Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-11-18

Il
 honor in recognition of his valor in
 repelling the charge of Pickett's men
 on the third day of the battle of
 Gettysburg. He was at that time
 major of the Nineteenth Massachu-
 setts volunteers
 A gentleman from the country in-
 forms the JouRSAL-M MINER that con
 stitution advocates are trying to in-
 iluence the votes of tax payers in his
 section by tho false cry that if the
 present constitution is not adopted
 the territory will have to bear all the
 expense of another one. This is a mistake. Wherever congress sees fit
 to pass an enabling act for the terri
 tory provision will be made for de-
 fraying the expense of the conven-
 tion. The democratic legislature
 uselessly entailed this expense on
 the people of the territory by pas
 sing a law calling the convention.
 Had they waited until congress had
 passed an enabling act the expense
 would have been paid by the general
 government.
 While 1 have read with interest
 and approval, your arguments in re-
 gard to the constitution" said an
 influential democrat to the JOURNAL
 MINER man day or two since, there
 IS one feature of the increased ex-
 pense, of state government, over
 our present form, that you have
 not touched upon yet. That is, that
 the money at present paid by the
 national government for expenses of
 maintaining our territorial govern
 ment, is net eain to the circula-
 ting medium of the territory. Un-
 der statehood the territory would
 not only lose this amount to the
 volume of its circulation, but an
 equal amount would have to be
 taken from our citizens, making it
 virtually double the amount.
 A business man who was on tie verge of bankruptcy, who had an enormous debt hanging over him and paying a heavy interest thereon,
 and whose income did not meet his actual expenses, even with the strict
 est economy, but who at the end of each year found his balances on the wrong side of the ledger, even though he was receiving financial aid from wealthy father, and who | under these circumstances would | build him palatial residence, fur nish it elegantly, and provide him. self with retinue of servants and | write to the "old man" that he did | not want any more of his money such man would be considered in- sane. That is just what the advo- cates of the new constitution are working on for Arizona to-day.
 A few over-zealous advocates of the new constitution are making a sort of bull-dozing, intimidating campaign on the subject. Because a man does not swallow at one gulp this political capsule, as he would pill prepared by physician, he is called all kind of names He is az cused Dy some of being opposed to statehood, by others of being an enemy to this or that class, an anti moss back and all manner of other epithets, just as though this was not free country and as though man was not privi- eged to think and act as he pleases ,n matters of public interest. We nave no quarrel to pick with those who favor the constitution. It is !, heir privilege to vote for it, if it uits them. But we would like to lnow wherein the members of the that framed it were pos essed of that superior wisdom which {. hould make it acceptable to every 7. me else. simply on their say SO. If he papers and few of their con have no better argument to :, fer in favor of the constitution than o abuse and malign those who do ', ot favor it their cause must be weak z. ldeed. ', Of all the glaring falsehoods in m lpport of the new constitution a p' 'tter recently published in the Phe- tr K Herald and signed A. Buck, is la 1titled to the premium. The open la lg sentence says: Not long since Tn large number of territories were sh imitted as states, very few of which la ere possessed of the qualifications he hich Arizonais is now endowed with" aC lstead of very few of them being tn of the qualifications all aimed, it is matter of history and ca 't mere assertion, that every one of vii @ territories recently admitted gr ceeded both in population and an xable wealth that of Arizona, sti lile not single one of them was ] with the debt of this ter on, ory. NIT. Bucks next most glar- ;ne falsehood is the reckless asser- mi; m that the territory has popula- ing n of more than 100000, mostly un, tive born. MT. Buck must have not l across one of ex-Governor Zu- anC ks back number reports as the der ly wild claim of this kind ever of de in regard to population prior ala Mir. Bucks assertion came from diti lick. He then proceeds to say ent t Arizoua has more than S75,- ing 900 of taxable property. The ury rolls only show about S2s, 100000. and