Show WHEN A STATE SPEAKS If It the people of Utah shall shaH ask the nation for land enough to build bund a statehouse state statehouse house and improve the tho public roads the nation will give o It If It tho the state shall shaH ask tho the state will receive Therefore It Il is essential that the tho legislators of Utah should without dissension or quibble adopt a memorial memorial me me- mona morial to congress setting forth tho the facts In the caso case the tue thirty eight million mil mU- lion acres of arid and unproductive land hand held in Utah by hy the nation the hopelessness of ever eyer making it productive pro pro- or desirable or om In any way valuable by br present methods the tho ability of the state to sell the land hand to farming dry concerns for two dollars an acre acro the certainty that tho the Improvement Im irn- irn provement pro of that land lund would vastly increase the desirability of the rest of the tho land retained b by the nation And finally the ability of the state o or of Utah by br the revenue ro from the grant to a advance the state slate mightily Let the tho legislators of Utah realize the tho vastness of or the tho benefit they ther willbe will wll be securing for their state the tho benefits bene beno- fits fils they will confer on the tho public domain domain do do- main the credit their state will wUl reap as a result of the building of or a n statehouse state house and time the Improvement of tho the roads And they thoy certainly will stand solidly together for the memorial And when n a state backs s a a. request for a reasonable thing thinS tho the nation never turns a R deaf dent ear |