Arizona republican., 1906-02-13
WASHINGTON POST
 SAYS LAST VICTORY
That the East Will Ever Wiu Ov:I
 the West.

The Washingtcd Post believes that the house of representatives has com mitted a serious blunder in this state hood business and that the short lived victory of two weeks ago will be the last the east will ever win over the west The Post says:
 The Post never predicts, but if lt were given to that bad practice il would say that the legislative action of Wednesday is likely to be the last sectional victory the east will ever gain over the west in the American congress New England has twelve members in tha United States senate, and you may throw all New England into either Arizona or New Mexico and it would require a search warrant and a posse comitatus to find it. Fling the six New England states, one at a time, into different quarters of the proposed new state and they might ceaselessly tramp around for a twelve-month with out any one of them coming in contact with any other one of them in their be- wlIdered wanderings. The excuse is that the two territories are deserts; but either of them, skillfully managed, will yield more agricultural products than all New England.
 President Roosevelt is the leader who fought the battle and gained it. Had he been even neutral, the committee on rules would have been beaten three score Never .n the history of the American congress was one mistake made to breed another until the com mittee on rules determined they would not do justice to Oklahoma and Indian Territory unless, at the same time, they were permitted to visit injustice on Arizona and New Mexico. The insurgents" with a backbone, though beaten. have not suffered in public estimation. It was not for tnem old Jacob pronounced the cdrse: Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel" The committee on rules is smart enough to know or at least to learn. that the very best way in the world to make an enemy is to humiliate him. The in surgents" who yielded to the persua- sion of that committee will have a con- siderable load of humiliation 10 lug during the rest of the session.
 The senate has the bill, and the sen ate has not as yet abolished what was once the inalienable legislative right to offer debate. and vote upon amend rnents One amendment to this mon strosity that the senate should con- slider is a proposition to make two states of Arizona and New Mexico as soon as each shall have a popCiation requisite to entitle t to two members of congress under the present appor- tionment New Hampshire, Vermont, and Rhode Island surely could not op- pose that in daylight and it is nos possible that Delaware could oppose 1t in the dark. even. We are not quite positive that this suggested amend ment is constitutional. but we are con fident that it is not half as unconstitu- tfonaI as that legislative Caesarean op- eration by which West Virginia got to be 2 state.
 Tn the old days, northern statesmen who adhered to the south were dough faces" The western statesman who sides with the east on a sectional ques- ton is not yet christened. This state hood bill is as sectional as the fugitive slave law, and the west is going to be in a rage over it one of these days If the sch heme shall be fully consummated-