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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-24

tons of today unqualifiedly contradict.
Whatever honest doubt may have existed
in the minds of many opposed to Utah's
admission to statehood, and who based
that opposition in the fear that the rights
of suffrage and of statehood would not be
exercised by the people of the territory
untrammeled by religious influences,
must have been dissipated by the results
of the recent election in Utah. That there
will always be opposition to statehood
must be an accepted fact as long as there
are Offices that can be held by its oppo-
nents so long as statehood is withheld,
Notwithstanding the fact that the general
tendency of the race is towards honesty
IN expression as well as in purpose.
There undoubtedly exists everywhere a
class which subordinates all purpose to
their selfish designs, and Utah is not
wanting in this class. If the people of
Utah are to patiently wait the consent of
men who would lose their offices by the
amission OF Utah 10 statehood, we need
never look Tor the full liberty which is
guaranteed them under the constitution.
Is 1t not the duty of every man who be-
lleves the people of Utah to be honest and
capable of government, to contend for
statehood manfully and at all times? If it
is right that the people should have this
higher liberty, 1t Is certainly right that
they should contend for it, and contend
III ShtAA Vic SAVdb llLlLl Ju - Sc
cured. No genuine friend of Utah, who
thinks more of his principle and love of
right than of personal conveniences or
selfish designs, will withhold his support
from a statehood movement, or in anv
way seek to lull the people into the belief
that it will come in time, and that there
is no hurry for it. Certainly none can
base any rational opposition to
it, who favored it at time
when opposition to the statehood
was all-powerful, and when the con-
ditions were less favorable time when
the mind of the people of the United
States was in a much more antagonistic
frame than it IS today. The question of
expense should not be considered. What
we want is the right, and believe it is
right that all the people of Utah whom I
know to be honest as a class and loyal to
their convictions) should be granted the
fullest measure of liberty which the con-
stitution of the United States provides.
Let US have statehood. r. w. SLOAN.
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government for Utah will say that condi-
lions have not changed while a large per-
centage of the men of influence and char
acter, who formerly opposed admission
to the Union are today foremost in con-
tending that there no longer remains any
valid reason for Withholding the great
boon that statehood will give to this ter
ritory.
1t does not seem possible that any per-
son who has had to meet the dictation of
a governor possessing the absolute veto
power, which has time and again been
exercised to nullify the proper and legiti-
mate desires OF the people, or who has
felt the humility of having elections con
Quoted by an imported commission, a
body of men wholly irresponsible to the
people, can discover a reason that will
justify honest and intelligent opposition
to SELF government.
To people that have suffered through
irresponsible tyrrany the promise of state
hood is filled to the brim with all that lib
erty loving hearts hold dear and sacred
in the name OF freedom. That we should
keep steadfastly before us the high des-
tiny which it implies seems to me as nee
essary as that we should believe in the
needfulness OF truth and the necessity of
right.
BY bitter experience and the tears
of decades the people of Utah have learned
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community within itself the means of
protecting each citizen in his inalienable
rights OF life, liberty and property?
Applied to Utah, these questions must
be answered in the affirmative, and local
self-government is matter of right. To
deny the existence of this right is to deny
the equality of the rights of man; to
withhold it as matter of discretion is an
act of unwarranted tyranny.
If by ''un-Americanism'' YOU mean
that the people OF Utah have not in your
estimation the right ideas as to the func-
tons or duties OF citizens IN a republic,
and that tins is an objection to statehood,
then 1 reply that your objection is un-
worthy the consideration OF broad guaged
statesmen. Your objection IS denial of
the equality of man before the law, and is
the establishment of a governing class,
whom you give the power to withhold
that right from others. To say that
man shall have no voice in government
only because he has, or does not have, a
particular mental conviction is to muzzle
truth, to shut out progress, to embrace
tyranny. You cannot indict whole
community as "un-A American"
The people of Utah, individually and
collectively are better qualified to as
sumo the responsibility and perform the
duties OF self government than the people
of most new states.
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1t seems needless to multiply statistics
to prove that Utah has the intelligence,
the wealth, the population and the diver
sity of resources which entitle her people
to statehood.
1 therefore proceed to the directors to
Utah's admission. The first objection,
viz; that the population of Utah is FUN
American" is to say the least, very un-
satisfactorily indefinite. If by this
beautifully vague word, cum American, !"
you mean that a large part of Utah
population are only naturalized citizens
and that this is an objection to statehood,
then pray you why do you not ask that,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, and other north
ern states, or even New York City, be
expelled from the Union. | insist that
the right of local self-government in any
community cannot be made to depend
upon the accident of its inhabitants
birthplace. The right of participation in
the affairs of the government under which
a man makes his home is one inherent in
man and not belonging to points of COM
pass, or to climate.
When the people of any territory apply
for admission into the Union, three ques-
tions, and only three, should be asked,
viz: Have the people the intelligence to
appreciate the liberty which belongs to
them? Second-Have they the morality
to prevent the wanton abuse of the liber-
ty they demand? And third-Has the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-24
The Opinions of Prominent Salt
Lake People.
NO REASON FOR DELAY.
The People Have the Value OF the Lib.
erty OF Statehood.
II Puerile Objections Met and Over
-uIed by Truthful Statements
of Hard, Cold
Facts.

tab is ready for statehood. 1t is her
birthright and the number OF her in
habitants and the intelligence OF her peo-
pie, her position and resources entitle her
to every privilege and liberty and right
due to free people. She is entitled TO
statehood because she has ouJgrown that
relict CT colonial bondage under which
petty underlings have ruled over ana
Judged her inhabitants without their con-
sent.
Utah is ready for statehood because her
people are loyal, brave and independent,
and though in the past mistrusted and
thrust into bondage, now wears the sig
net ring OF conscious sovereign power,
yet 10 shine as the brightest gem in the
galaxy of national statehood.
Utah Is ready Tor statehood because her
sons have no further use Tor the absolute
veto OF the one-man power; nor for COM
missloners to gerrymander her districts
and supervise her elections.
Utah IS ready for statehood because she
demands representation, being willing
and able to submit TO taxation. Her grand
Old mountains, with their ribs OF iron,
hearts of silver and veins of gold,
are ready Tor statehood. Her happy
uneucum bered homes farms and fields,
are ready for statehood. Her focks and
herds upon n )usand hills, are ready
Tor statehood. Her mills and factories,
her merchants and bankers, are ready for
statehood. Her schools, academies, col
leges and university are ready for State
hood. Her students, professors and
statesmen are ready tor statehood. The
brain and Drawn and heart of her people
are ready for statehood. Her honor, in
tegrity and truth; her purity, virtue and
health, the courage of her boys, the
beauty OF her girls, the devotion of her
mothers, the manhood of her fathers, all
proclaim that Utah is ready for state
hood.
Division on national party lines has
brought harmony out of confusion and
fraternal feeling out of bitter discords.
The hatreds of the past are buried; we
have become homogeneous, the church
does not dominate the state, the state does
not trench the upon rights OF the church.
With her feet planted firmly upon the
constitution and laws the ''bride'' awaits
the groom. Utah is ready for state
hood.
MOSES THATCHER.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-24

A people that Will not fight for their
liberties. if necessary, is unworthy of
them. The worst thing that could be
said of the people of Utah is that they are
Indifferent to statehood. No people have
suffered more from similar form of gov
eminent than the people of this territory
In many ways they have been forced into
familiarity with the constitution of the
United States, and the forms of govern
ment existing under it.
So far as the bill of rights is concerned,
they have tested it through the courts
and brought about many legal interpreta-
lions of its lines. 1t has been custom
among a majority of the people of Utah
to send abroad yearly large numbers of
young men to different parts
of the earth. They have become
familiar with the conditions in other ma
tions and the forms OF government over
the civilized globe. If there is any value
in experience, they should know by this
time, how liberal form of government
the United States offers those that bring
themselves in subsection to its laws. That
they are appreciative of this fact, cannot
be denied by those having mingled with
them and heard the expression of their
views after they have returned from their
foreign trips. The ideas imbibed by con-
tact with other people and other forms of
government, have been generally dissem-
mated among their friends, thus enlarg-
ing the views of the young people of this
territory as to the conditions outside of the
United States, and begetting in them a
love OF the liberties guaranteed under the
constitution of this country.
To say that people reared as have been
the young Mormons of Utah, are unqual-
flied for the responsibilities of the duties
OF statehood, is to make an exceedingly
bold declaration and one which the condi-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-24
DELEGATE-ELEcr JOSEPH L. RAwL1Ns.

The second objection urged to Utah S
statehood is the possible establishment
OF polygamy. In my judgment this is as
improbable as is the establishment of
slavery. Both found their justification in
the supposed words of God; both found
their extinction in the light of rational
men; all rejoice in the dawn of this new
era.
The Mormon church has renowned
polygamy in the only way in which any
church ever changed its creed, and can
conceive no motive which would encour-
age its establishment. In the last
twenty years experience of the Mormon
people, find many heart-rending scene
Which would make them dread return to
the old conditions. | therefore give it as
my unqualified opinion that polygamy
will not be and cannot be re-established
in Utah, either with or without statehood
The third objection to Utah S statehood
is the supposed danger of a union of
church and state. AS an opponent to this
union yield second place to none, but [
have both as much and as little use for the
Mormon church as any other. When |
remember that only a short time ago the
Mormons might have carried that union
almost to the full extent with hardly a
dissenting voice, and then compare their
record during that period with the record
of other churches in other states l am
forced to believe that there is less danger
of a union of church and state here than
there.
Some states of this Union have sup
pressed liberty of speech and freedom of
thought by making it a crime to deny the
divine origin of the Bible; the Mormons
on the other hand have not only refrained
from similar denial of the right of con-
science but have opened their meeting
houses to others for the purpose of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-24
A IDEAL WESTERNER.
The Push and Enterprise Characteristic of
Il. NJ. Jones.

The Push and Enterprise Characteristic of
X. NJ. Jones.
Among the practical inventions of the
age, and second to none in importance,
are those known as electric lighting and
electric railways, which stand side by
side among scientific Improvements, such
as the electric telegraph, electric tele-
phone and other great trophies which
have been wrested from nature's store
house. To R. NJ. Jones, Salt Lake city is
largely indebted for the splendid system
of passenger traffic she now enjoys;
though Mr.. Jones has not confined his
efforts to Salt Lake alone. Laramie and
Evanston, in Wyoming, and Park CITY.
Utah, also bear evidence of his push and
enterprise. Mr.. Jones, though living in
Salt Lake but a few years, is recognized
as of superior ability and q practical me-
chanic, the many successful plants now
in operation being sufficient evidence to
the truth of this statement. He is con-
stantly extending his business, and it
only remains for us to wait but a short
time when Utah, and this city particu-
larry, Will be the gamers by his genius.
The ever growing demand for applica-
tons OF electricity in every branch of our
industries will mark Mr.. Jones' supply
house as one among the leading enter
prises of Salt Lake city. His patents,
covering many suggestions in the sue
cessful prosecution of his electrical work,
and which have never been furnished by
other inventors in this particular branch
OF the service is too many to enumerate in
detail; we only trust that it will be many
years that Salt Lake may take advantage
of his push and pluck. He is now turn
ING his attention to electricity as applied
to mining improvements, and his success
in this field Will be watched with interest
by all in this section He is an ideal
western man, and as such comes to us
with all that lays in the memory of that
term. The spacious premises the firm
now occupies in the Hooper block, % e.
First South street, is well worthy of a
visit to those interested in this particular
branch of industry
A dozen different beers are madein Bor-
neo.
Coffee grows wild in Arabia and in the
Soudan.
The best Roman wines grew on the
Campania.
Mead was made from honey and water
fermented.
Fifty-year-old Tokay costs SIS to $50 a
bottle.
Greek wines nearly all turn to vinegar
in summer.
Port wine is famous for its gout-pro-
ducing qualities.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-24

Yes; why? The territorial form of
government as part of our system is tenn
porary in character, established to main
tain order and to aid young and weak
communities in their early struggle to
acquire and develop strength for the
maintenance of free and independent
states. 1t was never contemplated as a
permanency. Justice alike to the gen
eraI government and to a people under
territorial rule requires the admission of a
territory to the union of states, so soon
as it has an intelligent and patriotic popu-
lation sufficiently numerous and stable in
character, with developed resources and
accumulated wealth, to successfully con
duct all of its own domestic affairs and
contribute its due share to the admins
tration of the general government. 1t
cannot be truthfully denied that all of
the ends of territorial government for
Utah have been attained and that
the territory today has every requisite for
admission.
The permanent settlement OF Utah be-
gan with the incoming of the Mormon
pioneers in 1s47, nearly forty-six years
ago, and from that time until now there
has been a steady growth in population,
active development of resources, large
accumulation of wealth and the establish
ment of the manifold Industries and en-
terprises. public and private charitable
and educational, which give life and
character to the state and prosperity and
happiness TO its people.
The federal census of 1890 gives to the
territory population of 207, 9O5 and it
has an area of S4,970 square miles. Its
assessed valuation of property for 1891,
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the value of that higher liberty which
statehood signifies, and if, after all that
has been endured, we are still unprepared
for admission to the nnion, when may we
hope to possess the requisite qualifica-
tions? F. S. RICHARDS.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-20
AN ORDINANCE
relating to distractions to streets,
alleys and sidewalks.

This Common Council OF the City OF Mineral
Poin do ordain as follows.
Section l. No wagon, sleigh or other vehicle
and 10 fire wood, coal, box, barrel goods
ware or merchandise shall be allowed 70
cucumber or remain on, in, or upon any street
or alley within the corporate limits of said
city for a longer period than twenty.four
hour.
seclon q Any person who shall violate the
provisions of the above section shall be deemed
CUNT OF q misdem eanor, and upon conviction
theroi shall pay aye OF not less than one
DollT and not more than Tow Gollsrs. to-
geth0 with the costs OF prosecution. and
stant committed 10 the common iail of Iowa
County until the same is paid, or he is otbsr-
wise discharged by law.
Sedion 3. All prosecutions under this orli-
name shall be brought In the name of the CITY
OF Mineral Point, upon complaint mado hy
any citizen OF said city, and all fines collected
shallbe paid 70 the city treasurer,
Section g. Section of an ordinance passed
june ith 1865, euttled3 AN ordinance rclat-
ing T. distractions 10 streets and sidewalks" Is
HEREBY amended SO as TO include each and all
OF tie streets and alleys within the corporate
limit of said city, so that said last mentioned
ordnance shall apply TO, and include, each aud
all II the streets and alleys within the
corporate limits of the City of Mineral FONT.
Secion 8. This ordinance shall take elect
and le In force from aud after its publication
in tn city paper designated by the Common
Counil
Attest 4. W. COBB
JOHN COMMINS, Mayor
City Clerk
Passed August LIST, lSg2.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-20
ATTORNEYS,
Reese ~ Garter,

A TnRNEYs AND COUESELLORs Dodgevllc
a w. win practice IN all courts u the state
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-20
NEW
BIacsmith and WheeIWright Shop
BY PHILLIPS Z GRANGE,

Tbeiudcrsned have formed q partnership
for hpuruose of conducting a blacksmith and
wheelriqht bu.lucss, and hereby solicit due
share the public patronage. Work viii De-
done I reasonable rates.
-. SHOP --
at snner Phillips ga stand On Hoard street.
Niuta Point Wis 5HEBMhe PHILLIPS
Mfh lFyZ-Jgy ALBEK4 GRANGE
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-20
4 south American solomon.

have an easy patriarchal way
.aug q dispute in South Amer
.arding to the Panama Star and
~. Two prisoners. Francisco
Iomb boa and Victor Higuera,
implicated in a murder at Guara.
Il '5aayaqml court being unable to
81 rs relative guilt Of either passed
owing sentence: They shall
a.s and the one favored bv
hall not be executed and shall
sentence committed to that Of
Hmeut for life. which sentence
serve "a the prison Of the cap
iaa republic, and after being
A.glaggr.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-20
DENTfSTRi.
Residence For Sale.

Larg s roomcd house with closets and nice
buttery Double cellar cemcuted and plastered
2 Cisteas, good barn, wood shed aud chicken
house. In very desirable location. Inquire OF
inns Z. ALLEN, Jr.
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