Arizona republican., 1906-01-08

ritories were one province of Spain. There were few people; and the need of political subdivision did not exist in the wilderness. But it is more than half a century since even our remote government was forced into having sense enough to divide this vast area, because it was far too big even for one territory. Rational people will not need
 to he reminded more than once that what is too big for one territory is too
 big for one state. Separate as they stand, New Mexico and Arizona would
 be fourth and fifth states in the union in size. Only Texas, California and Montana are bigger even than Arizona. Out of the forty-five states of the
 Union, twenty did not have as large q population when they became states as Arizona had five years ago-and twenty mine had not at admission as
 many as New Mexico had five years ago. The growth, population and de- velopment in Arizona is far greater in proportion than in most of the eastern lstates-including MT. Beveridge's In- diana At the last census the per cap
 ita value of total farm products was higher in Arizona than in Ohio, was double the New York, and four times the Massachusetts figure. The increase in value of farm products and of all farms in the whole Union from 1890 to 1900 was only 2S and 92 per cent, re- spectively; in Arizona il was 160 per cent and 470 per cent, respectively. Ari-
 zona has more sheep than all New England. There are twenty states Of the Union that have not as many cat ! tie. In per capita value of manufac- tured products at the last census Ari- zona is far ahead of Indiana In lum- Der the two territories have about one
 third more acreage than all six of the New England states together. Not one state in the union comes anywhere near Arizona n per cent of increase in population in the decade from 1890 to
 190O-and no state in the east has half it's percentage. Indiana has about one sixth of its percentage.
 Kansas, Ohio, Illinois, Mississippi. Tennessee, Florida, Kentucky, Califor- mia, Arkansas. Oregon. Vermont, Geor-
 sia, Rhode Island, Missouri, Indiana and Alabama had smaller populations when they were admitted as states than Arizona had in 1900.
 In the last ten years up to 1900, Ari- zona gained more people than Kausas
 and Delaware put together. There are ten states in the union whose actual
 gain in population was not as great
 and in the five years since, Arizona has
 been going ahead faster than any of them.
 Arizona was even in 1900 more densely populated than Illinois was at it's admissions; about equal to Ohio at
 admission about twice as thickly
 populated as Oregon OF California at
 admission.
 Arizona produces about nineteen mil lions a year from mining. She pro
 duces four and one-half times as much
 wheat as Maine. The number of her
 farms has multiplied by four in ten
 years-while in New Hampshire the
 total number of new farms in fifty
 years was only ninety-five. In the de- cade from 1890 to 1900, also, Arizona
 built 545 miles of irrigating canals and
 increased it's irrigated lands by 900 acres-multiplying their value skiold.
 There is no argument which any
 scholar of history or statistics would
 for a moment proffer in favor of joint statehood. The only reason why it is | attempted to be perpetrated is selfish 1 ignorance on one side, and selfish tim
 idity on the other. But common sense [ and reasonable courage are dominant everywhere. All the people of Arizona have to do is to stand fast on their his | toric, their political, their treaty. and l their American rights. They can bet | ter afford to wait a little to get the
 thing they want as they want it; and | the country cannot afford to violate
 the will Of what will presently be q
 sovereign state.
 Meantime. to be perfectly frank with the Tenderfoot Country to which West erners owe certain tips in return foI amusement rendered, it is only fair to record that the only parallel in Ameri-
 can history for MT Beveridge's sugges- tion has been made by a California , newspaper genius Gmported)-to spli
 the sovereign state of California acros: | it's equator, join southern California ! with Arizona, and call the hybrid Cali. zona." The east has no monopoly.
 The February number of this maga