil we are one of this class and feel convinced that the whole home rule movement has been BO far engineered by politicians for nothing else than the gains of tha offices which will result the people of utah have had no say in the matter they are almost unanimously in bayor of abate hood but the politicians have painted the picture so as to make it appear that home rule is the only fruit in reach no matter how tempting the statehood apples may appear they are too high up in the tree now we want to say that the alter is just as easily plucked as the focher every bit and we believe utah is ready tor do sot think that our honest citizens should bo placed on probation to gratify th whims of a few anti mormon politicians tic ians an dunder the circumstances the beat thing for the people to do is to enla and in favor of statehood if democrats and republicans unite in asking tor statehood the teller enabling act will go through with a rush |