Bisbee daily review., 1905-11-29
A FRIEND OF THE TERRITORIES.

 zona and New Mexico, and is using its great influence for the defeat of any joint statehood bill which may be brought into congress, and it further urges that no attempt to join the two territories be made. A late editorial of the Journal says:
 Tt will never be right to make one state of Arizona and New Mexico. The two territories are entitled to preserve each its own existence either as ter ritory or a state. One is almost ex- clusively an agricultural country, and the other is pre-eminently devoted to mining. The difference between the two Is much like the difference be- tween Kansas and Colorado. The people in each have made a magnfi- cent struggle to bring about better conditions and have succeeded. In each case the wilderness has been overcome by the splendid efforts of brave men and women, who have sub jected themselves to the hardships of frontier life and have learned to love the names of the vast areas for the betterment of which they have spent their entire lives. They know (whether the east knows it or not) that a future of magnificent growth and prosperity is in store for each territory-that mining development and the results of irrigation and other means of enrichment will bring to each a most important relation to the United States-a relation that fully warrants the dignity of statehood. All the recognized principles whi:h have governed the action of congress with reference to new states are in favor of separate statehood The great de- bates in congress on the new states show that the territories have almost an inalienable right to remain as sin gle states. The geographical great ness of the territories in question is such as to render it impossible that the two should be united with satis- faction to the people. In short, all the considerations seem to be in fa- vor of separate existence. It is to be hoped that no attempt at consol- idation will ever be made"
 The Journal believes that not only should Arizona and New Mexico not be consolidated, but that they should be admitted each as state, and thus disposes of the only argument that has really been offered against sepa- rate statehood.
 "The only consideration that can, with any show of plausibiiity, be urged against separate statehood for Arizona and New Mexico is that the states of small population ought not to be given so large a representation in the senate of the United States Idaho. Utah and Nevada are pointed to as examples of unimportant states having as many senators as the em- pires of Texas and New York, and
  anced condition ought not to be made worse than it already is. There might be force in this suggestion if it were the theory of our constitution that senators should be efected on the basis of population. Such is not the theory. Senators are supposed to be wise men, of national rather than provincial size, selected on the ar bitrary plan of having two from each state. If small size and small popu- lation were to be fatal objections Delaware, Rhode Island, West Vir- ginia, Vermont, New Hampshire and other states would lose their places in the senate It is true that some of the states of small population have seemed at times to be rotten bor- oughs,' but as a rule the smaller states have sent stronger men to the sen ate than the larger states. Webster, Sumner, Hoar, Aldrich, Bayard, Ed munds, Morrill, and a hundred other instances could be named There is every reason to expect New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma to send just as good men to the senate as New York, Pennsylvania or Texas. Mis- souri wa sa small state in popula- ton when Benton went to the sen ate. So were the states represented by Clay, Calhoun, and hundreds oi others who could be named. There is the further consideration that ir all probability New Mexico and Ari zona will before many years have very large populations as compared witt all the smaller states in the east The
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 irrigation, the growth of the health seeking population, the influx of tour
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 all combine to push. the population
 of the present territories near to O