| Show ROTTEN BOROUGH STATES For years Dakota was quarreling with Congress because of the latters refusal to admit her to the union The question was made a national one and the big territory ter-ritory was so persistent in her appeals and made such an excellent showing of population popu-lation and wealth that the sympathy of the entire country was enlisted in her behalf and there was a general demand that she be taken into the sisterhood of states By that time Dakota imagined she had proven too big for one state and demanded that she be divided into two She again came to the front with an astonishing and convincing ing array of statistics showing great population pop-ulation immense wealth and remarkable progress By figures which nobody had aright a-right to dispute it was demonstrated that Dakota had sufficient population and wealth to maintain two states and if she couldnt be two she didnt want to be any She also boasted Republican politics and used that to help plead her cause Last yearthe territory was taken into the union as two sovereign states and the twins started out on their career as sole traders so to speak It soon transpired that a mistake had been made that Congress and the country had been deceived and that one too many states had been created In a little while mumblings of poverty were heard the officials began to devise schemes for paying the governmental expenses then public institutions were put on short rations and now in considerably less than 1 a year from the donning of statehood comes what may almost regarded as a financial collapse The governor of North Dakota is traveling through the eastern states soliciting so-liciting alms with which to feed the people who were so clamorous for a state government govern-ment and who certified so readily to their ability and willingness to carry the additional addi-tional burden The legislature has just adopted a resolution proclaiming the states poverty and appealing to charitable for aid Officials are unpaid and there is an absolute standstill in the matter of public work and improvement The comptroller comp-troller reports that the revenue for the first year will fall 160000 short of the years expenses Community bankruptcy is upon the new commonwealth within a few weeks of its organization In South Dakota the situation is not quite so deplorable deplor-able yet it is bad enough The latter state also appeals for aid to save her people peo-ple from starvation the necessarily high taxes cannot be paid andthe first year of the state government will cause a deficit of about one hundred thousand dollars It was a disgraceful political job which eventuated in the crea ion of the two Dakotas and the evil effects will continue for long years The purpose was to increase the Republican majority in the United States Senate and help the party In the electoral college The partisan scheme was success I fully worked out and now there are two pauper starving states which are objects of charity to the nation and things of sore distress to their poor inhabitants One Dakota could have gotten along comfort ably but only one would have deprived a few politicians of office and left the Republican Re-publican party with two less Senators and three less presidential votes New Mexico is better prepared than either of the Dakotas for statehood She has population wealth and enterprise and would not go into bankruptcy the first year of admission or at all But New Mexico is Democratic in politics and must therefore remain out of the union deprived of her rights which she is pre I pared to enjoy and ready and able to pay I for 5 5 |
