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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 28, 1889)
482 WEST SHORE. PUBLISHED IVIRY SATURDAY. Jm 8AMUKL, Puhlinher, PORTLAND, ORICO, I SPOKANI FALLi, WASH., N. W.CoVsYcond Yamhill SU. Icorn.r Main Itwni Straata, Inltrri in tht Pott Offlc in Portland, Oregon, for tranmiuim through tht mailt at mcond clou ratrt, SUBSCRIPTION RATII-8trlotl In Advanoe. Od Yfir, III Monthi, l4.oo Thrat Monthi, 1.15 1 Blnglt Capiat, i.'S .10 Jr-Copltt will In no mm ba tint to lubicrlbora beyond tht term paid for. ' The Wist Shori offers the Best Medium for Advertis ers of any publication on the Pacific Coast. Bnturdny, DHmJxr CM, ImhO. THE niovcniont for the admission into the union of Idaho and Wyoming seems to be assuming tan gible form first in the senate. The committee on territories of that body have already decided to report favorably on a bill, all the republican members heartily supporting it. As both territories will probab ly make republican states, as party issues are now laid, vigorous opposition from the democrats may reasonably be looked for. Notwithstanding this it is hoped to pass the measure through the senate by tho fifteenth of January, which will get it into the house reasonably early in the session, where tho opposition will probab ly lx even stronger than in tho senate There are no reasons, other than political ones, why theso two ter ritories should not at once become states, but politics always have been, and probably always will be, an important consideration in tho creation of new states, and the minority will always struggle, no matter how unjustly, to prevent an addition to the strength of the oppsing party. Tho territorial struggle, however, will soon be a thing of tho past, for unless Uncle Sam mako an accession to his dominions, he will have no dependent territories on his hands by tho end of the century, save Alaska and somo portion of Indian territory. If Idaho be admitted with tho constitution framed Inst fall, she may become a state before the pring flowers bloom. Senator Hutler, of South Carolina, wants congress to appropriate att.tXXUXX) for tho transportation of negroes from the southern states to some portion of the United States, South America, Africa or South sea islands, where they could be colonized and have their own government. This is about as absurd and chimer ical a scheme as has ever been brought to the public attention. The impossibility of a mass of ignorant negroes thrown upon their own resources in a new country being able to accomplish anything must be patent to everyone. There is but one solution of the negro question. He must be given his civil and political rights where he lives now. With these and the school book he will soon cease to be a menace to ' honeRt and intelligent government, and as a citizen and property holder there will be little reason for wanting to deport him to distant wilds. Senator Pearce, of North Dakota, publishes a card warning charitably inclined persons against giving contributions to persons representing themselves as agents of a relief committee, and denies that there is much destitution in his state. While it is at all times well to be certain that charity funds fall into proper hands, it is questionable whether Senator Pearcc'scard is in good taste. It has the appearance of being pub lished as a sop to his state pride, without due consid eration of the condition of his constituents who are not as well able to live on pride as Senator Pearce. There is destitution in North Dakota, and Senator Pearce should not interfere with those who are dis posed to relieve it. Reading the liBt of names selected by the Oregon congressmen for the federal offices of that state sounds like the reciting of a page of an old political directory. There are very few who have not "been there" before in some capacity, but notwithstanding this fact the people are to be congratulated, for nearly eve7 one lias made a good record as a capable and honest official. A great improvement in the manner of con ducting the various offices, 'especially the Portland post office, is looked for when these men take charge. According to figures of the New York H'orW, com piled from statistics received from the state and terri torial treasurers, the total wealth of the United States is $Gl,4.r)!),0O),000. This is a sum too vast for human comprehension, and is more than the total wealth of the whole world a century and a half ago. We are the richest nation on the globe, and probably wmM' ier than any of the great kingdoms of ancient history or of prehistoric civilizations. One wonders, with all this wealth, why it is so hard to mako a dollar. The lynching of eleven of Kettle Jack's gang Wyoming relieves that territory of a band of out-la" apparently as bad as the Hummer gang that was so summarily disposed of in Montana and Idaho in the early days. While in one senso their taking off ' a blessing to the territory, Wyoming must be careful about a too sudden reduction of her population, as she will need them all to squeeze into the union wun-