The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-04
WHAT WILL THEY DO ABOUT Irs

much representation in the senate as
the more populous states, etc. Party
papers are also trying to lay the re-
sponsibility for the admission of the
"sage-brush states upon their political
opponents. To those who are discuss
ing this phase of the question we
would say thai the party which is re-
sponsible for the admission of the
"~sage-brush states" need not be
ashamed of that part of its record. if
it was done out of a desire to do sim
pie justice to American citizens who
had left the populous east, and in the
mountain valleys and plains of the
great west had established civilization,
and laid the foundation of
wealths of which those who now affect
to despise them win yet be proud. That
will yet be accounted the brightest
page in the record of that party which
did this act Of justice.
To those who would reDroach the
party that out of a desire to do justice
to the commemorative Of the west ad-
mitted them to the union of states,
and who are congratulating themselves
upon the fact that they did not DO it,
we would suggest that the time may
come when they will wish they had
some part in the honor of that act of
justice. 1t has happened before now
that h stones despised of the build
ers ave become the head of the cor
ners, a thing that may be as true of
states as of temples or other structures.
1t has CHANGED before now that the
despised brother among many sons.
became the means Of salvation to the
whole family, though so hated of his
brethren that they sought his life and
at the last sold him into slavery. a
thing analogous to that might happen
in a brotherhood or sisterhood Of states.
Our favored sister states of the east
despise the "silver states as they
call the western states; they hold in
contempt the sage brush states;" but
the end is not yet. Westward the star
Of empire will still take It's course, and
locked in the mighty depths of the
everlasting hills of the sage brush
states are stores of real wealth hat
will prove a better treasury to the
country and the government than the
petty vaults at the nations capital.
Scanned in the rocked-ribbed mountains
in about the ratio of sixteen to one
are the metals that shall give to the
United States the means of a second
and a better independence of England
than she has yet won, and the next
generation will see the O of those
now berating the west coming to par
take of that prosperity that every in
dication points to as sure to come.
Meantime, gentlemen of the east.
the western states. with the
exception of Arizona, New Mex
leo and Oklohoma are in the
Union. and what are you going to do
about it? We are in the Union, too,
on equal terms with you. We have
equal rights with you. We are your
equals as states in the Union. though
we may not have so many people or
an equal amount of developed wealth.
But in our rights as American COM
monwealths we are your equals, and
we suggest for your consideration that
it is unbecoming in a nation made up
Of equal and in-destructable sovereign
states. for any of those states to as
sumo a superiority. and with an air Of
L am more important than thou"
berate their equals, or threaten their
equality, by hinting at the discovery
Of some device by which it may be
cut down. That we do not overstate
the threat Of some Of Il Eastern con-
temporarfes is seen from the following,
quoted from the Chicago Tribune;
This process of throwing vast power
over the great states into the hands of
the small states, letting a rotten Dor
ough like Nevada or Arizona vote
down New York and Illinois, is
thing that should he reformed. This
farce of Justice will reach its climax
when the three territories with their
handful of inhabitants now clamoring
for statehood get it. Then minority
rule will be established with a ven
geance and one-siXth can lay down the
law to f1ve-sixths Of the American
people.
But how long will the fve-sixths
stand it? That depends on the extent
Of their stock of patience. When that
is exhausted and they make up their
ma that the present senatorial SyS-
tenn is unrepublican and wrongful and
must be changed in the direction Of
equity. there Will be a way found to
change it. Ten and a half millions
must not be allowed always to DOM
ineer over 1000, 900 when the latter
are in earnest to have their rights.
= : : The time will come when
they Will wake UP. will discover that
h minority is ruling in a country
where the majority is supposed to rule,
and Will lessen the present odious and
unjust INEQUALITIES in senatorial rep
reservation. They will not divide the
Big states so as TO do it. They will
not carve up the Empire state and the
Keystone state into small
weaIths to offset the senatorial
strength of the arid. barren states of
the west. Those pocket boroughs will
be deprived of their excessive power
in another and a better way yet to be
devised.
The last sentence in the passage
quoted contains the hint referred to,
and we only want to say by way of
reply that it IS just possible it might
cost more than 1t would come to, to
deprive "pocket boroughs" of their ex-
c~essive power" bv which is meant
their equal representation in the Uni
ted States senate.