The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-12
In ARIZONA.
A TIME OF GENERAL PROSPERITY
AT HAND.
The Territory, Soon Let us Hope, to
Be State, Steadily Increasing
in Wealth and Population-Thc
Hughes Case.

TUCSON, Ariz., April 16.-There is
but little of interest occurring in Ari-
IONA Just now, except that it is time
of general prosperity in the territory,
which is steadily increasing in wealth
and popula ton. This increase is due
to the fact that Arizona possesses mil
lions of acres of good farming land
awaiting improvement; vast tracts OF
grazing land; one of the largest bodies
of fine pine lumber in all the west, and
untold millions of wealth in mines OF
gold, silver copper, lead and coal and
other minerals. Added to all this is
climate unsurpassed in healthfulneSs,
especially in pulmonary complaints.
But the incubus of territorial vassal-
age still weighs heavily upon Arizona,
as so long it did upon Utah. 1t seems
strange indeed, that this remnant OF
British misrule which cost the English
the sovereignty of America, should
have been perpetuated by Americans
themselves in their policy of territorial
government. One would suppose that
an American citizen emigrating from
state to a territory should not, by
simple change of residence-lose any
right of citizenship which he previously
enjoyed. Yet such is the case. He is
deprived of his right to assist in
choosing the chief executive of the
nation; he has no actual representation
in congress, for a territorial delegate
has no vote, and it is by votes alone
that a law is adopted or rejected. Adj
ded to this, a territory is a dumping
ground for tenth-rate political hacks
and Adventures, as was so long the
case in Utah, but from which she is
now happily free.
The removal by the president of
Governor L. B. Hughes has created
much surprise here. 1t was uneXpect-
ed, for the charges advanced by his
enemies against him had been salts
factorily disproved in Washington. A
probable solution of the enigma will
perhaps be found in the statement that
forged kilograms, purporting to emin-
ate from him, and showing an oppos-
ton to President Cleveland policy in
relation to the leasing of school lands,
had been exhibited to the president,
causing his hasty and unexpected &C
ton.
The true cause, in great part, for the
bitter warfare against Governor
Hughes may be briefly stated. He
has been steady advocate for reform
in Arizona for many years, and has
incurred the hatred of the gambling
and saloon fraternity, which, in the
non Mormon part of the territory,
have for years been the dominating
class. His paper, the Tucson Daily
Star" has advocated the cause of tenn
perance, morality and woman suffrage
and his estimable wife has also been
for years a prominent worker in the
same good cause. All this is very dis
tasteful in community where the
numerous whisky saloons and gam
bling hellS are open on Sundays the
same as week days, and where the
Sabbath has no real existence except
to very small part of the people.
Opponents of woman suffrage know
very we'll that women, as a class, will
not vote for nominees of whisky and
gambling hells, where the earnings of
husbands and fathers, which belong
equally to the wives and children are
continually squandered. They know
that if women had a political voice
such putrescence in the body politics
could not long exist These are really
the causes of the fight against Cover
nor Hughes, who for three years has
given Arizona by far the best and
most economical administration she
ever had.
Several great irrigation enterprises
are under way. each of which will
cost from one TO two or three million
dollars, and when completed will rem
der an immense acreage of rich land
available for settlement. These enter
priseS consist of great canals and inn
mense storage reservoirs to impound
the abundant but wasted waters of the
ella, Salt and other rivers flowing
into the Colorado and Gulf of Califor-
mia, which streams, in their ANIMAL
rise, furnish enough water to sustain
a population of millions. J.H. M