Show mailer of cost there are opponents of statehood assiduously working among the farmers and other people of utah whose pecuniary position is such as to make taxation a telling them of the raise in taxes which state government will necessitate there are always people who will listen to any argument relating to their pocket books when principle is ignored the fact that they will have to pay perchance par chance a few bollara more into the public treasury they will let themselves ba blinded to tho greater advantages of freedom they are lacking in patriotism we will admit for w nally they move ia a narrow sphere r where they scarcely see the advantages at self government we conversed with a peasant from russia a few daya ago who lived in that country for nearly a half a century being free to breathe the blessed air and raise enough onisime of his taxes to feed anji clothe himself and family he had not ambition beyond that narrow sphere and in this country he expects nothing more the result is that he believes russia as good a government as this and ie free to express bis belief there are many of conr good people in utah to day who aay 1 I have made a living ander a territorial form oj government and I 1 dont think that do bettor under statehood it taxes are going to be higher I 1 dont know that I 1 shall vote for statehood of course this class of humanity manity ho thank the lord is greatly in the minority but the sordid argument used against statehood is catching them if this country had bean cursed with such colonists coloni sti more than a century ago there would have been no republic of tho united states they ware we are happy to say possessed of patriotic feeling and ere ready to pay the high price of their sacred lifes blood for freedom shall we who live in the mountains ay that we will not pay the paltry price of a slight raise iu taxes T we hope not if a raise in taxes is tha beet argument that can be brought against hood the constitution ought to ba adopted by an almost unanimous vote |