Show BEAVER BOBBIN the edmunds and other bills statehood politicians clani lar IF from rom the 11 ERALD correspondents HERALD since sinco I wro wrote to yo you u list that piece of special legislation THE EDMUNDS DILL BILL has been enacted and here as elsewhere in utah it is the principal topic of conversation and speculation the chief interest hero here centers upon the commission om mission there being some four or five hundred patriots who are willing to reluctantly accept for the good of the country a place on the board if the accidental president should nominate and the mahone parliament confirm a man from this section al all I would indeed be well I can testify to this without hesitation beaver itea ites as a rule are natural office hold bold ers what stronger argument in favor of this proposition can TO be advanced than that nature trin designed ignec everything I for some purpose pose and would be a negation i if purpose Fur most of our patriots were not capable of holding office under the government I have been strenuously endeavoring to induce this phalanx of EMBRYO STATESMEN to agree on one of their number or at the most two or three for fo r place among the five but my efforts are treated with languid contempt each of them consider con himself in duty day bound to offer up his time and talents on the altar of public service and to select any oilier other person would be nothing more or less less than shirking shirking a grave and responsible duty oo 00 you may may count us as a unit we arc are anani unanimously ma prepared for the sacrifice picaso send a copy of this paper to the president there is ono one department of the governmental SERVICE in which I am moro more deeply interested than the above it is the U S mail everyday every day in the week except one brings the ever wel come HERALD to hand the paper is as highly appreciated and as keenly enjoyed os as is a letter from home to a sojourner in foreign lands it recalls memories of the past t f faded but not forgotten in which ich are hidden bidden securely from the public gaze pleasant experiences and an valued associations beyond enumeration there were no edmunds bills then but there were enough of another character to male life earnest and at times exciting we can never tell how much weare we are going to lose until the less is a recorded recorded event then it is too late it is a poor plan to go FROM GOLCONDA TO EGYPT for the purpose of repairing temporary reverses rey erses in the former but if it were never done how bow could wo we ever eve r find the fact out the work odthe of the state convention is being watched here with considerable interest I presume no one expects x anything like a favorable r result e to the labors of the tion makers but all are anxious to see how bow narrow the basis upon which congress will fabricate an excuse for KEEPING UTAH OUT the chances are that if no reasonable excuse were lc left wo we would be excluded just t the same and kept in the cond condition of a conquered province until through tigh some hocus cus the minority is placed securely on top theli when cn all the practical benefits resulting from statehood aro are obviated beyond the possibility possibility or of recall we in may como come in in and loo look on while the 1011 at other er fellows run the ma machine in other words when we arc are prepared to trade individual for state sovereignty whence when we are prepared to take on a garbol garb of independence pen dence com composed posed of mosquito netting in winter and government blankets in summer when we are prepared to surrender our present aalf half loaf for no loaf leaf at all besides paying abundant TRIBUTE TO TUB THE LoA rEpts then we can walk in and take a back seat provided we keep our nasal protuberances cleanly and our kissing apparatus still if this is not the situation I must be mistaken mistake i n for the second or third time in my life I dont exactly remember now which I wanted to say something about the weather and the health of the people but as the HERALD is a newspaper paper and I have no desire to je jeopardize opar dize its reputation as such those important matters may go this time still living in hopes of paying you a visit t soon and seeing all the good folks no less happy and prosperous than of yore my little bobbin may be considered wound up for this occasion patriotically yours essay BEAVER april 16 |