Arizona republican., 1903-01-17


 one personally. it is exceedingly bad taste for the gentleman from Norway to deny freedom to any territory, es- pecially those he knows nothing about. The committed of which Senator Da- wis was chairman unanimously author ized a favorable report, which was sub mitted by the late Stephen M. White, of California, whose great ability was recognized throughout the country, in striking contrast with the present sem ator on the committee from that state, who so glaringly misrepresens his con- stituents. This senator is quoted as having said that Arizona has reached it's limit of development, its mines will play out, it's population decrease, and it can reclaim no more arable land, etc. I hesitate to believe it possible that senator of the United States could either be so ignorant or so vicious as to make such a statement. If he made it. however, and 1 have no denial from him, he Is guilty of little less than crime against Arizona, as well as his own state, and merits the unforgfving | resentment of our people. The terri torial committees of both houses of | congress in tn" past have never eXhib- ited such prejudice and unfairness, but | now 1t seems that in order to insure the success of their conspiracy the en- emies of statehood must needs assault | our credit and good name, caring nOth- ! ing for the injury they cause, so long as their false allegations can be used as material with which to deceive the | people and accomplish the defeat of the omnibus bill.
 A more fragrant abuse of legislative privileges has never been exeNised in the upper house of congress since the | formation of this government. No we'll founded nor logical excuse can be presented for the outrage that is being | attempted. It is worse than the mis- | directed statesmanship of New En- gland in years gone by. If Webster and l Winthrop could have had their way. we would be a circumsscribed and | dwarfed nation, with neither, Texas, | Oregon, California. nor the other four teen great states within the Louisiana | purchase. Some republican senators who are ultra partisans, but whose honesty I do not question. claim to be | afraid that if the territories embraced in the omnibus bill are admitted as states they will be democratic. While statehood is not and should not be | the proposition on that score. Colorado was admitted by the democrats. think ing it would be a democratic state. and for years it was republican, then dem ocratic. and now republican again; also Utah. They soon became democratic, and now they are republican. In my | judgment, at least two of the territories now seeking admission will be repub- lican states.
 "Other conscientious senators are misled by the misrepresentations that | are being made and are honest in their opposition, while others are indifferent and content to follow the guidance of | some legislative veterans in the senate who are seeking to perpetuate their power regardless of national interests. Otherwise the omnibus bill would very promptly pass.
 REAL REASON or OPPOG1T-O2y.
 As I said in the beginning, it is not
 my purpose to write upon the fitness of
 the territories, their resources, popu-
 lation, etc, but to endeavor to expose
 the real reason a certain coterie of
 long-service senators who are opposing
 admission.
 All the talk about too few people,
 too little money. absence of permanent
 resources, too much illiteracy, politics,
 etc, is simply being made to divert at
 tention from the real motives of the
 opposition. The few senators who have
 come to think themselves the elect of
 God Almighty, and who, in an auto ; cratic way, presume to dominate leg islation in the senate as though by di- , vine edict. do not want the sacred pre-
 cincts where they think they rule SUI preme rudely disturbed by the intro , duction of any more senators, no mat , ter what their political complexion may
 be; they do not want what they arc
 pleased to call the equilibrium of the senate" which they control. upset. There you have the case pure and
 simple. There is no other motive wha r. ever inspiring the few self-constitutet
 rulers of the United States senate f Where does the statesmanship come in . And wherein is the nation interested
 in the arrogant selfishness of the few
 who neither by any especial brlllianc, 9 of brains nor legislative work hay, !, earned the right to override the public D will? The west is coming on witt
 mighty strides; the maritime commerce. of the Pacific has increased tenfol.
 in a decade. We have developed , great trade in the Orient. Why should
 not the west be fully represented Oh, say some of the self-constitute,
 elect. if the western people are ac
 corded any more representation the, will combine with the south and con ? trol the legislation of the country. Upon what? When within the histor, l of the country has the west been fount
 anything but intensely loyal and pa l triotic? What possible question affect
 ing the stability of the republic coulC
 come up upon which western senator
 would not vote with as much intelli
 gence and patriotism as would thei
 eastern brothers? Sectionalism onl,
 exists as a menace within the minds O
 the uninformed and unfair. Req
 statesmanship should encourage the ad
 mission of the remaining territories o
 this continent into the union and giV ! tC the west the representation to whic it is entitled. oh. my, That migh
 give the control of the senate to tn
 west said a senaor the other day, a
 though some awful calamity wer \ threatened. Bosh! No section shoul