Arizona republican., 1906-09-26
For Delegate to Congress Wm. F. Cooper
FIGURES AND JoINTURE.

We are asked to throw our fortunes in with those of New Mexico on equal terms, to carelessIy pool our interests with those of our neighbor on the east. to take no account of our superior conditions which we are urged to put into the pool and at the same time surrender forever to an over wehlming majority all control of them.
 No business man outside of an in sane asylum would give such an ab- surd proposition a second thought.
 We have shown from time to time the superior wealth of Arizona as dis closed by the assessment rolls of the two territories. In reply we have been told that such comparisons are value less; that the reliability of such showing would depend upon an abso- lute similarity of methods of assess ments and that as matter of fact, leaving out the great mining proper ties of Arizona, New Mexico is in reality the richer of the two.
 There is another way to get at the comparative wealth of the territories. There is no more reliable measure of it than the bank deposits, and here the great mining and other corpora tions do not figure extensively since they do not allow their money to lie idle in banks. The deposits consist for the most part of the savings of the labOrer, the stockman, the merchant and the farmer
 The report of the comptroller of cur rency on the condition O. New Mexi- can national banks and that of the territorial auditor on the condition of territorial banks show that at the close of business on June IS of this year the total deposits in that terri tory amounted to $11,952, ,OS7S4. Re ports of the same character show tha. on that date deposits in Arizona banks amounted to S13.955. .46119. These re- ports further show that the lead of Arizona had not been obtained by sudden spurt but that it had made Q gain of 33.6 per cent in year, while New Mexico had made a gain of only 25.S per cent; that Arizona was not only the richer but was getting richer faster.
 Six years before in June, the New Mexican deposits in all banks were se.S16.OOO, while those of Arizona were only $4,357,OO 900. Arizona secured the lead two years later and since then year by year has steadily increased it.
 The New Mexican population is be- lieved to be more than twice as great as that of Arizona. We know that its voting population is more than twice as great as ours and we know there fore that the representation from New Mexico in the legislature of Arizona the Great would be more than twice as great as the representation from the region comprised in the territory of Arizona. This legislature would have as absolute control over the wealth and prosperity of the new state as New Mexican legislatures in the past have had over the fortunes of the tax payers of that debt-burdened and tax ridden territory
 Do the stockmen and farmers and ilAGA ClidAlNS sIlu ldDOICIS ana other COIL tributors to our aggregate bank de posits believe that if they had been subjected to the New Mexican style of government they would have had nearly S14,OOO,OOO in the banks? Do they not rather believe that the per capita of deposits would naturally be about what it is in New Mexico ana that since our population is probably half the New Mexican population our aggregate deposits would be about half the total New Mexican deposits, say $5,976, 6,O43.92?
 A mathematical calculation proves that it is worth at least S9,OOO,O0 in the matter of bank deposits alone to steer clear of New Mexico. That $5,- 000,000 bribe contained in the state hood bill and in whose disposition We would have no voice is not to be thought Of