Show TERRITORIAL GOVEBNSIEaT It is eekorn tbat a man holding office in a territory appointment of the federal government can be found to openly proclaim against the system of government applied to the United I Stales territoriee Bread and butter ara powerful agent in shaping men politic if not their principles and the class of men who come to these colonies of the republic as paid representatives repre-sentatives of the government are not the kind to eee evil in the system that provide3 them a living with less exertion exer-tion on their tart than would be necessary nec-essary under other circumstances It was therefore with surprise that we read in the Report of the Governor Gover-nor of Idaho made to the secrttiry of the interior for the year 1879 the dJ wing opening sentence under the head of Government of the Territories It is evident that the formation of the territories ter-ritories had no place in the theory upon which our republican repub-lican system was founded 1 his is a good deal of an admission in to come from a federal officeholder a territory and had our venerable friend Governor Brayman continued his report and suggestions in the mme Btrain he might have lest his office but he would have made friends of all citzena of the tarritoriea who are 12 love with a republican government govern-ment and republican institutions But the governor exposes the cloven hoof in the subsequent paragraphs of bis report While admitting that the territorial system is opposed to republican repub-lican theories ho wants to make it infinitely more unrepublican With a goccl deal of bighfalution and spread a leiim in his language heI I gets down to the conclusion hat the territorial organizations were at first an experiment and in creating and administering U the hybrid governments govern-ments thus institut3d a mixture of congressional enactments and crude local legislation it is but a lame experiment still To improve matter he suggests practically that as congressional enactments and local laws sometimes conflict Congress do ail the lawmaking law-making for the territories and provide a compacted and consistent consis-tent body of national law concerning the territories Governor Brayman Is too much of ft man to believe in the jUb ice of Congress legislating for the territories j and were he not an officer that the people had no voice in choosing he would be as earnest as any citizen of the Idaho dependency I the colonial in protesting against I i Eyttera of government to which the terriloriea are subjected Congres already makes too many laws for the territories and iutarleree altogether too much in the local affairs of the people Instead of exercising the assumed power oftener than it does it should promptly wipe out the great stain upon the republic placed thereby there-by the establishment of the territorial systema system opposed to every idea of the Constitution and worse than that applied by any civ lized monarchy to its cooniea |