The copper era., 1904-09-08
JOINT STATEHOOD DISCUSSION.
Delegate Rodey Presents Some Interest.
 ing Facts On the Subject.

m ing Facts On the Subject. I The position of the ERA on tn !, Joint statehood proposition is wel
 known. It is unalterably opposed t
 T union with New Mexico, and vii
 h'ht the scheme to a finish. But in ' asl1uch as the admission of the two
 ter tories may become d living issue
 the following statement concerninp
 '- r1posed mersseer <. rom 4sss' f,e a.ss '- isodey. the delegate from New Mex
 .co. will prove interesting reading: F The statehood question as it stand sf present. renders it not all improh C ar that the joint statehood bill vii d l. passed by the senate during tn, Il coming session of congress.
 It may happen. Therefore, it ma c not be amiss to consider the thing.
 that will come with joint statehood ? The name Arizona will be the mos, , beautiful of any of the states: it is r euphonious: it begins and ends with a vowel; 1t will be published second. next after Alabama, in all govern mental, census, statiscal and other
 reports. The state will be called
 away up at the head of the list in all
 national and other conventions. and
 will have such directing power as
 that fact will give it wherever it is represented.
 It will start with q population of
 more than half million of people.
 and will thus take d rank at once in | population and in congressional
 representation with Colorado, Florida
 New Hampshire, Oregon, Rhode Is- land, South Dakota and Washington. From the start it will be away ahead of Delaware, Idaho, Montana, Ne vada, North Dakota, Utah, Vermont and Wyoming. What a new sensa. ton of importance and responsibility | that fact will give the heretofore diSfranchised inhabitants of New Mexico and Arizona,
 The new state will be the second Tn the union in area, being surpassed only by Texas. It will be the lowest taxed state in the nation, because if will have about $700. .OOO. 900 worth of property to return for taxes to SUD- port the state, and it's constitution VIII, no doubt, cont ain limit of of $ per cent. for all purposes -af-s---1I, tiou ussss...tlx~TrS SON erelgn car eer with two senators and three repre- ,entatives in congress, whose voice will be heard in the nation. | That will be much more satisfactory than the voteless voice of two dele gates. The great state will have two United States courts. an eastern and , western one. It will have nearly ( 25. .OoO. .OO0 acres of land given to the ! state government for public schools , and institutions This is the most I princelv donation ever conceded to new state It may, also. receive donation of SlO,000,o00 to he kept ln- violate as a common school fund.
 The territories joined together will have to take on new dress: < will have to turn over new leaf: will have to realize it's responsibill- , ties. old political rings will be blot , ted out: the line between the terri . tories will he forgotten: new polltl- cal divisions will occur along regular . party lines. without reference to , former existing territorial lines. The people realize that they are citl- zens of the United States with a state: that they are part of the great government. over which the nao floats: that they have d voice Tn the policies of the nation. that they are no longer political nondescrlpts; that they have q right to vote tor the president, the vice-president, tor senators and representatives,: that they can elect their own governor. their own judges. and all their own state officers. all of whom will be re- sponsible to the people who elect them. and not to far away admlnls tration at Washington.
 The people will soon appreciate that they do not have to go to Wash ington for every change in their local laws that contravenes their or
 panic acts, but that they can go to
 their own local legislature, which | will be a respectable great state Legislature, of -whieh-their citizens will be proud to be members, and get
 what legislation they want at once
 without waiting several years until
 their voteless delegates could beg
 the favors from congress. Each
 political party in the new state will
 find it expedient to put forward tor once their ablest and most upright citizens. because no other kind could
 be elected.
 Every race of people living in
 either territory will have to be duly
 considered at the nominating con-
 vention of all political parties, be-
 cause the party refusing to do so would have to take the consequence at the polls.
 The advertising that the new great state will get at its birth through all the press of the nation will be the greatest that the area embraced in it has ever received. The attention of the nation will be directed to it. The provisions of it's new constitu- tion will be advertised throughout t.xr- n 1 r.