Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-01-26

treatment of the Territories.
 In the consideration of the bill for the admission of South Dakota, in Committee of the whole, last week. Delegate Joseph K. Toole, of Mon tana, startled the drowsy members of Congress by an eloquent appeal for justice on behalf of the Territories. In speaking of what congress had done for Montana, he said
 "It has given us d system of courts inherently wrong, and which can never be made sui able 10 large communities it has regulated the number of our Judges, grossly inadequate in every instance, resulting in the delay, and, in many cases the denial of justice; 1t has arbitrarily fixed the time when our local Legislatures shall meet and ad- journ, to our great damage and incon- venience; it has denied us the author ity to call an extra session of our Leg islature without the consent of the President, adding untold burdens to q dependent people; 1t has reserved the right to invalidate any law which our Legislature may pass, thereby destroy ing that full faith and credit which our Legislatures ought to command ; 1t has bound us hand and foot by law which restricts these growing and ambitious communities in the expenditure of money for public Improvements; it has declared what we shall teach in our public schools | tnH nf Efla l in us in other instances of legislation too numerous to men ton; it has attempted to stihe our industries by prohibiting us from selling our mining properties in for eign markets, thus laying upon us an embargo not borne by citizens of the states 1t has exempted a railroad and the improvements on its right of way, 82O miles, from taxation, furnishing another evidence of the gross inequal- ity of citizenship in and out of the Territory It has withheld from us our dowry oi the lands which belongs to our school funds, and refuses to give to us any kind of supervision or control over 1t until we become a state, and then sets deliberately to work to prolOng the time when that event shall happen.
 A REPRESENTATIVE BUT NO VOTE.
 "It has professed to give us Repre- sentative in the lower house of Con gross, but denies to us a vote, the ele ment of representation which give. character and influence to a member 1t has left us without any kind o representation in the Senate, and re mits us to the beggarly method of tho lobbyist; 1t has imposed on us with al iron hand the obligations and burdens of citizenship while it withholds it. corresponding benefits by steadil, denying to us participation in th' framing of legislation and the right 0 suffrage in national legislation 1t ha. refused to appropriate the salarie provided by law for the hungry off cials whom it has been pleased tC send us, and compeis them to excep a measley sum ill full compensation notwithstanding full Treasury, it ha refused to inappropriate sufficient mone, to extend the public surveys in tn Territories, but has doled out an nually it's driblets which has ofttime been converted back into the Treasury leaving our boundaries undefined ant our titles insecure; it has failed t, cause to be surveyed, selected and con veyed to the lands falling within rail road grants within the Territory, a required by law, whereby millions o acres of land owned by rich corpor ations escaped taxation; it has per sistently refused to pass laws by whicl timber or timber lands in the Terri tories, except Washington, may b leased or purchased, protesting, how ever, to give the right to actual set tiers to cut and remove the same 10 domestic purposes, while it has hedge' this privilege with an odious and i'm practicable system of rules and regu lations which has resulted in harassin our citizens with expensive civil an criminal proceedings, based wholly ol the exparte statements of crouchin or obsequious special agent or spy wh , has been taught to believe that hi term or office will be measured by th : extent of his activity in stirring u strife; it has, by the organization ( these Territories, invited settlemer and occupancy of the frontier upo
 the promise and obligation that ou , personal property should be protecte , against depredations by hostile II dians.
 BROKEN PROMISES.
 These promises have been honore more in the breach than in the obse Q vance. The history of our own earl
 settlement is red with the blood of tn
 pioneers who blazed the trails of civ lization in those remote lands by tn
 lurid light of their burning homes
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