The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-16
1MpUDENOE AND INCONSISTENCY.

IMPUDENCE AND INCONSISTENCY.
THE HERALD does not propose to offer
an argument in favor of the immediate
admission of Utah to the Union. When
the Senate Committee, last winter, re-
ported against the admission and the
report was adopted by the Senate, peo-
pie here ceased to regard it as probable
that the present Congress would do
anything for the relief of the long-op-
pressed Territory. 1t is little else than
q waste of words and Of effort to ask the
Fiftieth Congress to admit Utah. We
refer to the matter now only Tor the
purpose of calling attention to a con-,
spicuous enemy to this Territory, and
one who never permits an opportunity
to pass without stabbing poor Utah.
We refer to Senator Stewart, of Nevada,
not with the view to saying anything
against him, buJ merely to show that OF
all men in Congress he should be the
Iast to oppose the creation OF States
hsiljng, as he does, from our Sagebrush
neishb on the west. There may be
some propriety in a Senator from New
York, or Pennsylvania, or Ohio, or Ill
inois, offering au objection to
sparssly settled Territory being made
State, but when Senator for mlser-
able, barren, poverty-stricken Nevada
opposes any Territory being given the
rights OF Statehood, he is guilty OF an
ofense against propriety, consistency
and common decency.
Let US look at Nevada and see what is
back of Senator Stewart which gives
him the right to talk about other COM
munities. In 1870 the population of the
State was AZ .491, about as many people
as are in Salt Lake County. Two years
later Nevada participated in Presi-
Dental election, casting all of 1859
votes, just one-third of the population
OF all ages and sexes voting. Its i'm
possible 10 say how much the popula-
ton increased during the next four
wears, but the vote in 1876 was Is. COL.
In 1880 another census was taken, when
the population was shown to be, all
told, 90. 266, or less than one-third the
number in Utah to-day. The same
wear there was a Presidential election,
when Nevada pollsd Is, 343 votes; that
is to say, practically 90 per cent OF all
her people voted. AS there has been
no census since, we must take the pro.
portion of voters to population in 1880,
the census year, as the rule by
which to ascertain the population
at later periods. At the Presi-
Dental election in 1884 Nevada's vote
was 1877, which being 30 per cent.
of the population, we find that in the
year named the Sagebrushers had de-
creased in number to $4,000. Coming
down four years mora, the total vote
last month-when great effort was put
forth to get every eligible citizen to the
polls-Was further reduced to 1928,
telling of another considerable falling
offin the population. With such de-
clining and decRying community back
of him, Senator Stewart stands up and
impudently says that Utah, with her
200 900 thrifty, progressive people, her
peace and prosperity and good order,
and her steady, substantial growth and
deVelopment-that Utah, which is five
times as great as Nevada in all the quail
ificatious for Statehood, is unworthy to
be taken into the Union.
But this is not al. insignificant as
is the population of Nevada in the
matter of numbers it is no more credit
able otherwise. OF the 81, 266 in 1880,
42,019 were males and only 2O,247
females, showing that the community
was not one of homes, that it was
not such a community as Americans
take pride in and which gives good
government. Again, of the 81 .266 in
1889, % .653, or nearly half of all, were
foreign-born. Further, among the
62,265, which have in the nine yesrs
dwindled to about 40 900, were included
2 BOB Indians and 5,416 Chinese-one-
fifth of the population being of the
non-citizen and non-voting class.
We don't object very much when
s nator from New York suggests that
tits unrepublican and unfair for one of
these sparsely settled Territories to
WELD the same power in the United
States Senate that is given to the great
Empire State, with its 100000 of pso
pie; but we do protest when man
h.
man to every 120 represented by the
New York Senator. assumes to say
anything against the admission of a
Territory.