Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-02
AN EXAMPLE OF PARTY BELL WEARING.

AN EXAMPLE OF PARTY BELL WEARING.
Idaho, admitted to the Union on the
eve of the Fourth Of July, has something
near 100000 of population. immigration
is pouring into the State rapidly, and
towns and villages are multiplying. There
are four and a half millions of acres of
land suitable for cultivation and five mill
ion for grazing in the State There are
100000 acres susceptible of irrigation,
and the mountains are full of water
There are in the State great number of
gold and silver mines, and immense capt.
tai is invested in their development. The
area of the State is $4,000 square miles.
In the north it is splendidly timbered, and
the lands suitable for agriculture are of
the most fertile character.
Idaho stands fifth in the list of bullion
producing States and Territories; she has
large developing interests in lumber and
in four-making; there are 200 miles of
railway in the State, and 800 miles are
projected already by capital in new direc-
tions. She has navigable rivers, fine fish
cries, and the rainfall is heavy, unfailing
and is well distributed. The people are
hardy, very industrious and strongly in
favor of strict laws for the preservation Of
order and the protection of human rights.
Such is Idaho, with her 375 schools, her
mines of gold, silver and lead, her timber
crowned mountains, her fertile valleys
and broad grazing area, where thousands of
herds are guarded. Her people framed
Constitution that suited them it is of
rugged and sterling character, not in con-
1ict with the Federal Constitution, and
guarantees form of government in har-
mony with the American system. But
now that she is admitted, we find many of
the Democratic press solicitous to do all it
can to bring into disfavor the present Con-
gress and the Administration lifting up
It's voice in a tale of woe that is as
funeral sound as was ever conjured up,
because Idaho is a State Hear the St.
Louis Republican, for instance, as it weeps
and mathematics:
The Fourth of July is a celebration of the
declaration that Government derives all its
lust powers from the consent OF the governed,
but the Republican party celebrated lis Fourth
of July by putting on the flag star which
stands for disfranchisement, for test oaths and
for the denial to the governed of power to take
any part in government Idaho IS rotten
borough cut out of waste Government land as
part of the gerrymander by which the Repub-
iican party has packed the Senate and is seek
ing to pack the Electoral College. This IS shame
full, but it it most shameful that in addition the
country should have been committed to the test
oath. Fornieaton, adultry bigamy polygamy
and all other forms of uncleanneSs are dis
graceful incident in human nature, but they are
not as disgraceful as the oppression of weak
ness by strength, on which depends govern
ment against the consent OF the governed. The
government OF Idaho is against the consent OF
the governed-a deSpotism which renders men
infamous without trial, and puts them to the
rack of conscience where they must either &C
cept disfranchisement and civil Seryltude or
perjure themselves, thus rendering themselves
liable to penal seryitude. Many disgracefnl
things have been done in this country since the
Declaration of Independence, but among them
none have been more subyersive OF liberty,
more un-American, more Infamous in principle
than this Republican act OF celebrating the
Fourth of July by putting test-oath star on
the flag.
To such base uses does partisan adhe
renee to political faction bring an able
Journal But let US suppose for one mo-
ment Idaho to be Democratic, does any
one think that any of the Democratic
press would have done aught else but
throw up the hat and shout for JOY over
the entry into the household of the Union
of a new sister? 1t matters not that Idaho
comes into the Union with twice the pop
ulation Colorado had when she was ad-
mitted: that her area is nearly twice
greater than that of New York, and that
her resources are of as rich promise as
were those of Nebraska, or Iowa, or Min
nesota. or Wisconsin when they we're adj
mitted to the National fold Politically,
she is not of the Democratic faith, and
hence these tears. But New Mexico and
Arizona are probably Democratic, and with
this in view. we are not astonished to find
the Democratic press urging their adj
mission. Ii will not be denied by the Re-
publican party, when they again apply.
Yet so far as location and stable resources
are concerned, the probabilities are that
Idaho will develop a greater State than
either New Mexico or Arizona, and will
certainly grow a race Of more stalwart citi-
zens than either Of the Southern Territor-
les can possibly do, for reasons determined
by lines of latitude and by isothermal
belts. We have stated the facts and quoted
so freely from the Republic, for the purpose
not only of information, but to show to
what extremity hide-bound partisanship
XII osr-v q poI;t;cal journal