Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-08-15
PRosELYrINo OF ARIZONA
 BB0INs.
(From Fridays Daily.l


 bnr recently received circular letter from Albuquerque. signed by the Citi. zen Publishing O., and enclosing a copy of President Roosevelt 's letter to Mark A. Rodgers, of Tucson, advising the citizens of Arizona to vote for join. turc. Judge McPhee is a loyal Ariz. oman, and hence unalternbly opposed to joint statehood, annd he immediately replied as follows;
 Richinbar. Ariz., Aug. :. Citizen Pub. O., Albuquerque, \. N.
 Gcnts-Your circular letter of Aug. came duly to hand. You say the fight is now on for joint statehood; that therc arc s5,0O0,0OO millions of people in the United States outside of the terri. tories of Arizona and New Mexico. They arc unslternbly opposed to these two territories coming into the union as single states. If this is true or any part of 1t true, why did not the senate of the United States, composed of only a part of this s5,000,00o of people, that you speak of, pass the Hamilton bill as it came from the house of representatives to be endorsed by them. How has it been possible for the Foraker amendment to he injected into the bill giving to the territories the right to vote on jointurc, and this is tho fight that is on now, as you say.
 It would seem to me that you con. slider that that lying cur raised on swill on the banks of the Wabash, splitting hoop poles and eating punkins, also the maple sap suckers of Vermont, the blue bellies of Maine. and the black. legs of Massachusetts. including tho crooked nose Cannon of Illinois.
 If those hre.ea,ers and enemies of western development constitute your s5.OO0. 900. then in that ease, you are correct. But the history of the strug gle in both houses of congress should convict you of circulating . barefaced falsehood.
 You say that the hill passed Is orc of the most liberal enabling acts eve' granted by any congress. 1t carries with it five millions of dollars fo public schools. besides millions oi acre. of land for the same purpose. Tha certainly is . very cnticing bait fo suckers to nibble at. hut don't thinl you will find many in Arizona.
 ] suppose you forgot to state that thi $5,OOO, 900 is q trust fund and only tb interest, which would not he more thai . per cent, can be made available This would be about ti50,O00 instea' of the s5,oOO,OOO you say. Let m anaiyze this munifcent gift further Let me assume that in the event Q joint statehood carrying on the 6' day of November next God forbid this would include the population q both thc territories as the popnlatio of the proposed state of Arizona. Le me assume further that by the tim : the machinery of the new state eoul
 'r put in operation ifs population vi r bc sbout 5oo,Oo0. This muniRccnt gil + from the general government woul s be sio per capita. As only the inte Y est could bc used, and that not mo,
 than ! per cent. we have of this a nun
 ficent bait of 70 cents to each person { D educate his children. Surely, not
 very eutietng lmit after all.
 Let me go on further. and tell q r good people of Arizona where l thin n this muni8cent sum of 70 cents vi e go. Arizona is given by the enablir ', sct of congress 41 delegates to fran
 q state constitution. and New Mexi |. 06, n majority of % in favor of Ne g. Mexico. 1t can be safely assume d ,hat this ratio will he maintained |. all legislative bodies under a state q a xnnization. And as the legislature W q. have inc direction of how this mur ,e 6eent gift is 'o b. distributed th'
 will undoubtedly order it distribut, !, wh.re most nee.l"d; and as l am infori !, ei that there are districts in New Me ico that never had n school. of cour |. it win ,e srdesed in that direction. ,d Ny fellow citizens of Arizona, don h. he fcoIs-l or mi-led by this bait
 s5.0eo!0o0. It Is only myth. There are several reasons why Al A zona iocs not want iointure with Nc v Mexico. Not alone inc predominant n, of the grrazcr, which of itself ought ,. be sufficient to guide . white man, he has any regard for the white m
 ther that gave him birth, not to d
 grace her memory by voluntarily goil