Bisbee daily review., 1906-02-11

' ritory. Every line of our legislation l regarding the territory of the United l States has guaranteed, by promises as sacred as Congress could make, to each Territory when established full statehood when capable of sustaining state government. But waiving all this, plant myself on a promise made by Congress to Arizona when it was created. The President must not have seen the organic act which ere ated Arizona, and which stands as our constitution in the Territory, just as State Constitution stands to the State. That organic act, the solemn Congressional promise, that guaranty ] on which we relied and still rely, says in so many wordsI read from the act of February "A, 1863, and signed by Abraham Lincoln, which created the Territory of Arizona. It says: That said government (Arizona) shall be maintained and continued until such time as the people residing in said Territory shall apply for and oktain admission as a State on an equal footing with the original states"
 Can language be palmer? Under that promise we went forth to conquer the forbidding desert, we built our homes. we reared our schools, we Imade great expensive public improve ments, and we find ourselves confront ed by a bill which provides in effect for the admission of Arizona into the Union in conjunction with New MeXi- co, on such terms and unGer such con- ditions as the people of New Mexico may prescribe and providing for the payment of the debts of New Mexico and for other heIlish purposes. That's and for other hellish purposes. That's exactly what this Arizona the Great" bill means.
 In the face of that promise, who in my presence can vote for this infam- ous measure? Can you do it and look youref in the face without blush of shame?
 I could well rest my appeal on that solemn promise before any justice of the peace in America and get judg ment in my favor. Relying on that guaranty, can l fail in a tribunal like this-the very tribunal which gave the promise?
 Contemporaneous history shows a reason for that promise. The unhap- py war between the states was at the crest of it's sanguinary rage. Both parties were contending for possession of the then Territory of New Mexico. If I mistake not, there was Confederate and a Federal governor within its boundaries, one bearing the commis- sion of Abraham Lincoln, the other of Jefferson Davis, both of whom first -I.s- . l,r, smiling skies of my native state. The Territory was found too large and passage over the present dividing line too difficult, and it was wisely decid- ed to divide them into two Territories land by the act referred to Arizona was created. There was a large popula- ton of Spanish and Mexicans in New Mexico, who naturally retained the border prejudices growing out of our recent war with Mexico. Arizona was without any population of conse- qIence. A premium must be offered to those who would dare invade and build homes in that then forbidding land desolate waste. That premium l, was offered in the organic act, in the promise which I have read to you and on which we relied, and on which our pioneers went forth with superhuman courage to overcome the superhuman difficulties which beset their path to progress. No band of devoted souls in the whole history of the human race bore more pain with greater fortitude, faced more danger without flinching, and accomplished more for their pos terity and benefited their common country in a greater degree than did the Arizona pioneers. (Applause.)
 And for all this what have they had at the hands of the Federal Govern ment except oppression and injustice? And now it remains for you to burden land shame their declining days by throwing over them the dirty mantle now in your hands. They reserve bet ter treatment Ye who have been reared amid the luxuries of wealth and have from your birth been housed and clothed and comforted by pleasant sur roundings can have small appreciation of the hardshipS endured by the State builders Of America. You can not look into the bronzed face of the road maker across the wind-swept sands of the desert and read the pathetic story of the pains, hopes, disappointments, and dangers which crowded every day of his uncomplaining courageous life. l And as he looked back on the work of , his hands and saw a great State grow , ing on the foundations which he laid, : in his breast there grew love of that , land, patriotism full of pride which : you, sitting at the feet of money ], chaners and measuring your patriot : ism by patronage, can never realize or - half appreciate.
 : The yirile, patriotic, militant Ameri- 9 canism Of our earlier days has it's : dwelling place now in the hearts of 5 the home builders of our western 7 shore. When these reflections beset l me, how I pity the stripling statesmen 5 who have seen fit to denounce the rep , resentatives from the West as sage l brush Senators" and have marked