Show THE UTAH BILL ONE surprise follows another the introduction of the home rule bule bill as the be democrats call it in congress CoD grege on tuesday was a surprise to everybody in but the committee who prepared it its reception by the liberal apy faction of this city is another surprise the opponents of statehood we would think ought to accept this measure as a settlement of the statehood question for as long as they have pro to desire deser they admit that utah cannot ie be kept out of the die vety very long they only wish to postpone the matter until time has baa shown whether or not the cormons mormons Mor mons obell are sincere in the steps they have taken in regard to polygamy and politics this bill it it should pass pan would put off statehood at least as long as that faction have pretended to think essential to the welfare of the territory but the he Libe liberal raW organ attacks the proposition with as much vinegar and venom as if it were a bill for an e enabling n act in one breath it d declares acl area it is a scheme devised by the amor mor mons mono in the next it calls upon the cormons mormons Mor Morn mons ions to repudiate it in a burst of reckless assertion it avows avdes that the bill would put local affairs absolutely in the hands handi of the mormon church if they pleased to assume that control then in another tone and sentence it declares it ought to be stamped out by the common sense of the mormon people themselves 11 it intimates that the representatives of four hundred sec ceders se edere from the liberal faction have joined dined with the I 1 mormon church to formulate this document with the hope that it will be crystallized into law and then says as a matter of common prudence the leading mormons cormons ought to repudiate this bill all this is very funny and also very suggestive it makes make one sone who does not regard the measure with special favor favor think there must be something in it better than at first reading ap appears it is evident that no change which would give utah a measure of real republican government would suit the diverall liberal I faction they are not only opposed to statehood but to liberty in any degree which could be enjoyed by mor mons in common with other citizens it is the old bitterness rev revived ivd which progressive people of all parties and beliefs in utah want to bury for ever the liberal organ says this bill will kindle once more the heartburn ings which were passing away but why who will entertain them but the faction which that organ represents and which is becoming smaller by degrees and beautifully less every day we see nothing in the proposition to arouse any heart burnings 00 or bitterness if it is reasonably considered but we are afraid the rampant liberals will not look at any proposition without bitterness and heart barnings which will not be so anti mormon nl in its nature as an to be distasteful tast ful to every patriotic citizen the assertions that this bill if it became a law would give to this territory every ordinary function of a state without a any ny ot of lie ite dig dignity nAy that would tio ie th the e gentiles of this thia hand haedl ana foot and deliver ti them en to the tender mercies of the church that it practically gevea the man who ho would be governor the legislature that would make t laws and aad to judges who would ha control of the courts unlimited pow without check or hindrance ure are utterly absurd and untrue they sho she that the writers who make them alth do not understand the bill or that the tb want to represent it so that people ahw w do not take the ahe trouble to invest igi closely may be blindly against it the measure may be objected itta without injecting into it pro provision provi aio which are foreign to its text an and p pi port there 48 nothing in it whick warrants any of these alarming for foi bo diDgs the power of congress ove ov the territory would not be removed the bill should pass all the au author thorit exercised by congress to revise or a nul the acts of the legislature woul remain unimpaired fede federal ra I 1 houi U r zo and federal officers with po power w le r to a and enforce the laws of oo co greks would still exist in the Terri tor none of those laws would be abrogate except certain specified sections whig would be incompatible with the pr pi visions ofis ot of the hew bill we have oai fully examined it and can find such terrors lurking therein as t tl liberal organ has worked up fro the depths of its own imagination they are not in it bat the objections that it is a na ne thing in legislation for a oryan that while congress is about it state atal te hood itself might as well or better I 1 conferred at ac once are sensible and the point and we coincide with we do not think the bill will pass wa V think that diat the people might have bee be consulted before such a measure w introduced we do not agree with th tl provision which causes congress 7 legislate money out of the territory terri terrt torl treasury but we see in it no reas for raju cor and think that it is far mo republican in its character and ana muo mu nearer to fairness arness in political of a large body of american citizen than is the present organic act it would be much better to the bill critically before declaiming declai aimin mii against it and to point out its real de d facts than to denounce it for alleg horrors of which it is innocent ax an attack it with invectives which m TUB recoil upon those who hurl them the liberals 11 were sincere th would support this scheme instead i assailing it whether the Mortn mormont want it or not will take a little time i find out it has been sprung thom them without a note of warning and they will want to look into it thorough ly before they decide however it Is ia quite likely that as aa in other things be fore congress Cong reu the wishes of the ma bority of the people of utah will cut a very amah figure in this national legislation ifil 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