The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-10-20
TWO GOVERNORS.

Within a week the substance o.
the official reports to the Secretary
of the Interior, of the Governors Of
two Territories, has been tele
graphed over the country and pub
lished in the daily newspapers from
the Atlantic to the Pacific. First
came the report of Murray, Governor
of Utah, which was followed by
that of Governor Tritle, of Arizona
the readers of the papers will re-
call the chief features of these two
state documents. The central, if
not the sole idea of Murray, was to
give Utah black eye, and he
labored hard in pursuance OF that
one thought. He put the very
worst face possible upon affairs
here, even going so far as to stretch
the truth and distort the facts, and
made suggestion which If acted
upon favorably, would retard
the progress and development
Of the Territory many years.
He abused the people most
shamefully, declared the laws were
set at defiance, and officials power
less to pe4form their sworn duties.
Reading his report literally. and be-
ieving it, one would steer clear of
Utah as place to be avoided by all
who valued life or property, or who
had respect for virtue and loved
morality. The impression that he
sought to convey was that anarchy
prevailed throughout the Territory,
that laws and courts were fsrces and
burlesques, and Utah was a vile den
generally.
Governor Tritle, Of Arizona, is
actuated by other motives with
respect to his Territory. He wants
the country developed and built up;
desires population, and is
particularly anxious to have
the mines opened and
the precious metals utilized.
He tells what Arizona is doing fer
the country at large with her gold
and silver, her copper, her sheep,
her wheat and barley and other
he asks Congress to ex-
tend to the Territories the conces-
sion now made to the States of the
sixteenth and thirty sixth sections
Of land, in every township. to as
sist in defraYing educational ex-
penses he wants the parent govern
ment to provide for boring artesian
wells, for a geological survey, for
the erection of a capitol and other
necessary pubic buildings, for an
increase in the pay of Territorial
legislators, and a fourth United
States judge.
VIII our leading citizens please
contrast the two reports? This is
not a matter in which any one class
is interested in opposition to others.
It is something that affects Gen
lilies, Jews and Mormons alike. Ali
who live in Utah or who own pro-
perty here, are concerned. Tritle
is laboring for the advancement of |
his Territory; Murray is working |
FOR the degradation of this |
one. Tritle tells of the |
rich mines of Arizona and encour-
ages capitalists to develop them; |
Murray forgets that Utah has richer |
and better mines than any other |
Territory in the Union. Our large |
and fast-growing manufacturing in
5erests and facilities are lost sight |
of by our Governor, who also cannot |
that Utah's agriculture |
s the admiration OF the entire |
mountain region OF the west; nor
that our wool interests are SO large
as to maintain thousands of people,
and. bring fortunes to men annually.
lie closes his eyes to the fact that |
to-day Utah is the most law-abid-
ing, the quietest, the richest. the |
most progressive, and the most
rapidly developing Of all the Terri
tories, and in his bitterness adver-
sises her before the world as a |
and infested by rogues and
outlaws, a pariah Of the |
west, an outcast that can be
redeemed only after she has been
cruciied. Governor Murray claims
10 be the friend Of the Gentlles or
1on-Mormons; he is their very
worst enemy. The masses Of the
5entiles here are interested in the |
mines and other material concerns
n the railroads, the mills and fac
;ories. The mines are largely in |