Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-11-10 | Page 4 | A Warning to Idaho

A WARNING TO IDAHO. it is good to He that wide-awaks i Itizens of Idaho tak note of the American Amer-ican victory In Salt Lake as a brightening brighten-ing of their own skv. The same dangers dan-gers threaten them (though In lesser degree) that have plunged Utah, into depression ami almost despair The same rigorous, assured demand for flrst consideration and for deference In all things, from the control of trade. Industry, pnd the family exchequer, to the nomination, election, and appointment appoint-ment of officials road distriit, school district, city, county, and State that has been the undoing of Utah, Is fastening fas-tening Itself upon Idaho. But a little while, a little longer prevalence prev-alence of the Inert, dangerous indifference, indiffer-ence, and Americans In Idaho will have to make the same fight that Americans In Utah are making Yet a little more sufferance of the ecclesiastical encroachments, en-croachments, and the fight will be forced. For. It Is not In the nature of things that In the ullliryate pinch, the Americans Of Idaho will lie down and be walked over by this monstrous, nil-embracing nil-embracing ecclesiastical machine, any more than It was possible for the Americans Amer-icans of Utah to submit to II Idaho Is a gTst State p receding reced-ing a mighty Influx of population and of capital. It Is a free State, and wants to enjuv lt5 freedora( and to continue in the favor with which It Is now regarded regard-ed In the investment world. And w E say, long may It be so. But the price of that liberty, that favor Is watchful-ness. watchful-ness. if there ever shall arise In Idaho a condition where the hlerarc-hlc octopus octo-pus can with any show of reason lay claim to the dominance of business that It now exeri ilses over politics, then Idaho's Ida-ho's dovs of advancement and prosperity prosper-ity will be over; the effort will be to "freeze out" all outside" business, and conduct all w ith a view to tlthlng-house receipts. The control of the Mormon machine in Idaho's polities threatens to become absolute. That machine dicta ted for pledges asked of others and refused, but conceded by the successful aspirant the selection of the latest United States Senator chosen in Idaho. That domination has been strengthened since that time it Is now supreme in one party to that party's shame. If ii Should obtain control of the other parts I also, nothing would remain for loyal Tdahoans but a union without regard to parly lines to throw off that Insolent, Inso-lent, rotten corrupt control. And fortunately, for-tunately, there arc enough genuine Amerlcnns in Idaho to do this when the time comes, as It surely will, that the evil, treacherous rule of prlcstcraf; i an no longer be borne