Bisbee daily review., 1904-11-01
HON. MARCUS A. SMITH
 PLEADS ARIZONA'S CAUSE
Extract From Statehood Speech Delivered in Congress on February 10, 1903, When the Omnibus State= hood Bill Was Pending in That Body.


 when we come to the evening repast tired and hungry, you tell us to get away from the table; that We need nothing to eat; that we are doing well enough as it is. The husks which the swine do eat" are good enough for you. The prodigal son of old was met by parental joy and the savory meat of the fatted calf. The other son who never wandered justly found some fault. If that old man had possessed the spirit and heart of the opponents of this bill, he would not only have driven the prodigal away from the door but would have lain in the fence corner and as the faith full boy returned from his day of toll knocked him in the head with brick bat. (Laughter.)
 shame on the man and on the party who would permit political consider ations to blind him to the rights of his fellow-man. The straightest road to a grave and honest heart is along the line of exact justice. This is as true of parties as of individual men. The way to win the West is to be fair and just, and the way to keep it is to remain fair and just. Is either party on this floor so fearful of it's policy as to shun that test? I hope not.
 Mir. Chairman. far. be it from me to follow the example of certain men on this, floor by claiming superiority for my people over the balance of our eountrymen; but I make no boast in asserting that We are your equals in every respect of manhood and citizen ship As was said by Sunset Cos | Cthat versatile and sparkling genius whose service here gave glory to this House.. when speaking of the admis- sion of the Territories under the om- nibus bill of the Fiftieth Congress:
 '-The emigration from the Eastern States constitutes the nerve. the sinew the muscle, and the mind which pene-. trates the wilderness and builds up our Commonwealth. It is the unaided energy which has made a million of men stand in intelligent masses an6 ask of the federal government par ticipation in its blessings and its glor- ies. The pioneer recks not of the pasT, he works in the living present. All the energies of his nature are arcus- ed by the splendid prospects and the glowing inspiration of budding com monwealths. No figure of speech, no flights of the imagination can picture or compass the achievement of this tState-creating and man-ennobHng advancement. Like the eagle to which our country is often compared. he seeks a wider ether for his wing. and the fire within his heart seeks the source of all illumination-the sun itself
 How much nobler and wiser is the effort to install and institute such States in our own land rather than chase the ignis fatuus of island an nexation. There will be time for that when our Territories put off their rudimentary and don their stately robes of independence"
 For nearly forty years Arizona has been a Territory. an6 governed To- calIy by laws of its own making laws second to none in this broad land and executed with fidelity and promptness equal to that of any State in the Union. They demonstrate by this their capaeiey for self-govern- ment. } The day of blood has passed aw1y Good order is kept-better than in most of the States. Titles are no lon ger defended by Winchester rifles. The courts settle all questions of disputed rights to property. Peace and quiet are everywhere supreme The cat tie are herded on the plains: the min CT prospects the mountains for it's hid den treasure; the farmer pursues his , daily avocation with no deadly arms at his side and with no fear in his . heart. Arizona's prosperous future is assured. Law is supreme. Her ! population, by every rule of virtue f education. property. patriotism, and 9 industry. fills to the fullest measure a every requirement of enlightened cit . izenship.
 T Its resources are as boundless as its t mighty area. which is greater in 4x t tent than Maine. New Hampshire d Vermont. Massachusetts. Rhode Is- d laDd. Connecticut. New York and Del 2 aware combined. with enough left tC a make one more State the size of Del U aware and two Rhode Islands. w - have an untouched body of flores l. trees larger in area than the State O e Vermont. while the timber belt o d Northern Arizona covers more lan' n than is contained in Massachusetts