Show AS TO STATEHOOD one who derives his sole knowledge of local conditions from a perusal of the two morning papers of this city would be forced to think that the community was wild with excitement torn with anxieties and in a state of the utmost mental distraction over the question of admission into the union one who uses his own eyes and ears and common sense and who looks at things as the they y ar are e cannot but be vastly amused at t the journalistic antics which would give this impression for as a matter of fact there is scarcely a subject which abich has so little int interest erbst at this particular time to the community at atlar large geas as this same much buffeted matter of statehood by this we would not dot say that the people of utah are insensible to the anomalies and grievances that a self reliant well equipped freedom loving commonwealth to is subjected to under form would we give toleration to the thought that this community shrinks from the financial burdens and all the other responsibilities bili ties that accompany the full measure of self government none of these but we insist upon it that not one person in twenty who has anything else to occupy his mind devotes one thought a week to the question which is receiving such exhausting and merciless editorial punishment from the contemporaries temporaries co above alluded to on the contrary the regular steady six days a week unimpressionable plodding part of the community is so thoroughly tired of politics and every political question that is calculated to disturb the present period of peace that a distinct shudder is the only welcome which such a question can evoke and knowing that this is a matter upon which there is bound to be a violent difference of opinion that no matter how ranny many thousands there are who desire statehood there are several influential thousands who are or the present determinedly opposed to it they are willing to let it work out its own solution in its own way and at its own time everybody krows it is sure to come sooner or later it is ridiculous to expect that it can be forever delayed but every sensible person ought to know that where there is a considerable element that arrays itself in opposition an element too that aforetime has had much influence with the powers that be the boon cannot very consistently be bestowed without a display of authority and a struggle that later could be avoided we confess to a feeling of surprise eur prise that such euch opposition should exist ex ast 1st if we could remove it by persuasion since argument seems to be without efficacy we should gladly undertake the work but it does exist and as it appears to be one of the prerequisites that practical unanimity shall characterize the request for admission into the national family we apprehend that the parties in utah have yet to take a lesson lemon in the art of getting together 0 our government believes so strongly in the doctrine of human freedom that it to is not likely to drag a territorial community against its will into the federal sisterhood we have spoken of those who may ardently desire statehood that the mormon people are to be thus classed we shall not attempt to deny we insist however that they do not want it at the cost of a renewal of hostility bitter bitterness and strife their present condition is 18 so great an improvement on that which has pre in the past that they are not clamorous to change it for something they know not of they are used to waiting for the good things in store patience id fit one of their distinctive virtues and in its ito exercise they can give edl all their neighbors many points their feeling is that a territorial orial form well ad ministered administered is not the worst thing under the sun and they know they can live under it and enjoy it quite as long as the rest of the community can endure it when the latter are ready to unite in asking for an enabling act the mormon people will not hang back until then they are determined not to prom press the sore spot and irritate it for they know that such mob treatment makes it only the more difficult to heal |