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Show THE NATION WATCHING US. (Salt Lake Telegram.) The eyes of the Nation are upon Utah. We are being watched. No State of the Union is getting a greater share of publicity, not to say notoriety. Much of the talk about us is against us, malevolently against us. Only those who read the papers of other States know how violent and vicious some of this comment is. But it is the part of wisdom to know the truth. To remain in blissful ignorance of the assaults upon Utah invited by the Hooper oung crime, by the recently re-cently published histories of the State, and particularly by the prospective pros-pective election of the Hon. Reed Smoot to the United States Senate is to play the part of the idiotic ostrich with one's head stuck in the sand. It is unfortunate that the majority of Utah's State legislators legis-lators read but one newspaper, else would they know what is going on in the world. The people of forty-four forty-four other States are so impertinently imperti-nently concerned in the doings of our State legislature because Utah has just the same number of Senators Sena-tors in the National body as has New York State, with like rights, like powers and like influence. Our Senators are an integral part of the ninety. They have more to say for the affairs of the Nation than for the affairs of our own State. It is not unnatural, therefore, for our fellow-citizens of other parts of the Union to inquire as to what we mean to do respecting the Senator-ship. Senator-ship. All of us now know the programme of the legislature. The pledges to Hon. Reed Smoot will be kept faithfully. What will happen hap-pen after that remains to be seen. The thing for all of us to do who stand for Utah's progress is to get all the light we can on the situation. situa-tion. It is not a theory, but a condition that confronts us. It is useless to quarrel with facts. The one pre-eminent fact is, that the eyes of the Nation are upon Utah, and we are being watched. Whether we like it or do not like it the fact will not be changed one particle. parti-cle. The Telegram, in its capacity of a newspaper, means to give its readers the news all the news all the time. An important piece of news is that Utah has aroused the interest impertinent interest, if you will of the whole Nation. What does young Utah mean to do about it? |