The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-05-28
Rotten Borough Again.

the lxSuo Oh 1u NrtlCie tnrOuKn the col
umns Of the New York Evening Post,
wherein Senator Teller, Of Colorado, il
called to task for speaking with favor
Of our western states. II some Of those
narrow contracted tsndsrfeet who sit
in the editorial chambers Of New York
stencil and hobnob with her rotten
cliques would come out here and brea the
the pure air Of = mountain climate
where pure courts reign aud pure gov
eminent is held sacred he would feel
like returning and groveling in the dust
to seek his equal.
Due thanks are the portion Of Mr..
Pedrick for offering this timely refuta:
ton to the slanderOus attack of the
Evening Post.
To the Editor Of the Y. Y. Tribune.
Sir: -The Evening Post" paid its re.
spects the other day to Senator Teller's
last speech on the silver question. The
article was good, but its effect was kill.
ed by one boomerang. 1t reads: More
over the four states that he mentions
are Of the smallest possible consequence.
Nevada is rotten borough Of the most
repulsive type. Idaho is a little better.
Montana and Colorado are very near
the bottom Of the list in political i'm.
pOrtanee, although they are not exelu-
sively mining camps, and have elements
Of future growth beyond those Of her
gypsy sisters
Rotten borough" is not entirely fresh.
found on passing through Chicago
couple or years ago, The Chicago
HERALD using it with reference to one
Of these four states mentioned. bought
a lot of "Heralds" and mailed them to
editors out there, and whatever differ
ences existed between Democratic and
Republican editors were blended into
battering-rams against the party giving
utterance to such calumny, and made
fairly good Republican state Of it.
l dislike to have my idols shattered
in this manner. have in my visits to
New york in the past twenty-five years
and during the gentle guidance of
William Cullen Bryant, welcomed THE
Post" heartily because being al evening
paper We do not get it West. believe
he would be deeply Inundated could he
witness such use of his columns. 1t is
false: We are not rotten boroughs.
This writer says Idaho is little better. l
deny it. do business there. know
OF what l speak. Come with me.
Mount horse and ride; ride to the
three Tetons at the foot of Yellowstone
Park. Now look westerly over the
central and southern portion of the
State. What do you see? A vast plain
sloping gently to the southwest. North
erly, eighty miles distant, three purple
pyramids, the East. Middle and Big
Buttes, rising tenfold higher than those
Of the Nile; southerly, a long line OF
mountain ranges, rich dividend paying
mines; centrally. the magnificent Snake
river, coursing its way from where you
stand; southerly and westerly towards
the Pacific, dropping on its way in one
cataract 81 feet deeper than Niagara
Falls. For your primary object lesson,
go to the reading room of the Plaza
Hotel New York, and see the large
painting of the falls of this river. the
Shoshone. Then see the immense irri-
eating canals bordering and coursiny
southerly and westerly over this plain.
See the ploughmen dotting it now with
teams and seed-drills, see the smoke of
the locomotives of the Union Pacific or
Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern
bringing forth and relieving you Of
your own rotten" surplus population
and making better men of them: thak-
ing Providence there are ways and
means Of getting away from your i'm
mense acreage Of filthy tenement exist
ence to breathing under clear sky.
And remember what predict. Soon
your columns will be teemins with ac-
counts Of rich nuggetsof gold, like the
plaeers of old California days, from this
same rotten borough, in abundance:
swelling the production from its past
normal state to a large increase, and,
detracting attention from silver.
Neither is it rotten in politics. In
spite Of the example constantly set be-
fore it by this enlightened community,
a fair degree Of honesty prevails in all
of public affair, and its
public securities are constant objects of
competitive attention by agents Of trust
Of this city and the New
England states.
New York city is not all in all, nor the
all, in politics. happned here once at
time when readers of the city press
were made to believe that Mr.. Arthur
was the only nominee of his party for
president. took the cars, and in |
twenty minutes l was out of the city
and in the country. Only twenty min
ltes. And for several days / continued
10 ride without stop-over westerly and
everywhere. found people; people
who did not think as New Workers. in
though constantly identified
With and essential to each other In bust
less. In this relation alone, aside from
'olitics, let us hear no more about "rot-
en- boroughs." W. E. PEpRICK.
New York, april %, 1899.
-POcatello Tribune.
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