The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-03
The "Boy Ficnd' In the Family Of States


The city of New Haven, in our neighbor-
ing state of Connecticut, contains 62, $50 in
habtants, Of whom 81 are Chinese, and are
Indians, The state of Nevada contains g.
266 inhabitants, OF whom 54l6 are Chinese
and 2,S03 are Indians. The people of New
Haven are distinguished for intelligence,
thrift and steady industry. Their city is
the seat of one of the great universities of
this continent. The people of Nevada
are distinguished for nothing but work
ing the Comstock lode with outside
capital and foisting speculative mining
stocks on an ignorant market. Their hun
griest intellectual cravings are satisfied
with the late jim Nye's stories. The polit-
zeal weight of New Haven in national
affairs is limited to its fractional share Of u
single representative district and its irac-
tional representation in legislature which
elects two senators for state of 622,700 in
habitants. Nevada has two senators and a
representative all to itself. BY the three
electoral votes Of this rotten borough"
state one presidential election already
has been decided against the popu-
lar will expressed by plurality
for Mr. Tilden of POI Ill over Mr.. Hayes,
and majority for Mr.. Tilden of 100, 800 over
all competitors in total popular vote of
S,4l2,G05. The total vote in Nevada on this
occasion was 1851 in which Mr.. Hayes had
a majority of 1915. These 1075 voters
counteracted 297 Ill elsewhere and dictated
for four years the administration Of q nation
of SO, 100000 people. But what they did, of
course, was as strictly constitutional as il
was grossly unjust, and with perfect legal.
ity they may do it again.
We do not think that there is any want of
sensibility among the people of tile United
States to the Nevada scandal. The exist
ence of such state in the union is univer-
sally conceded to be political blunder and
its admission is generally regarded to have
been n political crime. But its birth is as
irremediable as the birth of hoy fend. -
The agencies which effected il are powerless
TO redress their work. The utmost they can
do is to take care that the little monster
does not do any more harm than il is mpos.
sible to avoid. Nobody who examines the
census bulletins can have doubt that il
always will remain q monster. Colorado,
which had less population than Nevada in
1870, now has 1874 ,3,7. Dakota territory,
which had only n fourth rs many then,
now has 1917. Even Washington terri
tory, in the cold north, which then had
scarcely more than half as many us Ne
vada, now has IS, ZIG. Unofficial statistics
just published concerning the Nevada
mines confirm this conviction. They show
that the assessments levied on Nevada
ming stocks last year largely exceeded the
dividends declared on them. But anybody
who imagines from the figures that this
hoy tiend" among the states will commit
suicide in bankruptcy is under deluson.
There are plenty of aspirants for rotten
borough seats in the federal senate and
house of representatives, with pecuniary
ability enough to keep Nevada alive as a
state.
Bad though this prospect of Nevada is, il
may, however, become worse. If the Nor.
mons ever should get control of the state
the people Of the United States will have
double cause TO curse the day when congress
recklessly admitted IL into the union. Il is
expedient for every member of congress to
examine this possibility, and It's conse-
quences in relation TO the schemes pending
at Washington for the partition Of Utah and
the annexation of the fragments to the con-
tiguous states aud territories York
Herald.