The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-09-13
The Independent.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. 1877.
New States.

IlOn OF w aSnlIlStoH IL riitory W We
enrolled among the sisterhood of
States. Refers to the time when Or
egon was admitted into the Union,
and calls it a job put up by the poll
ticians, but does not go on to say, as
in candor it should, that such admis-
sion was, and has continued to be,
great benefit to that State, and no
detriment whatever to other States in
the Union. Why should not Wash
ington Territory seek admission as
we'll as Oregon2 There are quite as
many, if not more, people here now
than there were in Oregon when that
State was admitted; there is as much
whealth here as there was in Oregon
at that time, and quite as many other
reasons in favor of Washington Ter
ritory as there were in favor of Ore
gon. Oregon was benefited by the
change, and no evil done to the coun-
try at large, why may not Washing
ton emulate the ambition of Oregon
to become State? In the policy of
the government it has been thought
necessary to establish certain num-
Der of inhabitants as the standard of
admission into the Union. Done for
the purpose Of preserving the ratio of
representation in Congress to the
number of inhabitants in the Nation.
A wise provision in the early days of
the Nation, when the many distract
ing questions of sectional character
were liable to be complicated to de-
gree beyond control by the accession
of new States from the then extensive
territories of the West and South
west; and before the bulk or ma
iority of the States had so far So
idifed into national body as to be
able to withstand encroachment from
the evils which are always liable to
spring up and hamper the new gov
eminent. But which in view of the
progress of events, and the experience
of late years, regarding the admission
of new States, has lost much of the
force and reason it possessed in for
mer times. The old rule is still talked
about and quoted as an objection to
the admission of new States; but this
talk is done chiefly by the 9ema-
gogues of those very States Which
were admitted into the Union con-
trary to the rule, while but little op-
position is made by the people of the
older states. According to the Orego-
man, Oregon, having enjoyed the ben
eft of the new order of things in re-
gard TO new states, is unwilling that
her neighbor should have the same
advantage. A species of selfshness
which is intolerable, to say the least
ungererous.
Objections to the admission of
Washington Territory have also been
made from other sources in Oregon.
and taken altogether they are quite
significant. The politicians who are
in the ascendency in that state, as
we'll as those who expect to be Ia the
ascendency as soon as the political
machine shall make few more reyo-
buttons, are jealous of any outside po-
litical influence. They like too we'll
10 speak in Congress for the Territory
and control the political patronage
thereof, to allow it to be transferred
to other hands. They want the Ter.
ritory as sort of political dependence,
large county as it were in the de-
mesne of the Oregon senators now in
power and those who expect to come
in power when scapital shall strike
hands with labor" up at the Salem
legislature.