Bisbee daily review., 1906-02-11

attention to the grlesous wrong ana irreparable damage that the proposed S satehood bill will do to both Arizona ana New Mexico.
 First of all, the Almighty divided them by an almost impossible noun tain range, and placed His warning against this bill. There is not ham, let of 500 people in Arizona, off the line of the railroad, within 800 miles of the capital of the proposed State. There never will be. Two hundred miles of unsettled country lies be- tween the two Territories along the great Continental Divide, and that vast area will remain forever practi- caIly unsettled and untenanted. ex- cept by the rowing followers of flocks of sheep and herds of cattle, and these may never come on account of the scarcity of water and forage in that linhospitable desert mountain waste. l The waters of New Mexico flow into ! the Atlantic Ocean; those of Arizona iEto the Pacific. The people of Arizo- na trade with the Pacific coast, while New Mexico trades with the East. 1t | is as far from any well-settled comnlu- nity in rizona to the proposed capital of the new State as from Washington to Boston, which journey takes you {, through seven States.
 In addition to the objection of an al most impossible boundary between these Territories, the very size of Them is equally objectionable. A
 State of such dimensions can not be economically administered. Besides 4l. ferepI debts, different school systems.
 and different language. Our hopes, Inspirations, ideals are not harmonious Arizona and New Mexico are as much
 strangers to each other as Maine is I strange to Florida. The laws and
 customs of the latter are more hon.
 ogenious than in the case of the ter ritories mentioned. There is so lit- | tie in common between the two coun- tries that nothing, save the almosL | IiLtolerable condition of a Territorial form of government, would impel any ! body in either Territory to listen with peaceful temper to a suggestion of
 such legislation as is here proposed. l When 1 landed in rizona twenty-five years ago, without money and without 1 friends, I never dreamed that l was
 working for New Mexico. There are
 100,0 people in my Territory wno came as I came, and who felt as I,
 that they were each factors in the
 upbuiIding of a great Commonwealth, and all of whom freely gave oI earn ings to erect schoolhouses everywhere, | churches, court-houses, asylums, nor nal schools, universities. penitentia-
 ries, reform schools, and every machin- ! cry and enginery necessary to the proper and humane administration of
 great State of the Federal Union. I Do you think we ever dreamed that
 all these expenses, paid at so much cost of labor. yet gladly and with
 bouyant hope of the great future, that
 it must at last, and against our con sent, be handed over to neighboT
 who did not even speak our language,
 and to be used by him as best suited his cupidity, greed, or benevolence? The enormity of such a crime appalls
 me. There can be no excuse for it. No political exigency palliates it.
 Nothing can raise it from the calendar
 of crimes. As was said on this floor yesterday, such action by this House |
 lcgue and a plea in bar against the Sermon on the Mount
 My countrymen, you can not afford to do this wrong. Congress is al
 ready unjustly in contempt for wrongs it has not perpretrated. It does and
 has perpretrated many. but beseecs you to stay your uplifted hand over 1 the trembling flesh of the unoffending object of your sacrifice and save this House and this Congress from the
 croWning infamy of a century of legis-
 lation. (ApplauseD
 | trust you, my Republican friends, are too big and broad to permit politi- cal exigency to enter into you rconsid-
 eration of this question. There is |, nothing in that view. Dou you see any cloud on the horizon that scares you? But if we did see danger to par ay success, can we afford to steal in order to prevent such disaster? Can
 We afford to oppress for all time a
 struggling people in order to allay a bgroundless fear? The man who
 phosesies what the political complex ion of any new State will be five years
 hence is a fool, as crazy as any vision
 ary prohpet who ever saw the armies
 of Russia marching to the destruction lof Japan.
 I pity the man who would let politi- cal considerations dominate his action
 in question so great as this. The Democratic party since my advent
 here admitted Washington and Mon
 tana and divided Dakota into two
 States, and every one went Republi- lean. The same was true of Colorado,
 whose first electoral vote defeated Til
 den. for the presidency The Repub, lican party admitted Idaho, Wyoming and Utah. Two out of these three went Democratic, and all are now Re publican. No man living can guess , the politics Of either Arizona or New
 Mexico should each be admitted as a
 state. It is idle to speculate. It is lundignifed, if not disgraceful, to
 speculate on conditions rooted in