Show COMMENTS ON VIEWS UNDER the caption of the idaho outrage 11 1 1 the new york advertiser has the following I 1 no one can read captain Cod colmans Codman mans 8 letter in yesterdays commercial without being made vividly aware of the inaam of the political acal engineering by which idaho is being prematurely granted statehood the senate and house committees have reported in favor of its admission to the union and the rest is soon to follow nothing can be plainer than that this action is due not at all to the needs of that territory but altogether to the needs of the republican party it is among the first fruits of the reed autocracy the population of the territory consists of mormon agriculturalists industrious frugal thrifty and perhaps eighty odd thousand roving shepherds and cowboys and equally migratory miners neither of whom are in any sense permanently settled in the country both classes being ready to strike their tents at a moments notice and hurry off to pastures new the only really settled portion of the population is the mormon contingent and tb the e mormons cormons are dis franchised Dis franchised too not because of any criminal conduct on their part but because at one time lime their religious loaders preached polygamy the presiding officer or of the milli idaho mormons cormons has baa issued orders to his clergy not to preach that doctrine I 1 any longer nor has a now new case of guy p polygamy agamy I 1 been reported among the people but bat be that as it may these mormons cormons are franchised disfranchised dis and such being the case there is no propriety in counting them in the cebaus but since they the only permanent n of the population cannot take rank as citizens the ad idaho at this time adds biet another to the list of republican usurpations the mormons cormons are not good citizens enough to be entitled to the protection of the government but they are good enough citizens to swell the republican majo majority ity iri in the national legislature to such devices is the Q G 0 P reduced I 1 |