Show NO HURRY ABOUT STATEHOOD wim WE endorse the sentiments of the salt lake herald on the statehood question which seems to strike terror to the soul of goodwin good win with his accustomed egotism he evidently thinks that his crushing defeat has a national significance and that it portends statehood for utah the great horror of his life the herald thinks the next movement for the admission of utah should originate in washing ton that is right the people of this territory have applied for tage rights and privileges of state sovereignty times and times timet again fagain ever since 1849 they have been denied recognition and the statements of false and conspiring politicians have been taken in place of the facts and claims the people have presented there to is nobody that we know of who is agitated pro or con on this matter but the defeated candidate for delegate he is a howling fanatic on the mormon question and desiring nothing so much as to see the mormon people deprived of every right of citizenship he sees in possible statehood that political freedom for the mormons Mor mons nw which other citizens enjoy and that drives him to the verge of desperation and idiocy it if he only knew the facts and the real feelings of the mormon J people on this question he might rest his bla soul in peace for they are less stirred up in relation to it today to day than they have been for forty years but he will not pay any attention to this though he might easily convince himself of its truth but will go on waving his ridiculous warnings and uttering his stale diatribes as though any body but the innocents would take the lout least stock in his ravings statehood is bound to come to utah when her claims to this position are properly understood and the cause of the villainous tion to it is perceived but the great body of her citizens are now in no hurry about it and are not anxious to be t treated reate d aga again I 1 n in the be same mannor manner as they have been when they have repeatedly and respectfully sought that union with the states which justice and wisdom would have cheerfully accorded them utah can afford to wait if the country can aar afford ord to P pay a Y her expenses and do without her aid but nothing can thwart her destiny and she will shine brightly the glittering stars of the union when her malignant defamers def amers lie in dark and forgotten graves |