Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-12-27
Ed,toy,a7 Comment
MISREPRESENTATION AND FALsEHooD.

Probably the dastardy arocous libel committed against suffering people published the last of The Outlook article dealing with the joint statehood question The arguments contained therein merely many puee attempts to blink tie real issue before the legislators Washington the people of hinges on the weathebeaten shbboleth posed to be exercised by the mining and railroad fight hoayheaded calumnv of the m norance and teracy of the people of the fact that such addced advocacy joint statehood proof conclusive that the writer of the article question wfully blind existing conditions hopeessy enveoped in the ignorance regard the subject which he proses discuss in his magazine:
 peculiar many the and their readers and mary legislators from that they willing take their opinions secondhand from men like Beveridge always bitterly opposed the territories
 beyond comprehension No attempt made by people their knowledge first hand and by personal inquiry the spot And appears to be overwhelming argument the fight making for nde- pendence legislators have instituted unbiased inquiry into the state hood matter that these gentlemen have away from our midst
 complete accord with the people of Arizona heroic attempt being made the grand old territory from being hrottled and its political life crushed out
 However deal seam with the false and sanderou state printed the Outlook Arizona mining territory Its population mining population liable great huctuaton Twen ynne the population neither read write and out
 of Phoenix Tucson the proportion
 deraby greater The lie contained the last nngy concealed scarcely be apparent first The writer carefully neglected per cent was composed almost wholly of Indians Such acknowledgment would have destroyed the effectiveness of his We will here that there college graduates section o found any similar section in the United States and will pit people, far education con against of the New England or What grounds making these assertions We refer the educational statistics and the fact that for very many Arizona has, by paying her teachers the highest paid territory secured the the teach ing profession for her schools economic theory that ignor and poverty always associated and the opposite to this theory hold good know the per capita wealth of the Arizona has enabled them reach Of culture and utterly beyond the belief of the average To preciate fully doubtng and live and judge of conditions they really exist What mental obtusene exemped by such writers he of The Outlook Are always be cassd the old Arizona the Bret Hare days the shrine of wiu bndeyed ignorance the altar of political expediency?
 given world through the medium of the Out co article stating that Arizona @ mining territory and its population mining population Does this pdanc writer know millions of land under cultivation by of r rgation territory Arizona Is he of the will added list when the great Tonto is operation What about the possb
 of the land lying along the Colorado for hundreds of miles
 from the Grand Canyon the mouth of the gulf Yuma? What the millions of dollars yearly produced from the soil the val
 and around Tempe and Phoenix? And with all this as experts acknowledge agricultural other allied industries yet in their infancy
 But do deny that territory mining territory Wei and beyond all things proud of the fact and sa