| Show TIE TE IDAHO MEMORIAL I 1 THE memorial to congress protesting test ilag spinet against the admission ottah vas state adopt edby the idaho legislature is of the most scandalous of its ito claw class ever penned forthal for that reason it should cover those who take any part par in pushing it with eternal infamy in addition to the idaho assembly di interfering with the aclaire of another territory with which 16 has ha no legal business bu ainee the memorial is 41 of misrepresentation from beginning to end upon that basis it aks not only that utah be not admitted bd into the union adt that federal legislation be enacted which would deprive this territory of every vestige of home rule or self elf government gov emment what a spectacle is thus presented by a body of alleged law makers of one section of the country requesting the legislative branch of the general government to deprive the people of another section of their rights and reduce them to political serfdom the reason for this ridiculous as aa devas we B perfidious attitude atti tade of the idaho legislature is in perfectly clear it to Is only a piece of a political plot and is opera fad under condi conditions tim of the aft aims and move ments mente of the dive active politicians ciana of utah are well understood A legislative commission has been beba one of their chiet chief hobbies bobbles that being according to their ideas toe the steppingstone I 1 by which the majority could be trodden under foot of the minority these active politician awant to seize the reins reina of local rule and hold them exclusively in their grasp so that their proposed victims may become a pre prey t to them hence the clamor for a commission commis Bion of the kind in question in the late struggle in idaho the active politicians tic ians of utah gave all the aid in their power to those who compose the majority of the legislative assembly of idaho this ine memorial morial business is a portion of the return payment the theone one faction aids the other in the furtherance of its schemes hence the reciprocal act on the part of the idahoans Idah Idaho oana ans this is parallel with the avowed intention of delegate dubois published a short time since he acknowledged the services of certain gentils gentiles of utah in the recent election and in return he expressed an intention to pay them hack back by working for them the character of the labor he proposed was to do his best to obtain congressional legislation against the worming 11 this admission makes it perfectly clear that there Is 6 not a moiety of honesty in any such tin endeavors deavors the good of the territory cute no figure it if is the furtherance of political sch schemes etnes alone that is le sought their con would be fraught the being opposed to io every principle and feature of the of the republic the statements contained in the protesting memorial J are false on their face the sets acts of the tore in some respects refute them the ilie document says that th the mormon mon church Is composed by a large majority of the lowest and most densely ignorant classes of the old world peasantry 11 nothing that was ever penned could be more unqualifiedly untrue than this the majority of the cormons mormons Mor mons are native bom and the balance are from various countries and only a comparatively small number are from the ranks of the pea peasantry mutry in the aggregate they Inci include lude more people who are skilled in the arts art and mechanics than can probably Ably be found in any other of similar proportions neither are they dwy in other respects respect but in point of native will compare compan favorably with any people of the same number on earth the advancement that they have made with the materials they have and the difficulties with which they have hare had to contend speaks loudly to their credit As an an evidence upon this point the idaho anti utah memoria limb lately had a trip to salt ewt lake for the purpose of obtaining information regarding the means by which the marked advancement van cement of this territory was attained thus they made the people of utah overwhelmingly mr conall their Garnal lel what the they learned while here to enable them to legislate progressively for idaho was gleaned mostly from the practical operations and results of the intelligence telli telU gence of the cormons mormons Mor mons 11 who have been the central factor in the development of this region |
