Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-12-27
THE NORTHWEST
New States.

When the Republicans admit Dakota,
Montana and Washington as states the
quota of states will be nearly full. The
available raw material for new states
will be pretty we'll used up and unless
the anneXationists succeed in getting
Canada into the union the progress of
making new states must soon come to
an end.
If the Republican program is carried
out there will remain only Utah,
Wyoming, Idaho, New Mexico and
Arizona. 1t will not be long before
Wyoming and Idaho will be knocking
for admission and will be allowed to
come in. New Mexico is big enough
for statehood now but will be kept out
by the Republicans for partisan reasons.
Arizona is so much Of desert and has
such scant population that there will
be no chanae for state there for a long
time to come. Utah will never get in
while polygamy prevails among the
MormOns there and may be obliterated
from the map altogether. The Indian
territory has an abnormal status with
very little possibility of statehood for
many years at least.
There have been suggestions made
that several new states could be manu-
factured by dividing old ones. The Re-
publicans propose to cut Dakota and
make two states instead of one, and
New Mexico is big enough for the same
process, but division would be hardly
possible there, owing to the physical
peculiarities of the territory, 1t has al
so been proposed to divide California,
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from the rest of New York state and
make five new states out of Texas.
Texas is big enough for five states
and has people enough, but the divis
ion can only be made with the consent
of the Texans Themselves, and that will
never be given. They are proud Of
their state and its history and they look
forward to the time when its growth
and prosperity will make it the empire
state of the union, and such time can
hardly fail to come. Texas is as big as
France and could support population
of10,000,00 and have plenty of room
left. There will be no division OfTexas.
The Texans will not have it and they
would be foolish if they did.
There appears to be less objection to
the division of California and that may
possibly be done some day. There are
good many people in the state who
favor it. California is a big state and
very long state, so that there is not only
q conflict of interests but much trouble
in earring on the public business. Still,
we suppose CalifOrnians have good
deal of pride in magnificent common
wealth and would hardly consent to
have it divided.
There are many people who think it
would be better for all concerned if
New York city, Brooklyn and the ad-
jacent islands were separated from the
rest of the state and made into a new
state. They argue that the interests of
these cities are so diverse from the in
terests of the state at large and that
these cities require government pecu-
liar to themselves, so that it would be
better for all concerned to cut them off
from the rest of the state, give them a
state government and let them govern
themselves. This proposition has been
seriously made several tines and there
are many reasons that might be urged
why the arrangement would be good
one. There is strong sentiment in the
cities in favor of it and it is not improb-
able that the thing will come to pass
some time.
But taking the situation as it is it is
apparent that there cannot be many
more new states until we get some new
territory to make them of.-U Cleveland
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