The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-07
THE weak IN HAND.

I Wen, Utah is a state at last" re-
marked a friend yesterday. Yes"
said another friend. to whom the re-
mark was addressed. and now it only
remains for every man to put lis
shoulder to the wheel and push to
/ make Utah a great state" No man
ever spoke truer. If that spirit can
I only be made universal among the in
habitants of the new state there is no
! doubt but what Utah can be made
great But it can't be made a great
state unless that spirit does become
universal. However pleasing or mag
nihcent the pageant Of parades and
the parAphernalia attendant upon in
augupaI ceremonies may be-and all
the6e are proper as the expressions of
the JOY OF a people just blessed with
enlarged liberty-yet these will not
make Utah . great state. Now that
our day Of Joy is over and the trap
pings and suits of it are laid aside, it
is well enough to be reminded that
there IS real work on hand to make
statehood a real good to Utah. Her
/ people in the past have been divided
/ upon issues which we hope are settled
and that forever. Bitterness that sell
! dom characterizes the differences of
| Inhabitants of other states has in that
/ past rendered alien to each other men
4 in our community whose interests
! cried aloud for their closest union in
I fraternal ties. Distr7lst and contempt
have been cultivated instead of mutual
regard and confidence. without which
70 community progress is possible.
This state of affairs. disastrous as it
( has been at home. has been infinitely
more mischivous abroad, for it ruined
the reputation of our community in
those quarters where it ought to have
I stood high. and cast a blight upon our
| progress. Capital. always tinid, re-
fused to come into a land. however
! fruitful in resources. where it's inhab-
itants were constantly embroiled in
differences which were a menace to a
settled order Of affairs: and hence
! Utah, however marvellous her develop
ment may appear to have been, has
/ fallen far short of those achievements
and that development which Of right
should have been hers from her geo.
! graphical location. the salubrity of her
| climate and the wealth and diversity
Of her resources.
But the old conditions have passed
away. The demonstrations of yester-
day, the mingling of all the citizens in
demonstrations Of joy, over the in
auguration of state officers, without
regard to religious sects or party
( Affiliations, was direct evidence of that.
| as citizens of Utah and of the United
States, Utah's inhabitants are one peo-
pie. Let them be thought of by the
people Of the East no longer as a pc
culiar people. That a large body of
Utah's inhabitants differ from their fell
low citizens of this state and of the
United States. in the matter Of
religion is and will continue to be the
case, for the Mormon religion unques-
tionably IS here to stay; but the fact
of religious differences among our
citizens we have learned. and especl-
ally has it become apparent in
the last few years-is not in
compatible with mutual respect
and confidence in other matters. Re-
hsious differences do not prevent
Utah's people from standing within a
wider circle than that which bounds
religious sects-the circle which in
closes all as citizens Of the common
wealth. II we cannot agree upon
articles OF religion we can be perfectly
united in worthy effort to make Utah,
now that she is a state. a great one.
Let every body have confidence in
Utah's future-in Utah's greatness, In
the unity of Utah's people when II
comes to promoting the general well
fare of the new state. Let every man
give his right hand TO every other man,
and his wrong hand to no man. and
be determined to make Utah great.
The friend thai writes to his
friend in the East should tell him
Of Utahs undeveloped resources; of
the advantages we possess as a field