Bisbee daily review., 1906-02-13
fishing the territorial government of

llSnlnS tne terrltOrl2l government or Arizona:
 "'That said government shall be maintained and continued until such time as the people residing in said ter ritory shall, with the consent of Con gress, form state government, re- publican in form, as prescribed in the Constitution of the United States, and apply for and obtain admission into the Union as a state, on an equal foot ing with the original states
 Surely no hint here that later Congress, at the will of Rough Rid CT president, would undertake to rope and hogtie said territory and drag it into the corral of a neighboring territory. there to be branded with a statehood of such device as suited the neighbor.
 "As to what the will of the people of Arizona really is in this matter, no man seriously doubts. spent the larger part of November in the ter ritory, travelling through it from one corner to the other and talking with hundreds of men of all classes. did not find one man who did not de- clare against joint statehood. If Ari- zona were now offered the alternative of accepting joint statehood or re- maining a territory for ten years more -or twenty - the majority against joint statehood would be over whelming. It has indeed been feebly suggested that the mining and rail road corporations are opposed to joint statehood. That happens to be true, but since it is also true that at least ninety-five per cent of Arizonans are on the same side. it does not seem to be a very weighty argument against that side. It may, however, be good enough Johnson to assist such Senators as, say, Platt and Depew and Allison and Dryden, in rebuking sternly the efforts of great corpora tions to dictate-in Arizona.
 There is another fact more impres sive than the attitude of Arizona her self towards joint statehood-for this might conceivably be the unreasoned result of local pride-and this is the attitude of her nearest neighbors. There are five states which share boundary lines with Arizona or New Mexico-California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado and Texas. These five have twenty-nine Representatives in the lower house of Congress and of e twenty-nine every vote save one was cast against this union by force. In this instance, at least, the Represen- tatives truly represented the opinion of their constituents.
 Tt would be bad enough if this at tempt at a monstrous injustice were the result of the deliberate judgment of Congress. The shame of it is az gravated by the fact that the will of Congress itself is confessedly ignored
 
 pretence that a majority of the House of Representatives is in favor of the joint S, s,Itehood bill as it stands, on it's merits. It is cynically acknow ledged-nay, it is boastfully pro claimed-that the vote in the House the other day did not represent the will of the majority of the House, perhaps not even of the republicans in the House, but that it was a per sonal triumph for two men-the pres ident of the United States and the speaker of the House. If either the shadow of the big stick or the crack of the party lash had been withdrawn there is not the smallest doubt that the pleading of Arizona for simple justice would have been effective Blind partisan zeal is not particular ly surprising from Speaker Cannon, but it is out of place in any president most of all in one who Is a pro fessed exponent of the square deal
 "A PyTrhic victory this will prove for both president and speaker-and believe an utterly useless one be- sides. For the Senate still has its word to say, and neither big stick nor party lash are quite so intimidating, or so effective, there as in the House
 q never thought to be so thankful for the Senate-for this Senate, at least-as I now expect to be-"
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