The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1888-11-16


act so framed that the territory could
not become state until after the
election just concluded. That it did
not do this was proof positive of its
purpose to keep Dakota out of the
Union just as long as it should hold
the presidency Or q majority in either
house. No section had such u tire.
mendous stake at issue in this CAM
paign as had the Northwest.
Before another presidential cam.
paign opens the Union will he ell.
larged by the admission of four new
states, and thirteen votes at least will
be added to the electoral college. The
first act passed by the new republican
congress, to assemble in 1889, should
he bill providing for the admission
of the two Dakotas. There is practi-
cally no diversity of sentiment in the
territory OH the question of division.
There arc few people interested in
maintaining u single capital, but they
cut 10 figure in the vast body of in.
habitants. There are a few democrats
who will continue to oppose division
because they were ordered to do SO
from Washington as test of party
faithfulness, and they will keep the
command even after the voice that
gave it is silenced. But with essential
unanimity the people of Dakota ask
for division, and it will he granted them.
If there is any wish that another ex.
preston Of opinion on the question
be had, let them decide it once more,
as they have already something like
a dozen times, by u popular vote. And
then hiring the two Dakotas into the
Union of the Fathers. Washington
territory is as well qualified as either
section of Dakota. 1t will add another
to the list of splendid agricultural
states, and must no longer be denied
the privileges which it asks rs its
right. And Montana, although its in
dustries are mainly of q different and
sometimes less stable order, is equally
we'll qualified for the honor of state,
hood. One comprehensive act per
uniting the erection of these fOul
state governments would be Il fitting
introduction of the return to power Of
the party of justice and of fidelity tt
the rights of the people.
Few persons outside of the territor
les can understand all that this viii
mean to them. Mean minds have
steadily asserted that only party con
siderations were ut work when state
hood was demanded. 1t is rs false a.
it is foolish. Now, at a time whe,
republican supremacy is firmly re
established, we reitcrate the state
ment that the territorial condition
should not he retained one moment, il
any community, whatever be it's poll
teal cast, after it has the condition.
essential to admission. 1t is a c0ntli
ton of involuntary seryitnile, repug
n mt 10 all ideas of justice and to TIL,
letter us well as the spirit of our in
stitutions. The territories cannot hav'
the boon too quickly. With admis
sion will come to them Il materi;.
prosperity unknown even in the day
of their most abundant success. I'm
migration will not he checked by dis
reimbursement, and by the uncertain
ties attendant upon government iron
Washington. Legislatures will h
made of better men when they ar
clothed with the powers which fix re
sponsibility. Taxes will not mount
extortion, The new state, furnislle
with public lands as well as natur;
II revenues, will be able to build for il
II self. There will he courts enough {
:, secure the speedy administration c
justice. The public school systc,
will be more fully developed. Poll
tics will rise from the condition {
) personal welfare, characteristic of I'll
r territorial state, to new dignity ali
a higher plane. And capital, cosni
ant of the differences which all til
make, in the safety and profits of il
!, vestment, will be poured into the1
s, new communities in abundance III
known before. Perhaps the dem
d cratic party will never know ho
many votes were cost it by its att
n, tude OIL the territorial question.
has turned the most doubtful, or SUI
IL ly democratic of the territories into
Republican community. Its revers
- is greeted as an act of deliverance
millions of the Northwest. The pow
and greatness Of these cities, as w
as the prosperity of the whole matte
, are recruited by the first fruits of /
: publican supremacy, seen in the II
: Of states that are soon to be.-Pione
Press.