The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-04-29
aragua is the right route and the enter
prise ought to be pushed to completion.
The Statehood Discussion.

The Statehood Discussion,
There is no surprise among the people
Of this Territory, whatever there may
have been among the outside delegates
to the trans Mississippi Congress at Og-
den, at the position taken and the
harangues uttered by Messrs. r. n.
BAsKIN, G. G. GOODWIN and A. L.
THOMAS on the statehood question. They
are thoroughly understood and their hos
tility was to be expected.
The first is known to be cranky on the
Mormon question. The sincerity OF his
hatred is not disputed. He stands where
he did quarter OF a century ago. And
the issues OF that time, long since passed
out of date and relevance, are as much
alive to him now as then. His mind is
warped in that direction. and the exag-
gerations and misconceptions that con-
trolled his sentiments when he started in,
have LOST none Of their hideous proper
tions and lurid colors. He IS simply to be
pitied.
The second has become identified with
clique that has made the polygamy ques-
ton mere pretence for an agitation
which has given it influence in Che coun-
try. 1t has succeeded. by means that
need not now be dwelt upon, in gaining
control of affairs in this city and one or
two other places. The issues that it
raised are gone, the objects it claimed to
have in view have been attained, the
excuse for its clamors, aye for its exist
ence, is thoroughly swept away, but 1t
continues for selfish and rancorous pur-
poses, and he remains as its champion for
similar reasons. All that he can say by
tongue or pen in its interests is stale,
hatulent and mal-odorous.
The third is simply tool of the others
and OF the faction they represent. With
out force, and without influence other
than comes from the Office he holds but
for a few days longer, he is insincere,
unreliable and shifting. Plausible in
manner he .'holds with the hare and
runs with the hounds" He is ''all
things to all men. To the divisionists
ne appears to be friendly to statehood.
To the 'Mormons'' he poses as friend.
In his heart he knows that conditions in
Utah have changed, that the territory
ought to be admitted without delay, and
that there is nothing substantial in the
alleged arguments against that move
ment. But he has been the servant an
ally of those who have manipulated him
so long that he cannot or dare not break
loose from their strings, and so he viii be
their puppet till the last. What he says
is of no account in this region.
The people OF Utah should generously
thank the gentlemen who defended her
against the assaults of the trio that
imagined their handfuls of anti Mormon
dust would blind the eyes of delegates
from distance. The Utah men as well
as those from California and Colorado are
entitled to the thanks of the people. They
all spoke from the heart as well as from
the brain. JOHN P. IRISH, THOMAS NJ.
PATTERSON, FRANK J. CANNON, DAVID
EVANS and F. S. RICHARDS were equal
to the situation and made convincing
speeches full of light and logic that dissi-
pated the cloud raised by the obstruction
lists.
The vote was very satisfactory. Not
that it will influence Congress greatly,
but az adverse vote would have been
used as club wherewith to beat Utah
hopes on the head. Perhaps the malig-
nants will learn something by this lesson.
Perhaps not. Some maladies are incura-
BILE. Mormophobia seems to be one OF
them in certain cases.
The main question, the admission o!
Utah as state, remains pretty much the
same as before the congress met. 1t is to
be decided by another and different body.
We have no fears of the result. Statehood
is in the air. Both parties see its neces-
sity and justice in the case of Utah. Its
opponents have losing fight before
them. The wise viii all see what is
ahead and cease to train with those to
whom defeat is inevitable. When Utah
is crowned with the diadem and wears
the star which belongs to her, she should
remember the friends that stood by her
in times OF necessity, and see that she
does not give aid and comfort to her ma
licious and implacable enemies.
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