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Show giiiii-Hiittw of good faith on your 1 1 - ri r f . 1 1-you aiv i iVdi.l io I'm her a up our ti:i:i' i.or waste yourj STATEHOOD OR HOM IS XlVl.K Wben some ward politician in the east is thwarted by the votes of his neighbors, Iki if sent to one of tbe territories as a SACietary; when a defeated candidate for ji-s'.ice of the peace in the effete circles toward to-ward the rising sun is sat down upon up-on by tbe community in waiih lie would dispense justice, he is made a territorial district judge ; w hen be has none of these qualifications but is good at boosting up great masses of entliusiism at political gatherings gather-ings in the direction from which come all the wise men, he is made a v territorial goveruor. They are not ret-ponsdble; in no way are they the choice ot the people; Ihey represent nothing but that which is tyrannical, tyran-nical, that which is unjust. They exercise a powerful fore; in creating creat-ing ard determining the law s. The people are denied even the privilege cf selecting the time in which they can vote for the few officers for whom they are given tne right of casting their repective ballots. They cannot have a sugar congress con-gress at Ogden. After they have paid thir taxes into the hands of a foreigner holding hold-ing office here, they must a'so obtain the sanction of another temporary colonist how. when and where they shall expend them. They can listen to tbe speeches of these rulers and learn how reat, how vast, how immeasurable are Utah's resources. ' They can't gather together at Ogden to discuss the sugar question. They can read the reporls liiade by the commission nurses as to the health of this young lady now blossoming into a splendid womanhood, woman-hood, rich in all that makes life lovely, and the hopes of greater triumphs tri-umphs in the industries and in the arts. But they say Utah cannot have a sugar congress. They say Utah cannot have statehood. That Utah cannot have home No state paper is looked upon with greater -emotion, than that in which wai declared that these states are free and equal because ihey were deuied representation in the parliament of Great Britian. Utah presents a similar condition of affairs. Some oT the newly made states, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana, Mon-tana, have each a less population than has Utah. Her wealth is sufficient. By all precedents ealab-lished ealab-lished she is entitled to statdliood. No 0'ie can successfully assert the should be denied this right because be-cause of the belief of the major portion of her people. The opponents oppon-ents to statehood coufess their inability in-ability to present a single unselfish argument against this proposition for they admit that polygamy is extinct. All their official lives 'spent in this field where they are bleeding and dying for their country in so disinterested a manner, these patriots patri-ots seem rather to like the clinging swaddling clothes of infancy to keep them warm in life, rather than alio w Utah assume the garb of statehood. |