Show WHO ARE obstructionism it would be to some extent a whets waste of the readers time and our own apace to publish a review of the work performed by the trans mississippi congress Con gresa whose session closed in ogden y esterday evening eveni ug this abia for the reason that the tb columns of the NEWS have daily contained voluminous reports as to what was done coming I 1 irom rom a special attina as well us as in the ordinary channel of telegraphic and not dot at all because the proceedings do out nut warrant such review some few subjects arose however which WRY may property properly be spoken of since they point a moral if they don dont 11 adorn a tales tale and furnish food fur for a subject which thy they impart one of these points arose on the discussion of the statehood resolution tois subject sis an a whole we do not care to todie discuss ouss there are an abundance of M men en iu in utah who favor and oppose ad and many of them on either side do so we doubt not honestly bonest lj and each has an able right to his bid way of thinking and we would not overcome him except by timely argument if we could that the territory has a ight to enter the union judged by the standards which have obtained in other cases seems to us ua beyond question and it has baa been so shown in these the columns numbers of times the grounds on which the opposition in the congress was based were that it was not a proper subject for that body to handle that it was a purely local matter and that those people from a distance could not toe be informed as those living here are regarding its ita merits and aud demerits thesis this is the subject we had in view when this article was commenced commenced for if the gentlemen who advanced such arguments were alto alio gether sincere in what they said beyond all question it is they who need a further term in the school of advancement and not those of whom they spoke constituting a majority of we tue population kither either ot of the speakers referred to will readily smi and without opposition admit that the press is not only a power but the power jn in the land that its mission as an informer and educator has been growing steadily until at last except for special reasons it is no more necessary to visit some other part of the country than that in which the reader resides to learn of the political and social conditions there than it is for him to plunge into water to be sure that it is wet the press has not only informed and educated it has brought peoples and sections together and made them as intimate and well informed regarding each other at long range as they could possibly have become at short range in many cases more so eo for we can ob erve some objects better at a distance than we can close by this has been the work of the press and it may properly be classed as aa its greatest achievement among many that are more than great that are mighty but add to this grand work that of the telegraph which does mure more than bring people together by setting the time and space intervening and such a thing as a an isolated or purely local life within the burden borders of the great arc at republic Bu publio becomes well nigh out of the question more particularly does this aal aply ly to constant and systematic communicant of f the press and especially as to mat 0 religious social and political Con Cona luer all this thin in connection with the notable truth 1 at f ajr i r th thirty I 1 arty years past the question que etton as to utah Is fitness for statehood has been discus discussed sid by the press of the united states great and small and without exception that it has been the subject of numerous debates in congress which have reached in every portion of the laud that it has been the theme of numberless lectures sermons and speeches everywhere that utah itself since the civil war has been the peculiar culiar oe De cynosure of the whole civi civilizes lizea earth but more parti the united states and then in conclusion add the tact fact that nearly if not quite every one of those gentlemen who spoke in favor of the resolution have had bad the benefit of that thirty years of education aided in many oases cases by personal contact and inspection and then say it you have the temerity to do so they are not acquainted W with ith the case that it is a question relating peculiarly to inhabitants of f utah that it is in purely a LOCA LOCAL L MATTERI talk about turning back the wheels wheel of progress aud bringing the glowing present face to face with the musty cuaty past talk about what some other people would do if given an opportunity eunity talk about slowness in going ahead and inability to recognize how other places are sweeping past uel can anything be more subversive of the disposition to grow and expand and forge ahead than to be constantly con fronted by bourbons and croakers oroa kera and bigots and speculators who for purposes of their own unceasingly scold when their vaunted pace is not bot followed and misrepresent when their real one is past one word as an to the personnel of the congress they were chosen as a rule because of their fitness by men or bod ies of men in every come case capable of making good selections they are representative of their respective sections and to a man were intelligent and wideawake wide awake to what in their judgment is the he best interests of the largest number in the great west it was not a speculation with them so even if they were so 80 disposed they would scarcely oppose their own conscience judgment and information to say or imply that these theme men are so feeble minded that they do not understood understand the case or so infirm of purpose that they are easily swayed one way or another may be some peoples people Ps real idea of what the average western man is and an illustration of what kind of progress we ought to have if so 80 lot let them enjoy it to the utmost it is almost a case of finding a charm in 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