The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-19

with the remark, westward the star
Iof empire takes its way
The President has before him now the
bin to admit the Mormon territory of
Utah to the Union as a Democratic
Estate. He will sign it, no doubt, and
be sorry for it afterward.-N- Y. Com
lmercial Advertiser Rep).
Utah has been trying for many years
to secure admission to the Union, and
has failed chiefly on account of it's pro-
clivities towards that form of Mormon
ism sanctioning plurality of wives.
ISince the acceptance by this sect of
the provisions of the Edmunds act the
principal objection has been removed,
and yesterday the people OF Utah had
the qualification of learning that the
bill to admit the territory had passed
the House, and that it has gone to the
president for approval. Should he
sign it, the act will not become fully
operative until 1896: : Philadelphia
Ledger Rep9.
Utah is welcome to come in, but its
citizens mustn't bring too many wives
along with them.-Kansas City Times
Dem.).
If Utah ever is admitted to the Union
it will be singular.-Chicago Dispatch
] QndD..
/
lis getting ready to go Republican, her
qualifications for statehood are such as
deserve the respectful and friendly
consideration of all good citizens.-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat (Rep).
Utah will be the first of the outlying
| territories to put on the garb Of state
hood. Arizona and New Mexico will
follow shortly.-Houston CTex) Daily
Post Oem).
Come in, Utah. but no monkey bust
ness about the matrimonial code, you
! Known. Y. Morning Journal Rep0.
| The bill to admit the territory of
Utah as a state has been passed by
both houses Of Congress. 1t now only
requires the signature of the president
to go into effect We cannot conceive
ltatives justify their support of this
measure. Populism is already danger
ously active in both houses of Con-
gress. The admission of Utah to state
hood will undoubtedly increase and
strengthen this populistic contingent.
We have now too many states in the
west with extended territory and small
populations. The fanatical peculiari-
ties and turbulent tendencies of these
unestablished western populations are
not the best guarantees of the future
stability and security of the nation
L
But what frightens the Democrats
most is the sudden discovery of the big
railroad project for a southwest outlet
from Salt Lake city to the southern
California coast. The building of that
road, it now appears, is contingent on
statehood capital for it is assured.
Behind it will be a combination of lead
ling Mormons with Republican aff1ia-
tons. BY the time Utah, under the
81 I1i ont ono n
in electing her first state legislature,
the building of the new railroad will be
fully under way with 10000 Mormons
employed upon it. The Democrats
argue that under such conditions the
new state is certain to send two Re
Ipublicans to the United States Senate,
and they are urging the president to
make careful investigation before he
signs the statehood bill.-St Louis
Globe Democrat CRep).
Utah would have come in long
ago-in advance of at least six of her
predecessors-bu for the practice of
polygamy by portion of her people.
| 1t would be as easy to re-
establish slavery in Virginia as to
restore polygamy in Utah. and there is
no evidence that any considerable num-
Der of people anywhere desire the res
toration of either of these institutions.
Few states have come into
the Union with so splendid an outfit as
| Utah possesses, and it is a matter for
national rejoicing that her troublous
times are past and her smiling face is
/ set toward a bright future.-Washin
ton Post Qnd).
! Utah has been kept out of Statehood
under the pretense that a polygamouS
population should not be permitted to
come into the Union on equal terms
with the people of other and more law
abiding States. AT the same time Re-
publicans voted for the admission of !
| polygamous Idaho. The real objection
was that Utah was Democratic, al
/ though today the Republicans are re-
| conciled to it's admission because they
/ think that it may become Republican. |
Certainly if Idaho was entitled to /
Statehood much the more is Utah. In
/ the reckless scramble of the Republi- !
cans for rotten-borough Scholarships !
! the refusal to admit Utah was gross !
injustice.-New York World Dem.). !
! The last of the twin relics" is I'M
! doubtedly dead, and any effort to re- |
vive it. after Utah had become an in
dependent State, would be hopeless, /
even if it should be attempted, which /
| is not in the least likely. AS soon as
| the Mormon Territory began to yield |
| to the influences of the surrounding
! civilization. which could not be kept |
from IOWlHS III, pOIySdHly WAS uOOHleu
Even if the National Government had
not enioined the policy of suppression
and the Mormon church had not sur |
rendered it's dogma of plural marriage, !
| the practice could not have lasted very
! long. 1t could only thrive in isolation, !
and that ceased to be possible. Utah |
is now in a position to become a thriv-
ing and growing State of the Union
New York Times (Dem.).
| The forty-fifth State of the American
Union will be Utah, the act providing
| for the organization of State govern
ment having finally passed both Hous-
! es of Congress- Under the enabling
act the assumption of Statehood is
postponed until after the expiration of
| the F'ifty-third Congress.
| But for the practice of polygamy by
the Mormons the Territory would have
| been admitted to Statehood long ago.
iOf the political complexion of the new
State it is yet too early to predict. The
present delegate to Congress is a Dem
ocrat. and the admission of the State
| by q Democratic Congress may create
something of feeling of obligation to
| the Democratic party on the part of
the people of Utah. But these are the
days of swift mutation in party poll
! tics and those who adopt Josh Bill
| lings' advice and don't prophesy until
they know which party is to land on
top in the new State will be wisest.-
Philadelphia Times Dem.)
The fear that polygamy might be
! revived after the territory became a
state and that there would be no eff
! fective way for federal authority to
deal with it. has gradually died out
| Mormons themselves give the warmest
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