Show n 3 L STATEHOOD the question 0 of tile the lour hour is what are firc tile the prospects for bacon bacconi illa ins state tile the people pc oplas a delc delegates ancs have been in ill convention tit ft the aier tir rit orial capital deliberating 0 upon this question until their are mada public we lye hall not licit be fully prepared to the chances that exist favoring her admission into the union that ili it it is i her right I 1 there can be no doubt nith every unprejudiced person utah should have joined the 0 galaxy of states many years ago 30 through her delegates she has constantly asked to receive her into the confederacy but the petition peli tiou hasi has I a new feature in the political volu alexion of tho lie territory but the movement in that direction seems to be receiving D stimulants that give it a new impetus ui it at the present time linic so jar far at least asa large majority of the citizens or arc concerned how congress a will view the matter is something 0 to bo be decided by tile the future deliberations of that body it becomes us as american citizens to petition for our rier right 0 tits as is that has been alic precedent seaby set by all the territories of the union before iner merging ging from territorial vassalage and putting a on the more diguiro dignified 0 habiliments of statehood when territories possess all the necessary prerequisites they certainly should be advanced to equal privileges and endowed stilli ilia those rights that the constitution authorizes in fit every similar case if no lightly 0 understand under taw object of the present convention it is to formulate q a state constitution that shall be in ili every sense republican no petition differing C in fornia form or character front from tin tills s would express cither their arile political principles or their desires dc sirca and ne c arc imbued with tile fullest favest couet dence that the convention will not draft or sanction a class of resolutions that are not fully in accordance with wilh the american ideas of nhat republican institutions really should be anything b else would tie do violence 0 lo 10 o their principles and motives no territory lias has ever licen per fo join tile the galaxy of states stales will a fairer record of good achieve intents laid and loyalty than utah presents today to day we ive have built up ill this region 0 from 1 a deso doo lation lalion we IVL brought here fill all tile the emblems of chiv life and the rude customs of tile the predatory bands passed away be fore the abe benignant a M sway y of progress we b have ave go given yen even evell colossal evidences of ability for state S cottrn 0 yern anent we have successfully conducted the legislative department of the also tile the judicial ilc de io be far 1 ns I tic ile had 0 mate colit control rol our timbers lumbers are far in excess of is required 11 in the midst or of thebe rocky mountains so sterile and forbidding han tile ty exiled ailed tartt pitched their tents here the boil has been made productive by the abc waters of irrigation which tile strong 0 arms of 0 this people I yc brought n out from tile the streams calash the products of tho the earth to ile be for the thousands thou sandi who have settled here besides lar barsc C amounts that been exploited from poverty we wc increased in ill comforts and riches I 1 through 0 habits ol of industry indu itry atry ind and frugality v many hotot lot of our religions 0 1013 faith have ble cn turea litre here lit re settled lived anti and fol followed lovied various pursuits pursuit 9 IN without molestation and many such have made boade good 0 fortunes and their prosperity in business was never ablated until political tricksters trick and unprincipled fortune hunters cou coal auoe i n i intall qt a in sonic way different from legitimate a enterprise slid and honest hollest toil every I 1 acry effort ill be made b liy J political intrigue the misrepresentation of dispatches and 1 a I lying crebs to keep utah out of tile the desired statehood of uns there is no doubt lut dut nill they be successful this I 1 question anul be left for future le legislation to decide lit jn tile lie meantime inic it is i tile privilege c ami duty of atall to ak for hir hi r rights 0 and the blie lias has done so with tier her claims predicated upon reasons as just and solid as those possessed by ilia territories that have already passed into tile iho I 1 union of states here ulicee vill rill our otar opponents I 1 ponente or congress expect to look for justifiable justi flable excuses excuse ti the present movement will afford I 1 one more opportunity to hac tills this latest iou fully brought brou a glit before the I 1 country before congress 0 and the n administration d it will wil t give gire the territory a chance to present her claims molt lore fully perhaps than llian heretofore I 1 and aid ceable to correctly ai aa to 16 her teal ital political elatus I 1 it will be the means of ricou 11 cilius cili up wany many objections ons heretofore 11 urged as reasons why a stale gov clament should not be granted nud and 01 our I 1 will wall I 1 be brou glit to a berroa W avi it L 4 1 or cr the full fall nati national 0 list or re representative presen dative alg rights ills are arc to ile be withdrawn withdrawal froin tanj or the privileges of freemen tic lie accorded at all events it is r that our claims be presented and ano wi our i petition for admission be renewed |