| Show FREE STATES INSTEAD OF FETTERED SATRAPIES i trew 0 opposition of senator vest and other democrats to the admission of dakota union as g state appears to us a little inconsistent we can understand why democrats do not look with favor upon an increase in the number of republican states but that is a mere party objection it should disappear in the light of true statesmanship one of the very foundation stones of the democratic political structure is the right of local self government the people are entitled to bo this j just ast as much if they are republicans as an if they were democrats and this they cannot enjoy under the 0 oppressive monarchial monarc bial and unjustifiable 9 le territorial system every democrat to be true to his principles should labor to destroy it entirely every step to render it unnecessary and make it a thing of the past to be for forgotten gotton with its anomalies and wrongs should be stimulated and encourage encouraged a it is an excrescence on the body politic and is out of harmony with our governmental system it ought to be buried butof out of sight eight and smell amell the denunciation of dakota for presuming to organize a state government elect its officers and prepare for the duties and responsibilities to devolve upon it when congress consents is uncalled for and unreasonable there is nothing rebellious or insubordinate in such a movement it is not without precedent several states have been admitted after assuming this position dakota is perfectly justified all that congress das aas to do to is to see that the new new state has a republican form of gove government ame it and is a in a condition for self el fuat sustenance en an e as a political body the notion that a territory cannot evolve into statehood is fallacious the power to form the state is in the people they need no enabling act congress may admit the state tate after it to is formed the subversion of sovereignty from the people to congress is not democratic it ih ib monar echial congress is not the creator it is the creature of states and of the abe peo people ae tte the doctrine darlne that congress has supreme power over the Is not democratic it has been acquiesced in by degrees it to is in conflict with the fundamental principle of the right of the people to regulate their own domestic concerns in their own localities it is not to be found in the constitution it has been received by implication and that is another heresy diametrically opposed to democratic principles according to these our national government is one oae of de nned powers cowers and beyond its stated limits it has no authol authority ity everything not specified in terms being reserved to the states respectively or to the people assumed the power which it has exercised for many years and when the matter came before the supreme court the th e make theory was advanced that it was too late in the day to question the power of congress bv erthe territories 11 it should be never too late to right a wrong the exercise of power does dees not render it lawful the continuance of usurpation does not justify it ity claimed for congress over the territories ri is not to be found in the constitution ution no such authority exists and the longer it is usurped the greater is the injustice and the more urgent the necessity for its yem removal oval the easiest and best beat way out of the difficulty is the abolition of the terri system terii the time has come when it could be accomplished it if statesmanship instead of party interest regulated the affairs of the nation dakota should be admitted as a state washington should enter simultaneously with northern idaho attached the tee people of that region want to be annexed annexed 2 even if washington is not ad admitted mitt and ami the geographical conditions recommend the project montana is knocking kuock ing at the door of the union and wyoming is modestly feeling in its way towards the same portal A judicious grouping of the remaining territories could be made which would go far towards disposing of the utah difficulty the everlasting polygamy question which has been magnified out of all sensible proportions here comes in not because it should choul egl cut any figure in the arrangement but bitt because odow it has been foroe forced into lu i national politics and boomed into a 4 foru popular I 1 r question A clear bead and a fearless ear ar ess mind could settle the that matter in JU its political bearing be aning without any injury to the ca country try or any portion of U td by additions and partitions t for or the esta establishment I 1 aliment of states whose constitution would be republican in spirit and unobjectionable in form aree and ad soveT sovereign eign states would then take the place of the sat capies that now form a standing dis race to the nation and are jarring discords discords that impair its harmony li armony every true friend to the united states whose soul is not warped with party projects sectarian blas bias personal schemes or narrow crotchety crotchets crotch crote liets ets will add his mite of influence to effect this grand consummation let the of government a spring rini from ALL thep the people let there be no exercise of dominion but bat that which comes from the consent of the governed away with a political system that makes serfs of hosts of good citizens that violates the basic principles on which the government is founded opens the door to favoritism and ana paves the wa way to 0 oppression ress ioD that denies the demands demands of the e people that stifles their voices that governs them by byorke force orce that gives them no representation rese resen nta tation tiou that renders them abjectly subordinate to usurped authority and strips them of rights that should be the common heritage kletthe constitution bame supreme guide let us have free and sovereign states tates tf as therein provided and no political dependencies subjugated subjugated provinces or conquered colonies S let democrats and republicans join in a comprehensive g and magnanimous measure to rectify the gigantic error involved in this territorial fial anomaly and bring the entire country together a united whole e pluribus unum in its full sense a confederation of commonwealths with ith mutual interests a nation naith undivided interdependent interdependent dis enthralled unfettered and universally free i |
