The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-18
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY IS, 1896.
NOT FOND OF US.

The Chattanooga Times reaches this
Office with a burden of complaint be-
cause 1.-The six states of Wyoming,
North Dakota. South Dakota Montana
Nevada and Idaho polled, in 1892, a
vote about equal to that of Tennessee,
while these states count twelve in the
federal senate's membership of 80. To
the notion of the Chattanooga Times,
this is simply alarming to thinking
patriot"
You can make several applications of
this complaint. Membership in the
house of representatives goes in ratio
to population; each state, big or little,
has two senator's. That happens be-
cause of conclusions wisely reached by
the founders of the Union-their plan
made a perpetual Union possible. Now
give local application to the criticism
of the Times. The state of New York
has, by our governments official
figures, six times the population and
nine times the wealth Tennessee can
account for. How grossly unfair that
Tennessee should go for as much in the
federal senate as the great Empire
state! Ohio has more than three times
Tennessee's population and nearly four
times its wealth. Why doesn't Ohio file
its complaint against Tennessee?
Let us insert here, as a sort of foot
note, the fact that the Chattanooga
Times objects to the young constituent
cies in the Northwest chiefly because
their senators stand up for silver. I'LL
nois has two senators who are voting
with the goldbugs right along. Ten
nessee, the Times own STAMPING
ground, has two senators who, through
thick and thin, stand by free coinage;
how does it happen that the four mil
lions of freemen in Illinois do not enter
their protest against the contingent
that makes up the population of Ten
nessee? Little New Jersey is richer by
hundreds of millions than Tennessee
and has in the city of Newark alone a
larger population than Chattanooga,
with Memphis and Nashville thrown in.
Yet New Jersey has to be satisfied with
the same number of senators accorded
to Tennessee.
Tennessee was 50 years old In state
hood before Wisconsin was admitted
into the Union. To-day Wisconsin has
a larger population than Tennessee and
is twice as rich. by census figures. Yet
Wisconsin has to stand on the same
footing with Tennessee in the senate:
and the same is true of Minnesota.
which was not lifted into statehood m
I'll 1888, sixty-two years after Tennessee
was admitted. Yet Minnesota has a
population equal to that of Tennessee.
and the state is richer by a thousand
million dollars. However, we have not
heard that Milwaukee, Minneapolis or
Duluth are scolding about equality in
the senate for laggard Tennessee.
But the Chattanooga Times is espe-
cially distressed over the quality of cit
izenship I'm our northwestern common
wealths. Here are its words: The pop
ulations of these six states have no
fixed opinions or established sentiments.
as a whole, upon any great public
question. About 80 per cent of them
are made up of loosefooted adventur-
err squatted IN mining camps. rustling
live stock. which is another name for
stealing; thousands are young fellows
out for a lark, and putting in a few
years COW punching or mining. or in
some other wild sort of life" The
Times finds that the presence Of sena-
tors for this 'nOmadic" region where
wealth is OF uncertain tenure is the
very weakest place in our government
al structure"
1t does not occur TO US that the
Standard need put in any plea against
this reviling rot from Chattanooga. II
is our idea that the social. moral. bust
ness and political conditions Of Mon
tana. for instance. are not calling for
defense. People out this way are