The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-01-08


No man knows just when or how
Dakota, or any part of it, will be ad-
mitted into the sisterhood of states, and
the new schemes which are being de-
veloped with every hour but serve to
complicate matters and to make con-
fusion worse confounded. Ii the people
of the territory, or even their self
constituted representatives at the ma
tional capital, would but agree upon
some definite plan of action, and unit
edly work for it, even a congress of
opposite political views from those en-
tertained by the petitioners could hard
ly dare refuse acqniescence 10 their un-
questionably justdemands. The rank
injustice inflicted upon the hundreds
of thousands of loyal Americans who
make Dakota their home, and who
metamorphosed the country from
barren waste to the most prosperous
commonwealth within the boundaries
of the United States, is SO palpable to
every eye not blinded by selfish par
tisanship that even European journals
are pointing with scorn to the gross
outrage perpetrated by government
purporting to be republican IN prin-
ciple and to be conducted for the uni
versal veal of its citizens Dakota
stands to-day in greater subordina-
ton to the federal government than
do any of the dependencies of the Brit
ish crown to the imperial government,
and the status of imperial rule i'll Ire
land, over which so much fuss is made,
is so much more liberal that it cam
not be used in comparison. The very
idea is maddening that such state of
affairs exists simply because of the
political belief of our people, and when
leather-lu -lunged demogoges have the
effrontery to say that the people OF
Dakota do not want admission, they
speak what they know is untrue. They
evidently forget, too, that the subject
of admission appeals to the people
through to convincing argument of
their pocketbooks. They forget that
our taxes will he lightencd as soon as
the immense bodies of public lands
which lie idle and unproductive,
awaiting the advent of statehood be-
fore they can be utilized, will almost to-
tally extinguish our school taxes, which
now form considerably over one. half
of the entire amount, and will, besides,
add to- our taxpaying population. In
terest will also be greatly reduced as
soon as lenders are made facure Ill
their investments by permanent con !.
stitutlon and the formation of a gov
ernment whose powers are not alone
controlled by their own sweet will.
The cost of a state government is
but trivial and will not be effected to
any considerable extent by the divi-
SION of the territory into two or more
states. The people, the taxpaying
people, want admission in some form,
and if they cannot get it in one way
they want it in another, and that dur
ing this session of congress. But they
are not at all likely to have their de-
sires fulfilled. On the one hand is
the democratic party crying that the
addition of two republican members to
the United States senate at this time
will be fatal to their interests, and on
the other hand is the repubaan party
demanding admission in the shape
that viii prove most beneficial to them.
Between these two, the interests of
our people are more than likely to fall
to the ground, as must always be the
case when party supremacy alone is
taken into consideration. But bitter
as we may we'll feel toward the demo-
cratic party in congress and thedem-
ocratic party in our own territory, as
represented by that hungry horde
yclept the territorial committee, it
should not be forgotten that the re-
publican party had ample opportunity
to do us justice before they lost con-
troll of the executive branch of govern
ment. But the petty jealousy Of the
east toward the west blinded their eyes
to their own best interests. They evil
IDENTIFY forgot that their tenure Of
Office was not perpe sual and that the
day would come when to this very
west they must look for that support
which the aristocratic east has since
withheld. We can excuse in u meas
ure democratic opposition to repub-
lican people, but how are we to excuse
the republican party for panderirg to
mere sectional prejudice? II things