Show THAT PROTEST anti statehood protest forwarded to congress is highly misrepresentative on its face it purports to be accompanied by genuine signatures and claims to represent gentiles this is exceedingly transparent it has been stated repeatedly that the document has been av and indefatigably circulated in every part of utah this being th case all gentiles had access to it yet considerably less than one fourth of their alleged number signed it in addition it is well wea to take into consideration that the protest asserts that many cormons mormons Mor mons signed it suppose that the word many should be construed ia to mean say this being small in proportion to the bulk of that claw class the gentile entile Gf endorsement would be reduced to about about 8 or in round numbers about onee one seventh of what is stated to be the whole yet all were informed of the movement and could have reached the document if the fact be also taken into account that in almost all ma matters ers of Ws his kind lots iota of people can be persuaded tato into signing feigning anything the document is not so proportionately strong it is about as the chicago C liam stated that it to is the active politicians who assume to speak for the gentile population of utah it must be admitted however that the estimate which places the non mormon population of utah at or one fourth of the whole requires the use of fancy fig ures urea it to is exceedingly doubtful whether they will reach one seventy and those who rate that plass class of the people so high ought to throw off a few thousand thou sani for us for old acquaintance quai nonce sake if not for the sake of truth A large portion of the protest is devoted to laudation of the las it claims to represent there can be no special objection to this self ululation alu a ju lation in relation to intelligence honesty and enterprise as enuncio eions of that chaba character emanating from and returning to tho the parties in p point ot nt are genelay gen eray taken oaken with a little salt mat statements however that throw discredit by means of falsehood upon another class of the community exhibit the cloven foot according to the representations loas of these cc active politicians there was nothing here tin they came Fortun fortunately atey for the tru truth tl this territory was i bloomy ng with buty beauty and ally alive with active adiv industry long eiore before they ever set eyed eyes upon it the fame of utah fa as containing an enterprising and heroic community had already spread amob among the people oar aff but these late cor comers biers have done it all according to their tory ard ardithe e p people e 0 ale who made it possible fur for them to live here are only fit to be trampled under their active ca cal I 1 feet 1 the protest throughout is a mi ma represent adye paper formulated to io push the political schemes of those who have bave been conspicuous in the movement which gave it if b birth |