The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-09
Arizona's Appeal.

It was decided by the senate on Feb.
9th that the statehood bill. providing
vote on the 9th Of March.
No begger she in the mighty hail where
her bay crowned sisters wait,
No empty-handed pleader for the right
No child, i With c iii insistence, de-
handing a gilded toy,
But q fajr-browed, queenly woman.
Wise for the need of the sons she has
bred In the school where weaklings
Where cunning is less than manhood
and DEEDS not words, avail
With the high, answering purpose that
And the faith am in the he'i Pasthest Vision
that buflded her hard-Won homes.
~ her right TO to stand Alone Hreo "'ness' III
Secure for whatever future in the
strength that her past has won.
another. however fair?
And open your jealous portal and bid
With shackles on wrist and ankle, and
dust on her stately head,
And her proud eyes dim with weeping?
And seal them fast forever! but let her
Uncrownea M # You will, but unshacklea,
W wall lOl d larger Jay.
Ay! Let her go bare-handed, bound
with no grudging gift.
Back to her own free spaces where her
~, rock-ribbed mountains lift
Their walls like a sheltering fortress
~ and reckon your judgment good:
We will wait outside your sullen door
AS the p ahf stars ha swim dim
fade DER our mighty Canons RIM
We will lift no hand for the bays We
But all! by the skies above us all, we
will shame we while we wait!
here in the land We scorn,
While ,ye browse and dream in your
well well-h hoa l. ease ease that states at
Ye have blotted your own beginnings.
mi, and taught your sons to forget
That f, ye did not spring fat.fed and old
But the while We follow your smooth
made made roads to tireside safe Of
Shall come voice from a land still
young. to sing in your age-dulled
The hero song Of a strife as fine as your
fathers fathers knew,
When they dared the rivers Of unmap
ped Wllds at the will of bark
the wopk SIN Sef from an the hand
OF the yoke of man laid friendly wise
on the neck Of tameless land.
we viii bit and Bride and rein 's''
The floods of the storm-rocked noun
tains and lead them down to the
And the foam-ribbcd, dark-hued waters,
1ired IRON THAT mighty race,
know at he her a@ a ana vine
And out of that subtle union, desert
e and mountain-flood
Shall be homes of a nations choosing,
where no home else had stood.
We will match the gold of your mining,
with it's mint-stamp dulled and
BY the tears and blood that have stain
e ca IT an 10 the hsrd hands that have
With the gold that no man has lied
rba f nr;od , gold no. no woman has made
The clean, pure gold Of the mountains,
straight from the strong. dark
With no tang or faint upon it from the
hour of Its primal birth.
The trick ks Of cdn the Ss shift
for the Wealth Of our lavish hills. -
fo we the cares e t 81 stPaseP weak
Let us go our, way! When you look
X o6dhls y0-o Adi uIIO US IUdyuAp, TOO
great.
Cities we lack--and cutters where chill
Numbers@and hordes OF starvelings,
toiling but never fed. 49,
Spare pains that would make us greater
In the pattern that We have set;
We hold to the larger measure of the
The men who, from trackless forests
and prairies lone and far, ~
Hewed out the land where We sit at
ease and grudge us our fatr-won
star. gSI n.
There yet be men. my masters"
though the net that the trickster
Lies vide on the land to its bitter
shame. and his cunning parleyings
Have deafened the ears Of Justice, that
was blind and slow Of old.
Yet Time, the last Great Judge, iS not:
bought, or bribed or sold. iaEgs
And Time and the Race shall Judge US
not a league of trafhcking men, d
Selling the trust Of the people, to bar.
ter it back again; n : 51l.Jt- 3. {.
Palmfng the lives Of millions as hand
full OF easyScOin. Y955 y
With a single heart to the narrow verge
where craft and statecraft 5oin.-l r sg
tE, ES-Sharlot M Hall ~