The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-07
IDAHO MUST WAIT.

From what We can learn, tt e principal opposi
| ton to statehood throughout the territory Gomez
from three expected Sources-Mormons Jack
Mormons and moSsbackS.-ChG,!is Messenger.
This leads the Ketchum keystone to philo
sophie as follows:
Three expected sources Mormons, Jack
Mermons and mossbacks." This journal Ger
tainly has very high appreciation for the intel
ligence OF the voters OF Idaho in the classified
| ton it has named. When referring TO moss
| backs we would kindly suggest TO this papers
| youthful publishers, II such they be, that il
would be well enough for them TO bear in mind
that the 'mosSbdckS'' whom they claim are Cd
posing statehood long years ago blaze the trails
to this territory wnlcn now makes the way easy
and comfortable for the "Jobnny-c -lateS'
that now ungratefully apply that name TO The
pioneers.
Never were words more truthfully
spoken. The men who opposed statehood
for Idaho were among its best and most
substantial citizens-men who lived III and
stayed with the territory when it was al
unpromising and all but appropriated viii.
derness. 1t has grown with their growth
and strengthened with their strength, until
at last the infant finds itself arrived at al
most the stature of manhood, when a gang
of adventures, headed politically by i'm
moral profiigates like DUBOIS, and mar
shaled generally by an unprincipled and
INSCRIPTIONS press like the irst one above
quoted from, step in and profess great SOL
icitude for the youth, claiming in fact that
they have been his friends and guardians
from the first The best that can be said
of them is that they are lot of adventur-
Gus camp-followers, who would desert the
territory within twenty-four hours after
learning that they could no longer advance
their personal and political interests.
Is it any wonder that the better classes
everywhere throughout Idaho either voted
against the bastard constitution or re
Trained from voting altogether9 The fact
is, that portion of the population do not
want statehood at the price of dishonor,
deception, injustice and trickery; and,
while they would rather have state sover-
eighty than territorial dependency, they
will have nothing different to their present
lot if it has to come through such unclean
hands as those we have spoken OF.
OF course the constitution has carried.
Thanks to the drygoeds box and pitchfork
system, it scarcely could have been other
wise. But with even such dastardly eX-
pedients, what is the harvest likely to be!
The voteo as a whole does not
make Idaho as big numerically as
one ward of New York city,
and yet it, or the upstairs referred to, ask
for power in the United States Senate
equal to the whole of New York state
This might not be Objectionable if it were
the whole people, and not a merely unscru-
pulous faction who were clamoring for
recognition. AS the case stands, it seems
a useless procedure to ask Uncle SAMUEL
to take another rotten borough into his
household in order that such scrubs as
DUBOIS and his ilk may disgrace the upper
house of the national legislature. No;
Idaho will have to wait till she becomes
cleaner than she is now before she dons
the robes of statehood.