The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-05-09
A NEW DAY FOR UTAH.

The platform of principles published
in another column in this issue, as
enunciated and adopted by the Salt
Lake Democracy, tells in no mistaken
sound that the political battles of
this Territory will hereafter be fought
on lines that do not interfere with a
mans hearthstone or his religious con-
victions; but that, on the contrary,
politics Of a national character, with
which every man and woman should
be acquainted, and with the practical
operations of which Utah has had no
experience, will be introduced.
THE DISPATCH has been of the
honest opinion from the first that no
matter how some would like to avert
the revolution, yet its coming was in
evitable, and that as sure as the sun
followed the night SO confident have we
heen that new day was dawning for
Utah. and her patriotic people. True,
the change is not general; the move
has not been universally made. We
admit the fact. We also admit the
f act that every great reformation has
been inaugurated in about the same
manner. But few stood with WYC-
LIFE and with LUTHER, brave
hearted men that they were, when
they, seeing the light of another day
breaking in the distance, came out in
the honesty of their convictions and
proclaimed against the condition of
things as they then existed. Rivers
do not assume gigantic proportions in
one brief day. Away up in the quiet
northern part Of Minnesota the great
Mississippi, the Father of Waters, >
commences on its mighty journey to
the sea. Days and months is it on its
majestic flow. So is it with all i'm
portant reformations. They do not
grow in day. The political reforma-
tion that is now dawning in this Ter
ritory was not inaugurated in Salt
Lake last Tuesday. 1t did not COM
mence in Ogden in February when
the Republicans there organized. 1t
was not ushered in by the Democrats
in Provo when they banded themselves
together early this year and adopted a
platform, of which the Salt Lake reso-
lutions are similar, No! 1t has been
terminating for some time, and al
though Provo has the honor of having
been the first to plant the banner of
reformation, yet the people have been
longing for the day to dawn, and have
prayed from the bottom of their souls
for the war of hatred and strife to
cease. And now let the light shine.
Let our young men now know that
from henceforth we will have some
thing of worth in our political issues.
Let them now realize in very deed
that the whole nation has begun to
comprehend the fact, that here in these
mountain Businesses of the Rockies is
a race Of patriots that have been anx-
iously awaiting the day to dawn when
their true worth to this grand COM
monwealth would be appreciated.
Utah has been trodden under foot
long enough. Cinderalla-like, she has
been the patient sla We of her sister
states. In her tears has she sat and
watched each of her sister territories
as fond parent has placed upon them
the beautiful robes of statehood. She
has listened. with aching heart, to the
wild civilizations of the people as the
news was flashed that they had been
admitted into the society of her ell
ders. But as every night has day, so
is ii now with the fairest part of our
great Republic. Old differences are
giving way, and men are working
hand in hand, irrespective of their re-
ligious beliefs, for the dawning of
brighter day. Let US hope that its
effulgent rays may soon burst in glory
and hope upon US.
ANDERSON the photographer has