The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-03-24
Lewiston Tribune)

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THE decision reached by the legis-
latWe to permit northern Idaho to go
as far as it likes in attempting to
bring a new state into being was
probably justified" says the Boise
Capital News. "The panhandle has
been uneasy for years in it's ambition
to become a new state, and it is just
as well to have it thresh out the mat
ter once and for all"
This statement is not altogether ac-
curate. The panhandle, or north Ida-
no. does not have and has not had any
such ambition, and the recurring
ebullitions in that direction are not
substantial or representative. The
reason ought to be clear TO all North
Idaho has not the population or the
realized wealth to justify claims to
statehood and its geography and ply
steal obstacles are every whit as in
surmountable as are those which
make north and south Idaho so wide
apart. commercially and socially. If
the ten north Idaho counties could be
made a state they would still be as
far apart from each other and as in
congruOus in their interests as they
are now with south Idaho. The re-
suit would not bring compactness,
convenience and hOmogeneity, but
Just the reverse. Heretofore the ar
gument has revolved around the
welding together of north Idaho and
eastern Washington, but this project
has never had any considerable inn
petus, and has even less now. 1t was
also then contemplated that south
Idaho would prefer to form an ANAL
gam with Utah or eastern Oregon. /
and any proposition which fails to
effect some such amends for the
southern counties further weakens it. I
self, intrinsically and politically.
1t is quite true that north Idaho /
associates itself, almost solidly with /
every such proposal but this fact |
should be regarded in its proper per /
spective This comes more from a
sense of unity and loyalty than from |
any conviction of either the merit or
of the project There
are not, in fact, any sufficient grounds
upon which such project can be urg-
ed and for that reason. among others
it is incorrect and misleading to say
that the ambition exists to procure 1
that can not be procured
and that would surely prove an i'm
proper and fallacious proceeding, if
Another fact that is not sufficiently (
aiken into account is that of senti-
nent and pride. Idaho is not much ,
IF state. as states are counted in the =
material scale, but it is our state. We p
rave our territorial history; our bat q
lie for statehood and admission as O.
he forty fourth star of that shining C
md spacious constellation: we have b
lad trials, disappointments and some n
riumphs since: and we have had
hem together, without any serious or
deliberate or definite sectional antag-
nism. The two widely different re-
ions have really got along together q
ute as well as could have been ex- I
ected and such complaint as there is u
an probably be attributed as much C
thS asst iNN Gu otClAoh as 10 the dC-
used section. through failure to as >
ert its claims and to maintain them
y those proper and usual means that
re within its reach. There are com
aints and determinations that will d,
i'll arise and that are inseparable an
ON the dissimilarity of resources, an
irsuits and methods between the iG,