The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-07-16
PROVO CITY. JULY
THE NEW IMPULSE.

The cause of democracy in U tab mas
received new and most powerful i'm
pulse here within the last few months.
For many long years it has been the
hope of the old heroes of the first settle
ment Of the territory to see their be-
loved and remote mountain fastness,
received into the great family of the
union before they laid down to sleep
the long sleep, which ends all earthly
things. This feeling had become a pas
sion with them, broad, deep passion
which they haYe. transmitted to their
dec 2ndants whose hopes OF stateh ood
for their fatherland had became almost
as ardent as was that of their sires.
At intervals since 1865 they had been
promised the boon. but as often was
the promise broken, forgotten or
brushed rudely and iDsultingly by.
"Hode deferred maketh the heart
sick" These old frosty powed
heroes of western settlement and pro-
gress, grew sick, weary O. the waiting.
Thei. SONS grew to manhood and then
passed the crest and began the descent,
gray hairs began TO show themselves
and at last their heads whitened as
their sjres' heads had before them, still
statehood came not. They had spent
the half of century waiting for the
fulfllment of the republican promise.
1t came not All the bright hopes
which had been placed upon the happy
event in the future, were blasted, times
without numbers. The native born
citizen was told that he might die an
alien, never enter into citizenship in
the land of his birth. At last star of
hope arose. The people of the union
arose in their might and declared that
the democracy should again govern.
That party had promised statehood and
that party had been in the habit of re-
gardiug its promises as something
sacred. 1t has been in power sixteen
months and our people have had full
citizenship conferred at last. At last
a citizen of Utah is a citizen also of
the United States and does not have
10 lower his crest to any man who
walks the earth in any part of it.
OF course this great act of Justice
must have its logical effect upon the
minds of the intelligent people of
Utah. Added to this. several other
pending purposes of the people have
been faYorably considered by this
democratic national administration.
The Uintah and Uncompahgre 1ndi
ans were holding in dense, unrelieved
savagery, three millions of acres of
the finest lands in the territory. 1t has
been one of the oldest and most cher
ished hopes of the people that these
lands be thrown open to white settle
ment. Like statehood, that had been
promised times without number and
the promise as often died on the lips of
republican congressman and senators.
Within sixteen months after a demo-
cratic administration went into power,
the bill opening these reservations
passes the house with dead certainty
that it will pass the senate and also
receive the presidential signature.
This same democratic national ad-
ministration invests Mormon lawyer
and gentleman with the judicial er-
mine without fear or apprehension.
Thus does the democracy honor the
Mormons. Can any one be surprised
that the new democratic impulse in
Dtah has become an earnest of the
most complete democratic victory this
fall? We trow not.