The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-05
ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO.

Delegate SMITH, of Arizona, tells our
washington correspondent that neither
New Mexico nor Arizona will be admitted
to the union at the present session of Con-
gress, and gives as his reason for this be-
llef the same explanation that has been
more than once named in THE HERALD,
namely: both territories are certainly
Democratic in politics. 1t is conceded that
New Mexico has more population and
greater wealth than Wyoming and Idaho
combined, but the committee on territories
reported in favor of the admission of both
these. Why! Because both are Republi-
can. Arizona possesses as much wealth
and as many people as either Wyoming
or Idaho, but she can be counted
upon to give handsome Democratic ma
iority at the polls. The facts have all been
laid before the committee, but strange to
say that while the committee met often IN
til Idaho and Wyoming were disposed of,
it has been unable to get together since,
and Delegate SMITH does not believe there
will be another meeting during the present
session.
Was partisanship ever more pronounceda
Was 1t ever meaner or more outrareousl
There can be neither excuse nor justifca-
ton for it. 1t is the kind of unfairness
which makes might right and exercises
power without regard to the equities. For
tunately the sense of justice in the human
hearts, so keen that it resents acts of this
kind and Furnishes the guilty. 1t was this
sense OF justice which rebuked the Demo-
cratic Congressman two years ago in the
case OF Montana. That territory wanted
remission to the union, and had shown her
ability to maintain state government: she
needed statehood to aid her in the march of
progress and development and humbly sent
IN her appeal. There should have been a
prompt compliance with the request, in
which event the state would have been
hrmiy and nnequivocally Democratic. But
her appeal was denied and by Democrats.
and the result was that two years ago in.
dlgnant Montana Democrats. in a
spirit of retaliation or revenge. turned
that territory over to Republicans. They
punished their party severely, and are re
penting their madness or vengefulness:
but they obtained statehood, and in time
WIZ recover what they lost by showing
that they knew how to resent wrong It
was their human nature which asserted
Itself, and it is the human nature of the
good people of New Mexico and Arizona
which will hold them closely within the
Democratic ranks and make retaliatorv
war upon the Republicans who do not BRO
Tess fairness but brazenly do wrong
because there is no power to prevent them.
We do not believe that Arizona will suf.
Ter from remaining territory a little
longer. Indeed, our opinion is that it will
be better for the people if statehood shall
be denied year or two, until the popula-
ton and wealth have increased sufficiently
to make the new burdens fall with less
weight upon the community. Of all the
territories-Utah, of course, being ex-
cepted, being out of the range of probabili-
ties-the only one which should be admit
ted at once is New Mexico. 1t is the onlv
one which has the requisite wealth and
population, and the only one which can
carry on state government without on
pressing the people beyond what they are
willing to bear.