The herald., 1893-05-28
NORTH AGAINST THE SOUTH.
Abbott Kinney and Morris EStee
to Debate State Division.
Some Points About the Men and the
Great Subject.
what Will Mr. Estee say?-His Style
OF Argument--Bome Very Strong
Political and Histor-
icaI Reasons.

Francisco, vineysrdist OF Napa and ex-
politician of California, has taken up his
pen against state division. He has been
selected to reply to Hon. Abbot Kinney's
article for state division. Both articles
will appear in the Californian Illustrated
Magazine.
Mr.. Estee is one of the widest known
citizens of California. For many years
he has been prominent as lawyer and
q politician. He is the author of book
OF forms which is "a handy article OF
furniture" in every young lawyers Of
fee. In the last presidential campaign
he debated the tariff question with Hon.
Stephen M. White at several places in
the state. He is q lawyer, and, there
fore, an adept in that peculiar kind of
reasoning known as special pleading;
that is, that art of reasoning which
makes black appear white. and vice
versa or, as Whately would cay in his
old logic, makes horse vegetable from
the simple premises that both un-
dergo a process OF growth. All
will remember this trait in his
character when he ran for governor sew
eral years ago. He WAS the Republican
candidate. The Republican party WAS
then tainted with fanatical tendency,
and had Sunday law plank and tenn
perance resolutions to gull the voters in
clined to switch off with the Prohibi-
tionists. Estee had hard work to lex
plsino his vineyard business at Nspa to
the Prohibition element. Then his
vineyard only grew rsisns and table
/ o~cxoo D,,f kha prchihitinniafa vOtad
| him down all the same. His style is
labored and heavy in argument, and,
politically, he has always preferred
means to ends. II is not to be presumed
in his controversy on state division that
he will, at this late period in his life,
materially change his lines OF action.
Therefore, we may look out for more
waste basket" episodes.
His treatment of the question will be
looked forward to with great interest
and curiosity by all Southern Califerni-
ans. Mr.. Estee is The pioneer
anti-state divisionist. While many
for years have beenf its ar
dent advocates, no one yet
has stood forth as its opponent. OF
course there have been few who have
occasionally written q paragraph, but
none who has been called to write COM
prehenaive article on the negative side
4 of the questions H. n tho nfst to tread
alone this unbeaten path. What will be
his. .arqument62
Will he show that California is terri.
torialy too small 10 30 divided? Will
he show that the state is not already
divided into two grand physical sections
That no diversities of interests exist from
Shasta to San Diego? That North
ern and Southern California never have
nor will quarrel? That the Tehachepi
mountains are merely mole hills? That
Southern California needs no special ir-
rigation laws? That Southern California
did not protest against uniting with the
state? That it was not the consensus of
the Monterey convention that the state
of California would ultimately be di-
vided when population should Justify
and the people should desire the act +?
That the law of 1859, dividing the state,
has been repealed? That the people of
Southern California do not desire state
division? That Southern California has
neither population, wealth, resources
nor territory sufficient to justify separate
statehood? That state division is ille-
gal, and contrary to the constitution of
the United States and the constitution
OF the state of California? That state
division never occurred but once, and
then it WAS "war measure? That
state division is only championed in
the south, and that by one-lunged, ten
derfoot boomers and politicians
Or, will he plead tor the continued
unity of the 'grand old state"? Will
he, preacher like, appeal to the senti-
ment, romance, feelings and emotions
OF the ''argonauts' and native sons"
to not destroy the glorious fabric
erected by the pioneers"2
Will he deny that Southern California
has never had nor has now any lust
cause of complaint against the north ?
Will he deny that Northern California
has the "lion's share" OF state institu-
tions and appropriations Win he
deny that the north takes like proper
ton every time of the federal sppropri-
ations and patronage?
Will he affirm that Southern Califor-
MIA has always had just representa-
ton in congress? viii he affirm that
Southern California receives fair re-
turn of it's share OF its own state tax
moneys?
He knows, or he can take Judicial no.
tice, that the great waves of population
are moving westward. That yearly the
center of population follows the sun
while hugging closely the thirty-ninth
parallel of latitude. He knows that the
Rocky mountains are no barriers to
these great movements. That in time,
and not a long time either, the entire
Pacific coast will be thickly populated.
The choicest spots, like Southern Cali
fornia, will first be filed. Then North
ern California, Oregon and Washington
will receive their measures. Every
oasis and every river valley on the great
plateau between the Sierra Nevada and
the Rocky mountains will be beehives
of people and wealth, outrivaling Baal-
bee, Palmyra, Thebes and those other
cities of the old world whose past glory
and greatness is read in the grandeur
and magni6cence of their ruins. He
knows that these people, being free,
must and will have equal political rep
resentation in congress. He will know,
upon reflection, that this can never be-
done under the present national consti-
tuition without state division.
Within this area OF the United States,
west of the Rocky mountains, are the
states of Washington, Oregon and Cali
fornia an the entire sea-board. The
states of Idaho and Nevada, as we'll as
| the territories of Utah and Arizona, are
on the interior. 1t will not be long till
! Utah and Arizona will become states.
There will then be seven states on the
Pacific coast.
| Does Mr.. Estee for moment believe