The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-08-05
LONG LOOKED FOR COME AT LAST.


only a case of Grecian Bend to complete Idaho
Citv-that the velocipede and the Bend ought
to finish any place. We beg leave now to
amend. Circumstances cOerce us. We did
not then imagine what was in store for our
people. The article has come, however, and,
we reckon, even Reynolds will admit-in lit
tie while if not just nOw,-that it excels not
only our learned pig but his own expectations
of any blessing which may come to himself
through the throes of his peculiar [ journalistic
paternity. Idaho certainly would never have
been finished without this wonderful article,
and quite as certainly it is the very article best
calculated to finish poor Idaho. The name OF
this article is Donaldson. 1t is not Fort Dom
aldson, yet it is clearly enough, from the char
acter of the salute it has lately discharged in
Boise City, Donaldson with forte, which 1t
seems likely to play with forty carpet-bagger
mower Neither is it the Donaldson of Andrew
Jackson fame, who SO basely apostatized from
the glorious teachings of the heroic and illus
trious Sage of the Hermitage to the miserable
and proscriptiye doctrine of Know Nothingism
albeit it is d Donaldson who gives token he
might have trOd equally Shiny and serpentne
paths to gain Office or gather spoils He Is
the Receiver of the Land Office at Boise City,
rice Mr.. John G. Carroll, who was squeezed
out to accommodate this Donaldson. We do
not know whether he is Of the Donalds OF
Scotia, who had and still have their clans
Donald and Mae (or son of) Donald, otherwise
Donaldson, and who neither left their native
friendly intentions for the natives of Ireland
with Them when they followed their clan chief.
taius and kirk chaplains to seize upon the
estates, or to take the offices, which n cruel
strong Government wrested from the unhappy
people, native and to the manor born, and
granted as spoils of ruthless conquest to the
hOrdes of graspng and unrelentng foes who
came from what was claimed as an integral
portion of the kingdom. No, we do not know
that the Donaldson who has at last come to
finish Idaho, is any kin to any of these. But
we are enabled to form an estimate Of the man,
although we have never seen him. from the re-
port of speech he made the other night in
Boise City, in behalf of the Radicals, and
which is much commended by the Statesman.
As we extract the precise language of Donald
sons to which we shall now call attention from
the Statesman, it is safe to assume he used the
very words. He said:
They had said something about comparisons be-
tween Irishmen and Cinnamon. Well. an freshman
wasn't as good as Chinaman unless he behaved
himself.
We need nothing more to enable US to I'M
derstand this DonaldsOu's status. We have
always cOntended that no other race is the
equal of the Caucasian; at the same time We
will say that, when Mr.. Donaldson (who claims
to be of Irish bloOd) asserts that he thinks an
Irishmap is not 50 good as Chinaman unless
he behaves himself, he admits that any China
man who don't behave himself is as good as he
is, and that any Chinaman who does behave
himself is far better; but we ought to add in
saying this that Donaldson therefor is tar be-
low the grade of any freshman who properly
estimates his race whether he behaves himself
or not.
Among the things which this Scottish-Mon-
golian-Irishman said in his speech at Boise
City, and which Reynolds for obvious reasons
omitted to report, we learn of the following:
That as carpet-bagger he had come to Idaho,
but that be and his kind who were already
here with him intended to ciyilize this Terri |
tory; they would wipe out the laws in force
which were disgrace to any people, and pass
good laws to govern u.s. they would organize
good public schools, establish Literary Socle-
ties lshades of Plato and the academia fall
upon ISL, Debating Clubs and, we suppose,
branches of the Y. NJ. c. A. ], and institute
better condition of society THE can-can and
Opera Bouffe, we supposed among u.s. All
right, Donaldson. Go ahead, with all looseness,
too, for Reynolds will hold either your bonnet
or your breeches. Neither Scott nor Macau
icy, in the pages of fiction, nor in the possibil-
ties Of q" history verging on romance" ever
in making hero or great man,
Or the like of either, of any of the DOpaldsons.
But our subject, while he was not born great,
nor has be achieved greatness, nor has great.
ness been thrust upon him. paybap brought
enough of that commodity (now at 80 low an