Williams news. [microfilm reel] (Williams, Ariz.) 1891-19??, 1903-11-07

the western territories for statehood
but repeats the history of mans
struggle for freedom since the Or
ganization of civilized society. But
Arizona and New Mexico have been
opposed with an intensity which
has seized every instrument of ag-
gressive warfare, and have assailed
these territories with falsehood,
calumny and ignorant denuncia-
ton.
l here speak for Arizona alone,
as she stands alone and peerless in
her industries, her resources and
her citizenship. A union with New
Mexico would be disastrous to both
and any step looking to such un-
ion would meet with the opposition
of ninety-fve per cent of the people
of Arizona, who would much pre-
fer to bear the grevious burdens
which we have than fly to others
which we know are worse.
We are as matter of law, ordi-
nance and treaty stipulations en-
titled to statehood as was so lumi-
nously and patriotically shown by
Senator Foraker of Ohio in his
great speech in the Senate last year
when the fillibuster in that body
was going on against the admission
of these territories to the union.
Within the limit of this article
can only hope to suggest a few
reasons to our friends in the east
which may impel them to give us
their aid and comfort in our great
struggle for freedom and indie
pendence.
The government is bound by
treaty obligations the princi-
Piles of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, by the very warp and
wool of the Constitution-by that
spirit of liberty and equality on
which our institutions are built,
and our existence depends, to ad-
NIT Arizona as a state whenever
she is qualified and worthy. That
such is her condition now 1 shall
attempt to demonstrate.
In acquiring that country en-
braced in the Louisiana Purchase,
extending from the Gulf of Mexico
to the southern line of English pos
sessions on this continent, it was
stipulated in the contract entered
into between the great Napoleon
and our greater Jefferson that the
inhabitants of that region should
have guaranteed to them all the
rights of American citizenship, in
Guiding the right of admission to
the union of states.
In order to govern this great ter
ritory the celebrated ordinance of
1887 was adopted which, after pro-
viding for the creation Of states
therein and guaranteeing the same,
article IA, contained the following
guarantee:
at is hereby ordained and de-
clared by the authority aforesaid
that the following articles shall be
considered as articles of compact
betweenthe original states and the
people and the states in said terri
tory, and forever remain unalter-
able except by common consent,
towit: Whenever any of said
states shall have 10000 inha bitants,
such state shall be admitted by it's
Delegate into the Congress of the
United States on an equal footing
with the original states in all re-
spects whatever, and shall be at
liberty to form a permanent con-
stitution and state government"
By this ordinance the grand old
state of Virginia gave to the gen.
eral government the mighty states
of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and
Illinois, and am proud to know
that not one of her representatives
cast vote against the spirit of the
compact their fathers made, no
matter what course was taken by
the representatives of those states
which her generosity gave to the