Show AMBITION IT appears that idaho politicians in washington we are making a big effort to push that territory into the union as a state after doing the inauguration and other gaind gay and festive things peculiar to the capital a number of them set get to work to capture members of the senate committee on territories and commit them on the subject of admission of course they succeeded in obtaining favorable promises that is one of the easiest things to do in washington bm but promises and performances are an widely different at the seat eai of government ern ment and what a senator benator or representative says in private is so often the very reverse of what he does when it comes to act action ionIn in public that his promises are ae too frequently very poor things to reckon on idaho idah 0 Is not yet in a condition for statehood i she has not the requisite population it will be some time before she has unless there is a greater influx of people than to in likely to come at present idaho to Is yet very raw and behind the times the antics of the late legislature while in session were indicative of immaturity and a people who could choose such representatives are certainly not yet sufficiently advanced to be entrusted with unlimited powers ofa self government the number dumber of empty auks discovered in and about the chambers occupied by the late lawmakers of idaho Idah pare are mute i but tokens of their p principal talent and their ability is ib that direct direction ift is no recommendation for the bili buttles ties and powers of state legislation and state administration we believe that as soon as possible sib the territorial system should be utterly abolished i so that constitutional tut ional government only shall prevail throughout the broad domain of the united states the territorial system in our opinion is not constitutional dor nor in accord with toe thel principles that inhere to a re republic publia i can form of government it is rei re i carded as merely a temporary exl ex l 1 bedient even by its strongest defenders and sooner or later it musti go and be superseded by state or in which republican ini in i prevail but if there is any reason or necessity for with 0 holding the powers of political free dom from any incipient common i i wealth in the country it exists in im i reference to idaho A territory that applies its ite limited powers to the throttling of liberty and the enslavement of its citizens because of their belief noi matter what that belief may be proclaims its ite own unfitness for the enlarged authority which comes i with statehood and invites the intervention tion of national restraint instead of exhibiting the qualities essential to independent sovereignty I 1 the facts in relation to the po 1 lotical history of idaho only need to be made clear to the powers that be to postpone for a season the sudden accession to supremacy macyl which certain ambitious schemers in the north are reaching for with eager hands I 1 all in good time idaho with the feet of the territories now left out in the e old cold will be gathered into the union of states and enjoy the rights liberties and powers of free government but like the others she will have to wait awhile and the best thing for idaho to do is to establish as am much of a republican republic au form of government within her borders as is possible under a territorial organic acty ack and by abolishing oppression claw class legislation and petty tyranny exhibit the qualities necessary for state te autonomy and pave the way to that liberty which the whole body bodye cannot annot enjoy while it to is denied to a goodly number of its members who are worthy and intelligent and among the most val valuable bable and progressive gres sive citizens |