Mohave County miner., 1906-10-13
Let Arizona Alone. Her Future AS.

't l ne CuFrcuC uutuUOf VI OhO SooiiOAiS Review contains the following strong and succinct array of reasons why there should be no jointure of Arizona and New Mexico:
 There are so many reasons why Ari- zona should decline political partner ship with New Mexico that it would be useless to attempt to include them all in the space allotted to this article.
 One good, substantial and over- whelming reason is that the people of Arizona, with the exception of few persons governed by absolutely selfish motives, are honestly and conscien- tiously opposed to such union.
 The future of Arizona is safe and as- sured if left alone. She has, in the estimation of some of our eastern friends, people of the right quality, and if as yet lacking in numbers, the rapid development of her vast natural resources will soon give permanent population entirely satisfactory to all and equal in character to that of any state in the union. Arizona is rapidly filling up with people who were born and reared in the midst of true Amer ican traditions and citizenship.
 A united voice of protest has been heard in every public body in each town and county in the territory; fra ternal and commer cial organizations have joined in the appeal that Arizona be allowed to work out her destiny. No patriotic Arizonian will submit willingly to be robbed of his birthright; his first desire is that Arizona be left free and untrammeled, conscious of her power to prove her right to statehood, single and alone.
 Aside from the patriotic sentiment animating our citizens, there is no lim- it to the reasons apparent from bus mess point of view clearly showing the injustice of the proposed unholy alliance.
 Lack of space precludes our making comparisons here at length between the industrial and economical condi- tions of the two territories that furn- ish the element of growth in com munity. Most of our readers are sui ficiently familiar with these conditions to make the comparison in their own minds. Place the larger assessed val -natons in Arizona against the lower of New Mexico; the lower tax rates of the former against the high rates of the latter; the class of industrial wealth in Arizona-her great mines and grand irrigation projects against her neigh bors fiocks and herds; and you have a few suggestions why Arizona does not welcome the idea of jointure. With a smaller territorial indebtedness, we have territorial tax rate of 75 cents against 1.5O$ in New Mexico, with every prospect of a reduction in the former and an increase in the latter.
 If such partnership as is proposed were cOnsummated, Arizona would furnish much the larger share of the assets and New Mexico much the larger share of liabilities, with the power of control and regulate their distribution. It is reasonable in ference that joint statehood would ad init of merging of the indebtedness county and territorial, into one state debt. In any event, if the constitu tional convention, with it's New Mexi can representation of 66 to Arizona's A, did not provide such an arrange ment, the first state legislature would
 We have not left our old friendly feeling for New Mexico and deplore her apparent surrender to the selfsf considerations which prompt her ad vOcacy of the union of the territories Pleading for jointure, she admits hel liability to stand alone and her unfit ness for single statehood, and declare! herself willing to play the part of { tool in the hands of what Hon. M. A Otero calls in his able letter to Sena ator Teller Congressional manipula tors of western peoples rights"
 We believe that 99 out of 100 of ths joint statehood advocates in New Mex ico will agree that single statehood il better than joint statehood. Why thel pledge glorious future for an inferior present? The territories are not per ishable goods. The advantages O Statah0od can he nllrchaSad at tot