Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-07-12

der circumstances to winch there could be no reasonable exception, have been presented to the Senate and the other House and they have been repulsed Now, that We should turn around on the eve of an approaching Presidential cleo tlon-fOr we are very close to lt-and more particularly on the eve of an elec- ton during the next fall which IS likely to be one of very great interest to the people of the United States, and take two States. pick them out of the IerrltOrles of the Union and pull them into the Union by the ears, looks to me as if it were a sort of operation that was not to be justified by any sound principles of statesmanship or any great pubic neces- sity. but that has found its justification in the minds of its promoters only ln the fact that they were increasing their own political influence in the next Presiden- tial election and in other elections.
 Why do we select two Territories for admission as States and compel them to elect Republican senators, and leave two others that may be Democratic States?
 We are told in regard to Arizona-I gather this information from the speech of the Senator from Arkansas Mir. JONEsI that that Territory was organized on the 24th day of February, 1863, and Is therefore older than both Wyoming and Idaho. Arizona has 1l2, ,920 square miles, and 1t had population in lSSO, the last census year, of A, 40, according to the census returns, twice as many as Wyom- ing had.
 In those particulars there Is no reason why if Wyoming Is prepared for state hood Arizona is not. Arizona Is travers- ed from end to end by the Southern Pa citic Railway and in a large part by the Atlantic and Pacific Railway. It lies just to the east of the great state of Cali fornia, just to the west of the great Ter ritory of New Mexico, and on the south it Is bounded by the Mexican line. Who ever has passed through that Territory within the last three or four years Is bound to confess his pleasant surprise at the very rapid progress those people have been making i'll agrlcultural as well as ill mineral development. They are building up bright and beautiful towns. Their people are going up into the gulcEes of the mountains and confning the waters and distributing them about over the sage-b brush plains which We are in the habit of calling deserts, and they are raising fruits equal, if not surperior, to California both in quality and ill quan- tity. It certainly is the most delightful country in the world for the growing of fruits, requiring not much irrigation and having the command of a very much larger supply of water than people are in the habit of thinking.
 dS aQt kqow any community ID the United States more active and yigorovs and energetic or money making than the people of Arizona They are alert about all their interests. They are there upon the Mexican border where they are going to have on the Gulf of California at an early day very important trade. The bordering eoH4try on the Gulf of Cali foruia, on the east side Cf that gulf, Is very rich, and has an immense commerce that must find its way into Arizona or into California. To get to California much of 1t has to travel quite twice the distance by sea, that separates 1t, for ilstgpce, from San Diego. You go down the gulf with your ships until you pass the point of the peninsula, and yoA tura and measure again that full distance, and then you start on your journey to San Diego, to Los Angeles, or to San Francis co, or to the mouth of the Columbia R,yST with your exchangeable produc- tions. Now a yery rich country, already penetrated by railroads, 1t wall become a country from which there will be derived by the people of Arizona in the near future an immense trade, such thing as man Is incapable of understanding or that country and knows of its growth and its power.
 There Is not more fertile region in tIa lInIFa6 SfafaS m fhnSd rAlonac and there are not very many of them either, where they are covered up by drifts of sand. The detritus from the mountains to the west, most of them very largely supplied with fertilizers of a valuable qua.ity-marl and other feItili- zers-is blown by the trade-winds across to the east. Any one who looks at the l face of the country will see that there has been in Arizona the distribution of ] an immense amout of fertile soil that waits far nothing but water to make 1t one of the most beautiful and productive regions of the earth. In travels which were divided by space of less than two l years through that country l do not know that ] ever experienced such aston ishment at the pr6sfess of people as l did at those of Arizona.
 Now, why should these communities | with that vast system of railway, with all their grazing lands, and their mineral
 lands, and agricultural lands, lands that
 produce these fine fruits, be kept out oi
 the Union? Who can state reasonable objection to those people coming as State into the American Union and be
 ing entitled to all the privileges anc
 advantages of statehood? Who can an
 swer the argument or the point that in
 national sense it is for the security of oul
 commerce as we'll as for its expansion
 that there should be two States upo1
 that border occupied by the present Ter
 ritorlal limits of Arizona and New Mexi
 co? Who does not know that If the in
 vitation of permanent government anC
 statehood was extended to the enterpris
 ing people of the United States to go int
 those Territories and settle them. up, tn
 people would flock there and immediatel,
 build on the border of Mexico, which i
 now an unmarked line in desert land
 one of the most thrifty communities to b
 found anywhere ill the American Union?
 What are we to derive through peo
 pie Ike that, who have access to all O
 that magnificent iaesa that commence } to rise at the Glla River and aseen9s in
 slope that is imperceptible to the City c Mexico, filled with minerals of mos valuable character, including large de
 pOsits of iron and petroleum, with graz
 ing ground af almost unimaginable eS
 tent, sugar producing eouatry, 8 fruit producing country, country that mus , yield its wealth through proper traffi into the hands of the men who will oC
 cupy and control the States of Ne, 7 Mexico and Arizona? Who can not SC t that 1t has Desome ap important duty (
 the people of the United States t0 org; = nize statehood there, just as important | f it was to organize 1t ill Washington or { Montana?
 - MT President, when we play laggar - in order to contribute what we can to tl - strength of a political party n 2 Pres X dential election and make the destiny e great States to hang upon the miserab 0 point as to whether they are going
 vote Democratic or Republican in u e next Presidential campaign, when we e lay doing our duty fer considerations h this kind, we need not expect to be g t cused or overlooked by the indignal 1t people of the United States. They WI 1t call Us to account for it. They unde ,t stand what we are dealing with. Tn, | know that we have higher functions ,f perform here than merely to elect R d publican or Democrat to the Pregide l, cy.
 n In respect to the admission of Stat 10 into this Union, which after they ha