Bisbee daily review., 1904-12-24

TIME FOR UNITY AND ACTION
 This is no time for faultfnding among the people of Arizona as tc who is to blame for the present condi ton of Arizona as regards the impend. ing danger of joint statehood. The condition confronting us now is one Of alarm at eminent danger to the anton omy of Arizona. According to the statehood bill BOW pending in the United States senate the new state to be created will be completely under the domination of the people of New Mex ico and the people of Arizona will be forced into a government in which they will have little if any part in provid- ing. We will get the name of the new state and New Mexico will get every thing else.
 h fighting tor statehood we believe that the people of Arizona have at all times been patriotic and done that which their honest judgment told them was best under the existing circum- s-arces. In the recent campaign it was maintained that if joint statehood way to be averted we would have to rely upon the democratic senators to defeat the bill by flibuste-ing; the present attitude of the leading repubN- can senators proves that this demo- cratic contention was correct. Unless the democratic senators now defeat the bill by determined dlibustering fight the impending doom will engulf Ari- zons and we will be merged into New Mexico and subjected to condition which to our mind will be wretched.
 The people of Arizona have proved themselves to be worthy of statehood by their indomits ble industry and per- sistent effort in the establishment of one of the best and most literally sup ported public school systems to be found in the United States. In no state or territory do the people pay as much per capita for the support of their public schools as they do in Ari- zons; we have a territorial university which affords the best opportunity to all who desire to pursue the higher branches of educational study; we have two normal schools. and teachers turned out from them rank with those from the normal schools in any state; we have splendid public school build ngs in all the cities and wherever there Is as many as a dozen school-age cbil- dIen school has been provided for t5eir benefit.
 Not only in school buiLdiDg has Ari- zona made creditabIe progress, bat iu church building as well and it is a fact that in 10 state are the people more liberal in the support of their churches. h every settlement the minister is known and is received with welcome when he appears to promote bis religious work.
 For forty one years the people of A-izona looked forward to the time wien the territory would be admitted ls a state. They have knocked for admission many tines in the past and when denied have redOubled their energies in she work of better prepar- ing themselves for the boon to which they looked forward to as a heritage. T1is heritage they had a right to ex- pect, as in the history of the country ell the territories had been admitted to statehood without any attempt to join them together or destroy their political rights h one instance one. of the territories was cut in twain and two states was the result instead of one North and South Dakota. but of all territories granted statehood in the past