Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-12
STATEHOOD FOR NEW MEXICO.

President Roosevelt authorized me to say that he was for statehood for New Mexico alone, and will do all he can for the passage of a single state hood bill. We will have the bill in- troduced early in the next session, and will crowd it to a finish.-Govern- or Curry, of New Mexico.
 4 president who would confer state hood on Spanish New Mexico would, to be consistent, bestow American statehooG upon Cuba, Porto Rico or the Philippines. On what principle is any territory kept a territory if New Mexico is to be admitted? Per haps Governor Curry misunderstood the president.-New York Times.
 There is the same question as to New Mexico that there is as to the Philippine Islands and other remote possessions. Arizona refused to jCin it for statehood, and it's last failure may have put it in the same classifi- cation as the Philippine Islands and other new dominions coming to us as q result of the war with Spain. New Mexico will simply have to wait till she is fit. The surmise of the Times is bright. Governor Curry must have been mistaken about what the pTesi- dent said. New Mexico has received a "black eye" from which it ought to be hard for her to recover. The Coun- try has gone to the limit in admitting nklahnrna- -hacanSa- t lhas- mi -a fine population. but the finest" do not seem to have gotten hold of the work of making a state. Perhaps the president had too tender feeling for the democrats when, with the matter left in his hands. he let the mongrel state in with its wretched constitu- tion instead of referring it back to congress for further consideration.
 Our large insular acquisition and our responsibility for Cuba have made some change in what was once regard ed as- fixed policy-almost in the nature of a natural law. All the vast territory we took from Mexico, as well as some further north, was formerly destined to be states. We have baked at New Mexico. Since we have found ourselvs handling so much territory beyond the seas we have learned that it is proper to keep the territorial em- bargo on regions nearer home. We have learned that contiguity is no req son why we should ever admit New Mexico as a state. We can hold it in a territorial condition indefinitely. It is a patriotic hope. of course, that this territory may become sufficiently Americsnized, in language and other respects, to entitle it to take its place a. state; but that may be condi- tion too remote to bother the public brain about now.
 Arizona was one of the very last ter ritories to rid of the worst forms of Indian savagery, and it is one place in
 
 and very likely some of the Spanish customs. are dead weights Anyhow there is no hurry about bringing in a practically foreign colony.-Cincinna;i Inquirer.
 The above excerpts are reproduced here to show the citizens of the re msining territories just what notions some people in the eastern states hay, of them The Enquirer, published II the state of Ohio. we take it, is trying to rub salve on the wounds of sena tor Beyerfdge of Indiana. who attempt cd to make one state out of the twc territories referred to above. Ths territory of Indiana was admitted if the union prior to the year 1920 and iF that year the census showed the pop ulation to be only 1470O0. while a ter ritorial sensus taken fin 1915 showed only ss,ss7. At the time of the ad mission of Indiana the population oi the state, according to available his tory was composed of heardy, baci