Arizona republican., 1905-09-04
PHOENIX. ARIZONA. SEPT. 4, 1905.
Let the East Know.

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 There is printed elsewhere in this issue of The Republican an editorial from the Springfield Republican on the subject of joint statehood The Springfield Republican, one of the most conservative papers of the coun- try. was one of the most ardent Op- ponents of the omnibus bill. but now having learned from an interview with an official of the city government or Phoenix that the people of the terri tory are opposed to jointure. 1t joins in the opposition to the joint state hood bill to be introduced into the next congress, the bill presumably to be drawn upon the lines of the Hamil- ton bill which failed in the last con- gress The Springfield Republican takes the position that the joining of Arizona to New Mexico against the will of the former would be an act of injustice.
 The chief hope of the people of this territory in the coming struggle must rest upon the sense of justice of the country All those who opposed sin gle statehood are not going to support the merger bill but it behoOves Ari- Zonians to let it be known that they do not want joint statehood. Other wise many who have regarded the statehood question as a perplexing one will believe that jointure is good way to dispose of the matter for all time.
 We cannot accuse all who fought single statehood of injustice. The un- desirability of further western repre- sentation in the senate. the lack of wealth and population in the territo- ries were all open questions upon which the east and the west might be expected to disagree. But the forcing of Arizona into the proposed alliance is admittedly an injustice which the papers of the east are generally con ceding when their attention is called 10 the prevailing sentiment in this territory.
 The trouble is. though. that so little is known throughout the east about the sentiment of Arizona. Only a short time ago Senator Foraker found it necessary to ask an Arizonian if it were true, as the New Mexican ad- vocates of jointure were proclaiming, that a majority Of the people of this territory had come out in favor of the merger. All that the east knows of the feeling in Arizona is gathered from isolated interviews Of residents of the territory who happen to meet and talk with eastern newspaper men.
 We believe that some time ago a territorial convention was called for the purpose of giving the people an opportunity to express themselves on the subject of joint statehood. If we remember rightly the expression was strongly against jointure and some sort of an organization was effected for the purpose of calling out a more complete expression and putting it into such form that it could be trans mitted to congress. We believe that some work of that kind is going on in a desultory kind of way. RemOn- strances have been left in the business houses of the territory and in public offices that those who happen to see them may affix their signatures and in due time no doubt all these signatures will be sent to Washington.
 The session of congress is now only about three months in the future. When congress opens it may be sur missed that MT. Beveridge will get busy. There will be nothing desultory in his course. He will be in a con- stant state of activity until joint statehood becomes a fact or a failure.