Show A yew FEW IN IM our local columns today to day appears a statement of interesting facts in relation to the development of utah during the last twenty yearb years so BO far as the growth of population and political geographic changes are concerned it Is taken from the 9 1 compendium of the tenth census of 1880 and is consequently as near correct as statistics of that character generally are nearly every antl anti mormon speaker who treats upon his favorite and threadbare thread bare theme strikes an attitude and assumes ft a look loot of stale consternation when be reaches that pointon point foint ot his harangue which treats upon the fact of the latter day saints having climbed over the borders of utah into neighboring states and territories and aro there a growing power this manufactured fright at the presence of the objects of SO BO much III ill feeling and green eyed sentiment in the country sun bun surrounding rounding utah has an exceedingly ludicrous aspect when the events of a few years ago azo are considered who placed the cormons mormons Mor mons in the country contiguous to utah to begin with when with their c characteristic industry and enterprise they settled the surrounding district over the border it formed an integral part of utah there appeared to be such an anneo anleo tion in nevada wyoming and idaho for the mor mons and the lands they in habited that considerable alices pf af utah including their settlers were taken into the bursum stute and dl wei wex xi ri named and none can deny without falsification that they have been among the most moat active and end efficient developers of the commonwealths which took them in and as such are deserving of esteem consideration and some bome gratitude the wholesale division of utah into so BO many parcels and hunding handing a proportionate piece to each of the states or territories on her border haa las been frequently advocated as aa a proper method of solving what Is generally termed the mormon question tion although we contend there Is no such question in a existence only so far as it is manufactured by the enemies of the territory the effects of the partial dismemberment of utah hab has exploded this theory if the discontented distorters dist of the situation are not satisfied with that modus operandi in part its application as aa a whole would give them still more severe attacks of the anti cM mormon ormon onmon gripes a complaint that is becoming most monotonously common |