St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-14
Admission as a Whole, and Filled the
Continent With a 0lamor for an
Outrageous Wrong.
To Admit This Handful OF Frontier
People as TWO states Would
be Preposterous.
Insignificant Truck Patches Like Del
aware and Rhode Island should
be United.
Donan Favors One state.

ent to-day. Said he: | am out of all pa
tience with this everlasting howl about
DakOta's being ''denied her rights" or
robbed of her rights" She has been de-
MED no right. She has been robbed of no
right. Dakota has a right to admission
into the Union as a state. This she has
never asked, and consequently has never
been denied il or robbed OF it. Dakota has
10 right to division of her territory and adj
mission as two states. Yet this is just
what her presumptuOus and rapaciOus horde
OF buccaneers have for years united in de-
handing. They have savagely banded
themselves against DakOtas only right.
while they have filled the continent with
their clamOr for 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
reason on Gods earth why Dakota should
be divided and admitted as two states.
There is every reason why she should not
be. All the talk about her Immense area
is nonsense. With her 1900 square
miles she is less than three-fourths as large
as California with 21O. 600. and little more
than half as large as Texas with 264, OOO
Besides, mere vastneSs of space counts for
nothing in cOmmOnwealth-maRing. States
are or hOuld be based on
One square mile In New York city is
worth the whole territory of Dakota. Single
towns like Newark, Pittsburg and Lynn
turn out annual products nearly, if not
quite, as valuable rs those of any territory
in the Union, and Cook county, Illinois,
has more population than any two of the
territories combined. DakOta's entire pop
ulation numbers about 42O. 600. scarcely
twO-thirds that of Chicago, about half that
of Philadelphia. and less than One-third
that of New York city. 1t is simply pre-
pOSterOuS that this scattered handful of
frontier people should ask TO balance in the
senate the great states of New York and
Pennsylvania. with their 8. 1000, 600 of pOpu-
latiOn and their thousands of millions
of wealth. The United States senate is
TOO large now. Every increase in its
membership lessons the dignity and sense
of personal responsible of its members.
There are seventy-siX senators now and the
nine territories yet to be admitted as states,
with their eighteen senators, will swell the
number to ninetyfOur. The highest council
OF the nation will be mob as large as the
lower house should be, and the possibilities
of jObbery and corruption will be enhanced.
Instead OF unnecessarily multiplying states
and enlarging the senate, intelligent senti-
ment it seems to me, would be in favor of
squeezing three or four such Insignificant
truck patches as Delaware and Rhode
Island into one, and wiping out entirely
such rotten bOroughs as Nevada, with its
total population of $4,000, and its two
senatorships forever
AT AUCTION.
The principal reasons for the division of
Dakota which were urged when the agita-
tiOn began have ceased to exist. Then a
wide stretch of unexplOred wilderness lay
between the settled regions in the northern
and southern sections of the territory, and
there was no direct railway or telegraph
communication. Now the whole country
is dotted with thriving settlements, and
traverSed in every direction by completed
or projected railroads. Much stress has
been and still is laid upon the lack of hO-
mOgeneity among the people of the two
great territorial sections or divisions. But
the wheat farmers of the Red river valley,
the stock raiSers of YanktOn and NiObrara,
and the stalwart Germans of the Black
Hills of Dakota are certainly not less homo
geneOus than the whites and blacks of
every Southern state; they are full as
homogeneous as the bluegrass hOrsemen.
the Mississippi bottom cotton planters and
the mountain mOOnshiners of Kentucky;
they are far more homogeneous than the
Fifth avenue dudes or Murray Hill snObs,
the Wall street pirate millionaires, the Long
Island hucksters and fishermen, the
Mohawk valley dairymen and the AdirOn-
dack loggers and hunters of New York.
Diversity of character, interests, pursuits
and products tend to promote the prosperity
of a state or a people. Variety is better
than hOmOgeneity. These arguments are
worthless. These pleas are idle. In fact.
knowing Dakota and her needs, wishes and
capabilities as well as any man in all her
borders, l can discover but
ONE REAL REASON
for her division into two states. That is
TO give place to two gangs of Office-seekers
instead of one; to make four United States
senators instead of two, and to create two
full sets of state officials, governors. secre-
taries, treasurers and legislators instead of
one, thereby doubling all the costs and bur
dens of statehood for the benefit of lot of
filibusteTs and freebOOters. But were rea-
sons in favor of the division and twin-states
scheme a thousand-fOld more plentiful than
they are against it, l do not believe there is
a possibility of its succeeding. | have
never believed it. When the famous dele
CATION of a hundred tall brOad-brimmed
Dakotans was sent to Washington to urge
the project of 1881, L declined to
go on the ground that it was a
fools errand. l told our people then.
and / have told them ever since,
that the South would be solid against the
creation of an extra and unnecessary
Northern state, the Democracy, North and
South, would be solid against the creation
of an extra and unnecessary Republican
state, and the high-taTiff Eastern Republi-
cans would be solid against the creation of
an extra and unnecessary lOw-tariff West
ern state. AS long as the Democrats con-
troll either house of congress they will de-
feat any measure for putting two extra Re-
publican senators in the senate, and giving
the Republicans two extra votes in the
electoral college. No sane man could ex-
pect them TO do otherwise. 1t may be set
down as fixed fact. they will never con-
sent TO division of Dakota and her ad-
mission as two states. They are glad of
any pretext for keeping her out
AS ONE STATE.
with her six or seven Republican electoral
votes, until after the next presidential cleo
ton, and the mad wrangle of the politi-
clans, her self-eonstituted leaders and repre-
sentativeS, over this doomed question of di-
vision and double-headed statehood, fur
nishes them not only q pretext. but ample
justification for doing so. If Dakota came
asking admission into the Union as one
grand. imperial commonwealth, with her
rich grain fields and pastures and gold
mines. and her 400, 900 progressive, public
spirited and prosperous people, no political
party would dare refuse her request. But,
as it is, put in the attitude of demanding
that to which she has no right, and with
her warning factions cOntradicting and de-
nouneing each other at home and abroad,
her Democratic enemies with impunity
slam the doors of the Union in her face and
say: