Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-23
GOVERNOR UNGES
SUPPRESSION Of
CA N BL|N c VICE
Arizona'S Executive
Is for Reform
Would Clean Up Morals of Territory
In Preparation for Statehood.
Scores Injurious Effects of
Cigarettes on Minors

| Special to The Herald.
PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. Ex-Governor
Jos. II. Kibbeys annual message was
read to the Legislature which convened
here today. The governor in his mes
sage urges the repeal or the laws Ii
censing gambling in the territory, and
strongly condemns the sale of cigar
cites and tobacco to minors. He recon-
mends law prohibiting the presence
of women and girls in places where in
! toxicating liquors are sold. The mes
sage, in part, reads as follows:
The Governors Message
"Since the last session of the legis-
which provided among other things,
for the formation of a state govern
mcnt by the union of the territories of
Arizona and New Mexico, and the ad-
mission of that state, under the pame
| of Arizona, into the Union of states.
One of the first prerequisites, how
ever, to the formation of the proposed
state, was the assent thereto of a
majority of the voters of each of the
two territories, to be ascertained at
| the general election held on November
6, 1906.
The result of that election was the
| refusal of Arizona to enter the Union
under the terms imposed. On the joint
statehood question there were 1906
votes cast in this territory, of which
BAL were for the proposed jointure and
1926 We're against it, making an ad-
verse majority of 1924.
In New Mexico there We're cast 49,
$50 votes on the question, of which
26,195 were for jointure and 14,735
against it, making a majority in that
territory of IL ,460 votes for joint state
hood.
In the aggregate there was ma
jority of 1864 in the two territories
against the proposed union.
Under the provisions of the law the
negative vote in Arizona being ANNA
jority, that momentous incident in our
history is closed.
Because of the protracted discus
sion of the various phases of the state
hood question in congress public at
tention has been directed to Arizona
to an extent to which probably no
other territory was ever subjected. Her
people, her resources her material,
moral and intellectual development,
her general qualifications for state
| hood of any kind, and certainly all of
her alleged disqualifications, have fur
nished themes for extended argument,
not only in congress, but throughout
the whole country. Searching inquiry
! has been made into our affairs, the
| character and extent of our population,
! our habits and customs, our aptitude
| for Self-goVernment and our inclination
to good goVernment-in short, into
every element that counts in the es-
| tol al ieLr N M
ernment with high standards.
II wish to congratulate you, the rep
resentatives of the people of Arizona,
! that as one result of these inquiries
| Arizona stands today in better esteem
than ever before by the people of the
whole nation.
Should Look Within
But while felicitating ourselves
upon this gratifying condition we
should not be oblivious to the many
shortcomings in our affairs that were
the subjects of justly adverse criticism.
We may without impropriety and with
out too great embarrassment hold up
the mirror for view of ourselves, but
our vanity should not blind us to evil
dent faults disclosed by the self-in-
spection; nor should our self-compla-
cency render us Indifferent to our
| faults.
1T seems to be the inevitable Incl
dent of all new settlements that there
is a relaxation of the restraints upon
personal conduct - restraints which
have been conclusively found in older
| communities to be necessary to the
best developments of civilization. But
as these settlements become more pop
ulous, and as the institutions necessary
| for their government become more per-
manent, and more especially as there
| q 11nhHr-
dened and unsophisticated, we realize
the necessity for those restraints which
had earlier become relaxed.
"The time has come, it must appear
| to us all, when more care should be
| taken i'm our department than has been
the rule in our earlier and ruder days.
| Cities, towns and villages are growing
up all over the territory. Every year
! finds a larger number of children,
whose education not alone in the
schools, but in the formation of habits
| by association, example and obserVa-
| tion, demands a more careful consid-
Grafton than was accorded to 1t when
our towns and villages were the abodes
of men chiefly, or of but few women
and children.
"The rule that prevails among men
| in new communities, that each must
stand or fall upon his own merits
that only the strong deserve to stand,
and that to fall Is the natural and de-
served fate of the weak-might have
much to commend it If the rule con-
cerned men alone. But as we have pro-
gressed in population, as the territory
! has become more and more the home of
families, the fate OF women and chill
dren has become involved, and men
themselves have assumed new social
responsibilities, so that the old rule, II
ever the right one, is not now appli-
/ cable.
Must Restrict Conduct
"With the new conditions new duties
devolve upon men. Among these duties,
and by no means the least important,
Is the imposition of restrictions upon
the conduct Of members of society so
that as little temptation may be placed
I'm the way of the young, as little inn
morality may be taught them by ex-
ample or appearance, as possible.
"Public sentiment has done much to
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