Bisbee daily review., 1903-08-09
ARiZoNA's PERIL.

of the bubonic plague is threatening Arizona. It is not a pestilence that VIII carry of the people of the ter.
 Pory but in the east, where the great political coups are consumms,ad
 shre"d politicians are plotting the "iping out of the territory of Arizona entirely It is to disappear from the race or the map forever. if the
 scheme is successfully culminated. ana the destinies of Arizona are to
 De merged with New Mexico.
 mere is no longer any doubt that there is a determination on tbe n,r. or the republican leaders in congress 10 join the territories of Arizona ana
 New Mexico together and admit tbe two as one State This womb ha q serious calamity to the people of this territory. It would be forcing tban into a condition that would be moro unsatisfactory than their present con. dltion as residents of a territory
 The people of Arizona have earnestly deslred for many years to have the territory admitted as A state but they would much prefer to continue under the present territorial govern. ment than to receive statehood as A
 part of New Mexico We bell va the people of Arizona will oppose this proposition of the republicans with greater zeal than they have ever ex.
 hibited in the fight for admission.
 There is more reason now for the ] citizens of this territory to be aler. than ever before In this fight dem ocrats and republicans will be found battling side by side to preserve the identity of this territory whose flu ture was never brighter than at the present time.
 That Arizona is destined at no very distant date, to support a large ! population is no longer a question for argument The mining centers of the territory are advancing by leaps | and bounds, and the inauguration of the work on the Tonto reservoir. the largest in the world. marks a new era in this territory. which in the end will make Arizona the equal, if not peer of any political subdivision in the west.
 The last republican national con- vea,ion promised the territories of Arizona Oklahoma and New Mexico early admission 10 the union When Arizona presented herself in con junction with her other western sis ters, and asked for a fulfllment Q. those pledges, the republican sena- tors were kept busy for forty days in the most notorious game of fiji buster in the annals of the senate, and all this in an atempt to defeat their own promises
 Arizona is entitled to the same 1 treatment as has been received by all 1 other states of the great west; when Arizona was made a territory that act carried a pledge to the people of the territory that when they became sufficiently numerous and had devel- oped sufficient wealth to support a state government the territory should be admitted to the sisterhood of states. Does anyone doubt that l Arizona today is lacking in require ments necessary to entitle it 10 statehood under the same rules that have allowed the admission of all the territories west of the Mississippi river? If anyone doubts this propo- sition it is because they are not in | formed as to what is to be found l here; we have ample wealth to SUD- port a state; we have a population greater than three-fourths of the ter ritories had when they were admitted
 as states; we have citizenship that
 will compare with any section of the union in intelligence. patriotism and i energy. The public school system | in this territory, which provides ey- 1 cry child in it with an opportunity
 Q secure an education is a guarantee
 of the kind of state government such
 people create and support.