Bisbee daily review., 1906-01-18
VOICE OF ARIZONA:

flloIg tu OppoStu6 tuc dttctupt ct
 Roosevelt, Beyeridge and Cannon to
 force Arizona under the government
 tai yoke of New Mexico. The Ameri-
 cans of Arizona are not willing to
 submit to any treatment proposed hy
 the Roosevelt administratioh without
 vigorous protest. Filipinos. Cubans
 and Porto Ricans have never known
 anything of independence and because they have submissively consented to
 the colonial exploits of the republican administration is no reason that Ari
 zonans may be expected to yield si. lently to the man with the big teeth. The people of Arizona were reared in independent states. who're !Eey learned the principles upon which American government is founded. that ali government should be nased upon the consent Of the goverAed.' '"
 They will not submit tameiy To have the country which they have devel- oped and fitted for a state put under the government of a people who have had no part or parcel in it without protesting to the last breath.
 During the past week the press of the territory. perhaps alarmed at the determination expressed by Presi- dent Roosevelt to have one state made
 of Arizona and New Mexico, has de-
 voted many columns to pleading the cause and rights of our people This has been universal in the leading pa- pers from one end of the territory to another. Measured in number and standing. more than ninety per cent of the press of the territory has e5- gagged in the fight against the joint statehood bill. The few papers which have endorsed the joint statehood pill do not, in single instance, represent the sentiment of the community in which they are published.
 Arizona for Arizonans," is the bat tie cry of our people; not that all are not welcome who desire to come to the territory and assist in it's fur ther development, but that this, ter ritory shall never be sacrificed and put under the control ofzthose who live now in Mexico.
 In New Mexico there are many in- telligent and progressive citizens, but the great majority are pulI-backs. who had rather live in the primitive fash ion of the natives of the country than to advance with the march of civ ilization. New Mexico has twice the population of Arizona ,-,but notwith- standing this the annal postofice business in Arizona for 1905 was greater than in New Mexico. The post office business is a fair index to the intelligence and progress of any state, territory or country Postofhce sta tistics in the two territories tell the
 story of Arizona's opposition to be coming a part of New Mexico and have their government dictated by New Mexicans; public school statistics
 in the two territories tell another sto- " of why Arizonans object to the unrighteous alliance. ;fq
 With wealth, intelligence and pop Iulation to sustain 8 state government within our own limits, why should Arizonans consent to surrender their political identity and accept govern ment at the hands of New Mexico? The people of Arizona have been so far extremely mild and courteous l towards those who are behind the joint statehood bill. the press. of the territory has avoided any criticism of the president because of his iEsis
 tance on the passage of the joint
 statehood bill, for the reason that the hope was ever present that when he became further informed as to the ipracticai unanimous objection of the people of Arizona he would consent
 to drop the matter, but the president in snubbing the Arizona delegation
 (which called upon him last weet
 passed the limit and he no iongel
 deserves the confidence o1 Arlzona.
 Arizona has nothing to hope iron
 the president and our people mus
 flight him along with our arch-ene
 mics. Beveridge and Cannon. Be cause Roosevelt has raised the "bil stick" over the heads of the people o , Ithe territory should not cause then
 to slacken their efforts for self-goy , ernment and fair treatment. Tn , Representatives. of the people of thi , country are to be found in the Ser ate and the House. and to these W |, must continue to look for deliveranc
 Efrom threatened annihiIation as !. lself-governing people.
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