Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-02-23
STATEHOOD Fol; ARIZONA.
The Great Benefits To Be Derived Frcn,
 Her Admission.

Her Admission.
 The governor has recommended the | territorial legislature to memoreial ize congress to pass an act enabling | Arizona to frame a state constitution, 1 have it adopted by our people prior to admission into the Union at the fifty | second congress, or two y 1ars from this l such memorial will be shortly intro | duced and hopes 1t will pass without-a dissenting voice in either house. Just now there is disposition in both branches of congress to make new states.
 Arizona should seize the opportune moment to cast aside her baby dresses and don the robes Of maturity Many supposed that the expense attending astate government would be greater than We could bear This is the ar gument of those who prefer depend ency to independence. The increased expense would not be more than $20, 900 yearly, for this is all that the fed eral government contributes to our support. Let us see what are its ad vantages:
 First, We could have a judicial and executive government controlled by | the people for their well being ana prosperity. Our officers would be the chosen servants of the people, account able to the sovereigns for their con duct in public llle Justice would be swift; no judge would hold case un | der adyisement for months and years lat his sweet pleasure, nor would he -:nake decisions to Teward friends or punish enemies; the judiciary would 1 interpret the laws and not attempt to control and direct legislation. Our governors would feel that their allegi- ance was due the people and not in any sense to the powers at Washing ton. We should have a representa- tion in congress that could make itsell felt in shaping the affairs of the na
 ton.
 The expenses of the national gov ernment amounts annually to about seven dollars per capita. which is raised by our tariff and internal reve- nue regulations; so Arizona pays into
 Uncle Sam's strong box about seven hundred thousand dollars yearly, for which her citizens receive no return.
 Is 1t not time that this should end? Is it not time that we should have vote and voice as to how this money should
 be expended? Does 1t not appear to
 all that we would prosper more were
 we permitted to frame our own laws
 without the advice and consent oi
 Massachusetts and South Carolina, ol
 Indiana and Texas? Arizona has $75,-
 100000 of property; she has nearly
 100, 900 people as active, intelligent
 enterprising citizenship as can be found elsewhere. She has 1,450,0OC acres of land enclosed under the ca
 nal system and millions more that can be reclaimed, if cranks in congress will permit 1t.
 She has millions of acres that can be cultivated without irrigation. She has the finest climate ill the world, 20,
 coo square miles of lumber forests, the best mines of gold, silver, copper anc coal 10 be found in the west. Here nature has given everything necessary to create empires. Why, then, should we fear to take the step that places our territory in the sisterhood O : states? The records of the office o commissioner of immigration show ,, conclusively that the latent wealth,h, undeyeloped resources-of Arizona ar, being studied abroad, and that tn, tide Of immigration needs only -intelli
 gent direction to build up our vast,
 places All signs point to the inevit . able conclusion that if we are true 1t ' ourselves if we send broadcast througl
 the land the unvarnished truth in ref . erence 10 our capacity to support :. dense population we shall have tn I people and that speedily. Let us ad ' vertise what lies at our doors. Tn | legislature can afford to be liberal il r printing and distributing matte. il . reference to the territory. It is brea . cast upon the waters that will returl after few days; seed sown in goo n ground that will spring up to a f abundant harvest
 = In four years from this time ther : is no reason why we should not hay . a population of two hundred thousanC = At the rate it is setting towards us S will even more,and every intelligent b n thinking man must know that tn Q American people are not inclined t 4 cast their lots with communities whe d they are robbed of the dearest right
 of citizenship; the right to partic ,a pate in the governments under whic # they live. Ii Arizona is not admitte . into the union before the first sessio :. of the fifty-second congress close r then we can bid farewell to every hoy ? in that direction for the next six ( =. ten years.-Phenix Gazette
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