The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-04
VIEWS OF EDITORS.
oId-Fa.hioned Amerlcani.m.

Sweet are the uses of advertisingl Sweet
are the comforts of philosophy Sweet are
the blessings of resignation. So what
cares the Portland Oregonian II the telegra-
pliers do strike? Our remote contemporary
Ia happy all the same. In the Oregon
country" says our Portland contemporary,
I'VE used to live without hearing from the
outer world months at a time, and without
caring for 1t. In 1852 Pierce was elected to
the presidency; in 1856, Buchanan. In the
course of a few months. on each occasion,
Oregon heard of these events: but what did
Oregon care? Her people had business
enough at home. They had to find their
living and keep their scalps on their heads.
Life was happier then than it ever has been
| since" How is such equanimity to be dis
turbed? How is such a disposition to be
rufied? This is good, old-fashioned Amer
icanism for you-the sort of independence
that cleared forests and created cities and
erected civilization in wildernesses.-Louis-
Vile Courier-Journal
He was the pioneer.
AS a pioneer of progress the commercial
traveller is credited with no small degree OF
usefulness. A veteran citizen of New Jer-
sey, he was rs years old. died in Trenton in
that State recently. His name was Martin
dell and he claimed to be the first COM
mercial traveller to introduce American
made goods into Europe.
1t is not to be wondered at that this fine
old globe-trotter felt proud of his distinc-
tion as the herald of Americas commercial
supremacy abroad. His courage, his per-
sistence. his persuasive suavity, all con-
tributed to this victory of peace. AS the
pioneer of the h~ustling army of American
statesmen abroad he deserves more b
passing mention. And when we realize
that the foreign trade Of the United States,
thus happily inaugurated, dates back but
forty-one years, it may well rouse our
special WONDER Cleveland Plain Dealer.
ARIZONA and New Mexico.
The announcement from Oyster Bay that
the President will make no further effort
to bring about the joint statehood of Art
iona and New Mexico is a decision Of far
reaching Importance. His surrender on this
point doubtless means that these Terri
tories will come In as separate States,
although 1t may be some years before this
is permitted. It is hardly likely that any
other Republican Administration will at
tempt to force the union Of the two after
the difficulties which Mr.. Roosevelt had in
holding his own party in line for 1t, and
the final rejection of the project by the
Arizona people. Democrats always vote
for separate statehood. This will make
forty-eight States, the ultimate number,
within the continental republic, a number
simple to remember and because divisible
by three will leave the classes in the Sen
ate of equal size-trining considerations
perhaps, but still of some convenience.
This figure would be changed by a division
of any of the old States, but such a posi-
bility now seems highly remote. The prac-
hticaI question now felates to the admission
of Arizona and New Mexico. The longer
this can be delayed, the better, although
it is unreasonable to expect that they car
be permanently kept out of the Union,
After their admission will arise the de-
mand for statehood on the part Of oui
outlying possessions, beginning with
Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico.-Boston
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