| Show 4 THE ART OF STATE brate MAKING tho tile present boom in state making ia is unprecedented in the history 0 I 1 tho the country since the war the industry baa has fallen almost into desuetude with only here and there an ing tanca to allow that the original idea of admission into the sisterhood was still preserved in the minda minds of tha nations law lawmakers makers mikers prior to the great straggle struggle i the initiation of a new eta detato to wag was an event of somewhat hat rare occurrence n e e sufficient proof of which ia is found in the fact that during tho the whole first century of 0 the ra publics life alfe its membership had hail only increased from thirteen t thirty eight there was a stat elioe em n and a measured slowness elow ness abut this pro cession which must lave h ave been quite in keeping with the tile dreama and de hires of the fathers and which could not ia in any considerable degree hive disturbed the solemnity of their re I 1 pose but within a eincle single year a vast and startling tart ling change has come upon the national panorama six 81 new states have been invested with the honors and paraphernalia of full fall fledged commonwealths on tho the american idea four at one plump stroke last list summer and now two more morp places tor for twelve new patriots have been nude made in that sonorous fog bank known as the anitad states sanae and nearly as many more will lend A their voices to swell the sweet cadences of that greater rr cater cave of the winds the house of representatives utah beads heads the list of the dependencies stift outside the charmed circle and in her train are the goodly associates of arizona new mexico indian territory and alaska with the spoilt child known aa the district of columbia bringing op UP the rear the pace set by the two dakotas washington montana Alon tana wyoming and idaho is a trifle rapid but there aro still others who are close on the heels beels of the successful runners and who are fighting lighting bard hard for a place among the winners the ile principle of the early admission of new states is correct it ia of course possible to give ivo its practice a marked political tendency but the political which converts a thrifty and prosperous territory into a self supporting and self governed state is certainly preferable to that which accomplishes the continuance of the feudal and utterly un ameri amerl can system exemplified in the territorial form ot of government the bones of the fathers may quake and rattle at the rapidity rapi lity with which t their children and other mens children are filling up the starry field in our national emblem but the new states will carry into the old body the blood and nervo nerve that will preserve it from the hard grip of monopoly and from the enervation of the disease of aristocracy |
