Show DYING NEVADA Now the eastern journals are taking up the case of dying Nevada and arc puzzling themselves over the solution of the problem which the Sagebrush statopresents Some editors eagerly adopt the suggestion that new life be given tothe decaying commonwealth common-wealth by the annexation of Utah while others agree with THE HKIUIVD that it would be a piece of gross injustice not warranted by the situation to saddle upon this territory the odorous carcass on the west Two solutions present themselves One is to let Nevada die a natural death as she is fast doing and pass out of existence In this way she will be a disturbance dis-turbance to nobody and will cost nobody anything True two men will continue to answer present when Nevada shall be reached at the roll call of the United States Senate and one will give the same answer in the House of Representatives but that is a small matter and should not be troublesome trouble-some in the national legislature in view of the crooked path through which Nevada entered the union The Republican party will never find fault with those three votes and the Democrats will not complain having endured the rottenhorough scandal a quarter of a century It will not concern con-cern the nation at large in the least to know that Nevada is a wilderness without population popu-lation save at the railway stations and Indian agencies If Congress is charitably disposed and thinks the nation should maintain paternal care over the sagebrush deserts and barren hills an easy way to reach the matter would be to undo the crooked work which was done when the state was admitted and return Nevada to a territorial condition when the general government could pay the expenses of government which the people find it so ur enEome to meet If 85 the United States were to provide a governor gov-ernor and secretary furnsh the judges and jurors and pay the legislature the handful of sagebrushers who find it inconvenient incon-venient if not impossible to leave the bleak waste might be able to enjoy some sort of government without bankrupting themselves by taxation It may be said that there is no precedent for returning a state to a territorial condi tion and effacing a star from the national flag This objection could lie readily overcome over-come Congress does not stop to ask about precedents when it wants to do anything It created the state and will hold that it can unmake It in which event what will objectors do about it Modern congresses have never hesitated at special legislation nor have they troubled themselves much about precedents The powers they have wanted have been assumed and if the assumptions as-sumptions have not been of the most outrageous out-rageous nature the courts have stood by the legislative branch of the government THE HERALD sees no better or easier way out of the scrape which the misguided admission ad-mission of Nevada has brought upon the country than the relegation of the state to a territorial condition whpn the general gen-eral government can give it the protection support and care which are essentialto its salvation from an ignominious death |