Show HURTING A GOOD CAUSE An effort is making in Salt Lake Lal to erect a monument to tho the memory of General Genera Connor who established the fort and whose name it Is an honor to revere Senator Sutherland has bas asked for fora a government appropriation of 20 to that purpose The Tho terms of his resolution in congress specify that the secretary of war and the tho governor of Utah sha shall select the monument And some men who v pretend to be befriend friend friendly to the memory of or General Connor resent the suggestion that the governor of Utah shall have anything to do with the tho matter That doesn't seem reasonable The Tho governor of oC Utah Is the tho proper person to co operate cooperate with the government govern govern- meat ment in sel selecting a monument to be paid paltI for by the government and erected in Utah Surely no truo true friend of oC General Genral Connor objects to that If It ho hot does his regard for tor the general Is certain certainly obscured obscured ob ob- ob by his hatred of the governor go There Thero is a certain element in our citizenship which makes a profession of hating the governor of always speaking in ill terms of him That same element is typified b by the Utah man who stated in a a. public speech that he was always ashamed to register reg reg- ister later from Salt Lake when ho he went to another city Recently the papers have been noting not not- ing lag with surprise that every state in inthe inthe inthe the Union excepting Utah is honored with the naming of a battleship Oklahoma has no battleship but then Oklahoma has bas not been in the Union long enough Utah has been in the Union since 1896 One b by one tho the law Jaw has been complied with and all aU the states with this exception have been honored as the law provides Utah has no battleship because certain cere thin tain citizens zens speak ill m of oC their state The They give it a bad name abroad They arc are ashamed of oC Utah This nasty little objection to tho the governor of oC Utah Duh as an associate with the government as an adviser with the friends of or Connor Conner Is along the same sarno lIne lino It does harm to the state It discredits Utah It shames Salt Lake There Is no man in all aU tim tho world so fit to be bo on that monument commission com eom- mission as the governor of oC the state in which the monument is to stand |