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Show Mlilll AMI t IAII. Till' Umaha irorM Herald want to know "What ahall we do with Nevada" Ne-vada" aud ya "If Ihe population continue to deuraaoa It did during the laat decade, In twenty year there wilt not be enough peole wlthlu the Hlate'i limit to fill her offlcea." While rot rating agalnkl thla plan of "aelf-eraaure,"Uit organ urge, a the only racllcable aolutlon of the Nevada iroblem, that the "rotbin borough" bu annexed to Utah and the reaultlng Territory be roinlly admitted to the unlou. It aver In tht connection that Utah woul I have no good reaeon to object, anl Nevad' "aeutlment" on Ihe nit J ret la not entitled to coualderatlon, aluce her atatrhood la maintained largely for the accommodation accommoda-tion of n few millionaire. There I at leaat onu feature of till proiioilllon which la commendable: the editor ha an obvious ilealre to hve thlugadone on the iuarr. Hut hla excellent wlili ha not been auDlclent lo roticthlni from error. Tu talk of the annexation of Nevada lo Utah with the latter a Territory I nomieiiae, and bealdea thlathere I no uie talking ol annexation echome la dlajioau of Nevada while Nevada It a Hlate without with-out It formftl cunaetit to uch action A for the oile of Utah not ol Jet ling to the icheine, It will be time enough to look If to that matter when time inaki a It adol Hon racllcable. Meanwhile, Mean-while, we want to congratulate Hi llorMiiru'illu not echoing Ihe atlll more alunl proltlon to "attach Utah to Nevada," which haa been agitating tho mind of Nvada politician politi-cian and nunurou other political aud iiewppr demagogue. The notion of an ocean liner attaching HmII tu Ihe barnacle that might rchance adhere to It totloui would have quite a largu an Ingredient of common enae. Utah I a wealthy, owerful aud rugrraalvu commonwraltli, pueiraaiil of the material reaource for ua. talnlng a million or more of peo- le. Nevada, by actual demouatra-Hon, demouatra-Hon, hairoveii her utter Incapailly to auaUIn half the numWr required In the conatllullon to entitle her to a place In the Uulon. Vet aome of her "alate-men" "alate-men" are wrecking their conatllutlon lu a aluld iiidaavor lo hivo Utah attached loherdrstrl border. Their unrM lliua far haa certainly not bttu encouraging. |