Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-17
C0NGRESSMEN PLEASED
WITH OUTLOOK IN ARIZONA
GREAT BENEFIT is LIKELY TO
FOLLOW THEIR VISIT
Conditions Are Better Than Those
Which Existed In the Dakotas or
Nebraska Some Years Ago, Says
Representative Madden


Representative Madden
The recent visit of the congressional
party to Arizona Is certain to result
in benefit and the friends of separate
| statehood feel a confidence In the
action of the federal law makers that
was lacking heretofore. So greatly i'm
pressed were the members of the dele
cation with the wonderful resources of
the territory that they gave free ut
terance to their feeling. Nature was
in her happiest wood; the vast derests
had doffed their sumbre hue and
everything was green while the air was
balmy and exhilerating-so different
from the popular notion Of Arizona
No wonder the guests were charmed
and determined that a country having
suchpossibilities is entitled to stand
alone when the call comes for her to
enter the charmed circle of state.
In giving his impression to the Bisbee
Review, Congressman Martin B. Mad
den of Chicago said:
What 1 have seen on my trip
through Arizona leads me to the con-
clusion that the industrial develop
ment of the territory, though of great
Importance, is but in its infancy. I
feel sure that with the energy, enter
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citizenship that the great mineral
wealth of the territory is bound to
become an important factor in the
commercial relations Of the country.
The present yield of the mines of the
territory should, in the not far distant
future, be enormously increased, and
have no doubt from what I have
seen of the disposition of Arizona's
citizens to invest in this feature Of its
development, that it will be soon rec
Ugnized by citizens of the states as :
place in which capital can be safely
and prof1tably invested.
Conditions Excellent
THE conditions here are, In my
Judgment, better than those which,
few years ago, existed in the. Dakotas
or Western Kansas, Nebraska and
Colorado. The citizenship of the ter
ritory is such as to command itself
to the confidence of thinking Ameri-
cans from every state in the union.
Their patriotism and devotion to good
government is bound to place it among
the influential factors in the nations
commercial units The educational
system enforced everywhere through
out the territory is evidenced by the
systematic and proficient corps of
teachers employed in the various pub
lie institutions of learning where the
children of the different municipali-
ties are afforded every opportunity for
an education which may be found in
the more thickly settled and highly de-
veloped portions of the country. The
authorities of the local communities
are to be complimented on the conduct
of the school children which it has
been my privilege to see in large num-
bers in every town which 1 have
visited. Coming generations can not
foj 10 1Do bo ioo
of the patriotic teachings carried on
under the public school system in
vogue throughout the territory.
I think it would be unjust to the
people of Arizona to force them into
the union against their will as men,
bers of a state consisting of New Mex
leo and Arizona. I believe that if the
people of this territory are permitted
10 make their own way in the develop
ment of the mineral and agricultural
resources with which it aboundss the
day viii come when the governing
powers of the union will feel justified
in admitting Arizona as a single state.
I believe that the present agitation for
joint statehood or for any statehood
would have a restraining influence on
the investment of capital. l believe
that if all agitation were stopped and
it was understood that the question
of statehood was to be held in allegiance
for the present, and the people under
stood that the territory was to be gov
erned by the national government for
the present, and that it's admission into
the union would be dependent upon its
progress, that a new impetus would be
given to the development of its re-
sources; that greater effort would be
made to secure the investment of new
capital and that with the investment
of this new capital Arizona would
so1n ,.1 Wit MI
to invite the admiration of the nation.
IF the statehood question is to be
considered at all by the coming con-
Vress, Vt Is my opinion that a vote of
the people of the territory should be
required to decide whether the admis-
sion of the territory into the union is
desired on the terms which may be
proposed by congress, or whether 1t
should be admitted jointly with New
Mexico, or not at ALL"
Tawney Surprised
Congressman James A. Tawney Of
Minnesota, one of the most influential
members of the house, in speaking of
the trip said:
"Our visit through the territories of
New Mexico and Arizona is entirely
unofficial and voluntary. Having passed
through New Mexico on the way to
Arizona on business in May and July,
found upon only a Superncial inquiry,
conditions in both territories much diff
ferent than had been previously repre-
sented to be. I had no idea of the enor-
nous development which Is going on
both In agriculture and the mineral
resources of the territory. This was a
great surprise to me and I felt that
inasmuch as I had to return to ArI-
zona this month, would endeavor to
get as many Of my colleagues in the
house to accompany me as possible in
order that they might from personal