Bisbee daily review., 1905-09-07
LET THE EAST KNOW.

EAST KNOW.
 There is printed elsewhere in thii issue of the Republican an editorial from the Springfield Republican ou the subject of joint statehood. The Springfield Republican, one of th9 most conservative papers of the cour try, was one of the most ardent oppo- nents of the omnibus bill, but now hay ing learned from an interview with an official of the city government Q, Phoenix that the people of the Tern tory are opposed to jointure, it joins in the opposition to the joint state hood bill to be introduced into the next congress, the bill presumably toI be drawn on the lines of the Hamilton bill, which failed in the last congress The Springfield Republican takes the position that the joining of Arizona to New Mexico against the wn of the former would be an act of injustice
 The chief hope of the people or tnls Territory in the coping struggle must rest upon the sense of justice of the country. All those who opposed singie statehood are not going to support the merger bill, but it behooves Arizonians 30 let it be known that they do not want joint statehood. Otherwise many who have regarded the statehood ques tion as a perplexing one will believ, that iointure is a 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 Terri tories were all open questions upon which the east and 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 to 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 4>ew Mexican advo- cates of jointure were procIaiming, that a majority of the people of this Ter ritory 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 OF 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 transmitted to congress. We beIieve that some work of the kind IS going on in g desultory kind of ay. Remonstrances have been left in the business houses of the Territory and in public offices that these who happen to see them may afhx their signatures and in due time no doubt all these signatures will he sert to W ashington.
 The session of congress is now only about three months in the future When congress opens it may be sur missed that MT. Peyeridge will get busy. There will be nothing desultory n his course. He will be in a con- stant state of activity until joint state hood becomes a fact or failure ATizora Republican.