The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-02-20
THE STOREY OF The TIMES.

: ont Noulu PPoS eHat" yoe'lai
conducted In the city of Chicago, and
circulating among western people,
would have the fairness to properly
state a question relating to a section
OF the great west; but the Chicago
Times, in its issue of February 10th,
in an editorial entitled Territorial
Wants." takes especial pains to misrer-
resent Wyoming and its chief execu-
tive. The writer is facetious and sar-
castle, as Storey writers are required
to be; but aside from these qualities the
editor displays only Ignorance, and puts
forth wilful Misrepresentation.
As a basis for a,general attack upon
our territories, the Storey teller selects
Gov. Hoyt's recent report to the secre-
tary Of the interior; which report. by
the way, has received honorable men
tion from many intelligent newspaper
writers in the east.
After a satirical allusion to Gov.
Hoyt's recommendations, which are
perverted and distorted for the pur-
poses of this fictitious narrator, he
says:
There are several territories yet to
hear from in the matter of congress
sional appropriations, and it is pre-
sumed their wants are fully equal to
those of Wyoming. Apparently the
governor of a territory seems to think
that his principal duty consists in pro-
curing money from the national treas
ury for local purposes. In reality the
people Of the country ut large, hare no
interest in dereloping the territories. 1t
is against public policy to attempt to
I settle them In advance of the wants of
population. The new territories are
settled and developed at the expense of
the old states. Every person added to
the population of Wyoming is taken
from some old community, where he
might live In greater ease and comfort.
Every dollar expended in developing
the Of Wyoming is with
drawn from some enterprise in another
and better part Of the country. All
our far western settlements have been
built up at the expense of settlements
in the far east, and little has been
gained by the transfer of men and capt.
tall
To call the writer Of the above para
graph an ass, would be an insult to
that quadruped.
Apperenfly Gov. Hoyt does think
that his principal duty consists in aid
ing the development of our territory,
and if he should be successful in pro-
curing money from the national treas
ury. for the purpose, the money so fur
nished would be used for the benefit of
a ''portion Of the United States, which
is not within the boundary of any of
the states, and has a temporary govern
ment."
.In reality the people of the country
at large, have nj interest in developing
the territories" says this sagacious
writer. In reality, we say. the people
Of the country at large, have interests
valued at millions of dollars annually,
in developing the u of the ter
ritories. In reality, the people at
large, draw from the territories mil
lions of dollars annually in precious
metals, beef and wool. Whenever the
hardy pioneers Of the territories sue
coed in opening Il new source of
wealth, the people Of the country at
large are ready to step in and reap the
benefits.
We might thus continue at length to
reply to this Storey writer, whose doc
trine, If adhered to in former years,
would have left the largest portion of
what at present forms the richest and
most ~populous part of the United
States, a bowling wilderness.
There is not the least probability,
however, that congress will bankrupt
the treasury, on account Of appropriate
tions for the territories. Not a farth-
ing of the thirty-ive millions appro-
priated for the improvement of muddy
streams throughout the country, goes
to the territories; but purdue share of
taxes imposed by congressional legisla-
tion goes to make. up the deficiencies
created by the lavish appropriations for
the benefit of the people at large-out-
side the territories.
1t is unfortunate for MS that ideas,
like those put forth by the Storey
writer in regard to the territories, pre-
vail to some extent in congress. The
members of that body evidently believe,
in common with that profound fabulist,
that a few millions taken from the
river and harbor bill and given to the
territories, to aid in their development,
would be ne gain to them in their eff
forts for reelection; which would be a
calamity TO the people Mt large-outside
the territories.