| Show eod elb SF S I 1 F T 0 As y AT the late session of the colorado legislature le an act was passed creating cre a board board of immigration to be composed of five members with president ana aed tres Tred treasurer surer elected out of andy the five to be appointed by the governor of the territory rya ryn a majority to constitute a quorum the territorial librarian to ige bre b e secretary of bf the board the members bembe r a of the board to td receive nive five dollard dollars each per day with 15 cen cents Is mil eago actually en engaged gi a ged in mee meeting tingA of tb the b oard board ca county yn tj commissioners to elec elee a corresponding P 0 1 g secretary for their respective county the Gove governor jo fo designate agents resident iq in any country it in europe to co operate with the board in disseminating information aud nud encouraging emigration to the territory the purpose of the board may be understood der stood from the following sections of the act SEC 4 it shall bo be the duty of said board to adopt and put in execution such measures as will best promote and encourage immigration to the territory and for this purpose they shall publish anti antl disseminate such useful information aa 83 they can obtain eon con concerning corn cern inythe the development and undeveloped resources of the territory and ma may Y p provide 1 0 for one of their number or s such buch u c other person as the board may select to attend such Agil agli agricultural cultural and institute fairs hairs as may be deemed expedient for the display of the agricultural and mineral products of the territory seo BEO 8 the sum of six th thousand busand dollars la Is hereby appropriated out but of any moneys in the treasury not other wise ampro appropriated for the use of said board of immigration tion to be expended in such manner as will best promote the objects of this act i arld arid the terri territorial tor auditor Is hereby authorized and required alred aired to draw his warrant upon the treasurer Frea treasurer surer burer in favor of said board of irn immigration for that ami amt amount junto and said treasurer upon paying the same bame shall take a receipt from of the board thereof and in no cado cade ca e shall the thi e territory be bound to py phy a larger amount of money money than Is iff hereby appropriated ro S SEO 11 said board is authorized to open books of subscription and donations and contributions of money and an dother other articles from or persons person willing swilling to aid or interested in the subject of immigration to the ter which sums bums of moses money or articles so BO donated donated and contributed shall be under control of and expended or exhibited ed by said board for the purpose of carrying out the provis provisions ioni lonh of this act and for the purpose of further farther carrying out the pro Dro provisions visions of this act the board may appoint one or more of its ltd mi mems m bers bera or such other person or persons as the board may determine upon as agents or of the board to visit buch hueh places in liu this country as may be by them deemed best for the of giving information and of encouraging gration to the territory provided lahat that thai in no case shall such agent be allowed any compensation except such reasonable sum as may be necessary to defray his hla actual traveling expenses the formation of such a board has hag not been necessary in utah yet its valleys have been populated by thou thousands on thousands or of immigrants not only from all the State states sand band and territories but from almost all ali nationalities mostly before any noise was wag made concerning the mineral resources resource a of the territory and in years when it presented probably fewer inducements naturally to immigrants than any iother territory among the reasons for such extensive nili aril and d successful immigration not with standing the reputed paucity of the material resources of the territory may be mentioned ds as standing prominently forth north the uncommon enter enterprise prize and libera liberality of our citizens many of whom have made large elo olo donations nations some of them annually for a number of years forthe express purpose of assisting im migrants who desired to come to utah and make their home in the territory but much more moro assistance has been rendered than by mere donations of means large and numerous as aa those have bee beo begnand been nand and commencing as early in the history of the territory as when the first settlers had barely had bad time to locate and turn themselves round hundreds of our brave pioneers and later settlers have not only freely given of their mineana eans for this purpose but have also freely breely given of their their thein time and energies going forth through the states and through many foreign nations without any salary or stipulated pecuniary corn corm sensation pensa tion aud and not bearing their own expenses seeking fh f ing jog an 9 advising and nd i 0 otherwise he i salle valse 7 tt w hundreds U and rt rho usa ula dil nil s of f pe personal rians wah who Q were des desirous I 1 us t to 0 corn como come e to Uta hand haud make muke the wilderness rejoice with the busy hum bum of industry and with peace good will and prosperity material materi aland and moral numbers of these public spirit ed citizens of ours have spent years in hit this philanthropic manner crossing the oceans atlan atlantic ti ciaci pacific fae aae indian etc some efthem of them many times so that in many respects utah has haa set a noble example to other territories antt anti am states in promoting and fostering the progress and prosperity of the comman community ity by encouraging and assisting immigration ram lg ration in divers judicious way waye and jand to A a veryl very liberal berat extent we wa wrote above of immigrant granO who were desirous of settling in ekis tul territory to advance its ita material and moral prosperity and we meant it in some sates states st ates and territories there la is a manifest desire to advance the interests of the community materially but the moral interests Interest sare bare are not considered not thought of as if they were wire not worthy of being taken into consideration our citizens did not fall fali into this grea great tand and injurious mistake all the territories around us were originally peopled by some of the very worst characters bad bold do sperate desperate reckless men who hesitated at no villain yno crime if their purposes bes ses could be sub served by its committal such was waa not the case with utah its pioneers were a band of brave seif belf denying devoted men who wished to find or to found a commonwealth where such things as peace purity honesty virtue etc ete should prevail and where material prosperity however desirable in a healthful degree should not absorb the whole at attention of the community in order to effect this desirable purpose many of the more prominent of our citizens have bestowed upon the matter so much of their means and time and thought and energy and have been careful what kind of immigrants they assisted that they might secure the best charac aers erb era in every community they have visited they the they y confined their assistance assi stancey stancEr almost exclusively to migrAnts immigrants with their families and rela ions and friends who at least professed to believe iru jit god 4 arid antl jesus christ to repent of their sins bins and order their lives in ih accordance with the revealed will of god so far as it related bothem to them the results of this policy have been highly gratifying A class of people have settled this territory who it Is neither egotism nor no r jl flattery to say are decidedly superior in morality to td the people of any other territory or state in in the union end ond by ba natural tural sequence there bab bad awen been less lees immoral i ity and less crime of all kinds in utah than in any portion of the union in proportion to the population thib this substratum of morality in the population has made utah what she sho la the most promising commonwealth that the united states can boast and it cannot fall fail to tell favorably and decidedly upon the future of the territory and those adjacent demonstrating the good go od sense sene farseeing far seeing sagacity and aud the true patriotism of those who hayet haya e exercised X control controlling ling influence in the community ba from Us its inception to the pre present time jf if our colorado neighbors or any oth other people le can see anything in mhd policy pursued by our oun citizens in this matter mitter of encouraging immigration that they may deem worthy of admiration they are free to follow copy A SAN FRANCISCO paper thus reports mrs emily pitts stevens I 1 who spoke a good word for the men in the recent lecent womans comans suffrage convention Convent loff she said she had not been listening to tc the resolutions and could not nob speak to td them all present knew her ken ten sentiments ciment 8 and it was not necessary to repeat them but she would say this much she dl did not think the he men had been treated fairly what we want is not womans comans rights nor mens rights but human rights the men were bot not to blame for the present status of woman any more than the women themselves were 4 was the fault of circumstances under which all suffer alike she knew the good men of the country were in favor of women having their rights I 1 let net women stand up for their rights it if they want them she believed the men of this nation were going to help heip the women out in this thing mrs leland stanford had bad lately told her that sh sho she had been converted by her husband he had advocated woman suffrage tor for twenty years bhe ghe believed all intelligent g e nt mell meil men thought w women gomen om w were gere i ere thel their r equale be at ie be idna inca A ninan nanan dra dna ni e ouid oud osuld gub ent at would like ilke b a a agree nyree ee in n aa it don dor t doo doi 6 to men it dont pay to abuse thim them we aie afe sie are only half civilized in this nineteenth century anyhow at convention mrs mra church hill said i women had bad id always ways loved ed men isma iama terni prevent the council room that clas of men who are solicitous for the welfare of nations knust must know tha that t maternity should be made honorable when savage meba moh come to a stream they get on their wives backs an and make them CA carry rry them over she would rather be an australian woman and dive for clams than have to bear all obloquy and inconvenience of loving men ier urs churchill referred to the social evil bill I 1 think there is little danger of our races becoming indistinct by giving them the ballot bailot we maybethe may bythe ballot bailot compel men to taka take care of every child thatis thau that is born and than they do now mrs dr willis was rather severe on the in men en sa said bald I 1 d a she bhe h e we have city fathers I 1 wish we had a few city mothers the men meri pay more attention to licentious than they do to us ua and they know it THE movement to secure a st state ate gov utah is now fairly under way the delegates chosen by the late convention we may shortly expect to hehr hear have arrived la in Washington where they will proceed to lay before congress the wishes of an immense majority of the people of the territory and thoe those people in trl a little more than a week vill have the opportunity of voting upon the constitution adopted by the of electing a representative to congress for the state of Deseret and Sena senators tors and representatives for the legislative assembly for the ensuing few weeks much speculation will be indulged in concerning the probabilities of the admission dionor or non admission of utah to the rights of statehood A few persons in the territory oppose the rag rad movement for a state organization but we have never ben been able to see any justifiable grounds for breuch borsuch or sueh huch opposition tha the pith dathe of the reasons assigned ef a far as we can comprehend them is IF like this we should like to rule utah we hav have some esome influence with the fedi fed eral orai appo appointees Jute for utah territory it utah become a state our influence will abe be as tte abb af the inhabitants hai hal tan Is have no in us ua therefore we will do all vie tie we chil cail can to fre prevent the i people popie from obtaining a at state ate organic organization atlon and ano with that tiie tile cam common right baud band saud sand privileges of Anie aule american citizens and abd endeavor with all 0 our ur energies and abilities abil ties lo io have the people kept in I 1 div liv territorial serfdom until we think we ve ard abid to secure the authority to rule overt oyer oyent them hem 11 so that the local opposition to a state organization is simply a matten mattec of selfish ambition at the expense of the he rights and privileged bf af tho the people at large and should be so considered iff inthe the action of the people in this movement among the opponents of this territory corya assuming statehood outside of utah dome some some bome appe appear arto to consider it the duty of Cong congress reas reps to keep a territory out of the th union as h a state aa long iong as it can cau possibly be ba done INTO now V we respectfully assure all such aitch persona persons that they ent entirely liely misconceive the proper nature of the relations exi exl existing stink between congress and alid the verni Verri Territories tories and the true spi spirit of american liberty and are merging verging on the iron yule yuie policy of despotic governments in the primitive history of the united states almost all the vast region beyond the mississippi was a a veritable terra 1 incognita the territory northwest of the tile ohio ex tending extending westwards to the mississippi and not included in any of the states then organized may be likened to the region embr embraced acad with in lri the p present resent territories at that time the political doctrine was in accordance with the true spirit of american liberty true republicanism chih WAS that the people of that northwest territory should be encouraged to assume the dignity of statehood and consequent seif self government as aa bavly 4 as was reasonably bl practicable in this thi s republican spirit an ordinance for the government of af the territory of the united states northwest northie of the river biver ohio was ordained a portion of which ordinance reads as follows there shall be fo for medin t the he said territory not less thaw three nor non bhore than thin five states v we irand tand wan whenever aey kev any of I 1 8 shall all nil have sixt yath busand rree free enli inhabit abit ants ints J therein a sueh euch swe shail shall lie be ad milted gilted by its legates relegates ae the theaon con gress of 0 the united states on an equal fooling with the original states in all respect respects 3 whatever and bhail shall bo be at liberty to forma form permanent constitution and state government provided the constitution and gov goy government e i so to be formed shall be republican and ind in to lea contained in these articles and anit ao 30 fan ran ar as it can Us be consistent with the gre general librat interest of the confederacy sueh guen admission shall be allowed abaid at an ea earlier period add nd when there may be adeas niesa number of free inhabitants iti t thau than sixty thou thousand sanOl nowhere now here herb it Is stated positively that states should be organized and admitted out oat of said territory when certain portions of said territory to constitute a state had inhabitants and so far as it could be consist consistent ont with the general interest of the union at an earlier period and when there may be a less ri number timber of free inhabitants in the state than 11 what |
