Show A PROPOSED MORMON STATE thic new york press has baa a long editorial on the subject of the admission of arizona into the union we give it more than passing attention because the mormon fl question is made a leading feature of the article and it is headed beaded A proposed mormon state on the general question of the ad mission of territories the press to is sound it says the territorial condition is not intended to be intended to be permanent in the case of any american community and the territory should become a state whenever it is proved that a standard exists ests high enough and american enough i to justify a state organization this is correct american doctrine but unfortunately in its application other ideas are permitted to take a more prominent place than this theory and party politics often interfere and overbalance the high standard which a territory has reached in all essential As to the position which arizona has baa acquired the press Is a willing to waive the objection that might be urferd as to its mexican population because by treaty pledge they munt be treated as american citi citizens zem but we are told the population of arizona is about and of them more than are mormons cormons Mor mons wen weh must not they also be treated as american citizens if the press will take the trouble to inquire it will find that these them mormon 11 settlers in arizona are among the very best people of the territory to their industry order and general good qualities as an progressive citizens is due not only the present prosperity of the prospective state but the very conditions which render feasible and proper its admission into the union what to is there against them who can tell with any degree of directness and truth the press says in arizona the polygamous sect with its despotic hierarchy and its ils dark secrets and methoduis method sis flourishing and politically formidable with the buttress of statehood raised to protect it from ithrom federal interference ter ference mormonism might well abandon utah for a now new dominion in arizona and there bid defiance to any interference 1 what a pity it is that now new york 0 editors will try to write about affairs in the far west wea when they know nothing about them their talk puts one in mind of newly arrived sprigs of english aristocracy who expect to see swaggering cowboys with big revolvers in the streets of gotham and to go outside of town a little way to hunt bear and buffalo these dark secrets jl the despotic hiera hierarchy reby athe the polygamous sect 1 and all the rest of 0 the stuff that the press amcis associates tes with mormonism are only bugaboos buga boos to ware scare eastern tenderfeet tender feet with ask the prominent and best gentile residents of arizona as to the c mormon citizens of the territory and the answers received will be sufficient tp to dissipate all the alarms that disquiet people in the east who have no reason for terror seeing they are thousands of miles from the imaginary danger the press says further I 1 the convention which recently framed a state constitution for arizona deliberately concluded to place no obstruction in the way of these mormons cormons gaining control of the state the test teat oath applied in idaho to mormons cormons exercising the franchise was rejected in arizona Arizon gL ap well ought not that to be sufficient to show the press frew the folly of its wn own tears fears if the people of arizona in convention assembled decided to place no obstruction in the way of the mor demor mons mono whom they have among them why should a new york editor edito jr so far away who has no part in the matter want to raise an obstruction but arizona would not copy the idaho teat oath of course not the convention showed its stood sense and its appreciation of the mormon s citizens of the territory there is no need of it and it is a disgrace to idabo as its best citizens of both parties already concede arizona once tried it to please certain cheap and paltry politicians but soon found out its error and swept the anomalous provision from its statutes the absence of the blotch upon its cons titu tion is one of the many clai claims a that instrument has upon the admiration of true americans of both parties the press frem quotes the objection urged by an arizona official clai who by the byj by has gained the execration of both republicans republic public ans and democrats owing to the junction of arizona with utah it would be easy to so ao colonize the territory with mormons cormons by either political olit party which they might be inmond inclined to favor as to absolutely control the affairs affair sr of the state for a long time and it is in true that they d do now hold the balance of political power in arizona now will the press just think long enough to grasp these thene simple facto wyoming joins utah on the eat east as am arizona does on the south wyoming is close to the populated portions portion of utah arizona is renatte from them wyoming contains a large proportion of cormons mormons Mor mons 2 P in it its population it was claimed that they held the balance of political power there wyoming would have no test oath in her constitution she is now a state in the union there is no attempt to 4 colonize it with cormons mormons Mor mons 0 0 there Is ia no change in its affairs in that respect everything goes goe on in wyoming so far as the cormons mormons Mor mons sP are concerned as it did before it was made a state these being indisputable truths where to is the ground for the alarms about mormons cormons Mor mons in arizona and what becomes of the objections to the admission of that territory that the has expressed without giving the subject due consideration there is another question why should arizona be dubbed a mormon state because it to is alleged one fifth of her population are of mormon connection if one fifth of the population of a state are republican Republica nev does that make it a re publican state or if they were democrats would that constitute it a democratic state the press furnishes another illustration of the fact that whenever the average A merican american editor touches the Morin mormon nn question he seems to lose his common sense arizona is entitled to admission into the union fully as much as wyoming was if she is excluded it will not be on any other than party grounds the c mormon question cuts no more figure in the affairs of one than in choie of the other and it would look a great deal more natural and would certainly be more truthful if those who oppose statehood for arizona would say her party politics are not right than to try to mix up mormonism 12 with the actually objectionable matter |