| Show IDAHO AND THE MORMONS THE boston post of july 11 contains a long and newsy letter from soda springs springe idaho signed J C 1 P the writer to is well known to the people of utah and idaho as a correspondent on mormon n affairs and barring a few pec peculiar ullar notions of his own he usually presents his subject in an impartial and able manner we clip the following from his communication to the post after describing the celebration of the fourth at soda springs he says the inhabitants are about equals divided half mormons cormons Mor mons who vwe the original pioneers pioneer stand and half gentiles who have followed the track of the railroad over the principal saloon kept by one of the latter a place where drunken cowboys congregate and fight and where three murdena have been committed in the past three years the american flag waves in all its glory and its p proprietor tor shouts hurrah for the new state of idaho the mormons cormons Mor mons now weve got bem fem em 1 f I 1 J C thinks it doubtful whether they have got em and that congress which is the judge of the election and qualification of its own members will yet have some knotty questions to settle connected with test oath complications he says further there is no tyranny equal to that of a majority the admission of idaho under any pretence predence pre tence whatever even if a fair vote of her people had been registered gist ered may have been temporarily poll politic tic from a partisan standpoint but it Is not advantageous to the people in its bounds they slave foolishly listened to the buncombe of their leaders and have been beguiled by an appeal to the independence they would enjoy asa as a state their leaders were thinking in all the time only of themselves A U bakers ers dozen ate ae probably all who will be benefited by the change one man expects to be the Governor two or three to be senators and represents tives fives to congressi Con gressa few more inore to asand ea and hangers on about the courts cou The salaries of these latter not in congress which were formerly paid by the general government must now be paid by the state and the same result will be that which has come to pass in nevada where nearly one half of the income of its people is swallowed up in taxes the consequence is that no ody body is going into that rotten borough bat everybody that van ran do so is getting out and thus making the burden heavier dealier for those who remain I 1 doubt if the census will show that there therea are remore more than remaining there if nevada could throw up what she once considered the inestimable boon of statehood she would most gladly do so ana and so would idaho in less than two years from this time even under the most favorable conditions of territorial regime the progress of idaho has been slow the development of mines which at one one time favored nevada may likewise temporarily favor idaho but miners are uncertain and they may peter out in wood river kiver and the cheur dalene as they did in the Cem Coni stocks the farms which consist of irrigated patches here and there are chiefly worked by the chased mormons cormons Mor mons whose growth is more steady than rapid and to whom encouragement of increase is vouchsafed fed by congress the rest of the population are sheep herders gerders and cattle men the former are few because one man is sufficient to care for three or four thousand sheep and cattle raising having already reached ia highest point is now on the decrease chease the big four of chicago have killed the goose that laid their golden egg they have ground down the profits of of the ranchmen ranchman ranch men to such a low figure that they have to a great degree abandoned the business and turned their attention to sheep raising in order to obtain admission as a state the population of the territory was vastly overestimated over estimated by the promoters it is doubtful from the returns already at hand if it will greatly exceed and of this a great deal is migratory As a territory the taxes were not light but still there was a very gradual ine increase in cresse resse of numbers As i a state the taxes will be enormous and the increase of population will be likely to cease A decrease will follow and then the story of nevada will be repeated these are plain facts which I 1 present without fear of contradiction they t afford ifford a sad but truthful exposition of p party arty rapacity on the part of congress Con gres of the rascality of idaho politicians and of injustice and stupidity the one almost as criminal crimi nil as the other evinced by their misguided adherents |
