Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-07-26
R0OEY B0OMS
JOINT STATEHOOD
lContlnned from Pave ID

Continued from PAGE I'D
cause no other kind could be elect.
ed.
Every aee Of people living in eth
er territory will have to be duly con
sidered at the nominating conyen-
tons of all political parties, because
the party refusing to az SO would
have to take the consequence at the
polls.
The advertising that the new state
will get at its birth through all the
press of the nation will be the great
est that the area embraced in It has
ever received. The attention of the
nation will be directed to it. The
provisions of Its new constitution will
be advertised throughout the land.
Its low taxation will attract people and
capital. Progress from the very birth
of the state will take on a new rush
that will last throughout a genera,
tion. and will grow in momentum as
it progresses. The magnificent school
fund will attract people and the educa-
ton of the masses in the great state
will bring the jurisdiction into the
front rank inside OF a decade.
Influence Of the great state in national
councils will be great from the very
start.
It's senators and representatives will
see to it that the national government
at once adjusts and pays all the many
war claims, and claims for militia SER
vice. Indian depredations, etc, that
have remained unsettled for two gen
erations. They will, also, sec 70 It
that proper public buildings, such as
postoffiees, court houses, aston
houses, etc, are promptly erected at
all proper places in the great state:
and they will see to it that the wat
ers now going to waste down to the
seas are all properly impounded and
made available in irrigation enter
prises that will bring under cultiva
tian millions of acres Of land that are
now non-productiye; and they will see
to it that due recognition is given cit
liens of the new state in running the
national government. It viii not be
long after the admission until citf
zens of Arizona will be in the de
partments at Washington, and occupy
ing all sorts Of position in the island
possession, in the consulates, in the
army and navy, in the embassies, on
all great boards and commissions an6
in the cabinet even, and some of then
Wilt grace the judicial benches even t6
the supreme court Of the Unitet
States. It may not even be a wild pre-
diction that some of our present citi
zens may live long enough to see
citizen of the new state in the Whit,
I. House itself.
All this will come with any sort o
statehood, but there are those who be
Y lieve and have arguments to sustain
their beliefs, that II will come In great
er ratio with joint statehood thai
with separate statehood. The oppor
tunity to change our present condl
ton for the conditions here depicte'
Is liable to arise In the short session
OF congress next winter, and It be
hooves our people to prepare thei
minds for the possibility. The think
ing people of the two territories mus
come forward and assert themselves
Selfshness should be for the time lai,
aside, and craftsmanship wherever !
exists should be brought to the from
for the benefits Of all the people.
Our citizens should not permit eth
err political party at their coming loca
territorial conventions to embarras
them in their desire for progress b.
any mere passing political plank II