Show Cut It Out Idaho papers are urging the repeal of the obnoxious test oath law taking a similar view to that of THE HERALD Both Democrats and Republicans denounce de-nounce the oath and consider its abolition a necessity The Idaho Democrat thus concludes a sharp editorial oa the subject This test oath feature of the election law of the state has kept the voters in a broil for the past eight years It was similar sim-ilar in a great many of its features to the slavery agitation and when it is once eliminated will give peace to the state as much so as the settlement of the former did to the nation It will remain in Idaho history and be pointed out a century hence as a relic of semibarbarism |