The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-05
FIRST EFFECT OF STATEHOOD.


be to increase the patriotism of Utah's
people If Utah in the past has been
dear to the hearts of her people she
should be doubly SO now that she is a
state. for the reason that in a wider
and broader sense than ever she now
belongs to her people. Her destiny by
the grand fact of statehood has been
placed in the hands of her own peo-
pie. No more will officers outside of
our own community be sent to rule US
through the administration of our af-
fairs. No more will governors. sent
until recent years from other COM
munities, exercise unlimited veto
power in annulling enactments Of our
legislature. No more will Congress
have the power to set aside our laws
and legislate for us in all cases what
soever. No more will the Judiciary be
appointed by a distant power far re-
moved from the people, and perchance
as far removed from sympathy with
them as in distance. All this ends
with statehood. Utah's people will be
governed by laws made by their own
representatives, administered by Of
ficers of their own choice and ac-
countable to them: and interpreted
by judiciary also of their own choos-
ing.
Nor do the advantages of statehood
consist alone in our throwing off the
tiresome leading strings of govern
ment from external sources, or by be-
ing rid of the badges Of inferiority
which territorial vassalage fastens
upon a community. With statehood
new powers are conferred on
Utah. A voice and vote in the
House of Representatives, voices and
votes in the Senate, and it may be.
since westward the star of Empire
takes her course, that place in the
Executives cabinet may yet be filed
by some future favorite son of Utah.
We shall thus begin to influence our
national policy as well as to have COM
plete control Of our local government.
Now ali these conditions should add
somewhat to the patriotism Of Utah's
people; it should increase their pride
in the state, for surely it viii be the
desire Of all the people to make our
state take first rank in the Union.
Anything that would injure her char
acter at home or abroad, or lower her
standard as free, heightened COM
/ monwealth should be resented with the
same promptness that a personal in
/ suit is resented by a sensitive, high
| spirited man. Her laws must be
revered, to them the people must pay
| that debt of loyalty that, under mon
archial forms of government, the peo-
pie give their Kings. Law is the
/ Americans monarch, to that he gives
his loyalty instead of giving it to man.
/ Utah's officers will be men of honor,
and if they permit the escutcheon of
/ this state to be furnished with dis
grace the people, under the forms pro-
vided by the law, will hurl them from
their high stations and vindicate the
! high character of the state. But rever-
ence for the law must be felt by our
people and honor for her officers; for
while it is true that the officers are
but servants of the people, it is also
true that they, together with the laws
they administer. represent the elnbody-
ment of the peoples will, the sovereign
power of the state to which individuals
within limits fixed by the constitution
must bow as unto powers ordained by
the Sovereign force Of the state. These
doctrines should be taught to the youth
of our state, made part of their home
and school education. Patriotism
A.
their mothers breasts; patriotism
should be taught our youth in the
common schools; to the people from
the platform and from the pulpit and
through the press. It should be Spoken
in the every day action of all The
people, for patriotism is ever the life
blood of the state, and only through
the patriotism of her inhabitants car
a state become great.