Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-05-02


Ts tflI for fte admiEion 81
onlnesn Dakela pasaed TIE Senate
Feanry "a end that for the al
nlilsion 81 H1sti1Elen passed the
sans body ApEil l1tk. Both measures
ara nov befsre tAe Heuss ana Should
receive proaps consideration. 80 that
ths numbar 81 our esAtes nay BE-
Tounded ou1 Into - even forty.
These are he onIy TO Territories
lAA1 can Tes present valid claims.
'aod there Is no reason why actioa
should longer Be deferred Sc f4E as
Dakola s concerned. there e s CUES
sioa s. ls6ae whethef she shall cume
In as { whuia Or divided; but 10 one
or the other form she should come,
as she has every element Of state
hood Tee large majority Of her
people are II favor Of admission. A
CONSTITUTION has 5esn regularly voted
The Capital site has BEEN s6le ted.
A State Government has been asgan-
lied and once admitted she will Sc
ready % 70 forward ID the manage
meng Of her affairs Is & State. The
delay which has heretofore existed
has not only been inexcuaabae. but
cannsf be jusfilied b. precedent or
upoa the actual merits Of the
Case. Dakota has more p0pu
la'ion. more weaish. trade, and
resources than most OF the other
States had when they she'd their Ter
riiurial condition, and more than
several Of the older States now have.
Washington Territory. though not
so far advanced toward Statehood as
Dakota. still has she requisite eIe-
laenfs for admission. With the sd
dillon Of the panhandle section Of
Idaho she has probably round $50. :
600 population. though Governor
Squire In his last message claimed
for the Territory, outside Of the pro
posed addils0n, population Of be-
tween l50. 900 aud IL, 600. She has
90 least more than enough 70 entitle
her to q member Of Congress. For
seven years past the Territory has
been out Of debt. aRd Il Is now esti-
mated that she has 8 considerable
surplus in her treasury. The assessed
valuation OF her property is over
$50. 00o. 000 She has q school end0w
ment of over 2,000. 900 acrts. and
last year she paid in $957 .000 for
school purposes, showing 40 extra.
ordinary interest In educational mat.
ters. while the prompt manneF IN
which her people met and solved the
Chinese outrage business, which was
preeipilaied on them by the foreign
hoodlums. also goes to show that
they are strongly grounded in al the
elements Of self-goverBment. Since
The completion of the Norlhern Pa
aile railroad there has been 6 great
accession OF settlers and trade has
correspondirgly increased. Repre-
sentative Hill Of the COMMITTEES on
Territories, n an Interview with
Gath" says that he has beea sur
prised TO md that. with the excep.
lion Of the Port Of New York, there
are more departures Of ships from
Puget Sound than any ether Ameri-
can waters; and the same authority
also says Of Dakota: sShe pays
more postage than twelve different
States of this Union. She pays the
Government more postal revenue
than Mississippi. more than ATkan
sas. more than Florida, more than
Maine or New Hampshire. more than
South Carolina or North Carolina.
mors than West Virginia, more than
Delaware or Rhode Island, and SO
On This statement alone shows
aot Only an Intelligent but large
population In Washington and Da
koia. There Is 10 fact no reason thai
can be adduced why these two Terri
tories should rot az once be admitted
ieso the Union of States. They can
only be kept out by blind partisan
Opposition which win r,act upon the
party making it.