Arizona republican., 1906-08-09
OUR DUTY TO THE WEST.

Some of those who are working for jointure admit that it would not be the best thing for Arizona, but they insist that Arizona is not alone to be con- sidered; that statehood is the business of the nation at large We heard this doctrine publicly advanced by an Ari- zona jointist as late as last Saturday.
 We may ask. what section and what period will be benefited by the creation of one state instead of two? We have been told that we are building not for ourselves and the present but for the future and the whole country. We are also told that it is a manifest injustice to grant Arizona alone two senators when eastern states of far denser and more numerous population have only two senators each. This is an argu- ment not for the future and the nation, but for the present and for the east
 We believe that this nation will en- dure so long that every state west of the Rocky mountains. reclaimed by ir- rigation, will be as densely populated as New England. Would it be fair to allow Rhode Island and Massachusetts a representation in the senate equal to that of the teeming millions in Arizona the Great? We are speaking of the future and of the whole country, which has been so persistently dinned into our ears.
 We owe as much to the west as to the east, leaving out of account our duty to ourselves, in this statehood matter. The entire west is against jointure and calls upon us to stand loyal to it and to ourselves.
 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. in the following very able editorial, thus shows us how we should not waste upon the present. material which will be needed for the future:
 "A special correspondent of the Post Intelligencer. who has been looking over the ground in Arizona and New Mexico and following the campaign which is now on there, predicts that the joint statehood proposition will carry in New Mexico by a very large majority, but that 1t will be voted down in Arizona. probably four to one.
 Those who look to the possibilities of the future cannot but feel that the people of Arizona will be wise in doing as they propose and setting aside statehood for the present on the terms which are offered. Arizona should come into the union as single state, in order to preserve for the future a proper balance in the national affairs of the country. Arizona has an area euqal to that of all New England and New York taken together. Because its population has been relatively small in the past. is not a sound reason for claiming that it's population will always be scanty. On the contrary, there are fair prospects that in the future it may have congested population and rank among the great states of the union. Arizona has many resources, and the extension of irrigation projects prom ises to make it in time a region of small and highly productive farms under in- tensive cultivation.
 There is but remote prospect that there will ever. at any time. be any changes in the boundaries of the states of the union. With the rapid growth of the far western states, there is certain in time to be a direct reversal of pres ent conditions under which some of the eastern states are now complaining. They are now insisting that some of the western states have representation in the senate out of all proportion greater than their population. When a state like Arizona is developed and has the population for which it can find em- ployment, it is altogether probable that it will have a population four or five times as great as that of some of the older states of small area, which are already somewhat congested and which do not promise to increase largely in population in the future. To make of Arizona and New Mexico a single state with an area second only to that of Texas, would make the future rep resentation in the senate far more un- equal than it is at present.
 ''The advantages of statehood may be gained at too great cost. The people Of Arizona would be wise to defer ad- mission, if # can be had only on the proposed terms. The time IS not far