The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-05
ANNEXATION AGAIN.


of Utah to Nevada is the New York Sun.
1t is as irrational on that subject as it is
in relation to the tariff. In long article,
very long for the Sun, it proceeds to show
the authority for joining two or more
states and the resumption-which by
the by is not in the constitutional provi-
sions cited-that Utah would have to be
consulted as well as Nevada. However
it undoes in effect this proposition by ar.
guing that Congress has ample power
ito dispose of the territory of the United
States and make all needful rules anc
regulations respecting that territory"
The Sun then assumes that 'sthere
ought to be no doubt Of the reception o.
this project by Nevada and Utah. y
Whether there ought to be or not, there
is considerable doubt on the part o.
Nevada and settled objection on the
part of Utah. A great many Neva-
dams resent the proposition and the
implied slur upon its ability tc
maintain it's own autonomy. And the
people on its western borders woulo
much prefer being joined to California il
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desirable. Utah does not want to be an
nexed to anything or anybody, but to
enter the Union intact as free and SOW
ereign state.
After telling OF the rise and decline o.
Nevada, the Sun says:
Utah would add population which
even three years ago was 2079 strong
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vada's. 1t would be safe to put the com
bined populations of Utah and Nevada
today at 275, 600, or six times that OF the
latter three years ago.
Utah would bring other things to Ne.
vada. She would bring an additional
area of 50 100 square miles. AS Nevada
already contains 100, 740 square miles. il
has sometimes been proposed to divide
Utah by extending southwark the boun-
Diary line between Idaho and Wyoming
giving all west of that line to Nevada anC
all east of it to Colorado. The great ares
thus to be added to the latter state il
thinly settled, so that Nevada would still
get an increase of perhaps 200, 000 people,
Utah would also bring rich resources
Her gold and silver and lead, her veins o.
asphalt, her salt, iron copper and coal
are we'll known; her wool clip is abuD-
dant, her banks and railroads usually
show thriving business. Her schools
are Furnishing, she is well provided with
public institutions, Including the Uni
versity of Deseret, reform school, al
industrial home, a deaf mute institute
and an agricultural college. Polygamy
has been destroyed through the action o.
the Mormon church in submitting to the
final decision of the Supreme Court of the
United States, SO that any objection or
that score which Nevada may have had tc
annexing Utah should no longer exist.
These are some of the advantages which
Nevada is to obtain by the annexation
But what about the benefits to Utah.
Simply that Utah would probably ge
into the Union without objection. While
she has had SO much greater population
than some of the states recently admitted
he has been persistently kept out O.
the Union'' entirely because of prejudice
That is the only advantage alleged al
likely to accrue to Utah.
From the arguments offered by the Su,
may be adduced good reasons why Utah
should object to the project. First, be.
cause all the advantages would fall u
Nevada. We say ''all'' advisedly. The
supposed benefit of the admission O.
Utah without objection amoInts to moth
ing. There is now no obstacle in hel
way. 1t is only matter of time to pas!
the bill introduced for her emancipation
The prejudice against her has died out
Both political parties agree that she il
entitled to statehood.
Second, Utah objects for the very rea-
sons offered by the Sun in its description
of the present condition of Nevada. Sh;
does not want to be saddled with the
burden therein portrayed. For another
reason, Utah is Democratic and wants tt
go into the Union as Democratic state
By annexation to Nevada she would lapse
into Republican rule by reason of the
gross majority that would come from the
union of ner Republican minority will
Nevada's individual majority.
It will be seen from this that the San i!
not to be taken as Democratic authority
on this question any more than it is or
the tariff. In reference to both, it is er.
ratio and illogical, and while on its owr
account it has the right to present the
peculiar views it processes to entertain, il
is not honest for other papers to quote it,
utterances on either of these questions e.
coming from an organ of the Democracy
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