Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-10-19

in its contour as is the argument which it was designed to support
 Following the methods of the Republican we might, by dilligent search, find damaging passag es in treatise on almost any subject, if we took them away from the context and deliberately in- serted them into dissertation on some entirely different subject But such juggling has no saw inc grace to extenuate its use; is unworthy of any self-respecting individual and is still more open to condemnation when employed by a sup posedly reputable newspaper such as we always believed the Phoenix Republican to be.
 But not content with having misquoted and uniformed the Silver Belts statement the edi- torial conclusion jumper of the worthy Republi- can asks, 'sDoes the Silver Belt mean that it is dspleased with the excellent prospects for state hood and would like to do something to discour- age the national republican leaders,"
 Now, frankly, if the author of this puny em- bodiment of so-called thought in words, which the Republican has thus aborted, is in all sim plicity and innocence asking us for information, we are convinced of the futilty of an answer. For after this all-suficing exhibition of his cer- ebral acumen as provided in Exhibit A, the Re- publican editorial, we despair of ever reducing human thought to such concentrated and sim pie consistency of it's component parts as to make it possible for his doubtfuly existent in tellect to digest it. For, be it known, we are not engaged in the preparation of delicate and tempting collations for the nourishment of the childish mind. There are institutions and scien- tists giving their entire life to the commendable object of helping the mentally unfit, and to them we leave the fashioning of some kind of mnemon- ic simulacra by which an idea may be clearly con veyed to and retained in the receptive faculties of the Republicans editorial department.
 If, however, the author of the Republican $ editorial on the Silver Belts logic was animated simply by unpardonable malice, why, we hand him both the laurel wreath and the palm for possessing the most genuinely De Luxe brand of impudence that was ever set up monumentally for the public to gaze on.
 In conclusion, then, and for the benefit of the people, who, not having read the editorial on "Democracy's Necessity" which appeared on October l in the Silver Belt, might possibly be misled by the verbal chicanery of the Republi- can, we may most emphatically declare as we al ways have maintained in the past, that the Sil- yer Belt is unresewedly in favor of Arizona $ statehood now, henceforth, and forevermore. To pOi- icy of the Silver Belt comprises the firm con victon that Arizona s constitutional convention should be made up of men qualified to frame ser viceable laws, regardless of their political ad herence. Permit us to say further that 1t is the Silver Belts belief that the constitution to gc into effect after statehood should give the great est possible degree of liberty to the Arizona leg isature, which will, or should, be made up of the most capable and judicous men of the new com monwealth To fight for these principles enum erated above has ever been the policy of the Sil yer Belt since they first became an issue, and tt fight for them will also be the policy of the Sil yer Belt in the future The general public, w | trust, is too thoroughly cognizant of the Silver Belts attitude toward statehood to ever be de ceived by ebulitions from minds containing more ferment than focus, more petty animosit, | than desire to serve the public. And relying ol all intelligent people to credit the Silver Bel
 with unfailing loyalty to the cause of statehood we shall do all in our power to promote the bes
 interests of Arizona, her citizenship and he
 now imminent admission to the union.
 THE SEWER SITUATION