Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-12-19
THE WAITING TERRITORIES,


What Delegate Dubois Thinks Of Theil
Qualifications for Statehood - Al
Have SaiIlcient Population and Album
dant Resources, but Utah should No
be Admitted. Because the Majority o
the People Belong to the Mormo,
Church.
Washington ID. o. Evening star.l
| The introduction of the bill for the
admission OF Idaho as State com.
pietes the list of Northern Territorial
applicants for Statehood. Delegate
Dubois, of Idaho, talked with a Sta,
reporter recently Of the prospects Of
the bill.
SHOW long will it be before Idaho
could be admit,ed?" asked the re.
porter.
"Provided this Congress passes nv
bill. Idaho cannot come in as a State
inside Of year. All the Territories
except Utah ought to be admitted.
Every one Of them has more than
100000 free inhabitants and resources
to sustain a great population. Idaho
Is the best watered of all the Western
States or Territories, and has most ex.
cellent lands and climate. Fruit in
great abundance-prunes, aprioots,
nectar'nes, peaches, apples, etc.,-is
raised "a now in many portions of the
Territory. In South Idaho we have
to depend on irrigation. and all we
need there is to have the government
build the huge dams that are neces.
sary to
SUCCESSFUL AGRICULTURE.
81 believe that within four wears. If
the general government would aid US.
that we would have a population of
from 100000 to 100000. The Terri
torial form of government is verv irk
some and unstable. We are gov.
erned from without, as it were, and
our wants and wishes disre garded.
Generally the officers are sent among
us as strangers. They may be good
or bad, as fate DEGREES. Our interests
are varied, yet we have no one bat a
voiceless Delegate to contend for
them in Congress. The general gov.
ernment pays nothing practically to
sustain us now. They contribute only
about $4,000 year and we pay the
balance. The only added costs to US
OF Statehood would be the salaries of
two or three officers and the expenses
of the Legislature, which meets hi
ennIally: The people are very dcsir
GUS Of the change"
WHAT CONGRESS OUGHT TO DO.
"What do you think the presen,
Congress ought to do?"
"if the Democratic majority would
pass bill in the House admitting
North Dakota, South Dakota, Wash.
!ngton, Montana, Idaho. Wyoming,
New Mexico and Arizona, i. would
be just as fair, and the Senate would
pass it. 1t would be a wise thing for
the Democrats to do, it seems to me,
because Arizona and New Mexico
ire regarded as Democratic, and
IDAHO, Montana, and Wyoming as
lebatable. There is no doubt about
'ach Of these Territories being quail.
led for Statehood"
"What do you think Of the admis.
ion of Utah?" queried the reporter. |
utah, of course" said Mr.. Dubois,
lis in different position They
Gould not form State government,
Republican, in fact, because the great
majority of the people there belong
o an alien government. The Nor
non church is a theocracy. The in.
titution is political and commercial
one, held together by a fanaticism
oundea on polygamy. The organi-
alton is compact and united, is
governed absolutely by few leaders,
nd has no reverence for the laws of
he land or the general government.
HEY ARE UNTITLED IN EVERY wAv