Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1882-03-30

out OF luanO anu parts Oh othef Ter
ritories, Now for the committee to
offer his as an objection, seems to US
purely whimsical and childish and I'M
worthy Of any Congressional mind.
The nest objection IS that it would
make unequal division of territory.
The division is now unequal. Idaho
has upwards Of $4,000 square miles,
while Washington has less than 10000
square miles. Docs this committee
with US to infer that Congress ought
to make every Territory hereafter or
gained and every State hereafter ad
mitted equal in area one to each OF the
others, without reference to character
of country, topography, geography and
other condtions} Does this committee
propose % introduce a new order of
things in the admission Of States and
division Of the territory of the United
States9 DO they place n new interprc-
tation upon section I'd of the fifth arti-
clio Of the Constitution relating to the
admission of States and the providing
government for the Tcrritoricsl We
confess that we look upon these ohjec-
tions urged by the committee as mere
cavilling to cover up some other Office
ton which they are unwilling to dis
close. The last objection they urge is
that it would be injurious to citizens
of South Idaho and unsafe at present
Where the injustice comes in we are
at present unable to see. We take our
proportion Of the debt of Idaho and
agree to pay it. We release the South
from any and all obligations to legislate
in our beholf, or making any provision
for the support of our government, or
the care and custody of our convicts,
or INDECENT sick and insane. By go
ing we divest the Territory of the odd
pan handle shape of the Territory.
We simply reserve our Territorial rev.
enue to pay our own officers instead of
theirs, which would certainly be no
injustice to them, which on the other
hand, if we remain we are compelled
to pay our own officers and large
per cent of the amount paid to their
officers. This, to us, is unjust. We
are forced to make large and expensive
pilgrimages through Washington and
Oregon to attend the Legislature and
the Supreme Court and so expensive
are these pilgrimages that We cannot
secure our best men to go TO the Legis.
lature to represent US, nor can many
of our parties litigant, who may have
Just cause, be to the expenses Of taking
their cases to the Supreme Court on
appeal or writ Of error Every citizen
who has use for any of the books be
longing to the Territorial library is
entirely barred that use except at great
expense of both time and money in
reaching the Capital. All these mat
ters make serious hardships and injus
tice to us Of the North. None of these
viii have to be suffered 10y citizens o.
the South if we so to Washington
But it may possibly be that the com
mittee INDUCED the belief that if W,
of the North went off, the Gentle cit
liens of the South would be left to tn
mercy of the Mormons. That is tn
within the Boise City ring have set NJ
for some time past, and tried to max
US believe there was danger in tina
direction. But we soon learned tn
inwardness Of this whim when we foun,
them as ready to fraternize with tn
worst of Mormons, if 10y that mean
they could carry any measure for them
selves as against the interest of tn
North, and it is the ring men who hav
stuffed the Congressional committe
with this Mormon alarm. The Who'll
thing is libel upon the masses of tn
people of South Idaho, who are n
more afraid Of Mormon supremacy i
case North Idaho goes to Washingto
than they are afraid of an invasio
from France. The whole argument
nothing more than coat and pan
stuffed with straw and hung up wit
hat on to brighten crows and fool
South Idaho is as safe against the ru
4, of Mormons as is North Idaho to-da
and We here have not a dozen Mormc
families 10 the whole North. Mormo
, ism would spread in the South Just