The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-03-06
SECTIONAL FEELING IN THE
STATE GROWING.

business lines. This feeling, which
is gradually shaping itself into a
demand, has been greatly acceler-
ated by the action the state leg
lslature which is now closing its
deliberations. Whether the north
has it within it's power to gain re-
lief by harmonious and concerted
action, and if SO, what course
should be pursued, are matters fol
earnest consideration.
The south in the past has held
the balance of power, and that
power has been greatly increased
during the present session by the
creation of a large number of new
counties in that section with pro-
portionate increase of represen-
tation, thus placing the north more
completely at the mercy of the
south than ever, and leaving it
without adequate means of pro-
tecting its public institutions, Sc
curing appropriations for roads,
bridges and other public improve
ments and needed legislation in
matters particularly and peculi-
arly its own, due to difference in
locality and consequent conditions
which naturally arise. While pay
ing its tax with regularity, the
north, under existing conditions
is compelled to depend entirely up
on the magnanimity and generos-
ity of the south for just and
equitable returns for the same in
the way of desired legislation,
and such returns must be accepted
by the north strictly as a matter
of favor on the part of a gener-
GUS almoner. This is a most un-
just and humiliating position for
the north to be placed in, and one
that no selfrespecting people can
tolerate for long; and more especi
ally when the" generous almoner"
does not always play the role
which the cast requires.
In dealing with this matter the
Lewiston Daily Tribune, while
stating that it considers it mex
pedient to specially agitate the
subject until after the legisla-
ture closes, for fear it may be
taken as an attempt to WELD un-
due influence on legislation, gives
utterance to the following peril
nent and telling remarks on this
subject:
"The Tribune is in hearty SYM
pathy with the deep and general
wave of reaction that is yelling
up in the northern counties of the
state against the program that is
fast centering political power in
the southeast, or Mormon section.
Obviously it is going to be-
come increasingly intolerable for
the northern and for other parts
of the state to be subservient to
the close organization of the Nor
mon sect and its facility for form
ing combinations that put the en-
tire state under the control Of
the system. That will mean that
whatever is parcelled out to the
state at large by way of nomina-
tons, elections, public policies or
material services is done so by
grace, by favor, in exchange for
adherence to the general program,
and not because of merit or justice.
The power of this system is al
ready seen and felt. 1t is going
to be seen and felt hereafter in
more and more brazen ways than
ever in the past, there is much
reason to fear. Therefore we do
not doubt that the time is coming
when a sense of self-defense, of
human dignity and freedom is
sooner or later going to result in
forming means Of protest and OF
relief that will be heard near and
far, and that will be answered.
The Mormon sect already has a
reputation, and much of which is
undeserved, national and interna.
tional, that will give force and
meaning to any just effort of ar
American citizenship to escape
from its political, legislative anG
governmental domination, if {
practicable means is available anC
in this instance, differing from
Utah there is such a means.