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Show M)X i H'10 KC OIISTIlt'CTIOSHTSl Eij i II would be lo porno MtenUwmlo of v J i tbo reader's tlrno and out own spare to U, 1 publish a reYlew of Ilia work performed WW I ' 7 tho Trns-MIUilrpl Oorwreas, M j wboit onion closed In Da-elan jtmUi Eii 1 d7 srimlng. Thli for Iho reason Hint ft llietojlumns of Ilia Nnwaliave elslljr I Bi; l contained Tnlumlnous roports to llf'. whit was done, comlnt from n ipecUl UVtJn. nientaiwell as In tlio ordlnsry clian- fe ! nli of telegraphic Information, and w not at all btuauso the proceeding! tlu , not warrant audi retlew. Home few Bk JJ ' tnrjeclt arose, however, which may P proptrlj boapoken of; lnce they point B lj',l ti a moral If thejr don't adorn a tale, and I Ui)' r furnlih food for a ulise.t which they Iff Imparl. I Oneiof these points oroia on the ills- H flit a cuMlon of the tlatehood resolution. HfM ' Tolssublsct aia wlioto wo do not rtre Ml toellscusa. There am an abundance of tS i men In Utah who favor and oppoie B fK i adiulralon, and many of tberu on either H. ' rf aide do io, we doubt not, honestly and J. Intelligently. Kacti Im an Indliput- I able right to hit way of thinking, and H VI I we would not overosmnhlm except by 1 ' timely argument If we could. That the H jM Territory hat a r ght to enttr the H ; Union, Judged by the standards which Hi' 1 havoobtalnod In other cate,seiaui la B ' ! V ui beyonJ epjotlou, and II had boon a) Hi' I shown In theie coIii.iips numbers of Hi f ! tlruef. Tho ground! on which the o HJ i I ' position In the L'ongresi was baieJ Hi, i were that ltwas not a proper subject l I fjr that body to handle, that It II . i wm a purely local mal'cr, an 4 Hj ' ' that those people front u ills-HK ills-HK ' Ultra coultl not bu Infirmod as thoe Hi I living here aro regarding Ui merits H anddemerlls. This Is the sulject wo H had In view when this aitlili wss HJ , commenced; for If the gentlemen who Hj advanced such arguments were alto. Hjf j gither slncero lu what thrysald, bs Hj i yond all question It Is they who need a Htt further terra In thoiouool ofuJvnnco Ht it ment and not thoie of whom they Hj spoke, constituting a majority of the HJ Iopulllon. Hjt Uther of the speakers refirred to HJ will readily and without opposition HJ admit that the press Is not only a HJ" power but the power In the land; that HJ Its mission as an Informer and educa. HK' tor has been growing steadily until at Hjr last, except (or spsolal naioni, HJ It li no more neceisary to HJ vlilt some other part of the HJ country than that In which HJ the reader resides to learn of the polltl Hj cal and social conditions there than It HJ isforhlmto plunge Into water lobe HJ I sure that It Is wet. The prois has not HJ I only Informed and educated: It has HJ I I brought peoplea and seollins together HJ " and made tbem ai Intimate and well J1" Informed regarding each other at long l range as they ooul J possibly have bi. - come at short range, In many cases HI more so, for we can obiervo some ob HJ JeoU better at a dlslauco than wo can Hj close by. This has been the work of Ithe press, and It may properly be classed as Its gnalest achievement among many thtt are more HJi't th,n great that aro mighty. HJ I Hut add to this grand work HJ. t that of tho telegra li which elooa mora than bring people together by Hjr' sitting aside the time and apaco luteir- venlug, and such a Ihlug as an Isolated HK or purely local life within the borders Hi of tho great ICepubllo become HJ will nigh out of the question. HJj Mora particularly dots this aptly to Ha oonsULtandsystcmsllocommuulciiuts HJj of the press and esjicclally as to mat. ters rtlljjlous, social and political. HJ Uousldsr all this In connection wllh HMi the notable truth tbat fjr thirty years HJ last the quuitlon as tu Utah's IIIuim HJ for statehood has btcu discussed by the HJ I rets of the Hulled Htates, great HH ; and email and without exception; H that It baa bicn tho tuljtct HH of numerous debates In Congress MM which have reached constltueuclis In BH every Kirllon of the land; tint u has HB been the thtmaol numberless licturei, BBft sermons and speeches everywhere, BH that Utah Itself since tho civil war has HJ beeu the peculiar lynoiuro of the HJ whole civilized earth but more parti. HB ' rularly the Uulled rjlatn; and tLeu In BJI . conclusion uJd the ract that neatly If BBf ' not quite every oho of these gontli. BBb men who spok In favor of the rnolu. Ba tlon have had the buucrll of that thirty BJB years ofiducatlon aided In many casta M J I y 1tiouj1 contact and lnr ictlun, and BJB I. Ilituta), If you bavo tho timtrlly to BJB 'I do so, they are not acquainted with Bl the case, that It Is n question relutlug BJB I eoullarly to InhablUuti if Uth, tbat BJB' ltlsuroly atjucALMAnriil BJB J Talk about turning buck tho wheels BBb if irogrttauud bringing tho glowing BJB irtpculfato to faiu wllh the luuitj JB I'' H Talk about whit some other BBV liophiHiiiild do If 1,1 vi li an opot- BJB t it nit j t lalkabnut slowniis In guliiu BBV uheud and Inuulllty to rciognlze how BJBt iilhtr pliuesnreswupliiB (as uil Can BJH unjthliigto more subvuralvu of llui BJBJ dspisltlonlo grow and cxpind aud BJH t rut ahead than to LotousUntly con- B Irontod by bourbona and croakers ana BJBJ blgotsaudepiculstorswhoforpurpOfta BJH ol their own uuctuiltiuly rcclj whin HB Ihtlr auiited uie la net lollowtd aud BBB ti ut iLttO ly mlsrcprtsent when their HI one Is p'utl HB Oce word a to tbo personnel of the BBB Congress. They wtru chosen as a rule HJ becsuioortholrlltmssby mumr bod. BBB, It" of men laoury laiu mpable of HJ making good iilictlonv. Tiny are BV representative of their resjeotlvd sic- HHJ lions and to a man were Intelligent and wldc-awike to what In their Judgment Judg-ment Is the best Interests of the largett number In the Ureat West. II was not a srculatlon wllh tbem, so oven If they were so disposed they would scarcely oppose their own conscience, Judgment Judg-ment and Information. To say or Imply that theie men are so feeble-mlndrd feeble-mlndrd that they do net Understand the esse, or so Infirm of purposu that they aro easily awajid one way or another, may be some ptoile's real Idea of what the average Western man Is and en Illustration of what kin 1 nf "rrogress" we ought to have. If so let them enjoy It to Iho utmost; It Is almost a caie of finding a cbnrni In the midst of erfect solitude. |
