Weekly journal-miner., 1909-10-20
ARIZONA POPULATION DESERVES STATEHOOD
 
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in which you received my assertion still very glad


 Y alu glad 10 sec vOn because am glad to kuO70 that the bobnat0n Of Arisond 7cEch bee7e 7gW and in the future become state, IS (great appause) SWt cent to deSer7e it. ObSerVe ont Of the mouths 0t babes and snckIings 7ve hear the desire for statehood
 q congratulate you upon having such energetic and pretty city have doubt that here elsewhere III A zona, as elsewhere in the new states which nave had e honor visit there is determination on the part o each citizen in Prescott to make her population double Tn the few years, increase the wealth. prosperity and to make 1t known large place the map. That spirit find everywhere throughout the west find subordinate however to the interests the and still more subord nate the interests in the development of the counrya these feelings developing into Amerlcanism which makes the type that everyone who feels interested in his country has right to have great pride ln (APplause)
 Now I had the honor address audience at the capitol of your territory this morning. and the of those remarks venured to prophecy that you would have statehood in the future did so because the Repub can patform upon which 1 had the honor to be elected promised that statehood Arizona and New Mexico, sePa ratey. not however the legislature of this govern ment and all do IS prOphesy not to promise Bf from 7Hat kno70-frou 70tat ha7e heard of the discus SOH- qHte that the movement IS ProceedlHg and that V0H may count uPOH its success
 Now then If 1t IS be successful 1 want to call your attention to the responsibilities hat will be upon you c zens of the state and citizens of the country You will have your officers you will have to select your congressman and and before all that you will have to make fundamental law called your constitution which IS to govern your legislature your law making and your eXec tive thereafter And that responsibility which very heavy and which invite your careful consideration
 The trouble is that you anxious for statehood determined to have that no what your tuition is if it is presented to you you will vote for state hood and vote for the constuon-at least that has been the experience in other directions. Therefore behooves you to that the who frame your constitution are charged with the responsibility of making good sttution Now then we have had constitutions made by territories coming into the union which voted and ap proved and which did approve themselves to those men who looked forward and understood what constitution ought be. It ought be simple; ought to be general 1t ought be comprehensive. It ought not to include cry limitation upon the legislature that each member of that constitutional convention thinks would be to follow in legislation You should leave something to your eglsa ture Don't make your constitution read like statute Be and make 1t read like fundamental law Study the constitution of the United States and what the greatest instrument of fundamental law and how sim pie How has been elastic and yielded to the demands of increasing country and yet it today the wonder o the world (Applause)
 Don't allow every fact every principle, however sound be inserted that constitution Trust something your legislature therefore, and do not bind them and you such way that you will be struggling for twenty-five years to get away from something made in haste and not with the sanest deberaon that you ought to exercise Tn making for your future something that ought to last tor fifty a hundred years (Applause)
 "I talking sense. I know. You will find in your constitutional convention gentlemen who have radical pro gressive ideas not conestng those radical progress i've ideas; many of them have germs of truth and many carried statutes do fasten yourselves down by all cranks kind views of people who want make laws for hundred years without knowing the ditions which those laws to be used (Appause)
 T not talking just for the sake of talking. 1 tcpae that you are going to make constitution here hope that you are, and going to do the best to help to g0e yOn tue PO70er to Dtake #. (Appause).
 But do not load yourselves and your future down with restrictions and limitations III your fundamental law like those which in the Oklahoma constitution making that read like long page of the statutes instead of nda mental instrument like of the constitutions of the older states and the constitution of the United States. Our fathers bulded better than they knew, and have got in advance of them in the matter of laying down simple principles of constitutional law. We don't know than fathers did in that respect for they have proven what they knew by the usefulness of the constitution of the United States. (Applause).
 Now, friends has been stated, stay with you but short time. You give courage you give 1OOl, +,o