| Show THE MORMONS AND NEVADA navada 6 of may had a strong article on the subject of uniting utah with nevada this project which has hag been put forward many times during the last quarter of a century has been revived as an an original the new york sun it ro reposition position by 1 S abbing i being discussed by the press with a variety of views and conclusions except by those country papers and their name to is legion which derive their ideas from some metropolitan daily and of course they are unanimous in he conclusion that the union should be consummated without delay frank pixley the brilliant editor of the argonaut thinks for himself on most public questions so it to is not surprising that he be talks on this topic out of the common run of verbiage we take ke from froin the article the most pertinent passages it contains and make reference to the matter because what he has bas said about the cormons mormons Mor mons has put the anti ani Mormon ll organ in this city into a rage and with portions of the article eom comments mente are made in that haaf ahl which ch are u unjust nj to mr pixley SLID ive to the people of utah after treating I 1 of df the proposition to unite arizona and new mexico which is part of the suns sunlit scheme th the e Arkon argonaut dut says y m nevada resents this recurrent proposition to add to her bar acres and population ly by annexation rightly regarding it as an a question of other her fit fitness aishe stands for sovereignty lva it js true that her inhabitants number only 2370 more than when she bhe was admitted and that between 1880 and 1890 she lost about a quarter of her of the failure of the people eople binstock Cin comstock stock mines and the working out of the ore deposits in eureka and lander but ut she holds that qu quality should count for something as well as quantity in judging of a states right to ae toe two or three blocks in the arte ment ament districts of new york m larger showing in the census than HH whole sagebrush state with her square miles but then she is peopled by men and women not by creatures from the bogs of ireland the slums of german attles ott si ties les the starved farming lauds lands of italy and the ghettos of russia most of whom are re little if any higher in the scale of intelligence than chimpanzees 11 the arguments in favor of uniting n g the most populous portion of utah to nevada how however e v e r should not be waived aside by t the he impatient hand of local pride some undoubted benefits at once suggest themselves not only would the population be raised to a quarter of a million but the new nevadans Nev adans being mostly mormons cormons Mor mons would elevate no the moral standard of the state the ot of the present is more like a forty niner than any other man now existing on the pacific slope he still has the large free ways of the pioneer and all that cheerful unconventional beings worn scorn for small change and such ot of the ten commandments as interfere with fun he regards mining as about the only occupation fit for a gentleman and such stich to is his love of liberty that though the ladies scattered over the square miles are outnumbered by bv the males two to one he seldom marries the mormons cormons Mor mons on the other hand make a specialty of matrimony it is true that under the stress of federal legislation they have made a declaration in favor ol of monogamy in preference to celibacy in the penitentiary but a revelation enjoining recantation recant adon of this heresy would swiftly follow the possession of the power to regulate the irown affairs which statehood hoo wo would d confer in the eastern border counties of nevada there has been for many years a considerable mormon element and as the saints in utah far exceed the gentiles they would of course control the new commonwealth admirable as the nevada man is ip in many res respects to it would be gross flattery to A him im virtuous whereas a chaster people p e than the mormons cormons exist nowhere gowhe on earth not until their desert refuge was invaded by their monogamous neighbors did the strictly gentile institution ution of prostitution make its ita appearance pe arance in their cities and towns the supplementary wives of a sat sal t may not be so pleasantly circumstanced as a woman who has exclusive legal title to one man but as sarLy they are infinitely better off and th in all ways more worthy members members of society than the unacknowledged alual wives of the gentiles lyga age M as permitted and approved by most most of the nations of the earthy and while it is of course not so holy an institution ution as monogamy it certainly is superior morally and and socially to the practical tactical rac promiscuity within well refined defined limits which monogamous men have established the hardworking hard working clain plain living soil tilling pious piou q mormon besides being a special gilt of providence to the platform builders of both the political pa parties ittes is in the best beat conceivable kind ot of settler for a new state whose native wealth lies in barren waiting wailing for the arrival of the laborer join utah to novada nevada and throughout the sagebrush where now is heard only the whoop of the h e pluto and shoshone or the still more objectionable and sinful vocal efforts of the bull puncher and disappointed prospector the morning and evening hymn would rise to sanctify the clear rarefied air temples reared in honor of the almighty the worshipers in each pledged to obey the divine command to increase and multiply would take the place of the gin mill the faro den and the unsightly cabin of the wifeless pioneer by coming under mormon domination the mora moral sense of the nevada man would not b be shocked he has none the disadvantages nevada has bag been u under through dl discrimination in railroad rates is next discussed and vigorously condemned and the writer adds nevada to is an immen immensely gely rich state millions of acres ot her n lands need but irrigation to render them highly productive productive her climate is one of the tae beat est in the world and whatever ingrown is grown to is of superior quality in the southern portion tea coffee and tobacco have cn been cultivated with success experimentally all yand and in the prehistoric pre pro historic graves of ef lincoln county cotton has been found hemp flourishes and every kind of fruit can be grown her wheat brings the very highest prices As for mineral wealth nevada is impregnated with it and were railroad charges reasonable hundreds of mines that can not now be worked at a profit would be producing it will be time enough to ak seriously of handing nevada over to the cormons mormons armons when she has been given a fair chance to utilize the gifts bestowed upon her by nature she hat never had that chance and never will until the central pacific shall be compelled to take its left hand bond from her throat and its right from her pocket 11 the men of nevada see no need of inviting the cormons mormons to come colne in and govern them they are not without fride pride in their state which by the way is tout out of debt and has managed 1 despite the common sneer at her political l rottenness to send pretty regularly to congress Con grees senators and representatives who nave not had to blush for their character and intellect in the presence of the statesmen furnished by new york and chicago the newspapers newspaper of which are most worried about her small population no nevada ada will never consent to surrender her sovereignty let the interstate commerce commission enforce the long and short haul provision of the law and nevada rescued f from rom the larcenous tyranny of of the central pacific will astonish her critics the comparisons made in the foregoing between mormon and mining morality are like stinging nettles to the hide of the liberal editor he la Is compelled to admit the talents and brightness of frank pixley but an aa usual when anyone differs from him on the mormon P question bo annot understand how this can occur except from a perverted soul an infirmity of mind or bad streak in the blood of his bis opponent he ascribes this language of the argonaut Argo nant writer to some infirmity which he inherited from his parents either a streak of total deDra depravity vity or that other sol something which blinds his eyes so much as an to make him believe that for money a journalist has a right to make an argument for a cause through his paper the same as aa a hired attorney would before a court this is an attack not only upon udon the personally of the gifted writer but upon the mother that bore him and to la a quite common method with the tribune scribe when he be cannot bring reason and truth against an adversary ver sary we do not wish to endorse all that the argonaut has said on this subject but we think the artigie is of consideration and that it bluntly presents many facts ant skillfully fully uses several strong arguments but while we believe industry perseverance and skill woul I 1 make vast material improvements improve mento menta in the sagebrush sage brush state and that mormon 2 morality would be of equal advantages in a higher sense we to do not think it would be a good thing to make one state out of utah and novada nevada utah has territory enough within her own boundary lines she li liis his is resources enough of all kinds to be developed awl to make her rich and populous enough for companionship with any of the other states of the union and there la in no doubt that nevada will at some time take a step forward in agricultural stock rate ng and manufacturing interests which with her bar mining industries that need not be neglected will wil lift her from her present position of scorn and contumely frank pixley Is ie right in his bis estimate of the mormons cormons Mor mons as colonizers and state builders and he need not be disconcerted in the least by the calum calumnies nies of the scribe who has baa been doing for years for money what he be meanly and without cause attributes to mr pixley wherever the mormons cormons Mor mons have settled they have improved the country co rapidly and effectually and have impressed all just people with their strict ad elevated morality is as well veil as their vigor and union and progress and they have the satisfaction of knowing that their malig ners are chiefly persons of very veri indifferent morality and doubtful industry idu stry or of that class that would espouse their cause as strongly as they fight it if the mormons cormons Mor mons would only fee them to act as an attorney would before a court P utah will do well enough without attachment to any other state or territory her people are prepared for the honors and duties of statehood without any assi atances from surrounding corn commonwealths and we do not believe nevada desires to swallow utah or be swallowed swallow eu up itself but that the proposition will once more simply form a subject for newspaper discussion find and then fall again into the alu bluml mt er of the past |
