Bisbee daily review., 1905-10-10
DON'T BE A GUTTER.

Our esteemed contemporary, WnO al present is laboring under a severe at tack of capitalized menegitis, threw another it in the double column de- partment last evening in an effort to convince the people of Bisbee that we are doomed to be joined with New Mexico ill the distasteful bands oI joint statehood.
 The article would have been timely. penned six months ago. but there is. no mistaling the change of sentiment that is sweeping over the country against this iniquitous measure, not only confined to the Territories of Ari- zona and New Mexico. but reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific. That this was the policy of the Republican party regarding these two territories at the beginning of 1905, none will de ny, and if the people of Arizona and New Mexico had been content then 10 accept the apparently inevitable, or in other words to assume the position now occupied by the evening paper in this city, we doubt not that the plans
  forthcoming session. Instead of sitting down with folded hands, wrapped in a spirit of resigna- ton, to receive the blow that meant the annihilation of the bright pros poets of Arizona, and a condition distasteful to every loyal Arizonan and inimical to the interests and welfare of it's people. he friends of Arizona went to work to present their claims and argume- $ against the Hamilton bill This work has been carried on individually and collectively until Congress has been made to realize that . a majority of the citizens of both New Mexico and Arizona are unaIterably opposed to the proposed jointure, and this information has been borne in upon them by their own constituents as a result of private efforts of our people at home.
 It has been a long and persistent endeavor, but result of those efforts are beginning to be realized. The sentiment is changing, and no surer index could be had than the editorial expressions of such papers as the St. Louis Republic, Cincinnati Enquirer, Golfers Weekly. and a score of othe- influential journals of the east.
 Another sign of the times are the expressions of Senators and Congress men both privately and publicly. Ari- zona will never be joined with New Mexico as one state. Mark this pre- dictiOn. As a last remedy the people of New Mexico and Arizona will vote down the constitution, but every indi- cation points now that the joint state hood bill in the next House of Repre- sentatives will die in committee. Our candid opinion now IS that there will be no statehood legislation for AriZo- na or New Mexico at the hands of the rext Congress. TEe victory is in sight, and this is no time for a vacil- Iating policy or weak-kneed positions. The fight is on, and only the cowari admits defeat before the last gun is fired. It is to te regretted that there should be any attempt at this time to make it appear that the citizens of Arizona were resigned to their fate and ready to quit the fight The peO- pie of Arizona are fighting for their birthright, guaranteed them at the time of the Gadsden purchase, and 5us- tained by every precedent in the histo " of this glorious Republic.
 The Review has no desire to mislead the people of Arizona on this the most important question that has ever con. frOnted the territory. Our message to you is 10 be of good cheer and keeI up the fight. Arizona is adding strength to her cause with each sue ceeding day. We are not without our friends abroad, and endorsements are in sight, who with their combined efforts in our behalf, will give us the victory, despite the croakings of the timid, who want to cut tail and run when we are in the thickest of the fray.