Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-07-14
qARK'S LETTER
A Defense of the Sage
brush States.
SOME TRUTHS
Amazing Example of Goidbug
Arrogance.
WOULD PUNISH FOB SILVER VOTE.

WOULD PUNISH FOB SILVER VOTE.
Proposition Of the Republicans to Dimin-
ish Senatorial Representation Of the
Mountain States Can Never Be Realized.
Evil Inventions Return to PIague-Crime
Against Free Government.
Especial Washington letter.
am rather of the opinion that the
senate is preparing itself to Withstand
any unusual heat that may be encoun-
tered in the world to come. With the
mercury bubbling up against the top of
the thermometer they discuss Hawaii as
leisurely al though we were destined to
live forever here ON earth. In the house
we slugged each other four days and
one night and quit. In the course Of
my remarks I said:
There constantly ascends to heaven
an ear splitting, heartrending and ridio-
u1ous wall from our eastern brethren as
to the evils Of sagebrush states and the
sins Of sagebrush statesmen, as though
a robust patriotism could not flourish as
we'll in Cripple Greek as on Beacon
street, upon the great plains as well as
on Wall street, within the shadow of
Pixies peak as we'll as in sight Of Bunker
Hill monument, upon the Snake river
as we'll as on Narragansett bay.
According to the solar walk and
milky way statesmen of the east, it is a
crime against liberty, especially against
the Manhattanese, that 30, 900 Or 100,-
600 pioneer Americans, brave, sober,
industrious state builders, who conquer
ed the wilderness with a rife in one
hand and an ak in tho other, in Nevada,
Utah, Idaho, Wyoming or Montana,
should have as much representation in
the senate of the United States as 8, 000,-
900 or 6 1000, 900 New Workers. They
gnaw a file with deafening racket about
this all the time, forgetful that equal
representation in the senate was of
the compromises without which there
could have been no constitution and no
union.
In their arrogant ignorance they have
even clamored for an act Of congress or
a constitutional amendment depriving
Nevada and other nascent common
wealths in the Rocky mountain region of
their equal representation in the senate,
oblivious of the insuperable obstacle
that the constitution itself provides that
no state be deprived Of its equal
representation in the senate without its
own consent, which, of course, can new
er be obtained, for, whatever else may
be said of the Rocky mountainous, they
are not natural born fools.
The plain, unvarnished truth is that
the proposition to diminish the ssna-
torial representation of these states is
nothing but a scheme to punish them
for not voting the goldbug ticket.
westerners Far From Fools.
Evil inventions sometimes return to
plague the inventors. Several of these
states were admitted for the sole pur-
pose of perpetuating Republican ascend
ency in the senate and in the electoral
college. Now that they have sense
enough to vote their own interests, very
much to the amazement of their godfa-
theirs, the wise men of the east must
grin and bear it with what patience
they can muster.
There are four more territories which
we southwesters are anxious to bring
within the sisterhood Of states-Ari-
IONA, New Mexico, Oklahoma and In
dianola. They are kept out now most
unjustly because they are liable to vote
the Democratic ticket and cocksure to
vote for the free and unlimited coinage
of gold and silver at the ratio Of 10 to /.
For 30 years New Mexico has been
knocking at the doors Of congress, ask.
ing for statehood, and she is still cool
ing her heels on the outside notwith-
standing the fact that she possesses all
the constitutional qualifications, having
3 population greater than that of Ne
vada, Idaho, Montana, Utah or Della
ware.
The population in the mountain states
is sparse-that much is true-but they
are American citizens of the bravest,
thriftiest, most Industrious, most ad-
venturous and most patriotic sort. After
these hardy pioneers have builded cities,
constructed railroads, erected churches
and schoolhouses, digged canals, bridged
the streams and made that region a
more d~electable place for human habita-
ton e%asterners will pour in and amid
the grandeur Of the Rocky mountains
will calmly go to celebrating the land
ing of the Maylower.
What shall we think Of the consist
ency Of people who denounce these
young mountain commonwealth as
sagebrush and rotten borough states,
unfit to touch the immaculate skirts Of
prim, precise Massachusetts or to kiss
the hem Of the gorgeous garments of her
imperial highness New York, and in
the same breath propose to admit Ea-
wall, which is removed by {, 900 miles
of ocean from our borders and whose
mongrel population consists of Ha-
waiians (pure and mixed), 80, 504; JAP
anese, 90, 407; Chinese, 81, GIG; Portu-
guese, 10, 291; British, 2,250; Ger
mans, 1,432; Americans, $3.50, includ-
ing the largest and most repulsive COL
lection of lepers beneath the sun?
Oh, Judgment, thou art fed to british beasts,
And men have lost their reasonl
The Reasons Why.
Why is this monstrous proposition
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