Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-02-26
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Utah to Nevada 10 Just now exciting q
good deal Of interest and comment OF
the part Of those who claim and exer
else the right to do the thing for ''thi!
people," They affect to believe thai
Utah outvote Nevada any day, and
thus be able to control the future State
Government. IfD ~ Ti}G
At the election for Delegate to Con
gross, held the other day, upwards o.
l 5000 votes were polled and returned,
Adopting the rule generally applied thai
each vote represents Eve inhabitants,
old and young, male and female, this
would give Utah a population Of rs, 900,
But the rule applicable to other commu
mites can have little application here,
It is believed that not less than one.
third Of the adult male populations are
practical exemplars of the doctrine OF
Polygamy, and claim from two to two
dozen wives each. Then again, Utah,
although to some extent is, agricultur-
ally speaking, an arid waste, yet, hui
manly considered, it is the most prolific
land on top Of the earth. The number
Of children in the Territory is little short
of wonderful, and if somebody would
only take the census Of the little ones,
under the age of, say, sixteen, it would
present an array Of figures absolutely
startling. Again, we are certainly with
in bounds, when we say that of the
adult population not less than four
Sixths are Of foreign birth, and COM
paratively few have perfected their
naturalization papers. So that $4,000
legal votes in Utah would represent
about two hundred thousand inhabit-
ants. But we leave It to others to judge
how many of the $4,000 votes returned
were cast by qualified voters.
It will be some time, we suspect, be-
fore Nevada will poll $4,000 votes. For
that matter, we do not see why Utah
could not return 10000, if necessary,
just as we'll as $4,000. In the event of
annexation, Nevada would probably pass
stringent laws ON the subject of cleo
tions, and the qualifications Of electors.
But how are they to be enforced? There's
the rub in very deed. Congress has en-
acted some very wholesome and strin-
gent statutes on the subject of polygamy;
yet to-day polygamy thrives as it never
throve before. Laws are Of not much
account unless and until they can be
enforced. In spite Of the laws which
Nevada might adopt, we suspect those
$4,000 or 10000 votes Of Utah would
still turn up.rs. 30" org &a.
The Telegraph of this city, in noticing
the annexation question, grows quite
jubilant at the prospect, but is terribly
sarcastic on the people of Utah. We
were not aware before that the satirical
was its peculiar forte, but from the spe-
cimen in Sundays issue, we are now
entirely satisfied on that point. We
have from time to time been accused of
saying some severe things against Nor
mondom, but we search u columns in
vain to find anything half so scorching,
keen and cutting, as the satire of the
Telegraph man. Enumerating the things
which 1--WE will require" of Nevada, that
paper says: =
"In the first place, we shall expect
our neighbors to honor the first great
commandment-be fruitful and multiply
and replenish the earth"
1t then proceeds to explain most
graphically what that means, but we
must refer our Nevada friends to the
article itself for the particulars, con-
tenting ourself with the closing sentence
Of the paragraph:
"The people hereabout lift their
heads far above all low, (D grovelling,
(!) social customs (!ll and endeavor to
live as becomes reasonable and respon-
siblc beings, observing the natural use
of and Divine intention in regard to the
senses, not burning in their lust one to-
wards another, as Is so common through
out Christendoml"
Not to "put too fine q point on it,"
we may say that is pretty good. But
the sarcasm of the TLsgraph man ap-
proaches the sublime in the next para
graph: 8,
If there is to be an alliance between
this Territory and that State, our peo-
pie will be greatly DESTROYS Of improv-
ing the Nevadans as much as a be,
and, if possible, raising them up to the
high moral (D standard of Utah, q
standard so exalted (ll) that most of the
rest of mankind dare not dream Of
reaching it, but finding it as they sup
pose beyond their reach, like the fox
with the grapes, spend considerable
time and wind and ink in depreciating
it () and all the really p~raiseworthy at
tempts Of u people to reach it."
We extract the foregoing as worthy
of the pungent pen of Petroleum V. Mas
by and infinitely superior to anything in
the sarcastic line that eve emanated
from Artemus Ward. But not content
with such digs at the Saints, the article
pitches in again after this fashion:
"But when the people Of that State
(Nevada) emerge from their ~obscurity
and form an alliance with so great and
noble and renowned a people as those
of this Territory, a corresponding great
ness and nobleneSs of character may
justly be expected"
Anu uuaLiy VIC nfo toAu tunb buC W.
vadans will "put on their best behavior,
as will become them or allying them
selves with such a sober, industrious,
moral, and in every way excellent peo-
pie as ours"
That will do for one attempt. Unless
our Nevada friends are prepared, at
least to try to "reach" the perfection
and moral tone Of the Utah leaders,
they had better stay out in the cold and
content themselves with the blessing Of
geographical contiguity, and not strive
after political or social amalgamation
with the Saints.
STUDY OF THE BIBLE.-Looking at the
Bible merely as an historical fact as a