Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-09-24

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 them credit for. I went through seo
 tions of that county, where eight year
 ago I travelled and there was not
 hoOf, horn, residence or man, and
 found numbers of cattle and men
 There Is no question in the world bu
 what there are thousands of men en
 gagged Tn the construction Of the rail
 road, how many cannot tell, but it IS
 matter that can be arrived at very easilI
 by consulting the pay rolls of the van
 ous contractors. l do not believe, my.
 self, however, that in honesty, when yoI come right down to the bedrock of tho
 thing, that those men should be emu
 merated, but l suspect as matter oi fact, that they have been enumerated in every county where men have been
 working on the railroad They have
 taken advantage of having that large
 number of men there and have enumer.
 ated them, and maybe they repeated
 laughter They have got the names
 and they have got the spportionment. The office that have been nominated to fill Is one of a peculiar character. As l understand it, 1t gives a man 8 seat
 m the Congress of the United States but no vote. He is there as the accredited agent of this vast Territory, to represent its interests in Congress and in the De- partments. not only the great interests that effect all the people, but the inter- est of every citizen who has any special claim upon the departments for any cause. Some say it IS an office of no importance. regard it vastly different t. l believe that 1t Is an office of greater importance than that of q member of Congress from any Stae in the Union. It IS an office that can be used for great good, not only for us in our time, but for all time. We are the ward of the nation. We are the child, that has not yet reached the full age of manhood.
 We are one of the Territories, as there have been many others, that have merg- ed into the condition of States. It has been the policy of the general govern ment, in its great bounty, to give to each Territory, while it was in this con- dltIon of homage certain benefits, cer- tain things that were to be used for the purpose of ameliorating their condition, whiIe they were such Territories, and when they should merge into a State, but I have been unable to find that the general government up to the present time has done anything for Arizona. Of those material benefits that have been given to other Territories, find a general school law by which We receive the sixteenth and thirty second sections of land, that IS, it will be patented to this Territory when 1t becomes a State. In Nebraska, that land being agricultu- ral when 1t came to be sold, made per manent school fund amounting to many millions of dollars, the income from which saved from taxation the people and carried on one of the most splendid systems of public schools in the whole Unlon. There, when they were yet a Territory, the general government had commissioners appointed, by the Gov ernor. and confirmed by the Surveyor General, to sell the lands for Rgricultu- ral colleges, for lunatic asylums, for capital buildings, for internal improve ments, and when 1t became State they were patented by the State and the State Legislature had the control of them. Now in our Territory how IS 1t about the school lands? Why, only the other day as I went over a ridge of mountains. l asked 8 gentle man who had nice little farm down in the valley, where the school section was and he pointed to the top of bleak mountain. It was absolutely valueless, and so 1t IS with BIO of the school land under the general law, but I believe If the matter was properly represented to the Congress of the United States, that a bill could be passed whereby cOmmis- sioners could be appointed and the lands selected and laid aside in lieu of these valueless tracts, that some time ID the future will accrue to us and lay the foundation of an immense school fund, but if we neglect it until We get into the condition of State when we are cap able of taking care Of ourselves, we lose 1t. I believe that the Delegate in Con- gress should be ambltious-and do not think that Delegate iu Congress is worth anything in the world If he IS not ambitious. If he IS simply satisfied to go there and be a Delegate in Congress and collect hIs pay for two years, he fails to be of any value to Arizona. Applause. A man must go there and be ambitious; he must determine that he will bring back substantial results to this people; that not only the larger cities but every settlement, every county seat shall have regular system of mail service. It IS s means of education and of promoting that condition in this Territory by which we can hope to merge into the condition of a State. Phenix. the county seat of MsricOpa county, for months and months and months every year, has no regular mail service If the residents there want the mail carried, the merchants, saloon keepers, printers and all the business men have to contribute a dollar a week and hire a man to carry their mail out to a certain point and bring the other back. It is tho same Tn the county of Cochise. The policy of the General Government has never been to strangle a community on the frontier if the matter has been properly presented to them, but on the other hand it has all the time been willing to give them mail facilities All the remote settlements of this Territory, have at certain times ID the year virtually no mail facilities whatever. This condition of things, know, in a measure has grown out of this Star Route investigation, but still think if the matter was properly re- presented to Congress, 1t would not permit its citizens away out here on the frontier to be neglected and deprived of mail facilities. In other words, as understand it, the duty of the Delegate in Congress, is to secure to this Terri tory its pro rata of all the apportion- ments that are made, or that have been made. that can be found upon an ex- animation of the Statutes, not only for the present Territories, but for those that have now merged into the cOndi- A sk-A hn Ia Ghn nr1lH 80 far as he is able, secure for Arizona, all the material benefits that have been accorded to other States. applause.
 It seems to me that the Delegate m Congress, has a better opportunity now, than ever in the past for accomplishing good for the Territory. When Governor Mccormick WAS delegate and asked for a mail route, the head of the depart ment would turn over the census and say. why you are only II ,00O people, you are asking for too much; but at the present time the Territory of Arizona is only the second bullion producing Territory, 1t has to-day probably lOO-OOO people, energetic, active men; 1t has material wealth; it is contributing to the wealth of the nation; 1t has attracted the attention of men of wealth and in- auence all over the East, Philadelphia, Boston, New York and Chicago; these men have invested largely here and although not living here perhaps, yet are interested here and what IS for the interest of Arizonsns IS to their interest, consequently the aggregate influence that can be brought to bear upon any committee for anything that should be given to Arizona will enable us to re- ceive that recognition in Congress that in the past we have never had, lap plsuseL and I believe fellow citizens, that if there are any people ID the world that deserve that recognl- ton, that deserve to be kindly cared for by the Government, it is the people of Arizona.
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