Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-01-31
the "wORLpy AND UTAH.


In lts reproduction OF editorial COM
ments from brethren Of the preSs upon
the admission OF Utah 10 Statehood,
the NEWS has given a good deal Of oil
kinds. some gratifying, some amusing
and some stupid. The occasion seemed
opportune 10 illustrate before local
readers the varying degrees OF iniclli-
genco and perception associated with
tho newspapers Of tho land; aud We
doubt not that many good opinion ne
to journalistic fairness and common
sense has been destroyed by the cx-
pose thus given. AS the orowning
feAturo In this line Of advertising we
quote today from the New York
World OF the 22nd inst.-a paper which
blows Its own praises increasingly
through it, own nose, and which, with
all Its magnificent facilities for nows.
gathering, IL Mt times guilty Of odi-
torlaI imbecility tina. IL truly pitlAble.
This IL lie btoadside against "Ulah,
the Forly.nnh STAR"
tors In Utah completes the comedy of
Statehood for tho Mormon Territory.
In tho congratulatory telegram OF the
first Governor OF tho new State, pub
lished In tho World fow days ago, II
was claimed with evident pride that
Utah had been qualified for admission
more than forty years" and also that II
had "a population greater than that Of
the states OF Delaware, Montana, Idaho,
Wyoming or North Dakota"
A territory with an area Of $500
square miles. which In forty yearn has
only risen TO population Of $4,000, ac-
cordlng TO the most Hanguine estimate,
does not furnish any food for hope of
growth into real Statehood. Utah will
permanently remain In tho category Of
iage-bruah states In which she starts
Her admission into tho Union IN based
solely on her capacity for furnishing two
Republican senators whom they arc very
much needed.
Geographically Utah docs not promise
much. Her vast area Ia chiefly noun
lainH, desert and arid plain. Her mineral
wealth IN very great, but docs not prom
iao 10 exceed tho production OF Nevada.
Her annual production OF gold has risen
10 bJ,OOO ounces and Of silver 70 5000, 900
ounces. In addition she produced some
topper aud about n million dollars worth
Of lead. She also produces about 5,OO0,0O
pounds OF bcot-foOt sugar annually,
which IN taken caro- Of by thu sugar
Trust, aud ranks high In tho production
Of wool, An article specially ondeared TO
Mokinleyism. on tho vote ON the Con-
HiiitutionAl Convention she mustered
something moro than 1900 voters, a
number less than that OF several single
Congressional districts In this city.
IL lisa part Of tho irony OF politics
that the Republican party, which Tor
thirty-fvo years had kept Utah from
Statehood on the pIotonse OF hostility 10
Mormonism but really from dread OF
Democracy, should finally have secured
it, admission ~ pure piece Of political
sharp practice through Mormon ALI.
ance. Not this IL tho plain fact. While
tho vote OF Utah was nominally Demo-
cratic II was primarily n Mormon vote.
IL WAS only when II saw It's way to "ro.
nounce tho errors Of Democracy and ON.
brace those Of Ropublicanismn that State
hood became possible.
The new state accordingly comes into
tho Union under tho influence Of the
Mormon Church, Of tho silver-mining
camp, OF the sugar Trust, tho sheep
raising industry and the need of RepubiI-
can votes In the Senate While II In
understood that ono Senator IL a "Gen-
tlle' and tho other u Mormon, both arc
Republicans, and both will be- obstacles
TO any needed financial or revenue legla-
lAtion.
The snoers and ialsehoods In this pre-.
sentiment OF the State Of Utah might
be treated with silent contem pt-our
duty being sufficiently performed Ia
having given tho New York World
the fullest opportunity to msrlt the
soorn Of rs worthy and deserving a
community "a the sun shines on. But
passing comment on the various
statements made will not DO improper,
In view Of the ease with which they
can DO controversial.
We hold II to DO no disgrace that
Utah was once an arid desert; II sus.
tAins its present population with ease,
and can sustain one much larger,
by reason Of the industry Of
lts people, A community which
Tedeems barren, mountainous
region, and ILLS II with a quarter OF a
million inhabitants, even ~ II takes
forty years to do It, is entitled to some
thing more lhaG abuse from its fellow
communities. How much less time
did 1t take New YorE to get that much
population, from The time the fret
white man landed within its bofden2
As to the mineral protac.s which
Utah supplies to the nsIioa's wealth,
We notice that she surpasses at least
New York, and yet this part OF our
Advancement IL conceded by every Que
who knows anything about It to be
only fairly begun.
As to sugar, Utah produces, and
Toes not enrich or ruin men In ex.
Ihange speoulalions with the staple;
he charge that the product is taken
ARE Of by the Sugar Trust, 10 false; "
very other mandatory in Americ,
allowed the exAmnla % tho utsh