Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1888-10-11
WHAT 10 OUR DUTY.


North, irrespective of party. 1t is :
apparant that our Southern brethren. T
south Of the Salmon mountains, are +,
persistent i'll disappearing u.s. Every a
man in Idaho Territory, who is CONVEX.
SAINT with the history of the people OF !,
North Idaho, knows full well that the
people of the North were injured by the
act of congress organizing Montana
Territory, and leaving the strip OF land !
between the Salmon mountains and the
British possessions, and embracing the ;
western spurs of the Bitter Root noun
tain., still part of Idaho, not large
enough to form territory of itself, and
not allied in any geographical or cor''
mercial sense with the rest of Idaho
Territory, but by nature allied in both
TO the territory Of Washington by this
means we are a mere extrinsic and
subordinate part of Idaho with no affinity
or afiliation with the main portion of the
territory. We had no hand in creating
this state Of things 1t was not done at
the instance of our people or any OF
their representatives, in congress or else
where. 1t was an arbitrary establishing
of boundary lincs, which no stateman
could have conceived in justice to the
inhabitants remaining ia North Idaho,
and Immediately upon its becoming
known that congress had created Mon
tana with such boundary cast of us,
tho effort was made by our people to
remedy our condition, and that effort has
been persistently made at home and in
Washington city, and with our bretheren
of the South, to have our situation
relieved. We have asked the people of
Washington Territory to help u.s.. They,
at first, seemed to be Indifferent to our
isolated situation, but in the course OF a
few years they awoke to cur pleadings,
and in 1878 they provided in their
legislature that We might be heard in
their constitutional convention Of dele
gates called for framing state
constitution. We responded to their
call, and our delegate to that convention
had fair hearing on the floor Of that
convention and the result was they
framed a constitution, embracing us in
their proposed state, aud that constitu-
ton was adopted by over two thirds OF
the people of Washington Territory and
nearly all Of North Idaho. The people
Of South Idaho did not then object t.
this action, and did not cry tina
Washington Territory was attempting t
rob Idaho Of her domain, but treated
ss but an act Of justice mingled wit
=, mercy to the people of the North, an
since that time both the political CONVEX
tions Of South Idaho aud the whol
people of South Idaho, by their vote:
have ratified the act. In all this move
ment no portion of North Idaho, nor c
Washington Territory, ever asked {
demanded that the Southern counties {
Idaho should go to Nevada, but a
claimed that the $4,000 square miles {
territory remaining in Idaho was ampl
to make good state. But few res
less spirits in South Idaho, without ii
knowledge Of the people Of the Norther
counties and without the knowledge I
the people of Washington Territor
conceived desire for some reason, be-
known to themselves, to form an ALLAN,
with Nevada. The North did not emit
into this desire, nor did they encoura:
this move, and nowhere in the Nor
nor in Washington Territory did Il
people countenance or encourage Il
movement. They seemed to regard it
the business of South Idaho aud Il
state Of Nevada, and they have regard
it in that light ever since up, to Il
present time, aud have confined the
efforts to the relief Of the people
North Idaho, who complain of tn,
isolation from tho balance Of the ter
tory, and Of the evils which they suffer
in consequence. But the few men
South Idaho who had at once fell in 10
with Nevada and entertained the no
that they could induce South Idaho
form an alliance with Nevada, ma
pilgrimages to Nevada to learn
financial condition, aud they found
satisfactory and came back and publish
what they found, and since that til
they or some other parties in Sou
Idaho, or Nevada, or both, have Undue
Senator Stewart to favor the movemt
in case North Idaho becomes annexed
Washington. which seems to be scttl
both by the people in North Idal
Washington and oven by the political