Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1905-10-09
or perhaps converted into normal
school.
Proud of School system

Proud of School System
ARIZONA is proud of her public school
system, which is the equal of any state
In the Union. Arizona has provided
fine public school buildings and the
children of the territory are all pro-
vided with good schools wherever there
are ten living within a radius of four
miles.
Liberal appropriations are made an
nualIy by the Arizona legislature for
the support of the university and nor
NAL schools, the industrial school and
other institutions, while in New Mexico
the liberal appropriations go to con-
vents and parochial schools, while the
public school system has remained in
great neglect in the past
with Joint statehood there will be no
one to guarantee that the splendid pub
lie school system of Arizona will be
preserved and not supplanted by the
inadequate system in New Mexico.
Joint statehood would begin in great
confusion and continue in growing
strife between the two sections.
Speaker Cannon will have ample
opportunity for disabusing his mind of
many erroneous statements which have
grown out of the report made by Sena-
tor Beveridge of Indiana, who visited
the territory four years ago to make
observations in connection with the
plea of Arizona for statehood.
THAT was during the tendency of
the omnibus statehood bill. Beverage
reported that the territory had reached
practically the limit of Industrial de-
velopment.
"Mr. Cannon will find that since the
visit of Mr.. Beveridge, Arizona has ad-
vanced more rapidly in the development
Of her resources than during any four
years since 1t was cut from New
Mexico.
HE will find that to accommodate
the great Warren mining district alone
at Bisbee there has been purchased and
constructed more than 800 miles of rail-
Dawson, N. NJ, also owned by the
mining company which did the railroad
building and purchasing.
He will find at Douglas city of
5000 people which had barely been sur
veyed on the occasion of the visit Of
Senator Beveridge to Arizona.
Worlds Largest SmeIter
HE will find that in Douglas is now
practically completed the largest copper
smelling plant in the world. He will
find a second smelter producing 100000
pounds of copper per month. He will
find that in Douglas has been expended
more money during the past year for
schools and churches than in any five
counties in New Mexico during the
same length of time.
HE will find here $4,000 in public
school buildings, $4,000 in a Y. M. C. A.
building now nearly ready for occu-
pancy, and he will find churches which
cost in the aggregate more than $4,000,
and all this since the declaration of Mr..
Beveridge that Arizona had reached
the limit of Industrial development.
"At every point included in the itin-
erary of Speaker Cannon he will see
evidence of great industrial expansion
from the time he enters Arizona until
he leaves it.
'At every point he will find prac>
tically unanimous sentiment against
joint statehood. He will find that the
people of Arizona would prefer to re-
main indefinitely under the present ter
ritorial form of government than to
agree to jointure.
IF Mr.. Cannon is seeking to learn
the true conditions in Arizona the peo-
pie of Arizona feel that when he shall
have passed through the mining dis
tricts, the agricultural valleys and Sthe
pastural ranges of this territory he will
agree that Arizona is entitled to sepa-
rate statehood and be ready to acquiosce
in the just supplications of our people"