Bisbee daily review., 1904-04-30
COL. WILSON THROWSH0T SHOT
CONCLUSION OF HIS SPEECH AGAINST THE JOINT STATE
 HOOD BILL.
VIOLATION OF PLEDGES
charued Against tse Republican Party -Arizona's Loyalty anu ne MOT mon Question In Utah Discussed at Close of Session.

mon Question In Utah Discussed at
 Close of Session.
 During the time the joint statehood bin was up for consideration in the house. Col. J. F. Wilson, Arizona $ delegate to congress secured the floor and said in part:
 Literacy.
 Now, want to say to you further, my friends, we have been represented heretofore as standing 29 in percent age to illiteracy. l want to show to you gentlemen how unfair that state ment was. We have 27,500 blanket Indians in that corntry that are not educated. They are illiterate, ana they made about 29 per cent of the country at the time the census was taken in 1900. This is charged to us as ifliteracy, and the man that had it done did not have the fairness to say to the country where he got it. l want to say to you now not single adult in that territory can you find, and you may search for a year, that will not sign his own contract, do his own dealings, read his own agreements, conclude for himself his own business. There is not I per cent. not three fourths of 1 per cent, of the popula- tiCn of that territory that would stand upon the illiterate side.
 ! was over east the other day in a great city and I did not find one man in twenty who could tell me who his congressman was. You can not find 1t so with US. We have more gradu- ates of universities and frst-class col leges in that territory per capita than any state in this Union. We have greater school facilities per capita than any state of the Union. There is no question at all about that. and anyone that inspects it will see. That state ment, therefore, has been made with out any justification.
 Now, have given these facts to you MT. Speaker and gentlemen of the House, in order to show our ability to take care of ourselves. Oou6 ap- plause)
 Loyalty.
 Now, our people are as loyal as your people or anybody else They answer to the long roll as quickly as any people on earth. When the declara- tfon of war was made against Spain for inhumanity and for sinking the Main, our people were the first to en- list They were first to i'll their quota of troops, and demanded to enter more. They were first upon the field. They were first on foreign soil They were first Co face death, and to face it with a smile. They were first to bleed for national honor and the glory of the flag. They were first to lay down their lives for these, and they were first to show you how well they remembered the Maine
 now notice an error in the majority report and an objection or two to our admission as reasons for these hard, heartless, revolutionary proceedings, and shall conclude.
 The majority states that the admis- sion has been on the unit of represen- tation in congress. This is a radical error, for such has never been the case. That has never been considered and urged as a basis for action at any time in the admission of any state, except in the Arkansas case. and that was finally waived and surrendered. Take, for instance, the admission of Oregon. against which there was a great cry that it was sterile, that it was barren, that it was valueless. that was too great, and that therefore, it could never become a valuable state in the commonwealth
 It was urged that the very name con- demned it-"oregona," the name of a sunking weed on the seashore. It was said that it could never be applied to state But after the basis had been gone over, the rule of action and the conduct of a government on 1t through the course of almost a century thor ougbly understood, that state was ad- mitted with population of 52 46e peo- pie, when the basis of representation at that time was 93,423. It was not considered in that case. and that is a part of the country obtained by treaty.
 Take, for instance, the state of Nevada, when it was admitted with 2,491 inhabitants. At that time the basis of representation was over 107. 900. It certainly was not urged, and if urged, it was not followed out then As a matter of fact. it was not urged.
 Take the state of Idaho. IL was ad mitted with a population of 82.5S5 The ratio at that time was 173,S01. Il was not urged CT considered then Idaho was admitted with less popula ticn, and has less now than we have and no one can deny that it is grow ing Commonwealth. It is a prosper ous country It is a valuable state and no one would now say for minute that it was not admitted properly.
 Take Wyoming. with e0,705 people admitted at time when the ratio wa 173.s01. It was not urged then. Th' admission of Kansas was brough about in the same way. When Kansa was admitted the ratio was 93.422. Sh, had at that time less than 77,000 peo pie, according to her census. At tn census following her admission sh had 07,e0e. All of these new state
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