Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-11-18
\ Tangent criticism on the New Con
 stitution.

IT. correspondence. IA study of the | proposed constitution develops to | my mind few obnoxious features, and if, as certain logical @ advocates | for its adoption are want to say: l The territory is not likely to be ad- mitted before three or six years hence" then in the name of common sense why should we adopt it at this 1 time. Is it because in their self-ex- alted opinions they fear that in the next six years all intelligence will have died out leaving no more great statesmen (l) like unto themselves, capable of copying" another one equally as faultys Ye Gods forbid! However. should the ''fool-killer" kindly turn his whole attention to these great men for the next "three CT six years" convention of school boys could be utilized to draw up another one, which they would be equally qualified to do, with thirty or forty old and new state constitu- tons from which 70 make copy At the very beginning O. "our con. stitution" Is found unmistakable and positive evidence of pin head statesmanship. The framers oI the constitution of the United States having had a personal experience of the practical efforts of that ba!eful trinity-God, king and the devil-iu the affairs of government, they re- solved then and there that in order to insure the pe.sonal and mental liberties of posterity DO such in fernal trinity as either one of 1t should have a place Tn that greatest and grandest document ever given to the world, the constitution of the United States of America.
 We; the people of the United States, in order to form more per feet union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the - common defense, promote the general - welfare. and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this consti- tuition for the United States of America" So say the framers in their preamble to that glorious docu- ment, the |. $. constitution. Now let us examine the preamble" to our proposed constitution and see what the 'pin-head statesman" (O has given us; this done we very naturally ask of ourselves: "Who were the spin-heads,' the framers of the con- stitution of the United States, or the massive-b -brained Arizona statesmen @ who conceived and brought forth the following preamble viz:
 We, thepeople of Arizona, CRATE FIJI TO THE SUPREME BEING FOR OUR LIBERTIES, in order to form more independent and perfect government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general wei fare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our pos terity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the state of Ari- zonaH The italicized words are the sole production in the late constitu- tional convention of the aforesaid '-massive-brained Arizona states men,"
 Will any one in these enlightened times, not already a pronounced dunce, attempt to maintain that re- ligious creeds, in any age of the world, (eyen the so-called Christian era,) ever espoused or championed the cause of personal and mental liberty? It is true since the Ere formation" of Martin Luther, (who. by the way, quarreled with his CO., f,t .% Aa d .1f over a cardinalship which he coveted but failed to receive, hence the much lauded reformation, ..many of the new creeds have, with hypo- critical virtue, howled over the sub jeet of mental liberty for the people, nevertheless and notwithstanding their lugubrious howlings, when they shall have acquired numerical and financial strength, they too in their turn are sure and certain to become tyrannical and inimical to the freedom of individual conscience, and of personal liberty as any of their predecessors.
 Again referring to those italicized words, it must be conceded by per sons of sufficient brains to think and reason for him and herself that those interpolated words by the afore- mentioned 'pin-head" statesmen, are useless verbiage possessing neither force nor sense; but on the 1 contrary, harmless and silly as they seemingly appear, in time may be- come to Arizona ''the direful spring of woes unnumbered," from which | oG- people may possibly note the loss of their liberties.
 Under the caption of Article "" of the judicial department" are
 .und other matters objection
 Jle in character. This whole |
 rebate business should have |
 cen conferred upon the district | ourts, as a matter of simple | economy, if for no other reasons. The unsavory record of California's | probate courts should have heen | warming enough, for in that State | these courts became so utterly cor | rupt that the people were obliged | to wipe them out, and to confer | such jurisdiction upon the various Superior judges of that State. Fur | tneItnOIe, II eSOuOnS ls eApecteU | through the medium of statehood, the constitution makers in "doub- | ling up7 other county offices should have also doubled up the functions of the Probate with those of the District courts.
 In the matter of Article XVIII of Water and Water Rights" there is certainly rascally nigger hidden in the wood-pile, else I am incapa- ole of comprehending plain English. Section one Q) declares, "al natural dreams and lakes capable of being .lsed for navigation or irrigation to .,e the property of the State" And
 2 the property of the State, it is
 Ibject to legislative tinkering, and consequently mere matter of time
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