Show A BILL FOE FOR THE OP OF utah SENATOR benator A of nebraska so 80 the dispatches inform us introduced a bill on wednesday for I 1 the admission of utah into the union as a state we may naturally expect that the press preas of the country will become very much ex cited and lay jay down the proposition for the nine hundred and ninety ninth time that polygamy will never be recognized by the united states senator banders sanders too will doubtless be assailed as the champion of polygamy for introducing a measure looking to statehood and yet polygamy hag has nothing really to do with the question after the space of many d days I 1 it may dawn upon the minds of jour that the great bugaboo of the marriage relations of the latter day saints does not properly enter into the political status of utah as a territory or a state of the union it forms no part of her political organization iza tion does not enter into her law lawr asks for no recognition as a secular system but is wholly and entirely an ecclesiastical question regulated by sacerdotal rites nitea and governed by religious motives the constitution of the state of utah utan speaks for itself it is one that contains all the essentials it provides for gfa a republican form of government it is liberal and broad in its extension of privileges to all citizens alike has no discriminations in favor of any creed party or race embodies all the features of modern state constitutions which are considered progressive and abreast with the advance of the limesand time sand if presented by any other than a mon Mor mormon moue mone community would evoke the admiration of both democrats and republicans the he polygamy question is lugged in inato ato the consideration of statehood by those thosa who desire to keep this territory in a condition which offers an opportunity forre i wards to political hangers on and a chance for a living to the professional office holder hoider and office seeker how long it will loom up into undue importance and to blind the eyes of statesmen when attempting to look at the claims of utah to statehood we do not pretend to say we have no idea however that it willi at present be removed to a sufficient extent to permit of a fair and can did investigation of the subject there thereto ia little probability of utah a admission into the union just now but it is the duty of her citizens to continue knocking at the doors of congress and asking if she may come in the responsibility of her position will then rest lest upon the power that can admit not upon her people who are kept out in the cold at once a source of annoyance and expense to the country instead of being a help and a strength to the nation we cin can afford to wait walt some day perhaps so congress may find that it cannot afford to be fool ed by the sophistry of ariesta pr lesta iesta the nonsense of political fanatics or the ravings of official pap suckers and rapacious adventurers then utah will go in with a welcome and add glory and wealth to the greatest government ani en under ander the sun |