Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-07-12

Senator John r. Morgan of Alabama, in his speech upon the blil for the admis- of Wyoming into the Union, Ou June 2lth, expressed the following very sensible views regarding the treatment of Arl- zOna and New Mexico at the hands of Congress in this respect.
 1t has always seemed to me that the guaranties contained in the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, in respect to the populations of California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Arizona, were obligatory upon tue Government of the United States. Ar ter year of probation, in which Mexi- can citizen had the right to determine for himself whether he would remain iu that country and accept the United States citizenship, the guaranty Ill our treaty was that they should be entitled to all rights and privileges and benefits of American citizenship. l do not say that the treaty in terms compelled the Con gress of the United States to organize those communities into States or into any other form Of political government that we choose to adopt, but the understanding was between Mexico and the people of the United States that those people by force of the treaty, became citizenized, that they should be respected as citizens of the United States, notwithstanding the illiteracy, notwithstanding that they were Spaniards, or that they were h. dians We removed from that people, by the treaty that we adopted, every dis qualifying influence to full and complete enjoyment with the citizenship of the United States, and having done that 1t does not lie in our mouths for forty years after that time still to postpone confer ring upon those people the rights of state hood merely because 1t Is suggested in some directions that they are not a peo- pie who, iu point of literature, have the capacity to deal with the questions at the ballOt-boX which concern themselves and all the rest of the people of the American Union
 New Mexico and Arizona, by the at tractiveness of their soil and far more, l believe, by the attractiveness of their great mineral wealth, have drawn into their borders very large number of the most intelligent and most enterprising men of the whole country. l believe that to take them man by man among the white inhabitants of those two Ter ntones, those who have gone there would measure with the men of any other State in the American Union in the re- spects to which 1 have been alluding. There Is an infusion of Indian and Span. ish population there, but there are not more lndians l believe, ill New Mexico os Arizona than will found in Wyoming or in Idaho. That infusion of Indian population, although it IS cItZeniZed, we have seen iron, the report of Governor Prince, of New Mexico which has been read here by the Senator from Arkansas iMF Jones. are becoming enlightened They hGye had long experience in the matter oi casting the ballot, in the mat ter of jury trjals They have accom- nodated themselves in their experience, as ID the iniormatiVg that they have gained to all of the institutlvGs that pre- vail throughout the States and Terri tories of this Union; and they certainly are in far better state of preparation for the exercise of the rights of citizen ship than the negroes in AIabana were when We conferred those rights upon them by an amendment to the Constitu- ton.
 @1ou may take tiie white and Indian and Mexican population in Arizona, and the white and negro popoulatlon ln Ala bama, and If there were aBy possible chance to get a correct general average between the two Tn respect of the ca pacity and ability Of these different classes of people to govern themselves and to assist in governing other people, the ad- vantage would be found in favor of Ari- zona and New Mexico. The standard would range higher ihan its possible to put 1t where the suffrage among negro population is universal. Being com pelled as 1 am and as we all are to recog- nize the equal rights of the negro race to participate in the entfrage and in the holding of office, and in all other matters that concern the affairs of tho State and of the United States Government, ! am Eot prepared as an honest man to say that the people of my own State, take them big and large, occupy a more ele Vated position, higher range of capacity and ability for local government or for general government than the people of New Mexico and Arizona.
 So do not find that there is any in- superable difficulty in the character of the population in either Arizona and New Mexico for admission as States into the Uniou. do not hear of the prevalence of Moynonism in either of those Territor- ies. If 1t is fac. that it prevails there it IS something that has been overlooked, Neither the priests nor the politicians. believe, have paid the slightest attention to the existence or non-existence of Nor monism in Arizona aud New Mexico.
 But the brand of that so-called faith rests upon the people of the Territory of Utah. and 1t makes no difference if the dentlles have been able to carry tke elections in Salt Lake City: it makes no difference that the offices in the Territory are occupied by Gentiles; it makesnO diff ference, it seems, that the powers of the Government of the United States are being continually exercised to break down that denomination of so-called Christian peo pie; 1t makes no difference that thcy pre- scented constitution here in which poly 2Rmy was absolutely prohibited beyond the power of repeal, the moral brand has attached to those people iu Utah, and they, with not less than 100000 Of popu iation, with q great city. splendid farms rnines tbat have yielded larger during certain years than any other of the mine. Of the United States, most enterprising aud orderly population. have been con deIDBsd to a perpetual Territorial exist ence. suppose that if politie,ags in tho United States had their way with tlisp they would wipe item out with the spong, of extinction; there would be nothin, left of them.
 Utah has no chance for statehood, ant there is but one possible obstruction t' 1t, as everybody will admit, and that i the fact that in their Territorial eondi ton heretofore, and before the Govern lutuh Ol JUG AnilsAl t9Att'o ny illN HhiOHl arm of legislation took hold of thei institution and virtually abolished thei church, certainly abolished 1t as Q poll tical corporation, those people practiceo the profession of polygamy and have pu themselves in Q condition where the have no sympathy. where they nave Il rights that we think 1t necessary to guar and protects and where ve cannot con ceive or imagine that they gre to be er titled to statehood.
 There Is a moral delinquency, there a moral stain upon the whole communit of Utah that keeps them from coming 6
 a State into the American Union. Wh the same people, men and women, shoul have been permitted tO vote cGnstitl ton for Wyoming that is silent as polyEamy and Mormonism. the Repul lican party understands, aud the countl
 will not be slow to comprehend. J am m
 here for the purpose to-day of suggestjn
 an enlargement of the amendment pr
 the posed by Senator from Arkansas SO
 to include Utah. Why SO? Because pu
 lie opinion Is not yet ripe for the adral
 sion of that Territory as a State into Il
 Union, and l respect public oplni,