The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-04-19

such alegislative system Ii utt4, sadie
qnate TO the rapidly growing need n 1uch
people. Any government III which thblic or
certain stands condemned By that single
fact The entire Jurisdiction, original
n appellate, OF the courts Of record
of Dakota, both federal and territorial, IL
vested In six Judges Justice delayed Ii
justice denied. These ma istrates hold sew
eral terms each year Of the supreme court,
and in the intervals 60 in oyer throughout
the territory, through many counties-as
many as twenty-six TO one OF the judges-ins
the vain efforts to keep dow calendars OF
causes, necessarily leaving often hundreds
OF cases not reached for Trial. The collection
Of debts is thus deferred; private credit suf-
fers; titles to land are IS sailed by prerexts5
barely sufficient to cloui them. and remain
unsettled for wears; adm nistratiop of estates
taken into these courts by appeal from
probate tribunals is delayed until In.
heritances are devoured by, costs of
procedure; the trials OF criminals
are procrastinated until witnesses be-
come scattered n the culprits at last go
UNPUBLISHED. This is the cause Of every ter
ritory and not that of Dakota alone. Several
Of these ought at once to be admitted. As
mere appanages to the Union they unques-
tionably add to it's resources, but as states
they increase its power many fold. We need
them in the national councils. They stretch
for LOO miles along the boundary Of our
northern rival. In case of war these people
could seize he Canadian Pacific road. and
thus hold the very keys of that country in
one week. Under similar conditions Great
Britain would neglect no measures to estab-
lish a loyal and aggressive people on our
frontier. But we, negligent of our navy, Of
our merchant marine, Of our coast defenses,
of our duty to control interoceanfo COM
munication over Central AN erica, of the
rights of our fisheries. are negligent here
also in a matter Of the highest Importance,
considered in reference to our relations with
other powers 80
POTENT CAUSE OF NATIONAL.
OF all The causes which have contributed
to the grandeur OF the republic and made It
the first power upon earth, the acquisition
of regions which have been occupied by the
most courageous Of our people. have be-
come territories and then states, has been
vast empire, watered by the largest navi-,
gable rivers in the world, rivers which run
southwark n afford the means of CONNER
ctal intercourse and exchange of every
product OF many degrees of latitude. From
the wheat OF the extreme north to the sugar
OF the extreme south We acquired Florida,
and the Gulf OF Mexico became. the Medi-
terranean of this nation. We acquired
Texas, and look at tho magnificent result.
We acquired California. and il became ut
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metals, and stands now dominant upon the
Pacific, destined TO engross the commerce OF
Asia. By a cowardly diplomacy we gave up
unquestionable claims to part Of Oregon and
enabled Great Britain to share with us the
most important military and naval position
on the Pacific coast from Cape Horn to Beh-
rings straits. Why shall we not be at least
meanly jusJ-for generosity has long been
out of the question-5oward Dakota? Why
delay longer this great act of national JUS
lessons Of history and understand that jus-
tice long deferred eventually works retribu-
ton in direct proportion to the obduracy Of
Its denials. Let us strip this question of
every device, evasion, pretext and sham, and
plainly admit that this commonwealth has
been denied admission into the Union for
the sole reason that the party in power-the
solid South and q few allied Northern states
do not intend that Dakota shall have any
voice in the election Of a president so long
as the existing political ascendancy can hope
for continuance. This is no new wrong.
same party, by the Same alliance and for the
same purposes When Kansas sought adj
mission the same injustice was perpetrated
upon her. The pr re in that game of chicane,
injustice and bloodshed was the continuance
in power OF the Democratic party. Many
who were the accessories to that offense had
the excuse Of believing that q great domestic
institution was in danger. But here no such
apology can be made. The admission of Da-
kota inperils no material interest II will
increase the power of the nation and ilnpart
benefactions to every community therein.
The party which proclaims that public office
is a public trust violates that trust; which
boasts OF its devotion to the principles of
self-government and of civil service reform,
violates those principles In every particular
by insisting hat such a commonwealth shall
remain under a federal protectorate md be
governed by foreign officers. The party
which denies to hundreds OF thousands Of
electors in the South a free ballot and a fair
count denies also. by a cunning which Is
more odious than force. the ballot, GU ma
rional questions. to seventy thousand white
men in this portion of the North.