Show THE KANSAS PLAN Some little while since a plan was starter in Kansas for the settlement of the Utah problem which was the coloni zatior Territory by the same New much to do Eng a ounajttny that had so t with u P colonization of Kansas in the days oJ the KansasNebraska troubles The New England company it was said had won ovoi to their scheme the Senate committees > lian affairs and public lands awl thcs had agreed to report favorably Hint virt of the plan which contemplu K I v nguishment of the Indian title u > flio Piute and Uintah reservations jUlOt he part was to make the Hon Charles Kobiuson Governor of Utah he having been th > first FreeState Governor of Kansas He is supposed to be specially fit lei f i i t us position as he was the person selected some thirty years ago by the Mrbsaclmsetts company as their emigration agent in Kansas Governor I Gov-ernor Robinson favors the scheme but I says that Eli Thayer will be Governor of Utah if his wishes are consulted The plan is not yet perfected per-fected says Governor Robinson but has his hearty sympathy and he has promised to cooperate He desires that Mr Thayer be Governor on account of his fitness and has frequently said that there were two men and two only whose services were indispensible in securing se-curing a free State in Kansas one of these men was Eli Thayer and the other Amos A Lawrence His appointment appoint-ment says Governor Robinson to that position would not only be most appropriate appro-priate but it would settle the fate of Utah in advance It is to be regretted that he did not tell just how this fate would be settled and what it would be when settled Possibly that is a profound secret like the power which drives Keeleys motor The scheme for colonizing Utah has one rare merit and that is to settle the Utah question with peaceful means without a resort to extraordinary methods It Is thought that this can bed be-d ne by the great influx of people to the lands of the company and which it is presumed would be reserved for sale to settlers from other States and Territories and not from Utah The intention is very good but it may well be doubted whether the results would follow that are anticipated It would at least bring the solution of the Utah be settled locally as this scheme contemplates contem-plates At all events considerable time will be necessary to accomplish this as old ideas and early prejudices only die out with the generation which held them Years hence people will look back to the Ujtah problem and will doubtless say How strange they could not have settled their own difficulties when they were soy so-y of solution as they were and events Gave proved The Kansas plan has the merit of peace and a belief in humanity As the Lawrence HeraldTribune says concerning this plan With oxGovernor Robinson Governor of Utah nt the head of the New England Colonization Colon-ization scheme Utah will be rid of polygamy polyga-my by the peaceful workings of local law It is the quickest safest surest way of settling set-tling the Mormon question |