Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-11

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| America, yet ignored By Congress and de-
MED the right to enter her fathers htuse'
This personiication of Dakota, as q
| fair female, has received the imprimstur
of many publications 8, for 1 have seen a
picture Of the Territory in female form,
pointing with some pride to q stately col
umn of figures, showing the rel OF
other States, snd then pointing with sub
lime gesture and fearful indignation 10 a
Ioll on which is inscribed her own magni-
6cert area, accomplishments and des-
tiny"
Of the Northern part of the Territory
Mr.. Cox says:
The bill for North D3kots, or the ter
Iitory lying Forth of the 7th parallel Of
surveys, authorizes the election of dele
gates TO q convention to form 8 coDstitu-
ton 1t is in the usual form. The Demo
cratic majority Of the House Committee,
however, have intelpcs.d an adverse re-
port. What reasons will be gwen in favor
of such a messu-G? First, the State will
have an area OF a 600 square miles. 1t
will be 400 miles long from east to west
and 214 miles wide rom north to SOuth.
I5s area will be equal to that of our larg-
est States, with the exception of eight,
namely: Nebraska, Kansas, Mirnesots,
Oregon, Colorado. California, Nevada and
Texas. Ii is q prairie, and, like the rest
of the Territory, fertile. 1t is capable OF
sustaining an immense population. 1t had
already 225, 900 people on the 1st Of jan
nary Of this year, AZ slo~n by official
data in the Office of the Secretary Of the
Interior. 1t will be urged in favor Of her
admission thst no State was ever organized
from the public domain with such q pOpu-
lation. The assessed value Of her proper
" for the purposes of taxation, including
railroads, was $72 500, 600, aud her rail
road mileage $3.50 The value Of her
school property and the Outly for schools,
ter schnol-houses, her newspapers, banks
and bar king capIrsl all play their part in
the argument which The Republicans and
the friends of the division OF the Territory
will uIgs for the admission OF North Da-
kots. The question is: Shall that party
have the monopoly Of the credit for its ad-
mission?
This immense growth hiss occurred
since 1880. In 1870 her population was
only 2. ZOO. In 1880 it was 30. 900. 1t is
now d.. 900. The next census will prob.
ably show enough for two members OF
Congress. However, that is dependent
upon the ratio as it will be fixed by the
FIfty-secDnd Congress"
There are important political questions
connected with the subject. Mr.. Cox con-
tinues:
Why, then, has not one or the other,
or both Of these Territories besn admitted?
Is it because their admission has been
made the sport of party or of politics? /
am afraid there has besn too much of it.
| remember to Rave read in the Cnicsgo
Times an article headed, Dakota the
Victim of Both PARTIES 1t fixed the
odium of denying Dakota admission to the
siSterhOod of States six years ago upon a
| Republican Senator. That Senator was
Eugene Hale, of Maine; because, as be
thought, one county in Dakota had acted
in bad faith ~ to a small amount Of bonds
held by his constituents, he ~interposed the
fatal objection. He relegated her 10 q
position of an outlying province. And
yet, Maine had at that time about the
same population as Dakota, and hardly
ons.hslf Of the square mills of South Da-
kOts."
1T will bs asked, why should Maine be
favored with one fsdsrsl Tgis and DAkots
diSfayored? Why should there be an ostTa-
cism upon this people, irrespective Of the
doctrines of Jefferson, jackson and Doug
las and Of popular sovereignty? Why
should we Cp oose Mr.. Hale's party in build
ing up the great RApublican States in the
Northwest, when the liberalitiss of trade
and Interchange, growing out OF u phi
lOsophy and economy, would make them
in time Democratic States? Wa it not
Mr.. Buchanan who slid Of Michigan, when
she asked admission, that he 'tremb'ed at
kee ping out q State with sixty Thousand
people l found no tremnlousneSs in the
last session on the part Of certain states
men who kept out Dakota with six hut
dred thOusand-ten times the number.
is there any ems in public life with the
presciEnce Of Randolph and JeffersoD,
when Virginia gave the Northwest to the
Union and Liheity, with enshlirg acts to
make them States on fair aud reasonable
cOndisioCsP
1T has been said that Maine would be
good missionary ground for Dskots, since
Maine has church facilities Sor only hat
her population and Der average church at
tendance is only 135, 900. Evidently, by
the st Itistirs, Christianity is faIiog ia
Maine. Her pulpits, a. we'll as her
ehurches, are untitled. Dakota has ever
1000 charges, over 500 ministers, over
1912 Sunday schools and So 900, 900 in
church buildings, TO including parsOn-
ages, schools a1d missions. she has q sur
plus of piety, for she has thirty five con-
gregatians among the Sioux and 1900
communicates"
As to the admission of the whole Terri
tory as enc State Mr.. Cox does not favor
it. There is q danger connected with
States Of great-territory. He says:
1T is an interesting matter to go back
aud observe how the Federal system was
created by the smaller States. 1t was
built out Of jealousy Of the larger States,
which would have crushed them betVes
their upper and neither millstones. Bot for
the smaller States tbs Cor restitution would
not have been possible. Not that I would
have them too small or too large. There
is a golden mean.
What an anomalous and exaggerated
condition Of affairs it would be to have one
Legislature governing New York, Penrsyl-
vsuis, Ohio and West Virginia "a one State!
Yet DakOts is larger than these States COM
bined. All! bus there is Texas, it is said.
IL is lsrger than Dakots, but it should re
no pIecsdent. When Texas was admitted
there was 8 clause for its division into five
States whep the people deeired it know
they have never desired it. Nevertheless,
does it not strike every one that Texas,
with its ares enough to make 241 States as
large IS Rhode Island, Elk States large as
New York, or Tires States as large as Kan
sas, or one State q large "a the German
Empire. with Alabama thrown in, is an
unsisldy State, according 10 the philos-
ophy snd form Of our Federal st~rpetur?
Why, Texas by the census of A. d. 1000
ui1l hava n Oreaier uumhar If 1onoraosran