Williams news., 1903-10-24

uCSOl, iOSCOGG, DlSUCc, II IdSSCdll and Williams, among the larger cities, and Tempe and Mesa among the smaller towns of the Territory. And it would be impossible to find communities of like size anywhere in the East that will excel them for intelligence, enterprise, good order, morality, industry, sobriety and every quality that goes to make up good citizenship. And yet it seems to some of our United States Senators that these people, who all came from the eastern states and who comprised not the least intel ligent or least enterprising element of the communities they came from and who had been trained from childhood in all the duties of citi- zenship, yet became, by some sub tie process, when they crossed the line that separated the States from the Territories, lower order of be ings, only fitted to be subjects. And this although many of them carry honorable scars of one and even two wars, which they helped to wage for this nation and for its flag.
 I am not making an argument for statehood for Arizona, but ev- cry statement make is an argu- ment for statehood, per SC, and of necessity, and when the bare facts in regard to this great and mighty empire are stated their simplest statement carries the conviction to every mind that Arizona's star is destined to shine in the nations galaxy as one of the brightest gems and that it is high time that the national disgrace of refusing to ad- init Arizona to her rightful place in her sisterhood of states should cease to shame the American na- tion and name.
 As to climate, the temperature varies from freezing point in Jan uary and February to 115 and even 12O above zero in July, August and September. This is at Phoenix, HOO feet above sea level. How people can live and work out of doors or in doors at such a temper ature is a thing you can't under stand.
 We'll, in the first place, it is rarely that warm. But it does get as warm as 100 to no degrees and remains that warm for three months of the year, except at night, when it is nearly always cool. And yet people do live through it and do go about their business and even en- joy it. I never enjoyed a summer better than the first one I lived in Phoenix. It is nearly always cool at night; that is, out of doors, and the people of Arizona know enough to sleep out of doors. And when you have slept out of doors for summer you can never afterwards be made to believe that a house was made to sleep in, whatever else it is good for. The people in Ari zona practically live out of doors three-fourths of the time and the greatest benefit that visitors and in valids get from a trip to Arizona is derived from the outdoor life they live there. For rheumatism, throat and lung troubles, asthma, nervous disorders, kidney, stomach and liv CT complaints there is probably no place that will cure so many as Ar izona. But if you would only live out of doors at home you could get at least part of the benefit which you would get in Arizona.
 In the next place the air is dry and light. It is the same with the heat there as with the cold here. No one could stand the 30 and 40 degrees below zero here if it were not that there is no moisture in the air.
 You can have any kind of eli mate you want in Arizona. For instance, last summer we enjoyed the summer climate of Northern