The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-06
THE SMALLER STATES.


! The larger states of the Union NAV
be said TO be beginning to resent the
power of the smaller states in congress
and The electoral college. The grounds
of resentment are rather more amusing
than logical They are that the smaller
states are not in harmony with the
larger ones. that is. they assert their
constitutional rights when they see fit.
and that often they do not see eye to
eye with the larger ones.
The Boston Herald, an able and con-
servative paper that usually discusses
matters in a broad and liberal spirit.
speaking Of the smaller states, says:
The increase of the smaller states of
the Union is a growth under our svs-
TEN not contemplated by those who
framed II. As the comparative power
a these was fixed in the constitution
there vas not at all the objectionab bic
inequality that there now is The
states We're sovereign commemorative
" zen agreed TO come together under a
common government. One or two of
them were much smaller in territory
than the rest, but in the most OF the
others there was no discrepancy that il
was not anticipated time would modify
we don't think that even now any one
nnds the inferior populations of Rhode
Aslahu ana delaware an embarrassm
or an lnharmony. These states send
able men to Washington, and thev
vote and act in line with the greater
commemorative. When the Union was
formed, II was not anticipated that the
balance of power would ever be dis
turbed or legislation be INSTRUCTED by
the creation OF states that would be
different in general aims and objects
from the rest. II was thought that CON
gress would evince a discretion in ad-
uniting new states that would prevent
this, by admitting none from the terri
tory OF the Union that had not the ele-
ments of congenial statehood.
It may be that the smaller states of
the Union are a growth under our
system that was not contemplated bv
those who framed it, but the fatally
weak point in the assertion is that thew
have not left anything on record to
prove it, nor can they now be produced
Is witnesses. The smallness of Rhode
Island and Delaware is not objection
IDLE because they are in harmony with |
he states that surround them.
Presumably if these two states were !
% become lnharmOnloGS through TAX |
ng radically different views on politics
rom their neighbors, they would be-
ONE undesirable.
The embarrassment spoken of by the
Herald has direct reference, we take it, |
o the western states that are for free |
silver, and that their free silver ideas /
S the reason why they are an en-
'arrassment. If such is the case, and |
We have correctly stated the idea back /
# the Herald's statements, how shall |
he embarrassment" caused by such
tates as Virginia, North and South
and Georgia, all of which
we're sovereign commemorative when
he thirteen colonies agreed to come
ogether under common government.
'e treated They are equally as in
.armonious'' as any of the smaller
tates.
The protest against the smaller states
really a protest against the rights of
he minority. What of the people in
Massachusetts, end the New England
tates, the people of New York and the
liddie states who voted for the same