Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-05-24
Territorial Vassalage.

Ierrltorlal vaSSalage l can do no bet ter, nor can any man do better, than to repeat what was said in the Fiftieth Congress by present governor of Mon tana (JOs. K. Toole) in advocacy of | Montana's right to statehood In his | picture of our wrongs he very truth fully showed what Congress has done for the Territories
 "It has regulated the number of our judges, which is grossly made quate in every instance. resulting in the delay, and in many cases the deni- al of justice
 "It has arbitrarily fixed the time when our local Legislature shall meet and adjourn, to our great damage and inconvenience
 "It has reserved the right to in- validate any law which our Legis- lature may pass, thereby destroying that full faith and credit which our legislation ought to command.
 "It has bound us hand and foot by a law which restricts these growing and ambitious communities in the expenditure of money for public i'm prOvements.
 Ut has declared what we shall teach in our public schools, and mani fested lack of confidence in us in other instance of legislation too num- erous to mention.
 "It has attempted to stife our in- dustries by prohibiting us from sell ing our mining properties in foreign markets, thus laying upon us an embargo not borne by citizens of the States
 "It has exempted railroad and the improvements on it's right of way | for S2O miles in length from taxation. furnishing another evidence of the gross inequality of citizenship in and l out of the Territories.
 "It has withheld from us our dowry of lands which belong to our school fund and refuses to give to Us any l kind of supervision or control over 1t until We become State, and then sets deliberately to work to prolong the time when that tevent shall happen.
 "It has professed to give us rep resentative in the lower House of | Congress, but denies to us vote, the only element of representation which gives character and influence to a member.
 "It has left us without any kind of representation in the Senate, and remits us the beggarly methods of the lobbyists.
 "It has imposed upon us, with an iron hand, the obligations and bur dens of citizenship, while it withholds it's corresponding benefits by steadily denying to us participation in the framing of Federal legislation and the right of suffrage in national elections.
 "It has refused to appropriate the salaries provided by law for the hun gry officials whom 1t has been pleased to send us, and compels them to ac- cept measly sum in full compensa- ton, notwithstanding an overf1owing Treasury.
 "It has refused to appropriate suffi- cient money to extend the public sur veys in the Territories, but has doled out annually its driblets, which have ofttimes been covered back into the Treasury, leaving our boundaries undeined and our titles insecure.
 'It has failed to cause to be survey ed, selected, and conveyed to the grantees the lands falling to railroad grants in the Territories, as required by law, whereby millions of acres of land owned by rich corporations escape taxation.
 "It has consistently refused to pass laws by which timber or timber lands in the Territories (except Washington may be leased or purchased, profess ing, however, to give the right to actual settlers to cut and remove the same for domestic purpose, while 1t has hedged in this privilege with an odious and impracticable system of
 rules and regulations which has re- suited in harassing our citizens with expensive civil and criminal proceed ings based wholly upon the ex parte
 statements of crouching and obse- quious special agent or spy, who has been taught to believe that his term of office will he measured by the ex tent of his activity in stirring ur strife.
 "It has, by the organization ol these Territories, invited settlement and occupancy of the frontier upon the promise and obligation that oul , person and property should be pro tected against depredations by hostile Indians. These promises have beer honored more in the breach than 1T , the observance. The history of oul early settlement is red with blood O the pioneers who blazed the trails of civilization in these remote lands by the lurid light of their burning homes which went down in ashes before tht
 merciless savage. Millions of dollars
 of unpaid claims, mildewed by age
 growing out of these atrocities, art piled up in the Departments, whi!t the heroes of those troublous times overcome with the weight of year
 and no longer able to conquer thei - feelings, have gone to join the silen :, majority, leaving destitute widows anC
 orphans to keep alive before Congress ,, the memory of their trials and tribu , lations. Verify the cruelty of Con ! gress cuts as keenly as the scalping
 knife or the tomahawk."
 The MOrmons, t Gov Wolfey and some of his fellow q partisans are of the opinion that citi r. zens of Arizona who are said to b. '- Mormons are democrats and ought t' ) be disfranchised. They are begging d Congress to do the job for them, s J. that they (Wolhey and followers) V can carry elections next Fall. Now r the Courier knows little or nothing
 about Mormons and Mormonism. w " do not suppose there are twenty Mo1 V mons, all told, in this, the larges 1T county in Arizona. There are, W, Il hear, good many of them in Apache
 Graham and one or two other coun j. ties If there are polygamists anon a them, it would, perhaps, be right t
 punish them for that, but to disfran i chise citizens because they are suI ,s posed to be Democrats would be un e American.
 e This is free country. Men ant
 women are free to worship God il
 any law-abiding way they may SC 5 fit and to undertake to punish then