Bisbee daily review., 1906-04-19
Urges Him to Concur in Senate Amendments to Joint State hood Bill Because Amend ments Are Fair.
PIONEER OF ARIZONA
 PLEADS HER CAUSE.
Came to Arizona in 1879 and Has Been Engaged in Church Work Ever Since. A Native of illinois.

s. K. Adams. who has travelled over every part of Arizona, having been engaged in church work in this Ter ritory since 1879, has written strong personal letter to Jos q. Cannon. Speaker of the House of Representa- tiyes. urging him to concur in the Senate amendments to the joint State hood bill. MT. Adams is in Bisbee this week, and the Review secured the following copy of the letter, which was forwarded to Speaker Cannon on Monday:
 Hon. Jos. G. Cannon.
 Speaker House of Representatives.
 Washington, D. c.
 Dear Sir:
 Dear Sir:
 I want to write you concerning matters now pending relative to Ari- 'Zona and New Mexico, and l will first introduce myself to you.
 Tn 1867 came from the pastorate of the NJ. E. Church, of your neighbor- ing town, Champaign, III. as a young minister to work as such in Colorado. I have been identified with the work of the ministry in this great west ever since. In 1879 I was sent by Bishop Sampson to Arizona to or ganize the mission of our church in this Territory. There were no rail. roads here at that time but I put my whole energy into the task. I have travelled over every inch of the Ter ritory ever since. 1 know it as no other man does know it. I know its resources thoroughly. I know its peo- pie as no other man living and so I speak understandingly concerning both.
 Our people are practically a unit in opposition to joint Statehood with New Mexico and want to give you few of the reasons, out of many.
 TO join the two together would make a state too unwieldly for prac- tical purposes. It would be larger than all New England with Kentucky, Pennsylvania and more states thrown in.
 TO compel us to travel this great distance to Santa Fe and remove our records there. would be like asking Illinois and Indiana to transfer its records and public business to New York City. Besides we should have to cross two mountain chains that iii. tervene.
 Then, too, our interests are noth ing in common. Our people are di verse, our laws are diverse our re- sources are diverse and we have never had any dealing or contact with them.
 Arizona is an American community and every thing is transacted in the English language. The few Spanish people here never think of asking for official position, either municipal ter ritorial or federal. Our legislature is entirely American. In New Mexico the Spanish speaking officials gener- ally out number the English speaking and the legislature is always about three-fourths Spanish. To consolidate us would be to bring an American population under the dominating vote of foreign tongue. The very bill now pending, proposes, at the start to give them three-fifths vote in the convention that is to frame a consti- tution for the proposed new state The Greater Arizona of which Sena. tor Beyeridge speaks is therefore sheer folly. It would simply be New Mexico under another name and it would be great injustice to Arizona proper in this respect. We have nc animosity towards New Mexico. We have the hndliest feeling toward her in every way
 Arizona has magnificent resources of every kind. Her mineral wealth is the wonder of the world. She has several valleys of great agricultural possibilities, each of which is larger than the Egyptian Nile. We have an area of timber as yet untouched by the axe of the woodman which is larger than all New England and is said to be the largest now in the United States.
 Our grazing interests cannot be 1 excelled. Our population is rapidly | growing by immigration chiefly from | the north and east. We have as fine | a public school system as can be | found in any state in the Union.
 We have our splendid capitol build. | ing. our Insane Asylum, two fine Nor l nal schools, our Territorial Univer. l sity and all the appliances ready at | hand to work out the problem of our ! success and growth into a great com | in the not distant future | All we ask is to be left alone in our i Territorial condition and give us 8 chance to develop our resources and | interests in our own way. No higher | ever existed Territorially | the U. s. We have conquered the Apache and overcome the other ob- stacles that seemed insurmountable. l have helped and seen this done during 3 residence of all but sixteen years of the entire history of Arizona. We are equal to the final working out of the problem of perfect success. To join us with New Mexico would be a gross injustice to a brave people. It