Spokane Falls Demands Its Fair Share of the Territory

You mention that the papers of Washington Territory have been devoting considerable space to discussing the division of the territory. Perhaps it would be more proper to say that they have been busily engaged in making light of the proposition without giving any sound reasons why such a division should not be made. While we may not be prepared to utter any more logical reasons why the dissecting knife should be applied than those already presented by the two papers siding in with division, yet just at the present time our voice is for carving the territory into two equal parts. This idea has grown out of a feeling we entertain that the western part of the Territory desires to engross all the power and benefits to be derived from the present territorial government. Great and oppressive injustice is done this section by failing to give it a proper representation. Perhaps our ire has led us into an error of opinion, but from the present situation we join in with the mass of the people, who feel that they have been imposed upon. In the way of representation it is proper to state that Spokane county as it formerly existed ranked as the second county in population in the Territory, and still with its large increase as any or all others, is left out in the cold without even a Representative. Walla Walla county, with less people, has three representatives, and one Councilman, while Spokaneites are expected to hold their tongue and elect one Councilman in conjunction with seventeen counties, more or less, and whip in with a neighboring Representative. Other counties in Eastern Washington have the same complaint to make, and it is high time that the people lifted up their voices and demanded a division, or some other measure that will result in securing them their rights.