Arizona republican., 1901-12-16
pHoENrx. ARIZONA. DEC. ls. 1901.

1t has remained for that erudite Journal, the State Register of Des
 Moines, Iowa. to make MORE the important dis IGNORANCE covery that Arizona's CONCERNING claims to statehood ARIZONA. are without founda-
 ton. The Register is the paper which has made itself some what famous on the Pacific coast for discussing the affairs of this region In a tone of owl-like wisdom without touching a fact. Its editorial com rnents on the Restitution" and hope less condition" of the people of south ern California and Los Angeles have furnished frequent amusement to that favored region Perhaps it was our turn to receive some of the benefit of this peculiar Iowa wisdom Although the population of this territory in the ten years from 1890 to 1900 increased. according to the national census, from 5s, GOO to 122. 900. the Register in It's in telIigent and self-sufficient way fig ures that the increase was only $500 But hear it:
 Like most little boys in knickerbock- CTS who want TO be grown up men, Arizona Is in too big hurry for statehood, and there Is little doubt but that if the enthusiastic promoters Of statehood for that territory bring that matter before congress at the ses- Sion which convenes tomorrow they will be told to wait awhile. and not try to put on their long trousers be- Frr-o ones Governor Murphy reports that the people there are greatly aroused over the question and are anxious that action be taken in the matter, but there Is no justice in their claims and he does not give a single good reason why statehood should be granted. Mur- phy claims that the territory now has 1855 900 people. but the last census only gave them 122. .212. and this includes a number of Chinamen and half-breeds that do not make the best citizens in the world In ten years the increase in population was but (, 300 not as many as the city of pes Moines gained in the same time-and there is nothing to indicate that there will be any stimulation in the influx of settlers. . Even if the territory has 135,OO0 1t is still Ga, 0c0 short of sufficient num- Der to entitIe it to a single member of  in the state of Iowa but has more peo- pIe than the whole territory. In the United States senate Arizona would be given two members, and would then have an equal representa- ton in that body with the 100000 peo- pie living in New York. the 6.000.o0o In Pennsylvania, the 2.200. 900 in Iowa, etc The facts of the mater are that Arizona is not entitled to statehood.
 ora m she will be for some time to come. it is to be hoped that congress will re- member our experience with small states, and particularly Nevada, and admit no more of them until they are ready for admission. Oklahoma seems justified in Knocking at the door. but Arizona is not.
 The Register calmly asserts that Governor Murphy 'does not give a single good reason why statehood should be granted As a matter of course 1t has no knowledge of what the governor said, and 1t has not taken the pains to find out. Had it done so. 1t would have learned that the argu- ments which have been presented by the governor and the other citizens Of the territory are unanswerable- There is class of people in the east (of which the Register Is a good exam ple) fond of saying that the citizenship of Arizona is of low quality. made up largely of Chinamen. half-breeds, and so on. In all the territory there are but little more than one thousand Chinese. The census of 1900 showed that there were 92.oe0 white people in the territory. of whom more than 10.- 900 were native Americans. The cen sus was admittedly defective as to numbers, and there can be no doubt that we have much more than 100, 900 white citizens. And they are equal to the best that Iowa can show. Each year they produce more wealth, man for man, than is produced in Iowa, and States there cannot be found another hundred thousand of people of higher education and refinement. Not a half dozen states of the union had when ad- mitted the wealth and population which Arizona has now. According to that peculiar intelligence which directs the Register, Arizona would never be qualified for statehood. For. one hun has fifty million people. it could be pointed out with the same logic that this territory had not arrived at the new standard of population.