Show COMMENTS ON THE UTAH BILLS THE discussion over the faulkner and teller bills promises to do much towards placing utah in a proper light before the country the facts and figures brought out will tell a far big ger story ato bythan than the accusations and th theories eo on either side aide and the resort of the opp opposition loil to old fables garbled sermons from a quarter of a century to forty years old and wild prognostic i of imaginary terrors la in strong evidence of a very weak cause it to is possible that neither bill will pass pan this session ses of congress but in any event the work done by both the damoc democratic ati c and republican delegations cannot can act fail to be productive of good and we ara are glad the egami stipp aaion has been so go wide and free several papers in addition to those from which we hay haye e given quotations have taken up the subject favorably and we here append some of their remarks the trey N Y times says the home rule bill will pass the house as a democratic measure it will receive the support of all the democrats in the senate as well as some of the western republican senators who feel that the time has arrived when congress may deal fairly with the utah question although not prepared to go to the extreme of admitting the territory as a state the cormons mormons mor mons aro now on heir good behavior they have renounced polygamy and the gentiles in the territory who as late as a year ago were arrayed in fierce opposition to the mormon elementary elemen tare now satisfied of the sincerity of their intentions and are urging upon pon congress the passage of t the he home rule bill should this bill pass as it probably will and should the mormons cormons remain on their good behavior itis quite I 1 likely that the next congress will pass a bill bringing utah into the sisterhood of states av the philadelphia pa describes the movements three parties part iee and referring to the boo rule masuret mea furet remarks marka re at first glance this looks like an at tempt to secure state autonomy by indirection but it will be seen that the plan does not confer all the privileges of statehood for instance the representation lu in congress would continue tobe to be that of a territory not of a state the government too would still be uner the control of congress which could change or abolish it at will and the united states statutes would remain dominant with willi the advantage of a court to enforce there them the plan has bas received the endorsement of the territorial to legislature and really seems seema to have much moch merit in it its projectors can at least claim that it to la in n accordance with the great ameri american idea of self government which is at the bottom of i he impatience always shown by the people of a territory to have their province erected into a state and whatever may appear on investigation there I 1 are no demerits apparent on the surf burlace aae As applied to utah it might be supposed y that it was a Fic scheme heine to retain the government I 1 in the interests of the mormons cormons Mor mons but this is met by the fact that the po amy laws w will ill not be affected by it an and besides sides gentiles of the territory are quite as much in favor of it as aalthe the mormons cormons are the proposition looks like a Judi judicious clou s compromise corn promise between the inferior condition of a territory and the commanding one of a state and would perhaps be an ad excellent plan to adopt in oases cases where 1 it I is not deemed advisable to confer tali fatt rights of statehood it would make a kind of improved territorial govern ment and that is something to be desired the he harrisburg pa call cad fasth has this note of warning to the cormons mormons Mor mons nep w utah the theft of utah is ia going bravely 0 OB and before another decade the gentile will own very every building in sall sail lake city and th the T territory which h wag erected by money everything is being swept by the moral miral crusade against the bigamous mormon heathen who will be made to suffer the tortures a of the damned after the reformers have made a successful theft of the state stale republican and democratic politicians are engaged in the work that used to be do w monopolized exclusively by the inch indian traders some of these fine mornin morning the mormon lamb will awake to the Z faro that he has been hopelessly swallowed b by the political lion whose conscience is 3 an dull as a piece of pig metal when it cornel comes to restoring the property of the benighted enemy of our truly beautiful american system of politics poUt ioe the annexed to is clipped from ara an editorial in the toledo ohio bew the proposition to take a slice off utah to prop nevada up into a sem semblance blance of worthy statehood which it never hessed to is unwarranted effron trey eOll utah t has a larger population than montana wyoming idaho or north dakota had at the time of their admission the trouble with utah is not the fear of mormonism niam the gentile population of salt lake city and the territory would cope with that as it has done successfully local elections more than any oi other her cause have had the effect of stamping out polygamy and the power of the church shorn of these features the mormon religion can harm not the most moat devoted member if it were certain that utah would march into the union with a majority of republican votes her flap flags would soon be flying in the procession this is ia from the elizabeth N J herald I 1 I 1 utah will sooner or later secure ear admission into the sisterhood of states she has demanded it before and at this present moment three delegations from the territory are in washington urging the cause they have so dearly at heart not as mormons cormons Mor mons but as american citizens so far as their their religion goes outside its feature of polygamy the federal government has nothing to do with that unless it is of a sort to hurt the nation as a whole in which case having its objectionable tio and dangerous features removed the dignity rights and privileges of statehood could not justly be refused to utah but not only has polygamy ceased to be a factor in her affairs but it has also nearly died out and will doubtless soon come naturally to an end in addition it ft r must be taken into consideration that out of the voters in the territory there are nearly one half who are not mormons cormons Mor mons of these cormons mormons Mor mons are democrats and R republicans ricans while of the gentiles are democrats 2000 are republicans and liberals the last named class having more than a tendency toward the democracy on national issues that is to say if the liberals are removed the total num number berof of democratic voters exceeds that of the republican by while if the liberal go democratic on national issues the g 0 p will be left in the minority putting aside the dissensions which exist among the delegates and the charges made against the federal officials in I 1 1 11 n i 11 i ll it IL it would undoubtedly go democratic at the ensuing presidential election would of itself be sufficient to cause application to bo be fruitless so far as regards the tre treatment ament of its present application by the committee on territories during the present session of congress but that success will soon crown her endeavors to be admitted into statehood and to secure a place on the starry banner is a foregone conclusion we have space today for one more extract it is denver hoan the only part of the united states in which the government has pursued a policy closely resembling persecution is the territory of utah how far this has been justifiable will probably always remain a matter of dispute under ader it the people of utah have for several years been deprived of a R great many of the privileges of self government the question qu eption of whether utah should be allowed to become a state may soon come up in a waff way that hat will force itself upon the attention of congress and the country the territory has population and ana wealth sufficient to maintain a state government and if it were not tor for the polygamy question there would probably be de but little opposition to the passage of an enabling act but bat the dread that if utah were a state the mormons cormons would legalize polygamy cannot be got rid of and it muses causes many persons to oppose statehood this home rule scheme presents what is possibly a good compromise under it the people would be given many of the rights of self government without the independence of state citizenship As a state utah would possess certain attributes of sovereignty and it could coald within the limits of the rights which belong to a state pursue whatever course the majority of odthe the people might prefer ignoring public sentiment in the rest odthe of the union ant nt under the proposed system it would still be as much subject to congress as any other territory although the people would by permission of congress enjoy and exercise many of the privileges of self government which the citizens of the states hold of right instead of by permission |