The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-05-12
Ignorance Or Perversity.

1.-THE HERALD says what the people Of
Utah want, with the exception of a small
minority is speedy statehood. and the
Tribune says that is not true in any legiti-
mate sense. The people of Utah do not
care penny for statehood.''
The foregoing is, of course, from the
organ Of the Liberals. The readers oil
The HERALD understand which position
is correct. The writer of that paragraph
is either very ignorant of the people OF
Utah and their desires, or he is persisting
wilfully in determined course of mis-
representation, for what purpose there is
no need to discuss.
Everybody who has travelled among the
country districts in this territory and
conversed with the inhabitants, knows
without doubt that the masses OF them
are anxious that the territory shall be
delivered from terrItori al trammels at the
earliest possible date. The only ex-
captions are a few cranky or cantankerous
persons who swear by the Tribune and
have not an idea of their own outside of
what they have obtained from its raw
ings.
Republicans as we'll as Democrats know
this. Both parties during the last
campaign found that every allusion to
immediate statehood met with the mos
enthusiastic applause, aud that even men
who had trained with the Liberal faction,
on that question were in numerous in
stances in accord with the majority i.
Further, 'the rank and fiIe,'' rs the
Tribune designates them, were able to
give in private as well as in public, strong
reasons why they wanted statehood. The
intense craftsmanship that sprung up on
the division movement did not in any
degree deninish the unanimity of feeling
in reference to statehood.
With people who had not formally at
tached themselves to either party the
statehood question was the turning point
in directing their votes. Some of them
had sense enough to see thata Democratic
Delegate would be more likely to succeed
in forwarding the statehood movement
than a Republican could. Others took q
contrary view, believing the national
election would be decided in favor OF the
Republican party, and that therefore the
Republican candidate would have greater
influence than Democrat could with a
Republican administration. That won a
great many ballots for the defeated party.
Now it is all folly to try to make sensi-
BILE people believe different from this.
The territory has been visited and can
vassed by men who were formerly Liber-
ais, from ST. George to Richmond and
from Uinta to Tooele. Every county and
nearly every settlement, however remote,
has been ''stumped' and the people con-
yersed with, and when newspaper writer
sits in his Office in this city and pretends
that he believes ''the people at large do
not care penny for statehood, . he rem
ders himself an object of pity or Of de-
rision.
What is the use of it? It deceives no
one but few newcomers or travellers
unacquainted with the facts. Let the
writers OF such insuTerable stuff ask
their old acquaintance who have inves-
tigated affairs and aligned themselves
with the national parties, what has been
their experience and the result OF their
observations in visiting and conversing
with the masses throughout the territory.