Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-07
ARIZONA WANTS STATEHOOD.

\ likely to pass congress in the next few years. Congress in 1906 gave Arizona and New Mexico a chance to come in as one state under the name of Arizona. The people of New Mexi- co accepted the invitation to merge, but Arizona rejected il. That disposed of the statehood question for the near future so far as regards these two territories.
 | Congress does not believe that eith- CT New Mexico or Arizona has enough people to be entitled to an equality with New York, Illinois and Missouri l in the upper branch of congress ia making laws for the country. In 1900 all the people that the United States census takers could find in New Mexi- co were 195.000 and they could only i trace 122. 1000 in Arizona. Each of these territories has gained some in ! habitants in the past seven years, but the gan has probably been small. Moreover. not until irrigation gets much farther advanced than it is now will either of them have any chance to get enough people to entitle them to two or three rep esentdfiyes in the house, on the present basis of appor- t,onment. Congress is averse to mak- | ing any more one-representative states.
 The democrats will charge the re publscans with offensive partisanship | in refusing to let Arizona and New Mexico in with their present handful of inhabitants. That accusation will attract nosattention. however. New Mexico is republican, and Arizona is l democratic. so that the admission Of both territories would leave the party divisions in congress and in the elec- teral college as they are now. More over, if Arizona should make any growth of any importance it would be i from republican communities and this would eventually swing that commun- l ity over to the republican side. As matters stand now, the national count of 1910 will probably be taken before these territories can make an appeal l for admission with any chance of sue l cess. and unless their growth from | the 1900 figures should turn out to be considerable, congress. even after | 1910, will very likely nut be in hRr- ry to let them in.-Globe Democrat.
 The statement by the Globe Demo crat that bill will be introduced into the next congress for the admission of Arizona as a single state will be news to the people of Arizona So far as we have any knowledge Dele gate Mark Smith, who represents this territory in congress, has no intention of introducing such a bill for the reason that he knows the republican majority in congress would not per init such a measure to pass, notwith- standing the fact that the republican national convention, which convened in the city of. Philadelphia seven years ago, put in the platform a dec!a- ration fayoring -the early admission of the territories of Oklahoma. New Mexico and Arizona as states" That was before the national census of 1900 had fixed the population of Ari- zona at 122.0OO at which this republi- can paper now refers to as so insig- nifcant.
 The people of Arizona feel that our territory is entitled to the same con sideration as was accorded to other territories at the time the right of statehood was conferred upon them. History tells us of the admission of Illinois as state in ISIS and also that the national census of 1910 only showed a population in that territory of 12,2S2, about one-tenth of the pop ulation of Arizona, as shown by the last census taken in 1900. In 1920, two years after the admission of H. inois, the population of the new state was given as 52,211, not half the num- Der of people accorded to Arizona in the year 1900.
 Few states were equal to Arizona in either population or wealth at the time of their admission to the union.
 Louisiana was admitted in the year 1912 wth population, shown by the census of 1910, of 76,5se, only a little
 more than half the population of Arizona; Kansas was admitted in 1861 with a population of 107,206 as shown by the census of 1860; Ken lucky was admitted in 17s2 with a population of only 7S,s77; Colorado was admitted in 1876 with a popula- ton of ss.ss4 as shown by the census of 1870 and so we might go on nam ing Iowa and the states of the north west
 The people of Arizona feel that they are being denied a square deaP' in the matter of statehood; they feel that they are now qualified for sin gle statehood according to all former precedent in tue admission of new
 states by all political parties and they feel that the republicans who rushed the sage brush state of Neya- da in the union for political purposes sh,,,ta st,<,~ ,.<s-o .o--.-s e. 4.-