The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-04

punished Tor sins which all the others prac-
ticed, having the shortcomings of the others
unloaded upon her, having to be respon
sible for great deal that she was not
guilty of, Utah remains in the dim distance
and quietly bides her time.
How long she will have to wait is not
known. 1t is tolerably certain that so long
as the misrepresentation OF those who
thrive upon their calling regarding her
count for more at headquarters
than the faithful reproduction of
the situation as it does, it is useless to
struggle. And yet, see how unselfish we
arel Almost if not entirely to a man we
congratulate the territories about to be ad-
mitted upon their disenthrallment. We
have but one message to those about to
divest themselves of provincial dependence
and assume that separate and distinct
station among the people of the earth to
which the laws of nature and of natures
God entitle them" and that is this: Weare
glad that you have achieved what we are all
entitled to, but you alone have acquired.
The fact that you are to be admitted to
membership while we are still rejected
causes not one thought of sorrow because
| instinctively we are brought to a
realizing sense of our own situa-
ton; we overlook that in the Joy
we feel that somebody can be made happy
if we cannot. Walk right in and make
yourselves as happy as though we were
with you, aud be assured that we will be
there, sooner or later.
Next month will or should be q great
day with our northwestern and northeast
ern neighbors. Then their elections will
take place On the adoption of their respec-
tive constitutons-a merely formal act,
since it is sure beforehand that all will
ratify these instruments-and for govern
ors, members of Congress and legislatures,
the latter to choose United States Sen
ators. Just think of it, What a change
from merely choosing a lot of automatons
to act as lawmakers whose acts were sub
iect, like those of the Canadian parliament,
to a "home government" to select
Ing men to make statutes which
will be binding within the realm and which |
cannot be overthrown except by courts
chosen by the same authority And then
the election of an executive officer in ac-
cordance with the will of the majority Of |
the people instead of having such official |
sent on and fastened upon you by a foreign |
power, as England sends officials to poor |
ireland and fastens them upon the people |
whether they will or no. But best and |
greatest and brightest of all is the ''privi- |
lege'' of those to represent you in Congress
who can speak in your interest and vote on
such and all other questions, and they make |
you really and truly integral parts of the re-
public You will then no longer be provin |
cial subjects but coequal citizens, and when |
the next presidential election is upon the |
land, your participation in it will not as
heretofore be in spirit and sympathy; you
will then feel, many of you for the first |
time in your lives, how great and grand |
thing it is to be real ruler and choose the |
chief servant whom you will have to serve |
you.
All, no, we do not envy, we congratulate.
You are all welcome to the good fortune
that is yours, and to all else that is good |
that may come your way. This territory
is older in all respects save creation than
any of you, but that does not figure now
And when we enter the national domicile,
may you be as ready and willing TO receive
us with outstrctched hands as we are now
to bid you GOdspeed aud prosperous state
hood