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


the enjoyment of every blessing Of
equal citizenship with you?
The west is by odds the most
American part of America. Here
those features which distinguish
America from Europe come out in
the strongest relief.
In the west all is hustle, motion
and struggle, more so, of course,
among the native Americans. Yet
even the alien from the secluded
valleys of Bohemia or the shores of
some Norwegian ford learns the
ways almost as readily as the
tongue of the country and is soon
swept into the whirlpool of it's en-
ergies. This is the frontier spirit
with its passionate eagerness and
strenuous effort. 1t would extract
the greatest amount of values from
mining hills, territories and fields,
and with passion so absorbing as
to be unselfsh. 1t takes from it's
very vastness tinge of ideality.
1t makes routes for exchangeable
commodities with a rapidity which
seeks a market with one hand and
throttles a monopoly with the
other.
The proposition to make one
state of New Mexico and Arizona
is preposterous. If no other con-
sideration stood in the way, its
size alone would prevent it. They
are much too large for one state,
having a combined area of nearly
100000 square miles. The two ter
ritories are not entirely homoge-
neous and never will be. Such a
union means disaster to both. They
have few things in common except
geographical location. They were
separated forty years ago by Abra-
ham Lincoln for the very reasons
which impel us now to oppose the
reunion.
They have different governments,
different codes, different laws and
different histories. The mountain
divides them. New Mexico's wa
tershed empties into the Gulf of
Mexico, Arizona's into the Gulf of
California. Each territory has
different debts that under one gov
ernment would be difficult of equi-
table adjustment, if, in fact, they
could ever be adjusted at all. Each
has its own capital; Arizona's cost
ing her peoplea vast sum of money.
Arizona will never consent to be-
come part of New Mexico. AS
much as her people hate territorial
dependence they will bear even that
for years and years to come before
consenting to such a proposition.
New Mexico, doubtless feels the
same way. Arizona would never
hold a convention, nor adopt con-
stitution, or take any part in either
if this proposition should prevail.
Arizona wants single statehood,
and wants it badly and deserves it
as much as she wants it. Her peo-
pie feel as California expressed it
in her application for statehood:
"This people request admission
to the Union as state. They un-
derstand and estimate the advan-
tages which will accrue to them
from such connection, while they
trust they do not too highly COM
pute those that will be conferred
upon their brethren.
"They do not present themselves
as supplicants, nor do they bear
themselves with arrogance or pre-
sumption. They come as free
American citizens, by treaty, by
adoption, and by birth, and ask
that they may be permitted to reap
the common benefits, share the COM
mon ills, and promote the common
welfare as one of the United States
of America"
The Santa Fe is spending nearly
half million of dollars on its Kan
saS CITY terminals. and will soon