The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-11-05
GOLFERS ON STATEHOOD.

The statehood question will be
! fought vigorously again this winter
IN Washington. We have already Civ
en- some account Of that part Of the
opposition to joint statehood in Ari.
zona which Is sentiment. II Is
charged by those favoring the bill
that hard fight has been waged for
reasons less legitimate; that the San
ia Fe. The Southern Pacific, and the
aniliated mining interests think that
their control would be less IL a
state were formed OF these two terri
tories; that, for instance, they would
be less able to defeat bullion-tax
law or a mne-lnspectlon law. The
present Office holders are also said to
be against joint statehood Apparently
there have been gains for the joint
idea in the press, four newspapers in
Arizona having come out within the
last six months for statehood with
New Mexico: "Nogalcs Oasis" Nog
ales; Tucson Daily STAR Tucson;
st Johns Herald and Apache News, "
St. Johns; "Coconino SUM-" Flagstaff
Public opinion in Arizona IS likely to
be the deciding force and it Is divid-
ed partly on a surmise about the pop
ulation that the region will ever hold,
which is 10 say about the future of ir-
rigation.
The one-state plan for Oklahoma
and Indian Territory Is ny its sup
porters said to have been opposed by
precisely the same inhuences-rail-
roads mines. politicians, sleeping
car companies, etc.-that are now OPP
posing joint statehood in New Mexi-
co and Arizona, and for the same rea-
sons The effort now ON foot, however
10 make Indian Territor a state by It.
self, has small chance of success. In
this case the arguments against sin
gle statehood are stronger ,han in the
case OF Arizona, but IN both instances
the objections are alike in principle,
and treat the single state movement
as an effort to bring in another Ne
vada, another Wyoming, and another
Idaho. 4 strong argument can be
made that it Is direcely against rep
resentative government to give elev-
en- thousand votes in Nevada, or
twenty thousand votes in Wyoming,
or thirty thousand votes in Arizona,
as much power in national legislation
as the three million people of Indiana
have. or the six million people of New
York. 1t was the original idea of Mad
ison, Hamilton, Adams and several
others, that the senators should rep
resent numbers of people instead of
numbers of square miles, but Rhode
Island and the smaller states refusen
10 come in unless they could get in
on the ground floor, and that is how
Il happened that we have two sena-
tors from each state. 1t was the re-
publicans who divided the pakotas
and admitted Utah, Nevada, Idaho
and Wyoming as separate states, but
the present cannot be called party
fight, since Senator Quay led one di-
vision and Senator Beveridge leads
the other. The opposition to single
statehood proceeds on the theory that
while the senate cannot accurately
represent an equal number of people
from each state. there ought to be a
reasonably large number before state
hood is granted. and 1t believes that,
while the population of states like
New York and the Mississippi Valley
States will increase, no amount o
irrigation will ever give Arizona and
New Mexico. combined over mil
lion of inhabitants. 1t has been long
and hard fight and it is likely to be
settled at the approaching session.
Golfers for November T.