The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-07-12
PROVO CITY. JULY IL. 1894.
JULY 10TH, 1894.

Let Utah never forget the day nor the
events which haYe made it illustrlous.
For thirty years her patriotic people
have been knocking at the door of th e
Union for entrance. In all those
dreary years of disappointment and
hope deferred not a single rift in
the dark cloud of federal hate and dis
trust occurred. The paradise of the ter
ritories was sealed against Utah. She
could not enter there. Republican hYp-
ocrlsy met her at the door and waved her
back with that Iordly" "holier than thou"
air. You are not sufficiently purged
from your sins TO enter in with our
blessed New England purity. Wait
until our missionaries have sufficiently
purified you, and then We will take the
matter into consideration. Then We
propose to put you upon a sort of pro
baton for few years, at the end we
may OF may not let you in, owing al
together as to how you obey the E d
munds-Tucker law. These lordly
hypocrites forgot all about their Beech
ers and other weaklings who had from
times immemorial besmirched the fair
fame of the nation, with an immortality
which has ever been profound mystery
to the good people of Utah.
At last in the good year '98 demo-
cratic national administration is induc-
ted. AT once measures were instituted
which finally eliminated on the 10th of
July 1894 in the passage of the house
bill by the senate which was sent
back 70 the honsS fur the rati- ,ftion
of a few unimportant amendments
which will, without doubt, be promptly
concurred in by that body, and the
presidents signature will be at once
appended. Here is more accomplished
in a year and ahalf for Utah by
democratic administration than the re-
publicans did for Utah in the whole
thirty unbroKen years of their admin
istration. Utah will not prove un-
worthy of this great honor. She will
meet every expectation of her friends
and disappoint her enemies. She will
konoE be. gsEEu Z dienit feTntI and prove h9iS5xs
Never fear for Utah. Her long day of
vassalage is oyer. Her manhooc's
hopes are at last realized and she will
appear in Washington hereafter, the
full peer of any of the states. What
happy day for berl What an advance!
What debt is she under to the demo-
cracy of the nation? Now let her
exhibit her wisdom by organ
izing state government un-
der the fostering care of the
party by which she has been
tenderly lifted from the Slough of Des-
pond, and her feet placed solidly upon
the threshold step of the great family
of the states. Nor will she forget the |
glorious services of her faYorite demo |
cratic son, the peerless Rawlins. Him
she will delight to honor SO long as a
trace of gratitude is to be found in her
heart. Surely, surely she will crown |
her noble servitor with the highest and |
noblest gifts within her power. How |
nobly he has work-dl When all others
quailed before the Hereulean difficult
les in the way, brave Rawlins per-
severed, winning here and there a
friend to Utah, and now on the 10th of |
July, '94, the glad refrain comes back
to Utah, 1--WE hsYe won-statehood is
onrs.''
On this same 10th of July, '94, an
other pet measure OF this same Rawlins
triumphs in the house. We allude to
the throwing open of the Uintah and
Uncompahgre reservations. This is
an event, in the light of the recent
great gold discoveries, scarcely less
important than statehood. A vast in
cubus has been raised from the pro-
gress of the state, vast field of enter
prise has been opened. Wealth will
flow In upon our people and be raised
from the vast gold fields of the reser-
vation- This is another democratic
boon and it is conferred by Rawlins
and the democratic national admins
tration. The lesson we draw from all
this is, vote for the democracy, the
friend of Utah,