Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-01-20
wh.. was the resultf In

the due course oi tiiho wnon VI"
 gress got ready to admit her an en- ahling act was passed and all the work so ambitiously done before had
 to be done over. It was not expected
 that the democratic legislature oi
 Arizona would take the advice ofthe
 JOURNAL MINER in regard to this and it was therefore no disappointment
 when the bill was passed. There were too many ambitious statesmen in the territory who saw in the measure, at least athe ghost of
 show" for their political advance
 ment, and their influence was used in favor of the passage of the b.ii.
 Besides, ever since the removal of the
 capital to Phenix the people oi that
 town have done business on the
 basis tha. the Salt River valley was
 all there is of the territory worthy
 of being considered Their efforts
 at Legislation have been to tax the
 entire territory for the benefit of
 Phenix, and they have been success full in more instances than one m se-
 curing it. Aside from any consider
 stions of statehood they of course
 advocated the measure on sccos,nt of | the financial benefits that would se- | crue to them through holding the
 convention, and despite the heavy
 debt resting on the territory and the
 enormous rate of taxation already
 imposed on the tax payers the meas
 ure was passed and this too in the face of the professions of economy
 and reform so loudly proclaimed by , democratic statesmen. We'll, the convention has been held, constr !, tuition framed and adopted, and the bills have been paid by the issuing
 ofLO. Us on the territorial ano , county treasuries. to be settled iol . in the future by the tax payers ane everything seemed movisg aloni
 swimmingly and favorably toward'
 the realization of the dreams of em bryo statesmen. .who have been hoping ; to be called to guide the destiny of th'
 future state. But alasl A telegram has just been flashed across the wire E from Washington, saying that tn chairman of the committee on terri tories in the lower house of congress who, by the way, is q democrat, vii a prepare an enabling act authorizinI a constitutional convention to b ], held and constitution drafted, | T be held at the regular election i " November. Should such an act bs II come law all the work and expens t already incurred, through the actio @ of the last democratic legislature c 5, the territory, will have to be ha 1T over again, except as to the expens r. of the convention itself, which wi e be paid by the general government 3, The correctness of the JOURNAL Il MINERS position on this question O made apparent in this matter, no e withstanding its good advice in th II interests of economy and Tn beha 'i of the tax payers of the territor d have been ignored. The propose u action of congress is correct to- h This paper has shown conclusivel k that the result of the recent electio
 did not represent true expressio ,s of the will of the people of this terr ,e tory inasmuch as only meagre vol i- was boiled. Or by assuming th' ,e those who refused to vote would ha, a. have voted in the negative, which % a very reasonable assumption, B. shows that the instrument was nc :R looked upon favorably by majorit r. of voters in the territory. But le may be denied that this is a fair a ,r sumption. It cannot, however, ss denied that the instrument did nt d commend itself favorably enough 1t nearly 5000 voters to induce them 1t vote for it.