Arizona republican., 1902-03-27

ico, in compliance with an invitation from the New York Tri- RODEY bune, has contributed to ION that paper an eXhaus- STATEHOOD. tive article on state hood for the three ter ritories of New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma. Mir. Rodey handles the sub ject in vigorous fashion, as these ex- tracts from his article show:
 1T can say that Arizona has an area nearly as large as all of New Englanl and New York combined. She has abou. one hundred and seventy-five thousand citizens of the United States living within her borders. and they are the kind that go to make the best citizens. for they are nearly all live, energetic people from the states. She has not less than S200.000.000 worth of property to tax for the support of a state gov ernment; she has the richest mines on earth within her borders, and develop ment in that line can hardly be said to have begun, so vast is the area. Her people desire admission to the union. and. possessing all other qualificat tiOns, nothing else ought to be required of her.
 New Mexico proved before the com mittee on territories that she contains a population of not less than three hundred and thirty thousand American citizens. more than three quarters Of whom speak, read and write the En- glish language, and more than three fifths of whom are of the best people from the states. II further proved that the citizens of the United States liv ing within its borders of Spanish or Mexican descent were the best kind of people and fully equal in all respects 60 the best citizens of the United States anywhere in the Union. It further proved that the territory possessed tax able property of the value of S300,000- 900. and that, its debts being compar- atively small, it would, when admitted to the Union, be the lowest taxed com munity in the nation. It further proved that at the present time it is making more rapid progress than any other part of the nation. The committee eX- pressed utter astonishment at the showing which it made.
 The nation took the territory in 1875 and has neglected it ever since-per- mitted the Indians to depredate over 1t; gave it no aid for public buildings or for schools although its people spoke a foreign language when first acquired. so that the splendid position which it occupies today, equal to that Of any state of this Union. per capita, and su- perior to many, is the result of it's own unaided effort and taxation. The Unit ed States is not treating the F'ilipinos or the Porto Ricans in that manner ,- them ship loads of school teachers, but 1t is permitting the revenues of those jurisdictions to be used entirely for the education of their own people; while as to New Mexico and Arizona, it has taken every dollar raised by the revc- nue laws of the nation there, as well as by the sale of mineral, timber and agricultural lands, and turned it into the national treasury. The territory of New Mexico would today have an inn mense bank account had it been treat ed since its acquisition as the Philip pines are now being treated. Instead of that it has been kept and is being kept under a territorial form of gov ernment. governed by carpetbaggers, and at times by played out politicians from the states.
 Let me ask the question, Are citizens of the United States to be taxed with out representation forever? Is no re- spect to be paid to the treaty obliga- | tions of the United States as to ou- people? Do party platforms mean nothing? We possess more population,
 wealth and other qualifications, thre4 times over, than a large majority of ! the states had when they were admit i ted to the Union and more than many ] of them have now. If we are not qual- l flied for admission now, when will we ] be? Ii, as was set forth in a resolu- ! tion in Congress many years ago, all ! territories are entitled to admission when they possess population equal i to that which would entitle them to one i representative in congress, then, even according to the census. which is ad- mittedly worthless as to New Mexico, we are entitled to be let in. The census gives us 195,310 people as our popula- | tion, yet our governor shows in his re- l port, and it is a fact, that our regis | tratiOn for the last election showed i 6o,0C0 voters, which would give us q population of 0,0G0. The territory has had constructed within it's borders about seven hundred miles of railroad within a year and a half and has been otherwise so prosperous that it has had an increase of population of between forty and fifty thousand people in that time. It has been necessary to have es-
 tablished about fifty postoffices to ac- commodate them. The territory re-
 Ceived since last August nearly thirty
 thousand of the disappointed Oklahoma
 boomers as an addition to its popula-
 tion. It has more projected enterprises
 in the way of lumber plants, mining plants and railroads than any othe,
 part of the nation for the next year or
 two.
 The worst trouble that New Mex.
 has is to remove the prejudices that
 eastern people have against it all oi
 which are without foundation in fact
 It is today a progressive American
 community of loyal citizens: who sem more soldiers to the civil and Spanish
 American war per capita than any eth
 CT jurisdiction in the nation. The pres
 ident of the United States is In favol
 of New Mexico's admission because h. knows the territory and realizes tha