Show NEVADA A PART or Of TA 1 NOT oT TT ON YOUR YOURl l fE SAYS SILVER STAT I N Nevada evada is up In arms over the proposal proN pro pro- I po pot pot-al al to annex her to Utah It Isn't that she sho doesn't like Utah but she regards regards re- re re gards herself fully capable of managing her own affairs even to tho extent of fulfilling the duties of a a. commonwealth in the national union alone and unas unas- And she is 11 this conviction conviction I tion Uon be known iu In no uncertain tones I The Tho proposal wa was m made do in Colliers Colliers I Weekly several se weeks et o and Colliers Collier's ers er's I article was reprinted in THE TELE GRAM Having Haring heard from front Nevada Nc Collier Collier 1 says ays in its current issue There are arr few w mora more mysterious things than state pride prid Con Congress r ss draws a n. few lines jn inclosing losin a certain space on the map J gives the space a 1 name and forthwith forth forth- forthwith with the people I living nJ w within thin those lines idealize that space and that name and ond I make mako them tho the objects of a 3 patriotic i I d devotion Any Any- Anyone one who might haben ha have been ben in dan danger er of forgetting this curious curi curi- curious ous trait twit o 0 or American human human- nature would have o had har his attention promptly arr arrested tEd hj by the Ill reception extended in Nevada e en n n to tn c certain remarks printed inthis in inthis this thi department about the position of that commonwealth It had been su suggested t at Wa Washington that as a Arizona would not net cons consent nt to union with New Mexico and md tho the president dent did not think her populous enough to tn stand alone as a state she might he united with ith Nevada a. a which would thus gain cain a needed accession of population In recording th this 1 proposition it was point pointed d out in in these columns that sucha such Ich Icha a union would be ho unnatural tural an and that if Nevada e was looking for a 1 partnership she could find feud one more satisfactory in union linion with California I I i The Rochester Union Union Advertiser Advertiser suggested eu- eu sug- sug Je Bested ted Utah as lIS a better hetter partner for Nevada Ne Nc vada than California This fhi was wa quoted here with the comment that such nn an alliance would b be inconvenient for formost formost formost most of the people of Nevada Xe but hut that apart from front sentiment there would woul seen no rea reason on why h the ens eastern tern part of Neada Nevada Ne- Ne I ada vada might not be joined to Utah and the western to California Apart from irom sentiment nt That was where whore the trouble began It seems seem that I Nevada is simply soaked in sentiment Sordid material consid considerations rations such as asI tho question whether tho the cost of a complete completo com com com- I pleto outfit of state officials and institutions is iq not a n T rather ther burdensome tax on fifty thousand people are arc scornfully I dismissed Tho The White Whit Pine News hurls the Crime of 73 3 in our teeth anti and announces that Nevada does not need su suggestions from Colliers Collier's Weekly as s to the management of her hr own The Tonopah Sun cartoons Colliers Collier's asa as asa asa a stage o villain preparing to bisect the tho sagebrush hero with a n buzz A high school instructor in in Reno writes an ln eloquent protest announcing his intention intention tion to take ti up his residence in Yi h foreign foreign for for- ei eign n clime u when hen our national government government govern govern- ment becomes so 10 unjust so 0 ba basely el ungrateful ungrateful un un- no I grateful n as to deprive depre e Nevada of her statehood I A cursory curson examination Hof f of the constitution con con- constitution con of of the United States would reassure reassure re reo assure all anxious patriots No Na state can be he divided di annexed or ar extinguished extinguished extin extin- without it its own consent Wh When n nany any shifting of boundary boundary- lines is proposed proposed pro pro- posed therefore the first question is whether the people affected think the tho change chante would be hood good for themselves If the they thov do not there is nothing more to too toye o said aid There are aro various rearrangements rearrange rearrange- rearrangements ments of existing state lines that have ha found warm warns advocacy in the regions concerned Many Ian people in New York and New Jersey thinK it would bo ho an excellent thing to make makA a a. new state of the metropolitan district of Xe New York on both sides of the Hudson f fer river er Many inhabitants of th the northern pen of ar Michigan would like to be transferred to Wisconsin There has been a stron strong sentiment for many mam years rears especIally in in the tho citrus belt in in fa favor far r of at cuttin cutting California in two A letter front from Km Kingman man Ariz suggests 8 an elaborate scheme of partition partition parti parti- tion in the southwest Tho The writer would extend nd t the e nort orn ern boundary of af Ari Are zona zona to the Pacific ocean mak making n a newstate new newstate newstate state of Arizona out of ot the western two two- thirds third of the present territory the southern point of Nevada Neada and southern California The re rest t t of Nevada he would annex to northern California and the eastern tern third of Arizona from a point a little west of Nogales 1 would become he be come part of tho the state of Xe New Mexico Such schemes are aro interesting subjects of discussion and there thre is ig in them offensive to any sensible Tee resident of the re regions ions in question Nevada was once part pait of Utah and what is no now its eastern part remained attached to Utah some time after the western part art became be be- bea came a 1 separate territory When Den a 1 boundary lino line is nothing but a meridian meridian meri meri- dian of lon longitude there thero is nothing sa ca sacred cred about its exact location I |