| Show UTAN UTAH forty three years ago today utah was wan granted a territorial form of guv gov erum eminent out and wua was constituted and accepted aft a part ot this great republic the united states and ana the anniversary in IB appropriately celebrates celebrate a as utah day at the borla s fair the governor and ana many of our most moat prominent elti zena of both sexes being at the territorial building to in jackson park to lend grace and dig anity to the occasion we leed not demote devote any space apace to a of the he utah ol of 1850 with the tae utah ut today only oue one feature be mentioned mud ud that is 10 sug grated bv bf the re remi miLider uder that of plaus tos forthe the partition arti tion or nul division ot of this debott T commod wealth I 1 ike some ono OIL ai aihini Hii 8 A wo the making ur ui woke there is IB no enil end in those early days utah was wad bounded on 00 the south and east by new mexico kansas and nebraska Neb on the went by anti and on the all these the states have 1 i north by or gon I 1 I 1 anoe undergone boa bu none has been so eo mercilessly hacked backed at as utah A slice elice here a slice there has baa one after another been lopped oft until we find ourselves ours elvea in this year of grace 1893 compact kind and contented with idaho wyoming colorado arizona and nevada anone none ot of them even heard of forty three years ago as next door neighbors neigh bore but empire makers and political state stale builders are not yet satisfied our readers are familiar with the plan to add the western rib nevada to the body politic again and w whether bother favor able to it or not they consider that such action would only be returning to us our own again after somebody else also has taken it tried it well nigh ruined it andai last wants to discard it A still later scheme Is rather wholesale in its if proposed dissection it would make of kansas two states and would admit now new mexico and cutting us through the middle north utah south utah and ariz ina would be doomed to the cold territorial condition a little longer an injustice most rank as aa evelyb everybody ody will admit nevada singularly escapes mention in this startling pr program but the design doubtless would be to bisect it also and divide it between north and south U utah tab we do nut not know whether this proposition has been put furth forth with roy auf earnestness but it seems to excite so far as has hae been noti noticed ceu but laughter we conclude with a paragraph from the now new york sun commuting upon it by all means let both join the sovereign sisterhood one source of grief must mast even yet yei remain namely that kansas will not suffice to slice up into four instead ot of only two could ia u be possible to have too much of so BO excellent a thing as kansas of kansas the phlebotomized of kansas the home of the professional veteran Vei eran the evening star ot of the union quick then democratic statesmen stai esmen down into yourselves and fetch up an omnibus bill giving to the continental plateau the rightful weight of representation due to its combined heft ot of brain and of cheek symmetry demands a counterpoise to the old thirteen north utah shall be the now new keystone state its mormon temple complo the hall that symbolizes a larger liberty |
