Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-02-14
ANCIENT HISTORY IN REGARD TO
 ARIZONA.

history concerning the territory of Ar,. zona for the edifcation of the New York Tribune, and with the history. n pledge, if not law, which an attempt IS now being made to violate,
 Our neighbor the Tribune attempts thus jauntily to dispose of the "out. rage" involved in a forced union he. tween Arizona and New Mexico.
 "Arizona has enjoyed territorial form of government for many years. but it is pcrversion of history to hold that on that account she is entitled to admission internationally into the fed. eral circle. Congress has always re. served full power to fix the boundaries of new states, and never felt obliged Co respect the integrity of an existing territory when framing statehood measure. If the people of Arizona and New Mexico wish to coafesce they can vote to stay out of the union. They have no historical or logical right to lay down the conditions on which they are to he admitted. Congress can therefore commit no unheard of outrage when 1t submits to the people of the two terri tories the same practical question which it has submitted 10 so many other American communities.
 Forty-three years ago this month con. gross separated Arizona as n territory from New Mexico as territory. The reasons for the separation and the creation of Arizona as an independent territory were set forth by Senator Ben Wade of Ohio. Our neighbor will find Mir. wade's remarks, declaring the pol fly of the federal government in this matter. in the Congressional Globe of Feb. 20, 1863. Among other things he said:
 "Thc territory of Now Mexico, includ. ing Arizona, is an exceedingly large one, altogether too extensive for any municipal business to be transacted ir it's extreme portions. After the terri tory of Arizona was acquired it was fo, some time attached to New Mexico fol civil purposes. and is now a part o that territory. The principal point o' population in Arizona is some sever hundred miles from the seat of justice in New Mexico. The number of squar' miles embraced in this territory of Ari sona is l20,0l2, about five times as larg, as the state of Ohio, and the portion Q
 New Mexico from which it is divide' is almost as large. for the boundar. line divides the whole territory nearl
 in the middle. l believe the organizn ton of this territory will lead iinmcns,
 ly to the increase of its population an
 to the development of it's vast richc
 that are latent ar undcvelopcd. ] hay
 70 doubt there is as much necessity fo
 the organization of this territory q
 anyone we have ever organized. Ne'
 Mexico and Arizona constitute coui try larger than half of Europe" If the Tribune continues its invest ' gation of Arizona's historical and loI ical right to have n voice as to th conditions of it's admission to statehoo 43 years after its separation from Ne Mexico. for the reasons stated by Se' ator Wade, it will find that the law
 1863, creating this independent terr D tory contained this distinct provision Crowded. that nothing contain'
 in the provisions of this act shall ] z const rucd to prohibit the congress the United States from dividing na
 territory or changing its boundaries such manner or at such time as it m' deem proper. Provided, further, Tn Y said government shall be maintnin' and continued until such time as t v people of the territory shall, with Il V consent of the congress. form "'a '' government, republican in form s prescribed by the constitution of | VI United States, and apply for and ob'a !" admission into the union as state
 an equal footing with the or'g'"
 statcs.'
 Thus congress 43 years ago not on on
 created Arizona as separate emu < but promised her statehood ns sep' " a,e entity when she desired ana W :. .rcady for statehood. The pending ' proposcs to commit that very outr" 7. which the Tribune says 1t cannot p ' ceive. It undoes the work or ne"' ' half a century of independent 'N'
 once. It violates the pledge o' '"' , ncndent statehood implied in the u ;" ouaye of the act creating the indepe'