The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-16

ward struggles of the people soon in
lduced them to aspire to equality with
/ the people of the states They asked
repeatedly for this equality. They as
pired to become real citizens of the
United States. but the paternal govern
nent at Washington declared times
out of number that the men who had
conquered the wilderness by peaceful
means, and had planted here ciyiliza-
ton which need never blush before any
people on earth, were not fit to govern
themselves, and as often as they asked
for the boon of statehood as often
were they denied. Twenty-Five years
ago Utah was as much entitled to
statehood as she is now. Why was it
Withheld? Only because the majority of
/ her citizens We're Democrats in ma
tional politics They must be kept out
until they become Republican.
At last, thank God, the day dawned
when the nation was wise enough to
elect a Democratic Congress and Sen
ate as Wen as a Democratic president
Hope long deferred maketh the heart
sick" but hope sprang anew into the
hearts Of the brave people Of Utah
when the wires flashed the joyful It'd
ings of a great Democratic national
victory over the land, a victory which
placed the entire country under real
Democratic rule. Now we will have
statehood shouted the delighted
Utonians The wires yesterday brought
the confirmation of this hope. The bill
passed the House and it win unques-
tionably pass the Senate and as GER
tainly receive the presidential sigma
ture. How small seem the sacrifices
Of the early past before this auspicious
levent.-Provo Dispatch.
All Is Well.
We are making history In the long
list of struggles on the part of OPP
pressed peoples there are few which
present so many strange features as
that which is now so rapidly drawing
to a close in the case Of Utah. The
evolution of human thought has wit
messed many marvellous changes of
opinion in the scientific, religious and
political worlds, but we confidently as
Sert that no change has been SO Strik-
ing, none so significant, as the rapid
growth of public opinion in favor of
this territory. It seems but few
short days since the land of Utah was
engulfed in the throes of internal con-
vulsions, the outlook from which was
tinged with the darkest forebodings-
the blacklist despair. Settling masses
of almost uncomfortable forces glared
at one another with eyes Of fury and
hate. Now one party in the ascend
ant-now another And each resolved,
apparently, to be actuated by the prin-
ciples of the Scottish outlaw chief
THAT he should take who has the
power, and he should keep who can"
Truly those were troublous times; and
truly it was with a sigh of intense
. relief that the dawn of a new era
, burst upon US, and family streaming
, through the clouds of inky blackness,
, the streaks Of the new light began to
illumine the souls and fill with hope
the breasts of all Of US. The sufferingS
! that have been endured, the heart
rendings that sent upward their pite-
Gus cries from hundreds of once happy
flreSideS have after all not been in vain.
Yet the sad events that have trans
: pired in the past are after all mag
nificent lessons. For the glorious
rights Of self government are laden
: with tremendous responsibility that
will all the better be borne on account
of those trials through which we have
passed. And if the people of this ter
l ritory will apply the lessons of the
: bitter past to the formation of the
t laws that are to be framed in the fu-
: tune, then without a doubt Utah should
soon assert her right to be considered
1 in this, as in other matters. the
I brightest gem in the diadem OF Ameri-
! cas- fair sisterhood of states.
There is something almost tragic in
j that last shrink of frenzied hate and
e fury which, Hecate-like, burst forth
4 from that miserable wretch Morse OF
t Massachusetts. 1t was but perhaps in
4 the eternal fitness of things that this
U unSeemly display should have been
phasize the subsequent action of the
House without even calling for divi-
sion.
The reign of misgivings and misun
derstandings is over. Let the deac
: past bury its dead as such dead has
t never been buried before. May i
. never again in Utah's history be re
a called to life. Let love, the ruling force
of the universe, take its place, and han(
in hand let US all march together in the
o paths of progress and civilization
q and let no man raise his hand or voice
: to stay it, AS Democrats we congratu
late the Republicans. We freely &C
{ knowledge that manly and noble ait
: has been rendered by many stauncl
e political opponents, and we believe w,
: express the prevailing sentiment of al
:, when we hope that the progress of tn
, bill in the Senate will be marked b,
q the same unanimity as has been evince,
s in the House.
e We cannot refrain. where so mucl
/ praise has been so well merited, from
= adding our quota to the indefatigabl
g energy and splendid zeal of gallan
e Joe Rawlins. He has done his par
e well and Utah is today justly proud o
5, her delegate. In his hands we hav
s little doubt Of the speedy passage 0
5. the bill through its remaining stages
e At any rate we can rest assured tina
! even if we are doomed TO a further dis
: appointment yet have we been so we
d drilled in the school of patience. tina
} we know how to wait. And with
1t firm abiding faith in the future great
d ness of our territory we can confidentl
a repeat to ourselves that-"All is we'll.
n Ogden Sun.
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