Phoenix weekly herald., 1896-05-21

| the SOUND, manly discussion or thugs
political touching his Office coming
from the other, The people believe he
''knows hsTk from henehaw
The frat business is at it's height
these days in inis valley. Straw berries
are in their prime aud il quantities.
greater than ever before and one-third
cheaper than they ever have been.
| Strangers coming among US from both
eass and weat remerk upon TIE remark
ably fne favor OF the fruis. Apricots
are now fully ripe, and the large
orchards are the busy PLACES of Arizona
these days, where the crop is being Sc
cured and shipped east and west by the
carload, and the cutters aud pitters are
busy as bees, in an attempt to secure
tie fruit that is too ripe for shipment.
The democratic party OF the Terri
tory which has been refusing to counte-
nance woman suffrage and its cnnssquent
powers aud privileges. both 10 our
constitutional onvention and at the last
three legislatures has at last gone back
on it's record with 3 vengeance. The
Governor has appointed lady as one
Of the Normal School board and his
party is questioning his authority with
very masculine Indignation The Gov
ernor evidently believes in woman exer-
cising ali the rights ard privileges of
Intelligent human beings especially in
the matter OF education, where, in this
Territory, women exercise the right of |
suffrage and full citizenship, but |
some of our democratic friends appear |
to have not yet discovered that fact
Is it not about time missionary be |
sent out among the political heathern /
Of this section of the world?
THE National Republican is giving
statehood liberal support as Wash
ington az is putting forth many cogent
re ssone why Arizona should be admit
ted to the Union We make the fol-
loving excerpt:
"Arzona today hes more population
thsn any Territory ever admitted into
the Union since the Adoption of toe
Conssitu tioD, with the exception OF four
put of total of thirty-two. tt has
more wealth per capita, from thrice to
six timer over, than any ever ad mitted.
Ii has greater and more varied elements
1f wealth than any other section of the
country. 1t has produced up to June
30, 1895, gold, silver and copper to the
value of S113 000 600, and its production
1f these metals Is rapidly increasing. It
las millions of acres of arabic lend
which produce not only the cereals,
and fruits of the temperate,
out those of the eemitropical climates
This 'beggarly Populace" MAINTAINS a
splendid school system. While New
York spends for school purposes 81. GO
5er capita OF its Inhabitants, Arizona
.xpends $3.50 per capita, and it's pro-
portion OF children of school age to
population Is much smaller than the
in New YORK, making the
larger. Its eysi en- is one
# the best in the country and includes
Ill grades from the kindergarten to the
formal school and the university.
But Arizona must not be admitted.
foreootb, it advocates silver
t has larger percentage of population
s to repreesn tstion than was in twenty
wo of the thirsy-two Territories when
ID mitted. 1t has SIX times the popula-
ion and ten times the wealth that Hi
loie, now third 10 population and sixth
n wealth of the forty-six states. had
shen admitted, and yet because it's
'sople believe in silver, these malignnnts
eclare it should not be made state.
This is not the rssl reason, westward
he star of empire takes it's cou rse'
hat is the trouble These eastern
aen, who have governed the country so
ong, see power slipping from tnei1
resp. II it were uo5 silver, some other
eason would be found upon wnich to {
ase false assn mptions ADD matig ant
buse."