Bisbee daily review., 1906-10-11
ARIZONA FINDS AblEDEFENDER
 F0RHERR RIGHTS
Many Reasons Pointed. Out by the Catholic Review Why Arizona Should Not Be Join- ed With New Mexico,

The current number of The Catholi, Review contains the following strong and succinct array of reasons wh, there should be no jointure of Arizona and New Mexico:
 There are so many reasons why Arizona should decline political part nership with New Mexico that il would be useless to attempt to include them all in the space allotted 10 this article
 One good. substantial and over whelming reason is that the people oi Arizona. with the exception of few persons governed by absolutely selfish motives, are honestly and conscien- tiously opposed to such 8 union.
 The future of Arizona is safe and assured 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 commercial organizations have joined in the appeal that Arizona be allowed to work out her destiny No patriotic Arizonan will submit will. Ia 1,f l,s, ', -irrIaf |. his first desire is that Arizona be left free and untrammeled. conscious of her power to prove her right to state hood, single and alone.
 Aside from the patriotic sentiment animating our citizens, there is no business point of view clearly show ing the injustice of the proposed un holy alliance.
 Lack of space precludes our making comparisons here at length between Ihe industrial and economic conditions of the two territories that furnish the element of growth in community Most of our readers are sufficiently familiar with these conditions to make the comparison in their own minds Place the larger assessed valuations ill Arizona against the lowbr 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 neighbours flocks and herds; and you have a few suggestions why Arizona does not welcome the idea of jointure With a smaller territorial indebted ness. we have a territorial tax rat ot 75 cents against 1.50 in New Mexico with every prospect of a reduction in the former and an increase in tie latter.
 If such a partnership as is proposed were consumated, Arizona would fur nish much the larger share of the as sets and New Mexico much the larger share of liabilities, with the power tc control and regulate their distribution It is a reasonable inference that joint statehood would admit of merging of the indebtedness, county and terri torial, into one state debt. In any event. if the constitutional convention with it's New Mexican representation of 66 to Arizona's A, did not provide such an arrangement, the first state legislature would.
 We have not left our old friendly feeling for New Mexico and depiore her apparent surrender to the selfish considerations which prompt her ad vccacy of the union of the territories Pleading for iointure. she admits her inability to stand alone and her un' fitness for single statehood, and de clares herself willing to play the part of 6 tool in the hands of what Hon NJ. A. Otero calls in his able letter to Senator Teller Congressional man. ipulators of western peoples rights.
 We believe that 99 out of 100 of the joint statehood advocates in New Mex leo will agree that single statehood IS better than joint statehood. Why then pledge a glorious future for an inferior present? The territories are peTishable goods. The advantages of statehood can be purchased at too great cost, and the people of New Mex ico and Arizona will be wise to defer gaining it upon the terms now being offered. The territories are growing in the elements demanded by congress as a standard of admission to the sis ferhood of states, and the time is mol far distant, if not already present when each will be able to present or her own account abundant evidence of a right to claim another star in the flag.
 The logic of the New Mexico anf Arizona situation, says the Kansas City Journal, is simple and plain. 'rh' hostility 10 union of the two teTrlto ries is a matter of inheritance and eau cation. The whole union could be re duced to states of uniform size or pop ulation with undoubted benefit to al concerned 50 far as mere convenience is concerned. But how would Yer mcnters like to be merged with New Workers? How would the people O Meiro ike to be confused with ths people of New Hampshire? The feel ing of state pride and state love ma. be foolish. but it is there and canno be ignored.
 The people of New Mexico or al much opposed to taking the name O Arizona as the people of Virginii would be to taking the name of Ken lucky. The people of Arizona hay, tough. as noble a fight in state build