The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-07-28
PROVO CITY. JULY %
TERRITORY-sTATE.

The responsibilities Of citizenship in
a territorial form of government are
the same as they are under state
form, only that in state form it is
more directly interested, in money, in
the correctness of the policies laid down
for its guidance. Under territorial
form of government, while the federal
power takes all financial responsible
ities, it witholds certain privileges and
distinctions which the citizens of
state are entitled to. While the citizen
enjoys this generosity of the parent
government, he can do but little in
shaping the policy and in this way
wasteful theories mayprevail nationally
which in the end may cost more by
far than would be the cost of the main-
tenance of the government, from home
resources. tab has certainly, thanks to
our republican friends, had a rather
heightened experience OF all the
beauties and evils of the territorial re-
lation. She is now to try the other. and
if she would make a fair experiment
she must be exceedingly careful as to
the kind of constitution she makes, so
that in the business of selecting the
men she must see to it that only her
best men, men from each class of her
citizenship, be sent to do that part OF
the necessary work. Here comes in the
personal interest of the citizen of the
state. He is anxious for the best re-
suits to follow because his personal
dignity and pride are bound up in it,
besides his tax bi lis will represent the
soundness or weakness of the work
done. This develops a closer relation
between the citizen and the state than
is possible under territorial forms.
Outside of this, the state has voice in
constructing the national policies by
which those of the states themselves
ara so powerfully affected. The one
relation is practically, from a federal
point of view. almost that of an alien.
From the standpoint of statehood, the
citizen is in full fellowship which
carries with it the duties as well as the
dignities of perfected citizenship. In
other words it is the difference be-
tween nonase and full blown, active
WORKING manhood.
The people of Utah claim perfect
equality with the people of all other
states in all those qualities which go to
make up an honest, law-abiding and
virtuous population, The union is no
lonper afraid to trust them, we are not
afraid, and they are not afraid to trust
themselves. No people save a self-re-
specting people ever conducted the
business of state successfully. State
hood with its duties, responsibilities
and opportunities best serves to create
as well as increase, this self-respecting
quality of the people. A proud people
take higher rank as citizens than do
those who feel and express no pride in
the state. Now the UtOnians, one and
sll, of high as well as low degree, are
intensely proud of their beautiful
mountain state, of its past glorious
history as well az heroic sacrifices,
proud of its lofty snow capped chains
of mountains, of its green productive
and lovely valleys, of its clear glisten-
ing lakes, Of its rushing rivers and OF its
flower be-decked plains. Proud also
of the many glorious men who have
given of their life's blood IN her de-
fense, and who have worked out sue
cessfully the high destiny which now
lies so iuyitingly open to the proud
young state.
We can have no fears for her futur g.
She has all the requisites for a state
hood as exalted as ever beckoned hon
est manhood to noble deeds, and high
and unsullied ambitions. The croakers
in the east of the order of Marsh of
Massachusetts, may rest in peace so
far as Utah is concerned, No stain
will ever be placed on the escutcheon
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danger threatens the government
Utah will be found in her place,
shoulder to shoulder with her elder
brethren in defending the integrity
and autonomy of the nation. The
citizens of Utah are now all of this,
and when silver is restored, they will
soon become the richest and most
prosperous people in the nation, the
most enlightened and patriotic. To
d. all and accomplish all of this we
muet start off by constructing as nearly
dawless constitution as possible,
Yes, Utah is abundantly ready for and
worthy of the statehood SO recently
conferred
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