Show HOME RULE IT is to bo be profoundly regretted that lion ion john henry smith with judge 0 C w V dennitt should go to washington to blend his influence with that which is being used against home rule for utah ulah wo do not mistake the gentlini gent leni lemans ins pogi position tion for lie said eaid before the comi of Cong congress 0 rc that L lie preferred to remain under the present existing laws including tile utah commission if lie he could not get entire stat statehood lie 40 ports tell us ais that ili his attitude was a 1 surprise to the members of tile the committee senator faulkner IT wondered if all the persecutions and oppressions oppress ions of the alie mormon mornion or nion people which they hey were said to suffer under the It present resent law were real or imaginary ile he visited utah last november lie observed 0 the workings of carpet bag 0 rule lie lie listened to the complaints of the people his sympathies aroused and lie returned to AN washington as id ton determined ined to do anle thin thing for this territory orv lie ile said we call cannot n ot g give i ve you statehood now because the senate and the president both oppose it but we can rid you of imported officials wo we can prevent these carpet from ruling over you and I 1 will intro introduce duee a bill to allow you the privilege 13 of electing 0 your own governor 0 governor your own judges 0 anil and county officials that you vou may be k governed mo verned by those of your own choice it was no idle promise senator faulkner returned to 11 Wai a sh hington ington and lie did introduce a bill in the senate his com coin plemely ely lion john T caine in introduced trod a similar bill in the lie lower house aliis measure was called up fa for r consideration men kent from utah to oppose it powers delivered a long iong harangue 0 in opposition to it allen alien denounced it because lie ho claimed clail ned tile lie people could not be trusted to select elect their own olli cere cerF judge n bennett made a long winded a argument r a against aa dinst it but bul senator faulkner simply raid paid vc peeled all this opposition from these nien men they ire are sore eore against the bill because it will deprive them of their appointive jobs then another important personage 0 rose to speak against home rule 1 it t was jol john in henry smith ion one e of th alie e apostles senator r aulener could be scarcely arcely believe his acs other melli members biers of the committee were surprised and when that leader among mong 0 the people lie ile shuo sought allt to befriend had turned against liis measure of relief senator faulkner knew not what to think other members of the committee were surprised senator platt the 1 re e publican chairman could not gothelp help asking 0 and yet you vou are a mormon oil 1 we r e do not claim to know the motive which mr smith lad had in opposing the measure but as statehood stems senis to be out of the question que lion we only wonder why lie ile should prefer to let his cople le ruled by federal ouicla rath rather than by men of their own le hoice choice ele elected cad iv by their own free b ballots a hots no one can call say that this is ill an attack upon mr smith but we have certainly a light to comment on oil a matter of such grave importance to our readers |