The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-11
GONE BY THE BOARD.

According to our Washington cores
pondent's information the friends OF the
Idaho and Wyoming admission bills are
alarmed by the delay of those measures in
the Senate and are putting forth great
energy in their behalf. THE HERALD some
time ago arrived at the conclusion, from a
reasonably careful survey of the situation,
that the chances of the territories named
for admission this year had been reduced
TO the minimum, and it has seen nothing
for several weeks past to change this opin-
ion in the least. Every day now should
discourage the statehood advocates, for
every day adds to the already almost GER
tainty Of the bill's failure. If our friends
IN Idaho and our other friends in Wyo-
ming would but smother their en-
tbasiasm aid study the outlook with reason
and common intelligence for a guide
they would regard admission as next
to hopeless. We may call the east
fogyish or effete, and may dcride and de-
nounce it without stint, but do what we
will the fact viii not be altered that the
last is in control of the upper house of
Congress, nor will that other fact be over
not sense of disgust. If the average
Senator whose home is east of the Aiissis-
sippi river were to consult his own feelings
there would be no more chairs provided
in the chamber for men from the wild and
woody west. The western men with bank
accounts running into millions are well
enough as social acquaintance, but it is
quite diffenent thing to have them as
companions and peers in the dignified and
aristocratics The sense of right and
justice sometimes compels the taking in of
the s.rowdy" element, but the heart of the
orthodox Senator bleeds every time a
TABOR, a HEARST, Bowen or SHARON is
sworn in and dons the ill-fitting toga.
This objection TO ''Bitter Creekn statesmen
would not be controlling in the keeping out
of new states, all the conditions demanding
statehood for the territories. AS to Idaho
and Wyoming there are the very best Of
excuses for keeping them out, namely
lack of sufficient population and want OF
financial ability to successfully carry on
state governments Both have been boast
ing, through their officials, their newspa-
pers and their statehood boomers, of twice
as many people as the census enumerators
will be able to find, and in counting their
wealth they have estimated in the total
much of value that is yet undeveloped
The assessors books and the unofficial
figures do not agree by good deal.
Neither of these territories would have
thought seriously of applying for admission
If it had not gotten the impression that il
could slip In crookedly and not on the
merits Of any honest showing it coult
make. There was such an impression
abroad, and it inspired the ambitious de-
tendencies with hope that their abllitie.
would not be inquired into closely; but lat
terly change has come over the so-callet
statesmen at Washington, and the feeliny
is gaining that it will be a cruelty rathe
than blessing to create states which ar,
clearly lacking ia the requirements to state
hood.
We mention these things not in a spiri
of gIoatiug and vindictiveness, but only t,
state fact which should be known ant
ecogn lied by the men Of Idaho and Wy