Bisbee daily review., 1904-11-01


 government is inherently bad. There is no apology for it when the people are capable of maintaining a govern Irent of their own. fear the coun- try does not know the trials. tribuia- tions-yea, horrors-to which the reople are subjected under it. Fol- lowing the example of MT. Toole of Montana. when pleading for state hood. and using at times his language will proceed to a recital of our wrongs.
 Congress has given us system of courts inherently wrong. It has reg ulated the number of our judges, which is grossly inadequate, and re- suits often in delay and often in de- uial of justice. It denied US the auth crity to call an extra session of the lesislatu-e unless the will of the Pres ident be first consulted. It reserves the righ. to annul the law our Legis- Iature uay pass. thus destroying the faith ard credit of our public acts. l. reserves the right to destroy any
  has actually validated and made bind ing on US a lot of illegal. worthless railroad bonds which the Supreme Court os the United States had prev Iously declared void and of no effect It has bound us hand and foot by 2 law prohibiting us from expending cur OWE money on public improve 1nents, no matter how urgent our ne oessities
 It has stified industries by prohib- iting us from selling mining proper ties in foreign markets. thus. laying CT us a- embargo not borne by the states.
 It has exempted 400 miles of rail- road from taxation in Arizona. and refuses to survey the enormous land grant of said road so that taxes on 1he land might be imposed by the Territory.
 It has withheld from us our dowry If lands which belong to our school fund ard refuses us all control over ir until we become a State, and then refuses Us Statehood.
 It gives us no representation in either House of Congress. yet imposes taxes br7densome to be borne.
 It has imposed every burden of cit izenship and withheld it's benefits by denying us the right to participate in federal legislation and 8 voice in the enactment of laws by which we are to be bound.
 It has even refused to appropriate the salaries provided by law for the hungry officials 1t has sent us.
 It has deprived the>frontier settle rnents Of proper postal facilities. pro- ceeding upon the unjust and imprac- tlcable tasis that every postofice should be self-sustaining-
 It has persistently refused to pass laws by which timber lands could be sold or leased and has hedged the linn lied right to take timber for any pur- nose with odious and impracticable rules, harassing the people with ex- pensive suits, based on the ex parte statements of an obseauious special agent, who has found that his term of office depends on his activity iD stirriDg up strife.
 It has srrited settlements in the Ter ritories on the promise that property should bs protected against Indian ,-predations. Millions of dollars of just cIalr-.s, mndewed by age and still ,nnaid are piled up in the depart .aents, while the heroes of those rreubIesc.ne times grown weary oi your injustice and the burden of wears. have passed to where beyond these voices theIe is peace"
 And last. but not least. it has fas- tened upon us an odious system oi earpetbag rule.
 The administrations have been bound by party platforms to relieve this un- holy and unnecessary system, but al have failed. Do not you remember that sending hither a swarm of of acials" vas one of the indictment against the Crown in our Declaration ot Independence. and was one of thu causes of the war of our father against Great Britain? From that da, untn this hour the name and oceupa ton of the carpetbagger was and i odIcus to a free, self-respecting peo ple. The insolence of office conse cuent or these alien appointments i almost tnbearable. The imported of flee holder owes nothing to the peopl whom he attempts to rule. and hay ing no Interest in common with then cares little except for the emoiument which ts and his henchmen cal squeefe from the unwilling subject of his wrongful power.
 Mr. Chairman. will not longer asl