Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-01-23
DOMAIN ON DAKOTA.
He Opposes the Division Of the
Territory
And Tersely States His Reasons
for His Opposition.

Chicago special to the st. Paul Globe z.
DOMAIN, Dakota" is the inscription that the
Hotel Richelieu register bears, and the dough
ty colonel thus paid his respects to the would
be dividers OF his beloved territory In al in
terview with the Globe correspondent to-day.
Said he: al. out Of ell patience with this
everlasting howl about Dakota's being "de-
MED her rights" or ''robbed Of her rights"
She has been denied no right. She has been
robbed Of no right. Dakota has a right to ad-
mission into the Union as q state. This she
has never asked, and consequently has never
been denied IL or robbed OF IL. Oak )ta has no
right TO division OF her territory and admission
as two states. Yet this Is just what her pre-
Rdmptuous and rapacious horde of buccaneers
have for years united In demanding. They
have savaSely banded themselves against Da-
kota's only right, while they have filed the
continent with their clamor OF what Is not her
right. Their territorial division and double
state demand have very properly been refused,
and doubtless will be again. There is no rea-
son on Gods earth why Dakota should be
divided and admitted as two states. There is
eYlry reason Why she should not be. All the
TIA X about her ''immensc area' is LCnsense,
Win ner $50, 600 square mites she is less than
three-fourths rs large as California with 2lo,-
300, and little more than half as large AS
Texas with Pa, 900. Besides, mere ~vastDess
Of space counts for nothing IN commonwealth
making. STATES are or should be
based On population, wealth and production
Dakota's entire population tun,oers about
42v, 000, scarcely twO-thirds thut of Chicago,
about half that OF Philadelphia, ava Ices than
oae-tliird TIA, OF New YORK cltJ. 1t Is simply
preposterous that this scattered haGdfui OF
frontier people should ASK 10 balance In the
Senate the great states OF New York and
Pennsylvania, with their 6 10000 OF p0pula-
tt@n and their thousands of millions Of wealth.
The United States Senate Is 100 large now.
Every increase in It's membership lessons the
dignity and sense OF personal responsibility OF
It's members. There are seventy six s majors
now and the mine territories yet 10 b. admitted
as states, with their eighteen Senators, will
swell The number To ninete.fOur. The highest
council OF the nation will be a mob as large
as the lower House should be, and
the possibilities Of jobbery and cor
ruption will be enhanced. Instead
OF unnec' ~sssrily. multiplying states
and charging the Senate, intelligent sentl-
ment, IL seems to me, would be In favor OF
squeezing three or four suca insignificant
truck patches "a Delaware and Rhode Island
into one, and wiping out entirely such rotten
boroughs MS Nevada, with its total population
OF 5000, and its two Scholarships forever at
auction.
Knowing Dakota and her needs, wishes
and capabilities as well AS any man In
oil her borders can discover but
one real reason for her division into two states.
That is to give place to two gangs Of 'nice-
seekers instead of one; to make four L 4iJed
States Senators instead OF two, and &c c. cate
two full sets OF state officials, governors. sec
~retarie5, treAsurers aad legislators instead OF
one, thereby doubling oil the costs aud bur
deps OF statehood for the benefit OK "a lot OF
flibusters and freeoooters. But were reasons
In favor Of the division and twin state scheme
a thousand-sold more plentiful rnan th'v are
against II, | do not believe there is
a possibility OF Its succeeding. have
never believed II. When The famous de.ega-
ton Ola hundred tall, broad. brimmed Da-
kotsps VISA sent To Washington 10 urge tne
project OF 1851, | declined 10 20 on tne ground
that IL WAS n FOOLS erraud. If Dakotg came
asking admission into the Union MS one grand,
imperial commonwealth, with her rich gram
fields and pastures and gold mines, and her
$4,000 progressive, ruolfc-sp irted and ,roe-
porous people, no political party would dare
refuse her re quest. But, rs IL ia, put In tie
attitude OF demanding that TO which che has
no right, and with her warning factions con
tradlcting ana denOunctag each other at home
and abro I'd, her Democratic enemies with i'm
pun!ty slam the door In their face and ssy:
Let your people settle their own lights
among themselves and decide what they want
us to do. Then 1t will be time enough 10 APP
ply TO us for aid.
Dakota, destined to be one Of the proudest
and noblest of states in ell the glorious union,
has nobody 70 blame for her humiliating posi-
ton before the country to-day but her own
rsnting rabole Of upstairs, her "blind leaders
OF the blind" who reject all that Is right,
reasonable and attainable, TO scramble and
froth az the mouth after what is prepOsternus
and impossible. Rest the blame where It be-
LOUIS Let Dakotsns squelch their pPstilent
politicians. their would be qusdruplc sena.
tors and duplicate governors and miscel)ane-
Gus dignitaries, and unitedly ask. as they
never have done, the admission OF their terri
tory as one majestic st, te, and before another
moon shall wax and wane the thirty-ninth
star, the state Of Dakota, will CLEAN resplend-
ent In the assure folds OF the national banner.
and sill the whining about the 'denisl Of
rights" that have not been denied will be
hushed forever.
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