Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-10-03
THE GOvERNOR REFUnEs TO Ar
POINT TDELEGATEs.


The more we become acquainted
with the ways Of Gov. Mcdonnell the
less we like him in publi. capacity.
However, great men will differ. The
scribe Of the WORLD and the irrepres-
sible Nc disagree in many things,
but which is right is the question.
The last principle on which there is .
wide difference of opinion between
"us" and Nc is the one on which the
Pan-Amerioan Bimetallic Conven-
ton to be held in St. Louis soon is to
be based, which is to effect separa-
ton, commercially, of the West and
South from the East. Nc is unalter-
ably opposed to this spirit of section
alism, he says, and has declined to
attend the convention or to appoint
delegates. Why this spirit Of obse-
quiousness and cowardly cringing be-
fore our enemies Of the East? They
have combined to ruin us--to crush
out our industries-and why should
we continue to build them up? Why
return good for evil? That is a sure
way to perpetuate the evil. They
will not do justice to US until they
begin to feel that their injustice is af-
fecting their pockets. Their pockets
will be affected seriously by a COM
mercial combination between the
West and the South. In individual
transactions is it in accordance with
human nature and the universally up
held principle of reciprocity to buy
Of relentless enemy when friend
offers the same kinds of goods for
sale at the same prices? We hardly
think so. If we have favors to oe-
stow, is it right to bestow them upon
a friend or upon an enemy? Let Nc
} answer. The East has hit us upon
one cheek, and if we turn the other
they will hit US upon that quick
enough and hard enough and keep
on hitting. Every time they hit, Nc,
let us seek to acquire and cultivate
still more spirit of accomplishing,
unresenting patience and get deeper
down in the dust of crawling obedi-
ence and humble, cringing submis-
sion to tyrany and robbery, and by
all means let us be still more liberal
in our bestowal of patronage and 9th
er favors, but don't, oh don't, say:
eff you don't stop this cruel treat
ment we will go to the houses of our
friends to buy what we need" Don't
) do it; that would be exhibiting a
spirit of retaliation on the one hand
and reciprocity on the other. That
would be very, very wrong, and
would result in strength that would
, come of the union that would enable
us to say to the East with courage,
and boldly and de6antly: "We de-
: fly you to longer rule and ruin US;
we are now free and independent" J"
Suppose both the East and South
were friendly toward the West-that
is, all things being equal-could not
the West and the South then form a
closer commercial union without vio-
. lating any principle of this govern
ernment, or of right? Isn't that what
the East has been doing right along
for its own benefit? Under present
, conditions isn't it imperative, for self
protection and self-preservation, for
the West and South to form such a
commercial union as has been out
lined in the call for the Pan-AmerIc-
an Convention? If it is disloyalty to
the East for the West to trade with
the South, haven't we been disloyal
to the South right along by trading
with the East? Does the constitu-
ton or any congressional law pro-
claim that any particular section,
above all others, is entitled to the
trade of any other section, or SEQ
tons? If not, on what is McConnell's
principle based? If not based on
constitutional or statutory law, or the
universal law of human nature, what
is its foundation? Nc, It's said, is a
Biblical scholar of the first magni-
tude, and he interprets the Script
ures by the light of his own intellect,
{ which we think has been thrown rath-
er dimly on one certain passage, the
outlines being indistinctly defined,
: the general form not clearly and cor
| rectly seen and the whole distorted
and magni6ed. He would render it
thus: "Render unto thine enemies
: , the things that are by right thy
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