Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-02-02

law. Uiah has Just rlelin 10 slh'enoou
aud should have taken precedence Of
several o.hur States thnt were created by
the last Congress. New MoXico, ton, has
also a fair claim to admission into the
Union, but Il Is hardly probable that a
Republican majority In the Senate Will
vote either Territory a state and add four
senators to the already formidable Daino-
cratic minority"
This Is from the Lynchburg, Va,
NcDG
"sonaior Teller has introduced bill in
Congress to admit Utah into the Union ~
state, and we hope It may pass. NJ
though that Territory has far more popu-
laiion than any % tho Territories that
have been already admlitod-iu fact, two
or ,hroo times more than sons ofthem
yo' Il has been refused admission simply
because 1t 10 Democratic Territory and
would aid two Democratic senators TO
Congress. Tho Republicans have pleaded
| Mormonism ne their excuse tor hereto
fore rejeciing Utah, but that WIS a mcie
pteton.e. ~ Mormonsn has been COM
plotoly crushed out aud Is no longer q
factor In elections in that Territory. Whom
admitted she will make one Of the best
Western States tina! wo have la the
/ Union"
The Omaha Bee,a Republican paper,
In n long editorial ON "the proposed
new Staies"-New Mexico, Utah, Okla
homa aud Arizona, makes this fair
showing.
"Utah's population, by the census OF
1900, was close TO $4,000, and the uov-
ernor's report for 1901 placed II at
nearly 2li, 900. Tho assessed value OF
property, real and personal, In 1891 was
In round number, sl2i ,OoOO0n. both az
to population aud resources Utah has an
UNREASONABLE claim TO statehood, aud
tho only obstacle In the way of attain
ing It is the political influence still cN-
orclsod by the Mormon Church. This,
however, Is steadily declining, ard there
Is every reason to expect that within
the next year or two those who arc con.
trollcd In their political action by the
/ 'hHlNh VIII w III " hllhNlNFs ihA'NN
thoro Is now no dislinciivoly Mormon
party, that organization having disband.
| ed previous to the last election for the
legislative assembly, many OF Its mem
bors uniting with the Republican and
pomscratic parties. while this has boon
regarded ~ riso Of tho church leaders
10 the interest Of statehood, and the Utah
Commission inclined to this Wow, tho
governor and others In favorable POSI-
ton to Judge have Expressed the opinion
that II was done In good faith.
II thus appear. that Utah alone IL able
toprcscni an entirely satisfactory claim,
80 far as population and developed roe
sources arc concerned, to statehood, and
there Ia really no valid roason against tho
admission Of that Territory.
The Denver, Colorado sun has the
following:
"rhe Democratic majority In the House
are credited with the design to pass an
omnibus bill to admit Arizona, New
Mexico and Utah as States into the
Union. They Will do this with tho
| idea that all three will DO Demo-
cratic. In the matter OF the admis-
sion Of Statos partisan considerations
should, of course, have no in
nuoncc. But they do hayo an influence
an the same. The Democrats kept Da-
kota out long after shc had twice tho
/ population commonly required Of a new
State. Tho Republicans should raise no
objection to tho admission Of tho three
remaining Territories Of the Rocky
Mountain region on partisan grounds
The chances are about even that they
would be Republican States"
The Helena, Montana, Independent
discusses the question In an impartia
spirit, and thus takes issue with Ia,
Salt Lake "Liberal" organ concerning
II, under the head Of "Glye Utah a
Chance"
"'rhe prospects for tho admission ol
Utah into tho uuion arc much better
than at any previous time, and the SENT.
ment In favor Of admission Is much
stronger In Congress than was anticipated
one year ago. The Territory posscsse,
all requirements necessary, aud thus iai
the fight against admission has been
based solely upon the ground " tho lack
OF patriotism on tho part OF tho great
majority Of voters who have heretofore
allied themselves with tho Mormon
Church,
"Why two hundred aud fifty thousand
people, who obey the laws and to all ap.
parent purposes are good citizens, should
be deprived OF the advantages Of state.
hood Ia not made plain. Iu stating il,
opposition To the movement to bring
Utah into tho Union, the Salt Lake
Tribune bases its argument on u seem.
ingly absurd proposition. 1t says, Iher,
ought TO be more time given for the Nor.
mon people To become fully convorsani
with both the principles upon which Ia,
government rests aud the policy OF III,
different great parties aud the handling
OF the machinery OF politics.
els II possible that Mormon knowlodg,
OF governmental affairs, aftor the Interest
shown by the United States government
In Mormonl-m, Is not quito equal To thai
Of the residents OF other Tcrrisoricsg On
Is this ignorance which tine 2i4iuH,
claims is existent due to tho failuro oI
Mormon leaders TO instruct their poopl,
on the simple forms which every school
boy learns before no Is nitoon years old,
II In hardly TO be believed that the ayor,