The Arizona sentinel., 1879-04-19
ARIZONA SENTINEL.
Developing the Territories.

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wants of population. The new Terrific
ries are settled and developed al the eX
lynse of the old States Every person
added TO the population of Wyoming Is
taken from some old community where
H." might live in greater case and comfort
Every dollar expended in developing Tue
resources of Arizona is withdrawn rom
some enterprise in another ana oettoi
part OF the cotpjry. Ill orr Jai' oeS' '.'.',
settlements haze ben bull up at me ei0' h.
Of settlements i The far cast, on" ftItSe ,t"N
been gaiited by tie TRANSFER q men "''" CUP
taI'
We find the above paragraph IN an eX-
change, with something more IN the same
strain credited to Il strange source for
sucb language-the Chicago Iri6a,e-lcr
carried to any logical Conclusion it must
end squarely in this That Illinois, to-
gether with Chicago, has been settled and
developed at the expense of New England,
the Middle States and Virginia, to a
greater extent in advance Of the wants
of population" of the count 1lt the time,
Il al may be rightly said of the present
tendency Of people to 90 out yonder to
Wyoming or elsewhere in the far west:
1t is no more the province of the gen
eral Government to build roads for sell
TIERS" adds the Tribune. Ethan to provide
them With teams and wagons. If it does
not pay Il man 10 lIrigate land that he ob-
tains for the taking, 1t surely does not
pay the Government to do it for him. Oi
! TleA a of ,l.,ri
public money, that of expanding it in
developing the resources Of remote and
inaccessible Territories is the most Oh
ljectionable."
Happily for the great State of Illinois,
for the thrifty city of Chicago, and for the
whole country, an effective majority in
Congress thirty years or more ago took
very different views from those now
espOused by the Chicago Tribune, with
respect to governmental aid in develop
ing the resources of the remoter parts Of
the country by aiding in the construction
of highways. Had our leading public
: men at that time been of the opinion thai
&" the people of the country at large have
no interest in developing the Territory"
had they fancied that "dU our 1ceSteln set
Elements hare been built up at the expense Of
the settlers IN the far east and little has been
gained by The transfer Of men and capital"
there would have been none Of those
munifieent grants of public land, by
means Of which, the State. of Illinois is
! now threaded with railways through the
early construction of which was brought
about the present DEVELOPMENT of the ag-
ricultural and other resources of that now
populous State. Had it not been that a
majority in Congress differed as widely at
that day from the prototypes of the Chi
Congress differs from that contemporary
there would not to-day be network Of
highways centering at Chicago, making
it the commercial and trade focus it is fol
the resources OF the vast region westward
OF the slppI-resOurces that have
: been vitalized by the construction ol
these roads. 1t is the eyer-active ten
dency to develop. the mineral, agricultural
and pastoral resources of the far west-or
region westward of Cnicago-much il
advance of any actual wants Of the popu-
lation of the country for mere elbow
room, which has created the Chicago oil
today.
The Tribune, however, does hut echo
opinions as old as the early DAYS of the Re,
public, opinions which defy commou
sense and the lessons of the whole history
# of the country; opinions which with ever,
singal refutation of their wrongheaded
ness, are only the moe confidently ad
vanced on sone new occasion The pro
totypes of our Chicago contemporary have
Invariably opposed the acquisition of new
territory. According to their views o
the case. the territory occupied by the
original thirteen States was quite sulii
u Gent for the possible wants of the pc
pulation," and so they bitterly opposed
the acquisition Of Louisiana-an oppooL
ton which included no less than six q
the ten Senators from New England
Next in turn, these people asserted thai
We alread; had all the territory that was
wanted for the population of the country
therefore, Texas must not be annexed
while Oregon with the Colambia River
asvgg be quietly abandoned to England
Then again, with like fatuity, they ella
mored against the acquisition even O.
= California.
Imagine for one moment, this country
without the Louisiana territory and the
ownership of the mouth of of the Mississ
ippI! without Texas to the Rio Grrnde
y Without Oregon and the Columbia river
and Puget Sound! Without Califor-
MIA!
Les imagine, if we are able TO- 20 so
the poli@ca'-S x ,-ial, commercial