Arizona republican., 1905-12-27
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, DEC. 27, 1905.
The Fate of the University.

The Republican has received two circulars, constituting a part of the literature being disseminated by the Albuquerque Joint Statehood league. One of them is intended for the con- version of Arizonians and the other for the stiffening of the backs of New MeXicans. The former is @ demagOgiC outburst against the mining and rail- road corporations of this territory in the general strain of those incendia- ries, who, from the earliest times, have tried to inflame the prejUdices of the people by telling them that their interests must be antagonistc to those of the corporations; that what is good for one must necessarily be bad for the other. This circular is not of in tense local interest. Its subject-mat- ter has already been gone over pretty thoroughly
 The other is of some local interest. It deals with certain statements by Col. Epes Randolph in a late interview and to which the Republican lately al- luded in connection with a criticising editorial by the Albuquerque Journal.
 The little statehood coterie at Tue son has been assuring the people of that city that it would be able to save the Territorial University from the wreck which it is trying to precipitate. Hon. F. s. Rodey at the late convention at Tucson repeated this assurance, in spite of the we'll known fact that the university would under the law which gives it mainte- nance disappear with the merger; that is. that either it or the New Mexican Territorial University would disap pear. The law could not permit an appropriation for two such institu- tions in a single state.
 The following extract from the AL buquerque circular foreshadows the fate of the Arizona university if the merger should become a fact:
 MT. Randolph next tells us that the university of Arizona would be dis mantled, almost to a certainty by joint statehood, though he doesn't tell us why. But another valiant fighter in the cause of the mining companies who signs himself Winfield Scott ex- chancellor of the university is less discreet than MT. Randolph, and lets the cat out of the bag by publicly giv- ing away the fact that the university is supported by diverting to the use of that institution the $4O,OOO a year of the Morrill, fund, which should be de- voted solely to the development of az riculture. The indiscretion of Mir. Scott in telling tales out of school may cause congress to take action in regard to the Morrill, money which may possibly result in some trouble to the university. MT. Randolph writes like a man of some experience in the art of fooling the people, but in the case of MT. Scott it would seem to be charitable to remind him of
 "'What a tangled web we weave,
 Wnen first we practice to deceive
 It may be said that no secret has been made of the use to which the Morrill, fund has been put. Congress has been aware of it all along. Ev- erybody has been aware of it except the writer of the circular and we may add the Morrill, law contemplated that precisely such a use should be made of it as mas been made.
 While the circular betrays the igno- rance of the writer regarding the dis position of the Morrill, fund, it is sig nificant in that it uncovers the cov- etousness of the New Mexican joint statists, and indicates that all the New Mexican influence would be eX- erted to induce congress to take ac- tion" inimical to the Arizona univer- sity. It would have to take such ac- tion with regard to one of them.