Arizona republican., 1906-02-05
ARlZONA'S FEELING
 ABOUT J0lNTURE Floyd J. Gibbons Pictures it to the
 New Mexican.

Floyd G. Gibbons of the collector of Internal revenue office for Arizona and New Mexico has lately been at Santa Fe and while there he expressed him self rather strongly on the joint state hood question. The New Mexican had a talk with him and said:
 Ninety eight per cent of the people of Arizona will vote against joint state hood if given the opportunity. Sixty per cent of them are opposed to any statehood measure"
 This statement was made last night by Floyd J. Gibbons, deputy interna; revenue collector, stationed at Phoenix, Arizona, who is in Santa Fe this week attending to official business. Al though MT. Gibbons holds public of views and to do so in no uncertain language.
 Continuing he said:
 "It will certainly be to the detriment of New Mexico if Arizona is forced in to this union. There is no danger of rebellion of course, as our people are too good citizens for that, but I want to say right here, that we feel that as far as justice is concerned, we would be within the bounds of our rights as American citizens if we re- sisted joint statehood, with arms. Peo- pie are just about that indignant over the proposition.
 'Supposing l was to enter a store and tell the proprietor that he must take a man I designated. as a partner If he replied that he wanted to conduct his own business for himself and in his own way, and I told him that he could not do it, wouldn't he be jus n thpnxK-fnrr of and if necessary using force to do 1t |? That is what this joint statehood mea- sure amounts to, as concerning us people of Arizona.
 Arizona has absolutely no grudge against New Mexico and doesn't seek any feeling between the two territor- ies. At the same time she feels that she is being forced to accept some thing that she does not want under any conditions. Irrespective of party lines, Arizona will fight the proposition to the last notch. She fought her wars with the Indians and bad men alone, she formed her government such as was allotted to her, alone, she has built up her territorial institutions, erected her public buildings and made and enforced her territorial laws. alone. She has not had nor asked for
 
 doesn't want any assistance now.
 All Arizona wants is to work out her own salvation in her own way without undue interference. There $ another reason why it is mighty un- wise to poin these two territories un- der one head and that is the difference in the personnel of the populations. Arizona has not the large native popu- latiOn which New Mexico has l. Of course, know these people over here, know their language and customs. They are mighty fine people. However, the average Arizonian does not know them and he is pretty thoroughly pre- judiced against them. It would take years to overcome this prejudice.
 The native people of New Mexico have built up institutions of a semi private order and aid them through territorial appropriations. Should join1 statehood be forced upon us. the Ari- zona people say almost as one man that they will not contribute funds for the maintenance of these institutions. We have our own ideas of education, penal institutions and other affairs. and we want to maintain them. We have a better and a handsomer capitol building and better territorial institu- tions than New Mexico or at least they seem so to us. We want them continued.
 Our Arizona people take p-ide m what they have done and they do nos want to see the years of labor go ;n the passage of one bill declaring them no longer a people but only a half of another state. Since I have been in New Mexico I have talked wlUn al number of people regarding statehood and. when I told them Arizona's con tention, they all said that they did not blame us for the stand We take. They realized at once what it meant to us
 A ten-year-old girl and man past fifty are mighty scornful of little old Capitalization Globe