Arizona republican., 1910-06-19
The Baby and the Bee.

There is a story Of a mother a
baby and nurse and a bee. The
mother was reading. The baby. in a
tantrum. was crying: 4 want it! l
want it, The nervous nurse kept
repeating, But you can't have it,
baby" The attention of the mother
attracted at last, she said to the
nurse, with eyes still on the book,
Give it TO him NO. madame, he
must not have it," answered the
nurse Il want it, / want it,"
cried the baby. louder than ever.
why don't you give it to him, nurse?
Let him have il. / say" commanded
the mother, her eyes still on the book.
Very well. madame" answered the
nurse, and Immediately there was a
yowl from the baby that brought the
mother to her feet What in the
world did you give him?" she in
quired of the nurse 1t was a bee,
madame" demurely replied the French
miss.
Arizona has at last caught the bee
she has been chasing and crying for
through twenty years. Let Arizona
see to it that she is not stung.
In our eXultation over our great good
fortune. fet us hope that all of us Will
feel a SOLDERING sense of responsibility
Every citizen is charged with his
share of responsibility in making the
new state. Let US hope that every
citizen will be willing to do his pa
triotic share
Under the territorial form of gov
ernment the citizen is excusable for
some lack of interest in public af-
fairs He has no voice in the choice
of the officers of government, except
the legislative branch, and the legis-
lature is in congressional leading
strings. The constitution if we
may call it such. is a patchwork of
federal laws defining and limiting
territorial powers.
1t is a rare privilege to share in
the work of making a state. In build
ing the state of Arizona we shall
build for all tine. We shall build
not only for ourselves, but for our
children. and for those who will come
after them.
In the task of framing our consti
tuition. upon which all legislative en-
actments of the future will be based,
citizens are confronted with the
heavy responsibility at the outset of
choosing delegates to the constitu-
tional convention. 1t will be for
these delegates to say what kind of
a government we shall have. In their
session they will make record which
will live always in history. By that
record Arizona will be judged, not
only at, Washington, under the pro-
visions of the enabling act passed |
yesterday, but by the world at large |
To republicans and to democrats |
alike the time has come for laying |
aside all considerations of petty par
tisanship. The man of either party |
who is so shortsigh5ed as to think of |
party instead of thinking of all the
people of Arizona, is not the man for |
delegate to the constitutional conven-
ton. We must. send we'll balanced |
men. men who love Arizona, men who
expect TO. live here. men who will 1
take a pride IN framing such con-
stitution as was framed by the fathers
of the constitution of the United
States.
We must not send men to the con-
ventiOn whose mental processes are
so confused that they are unable to
clearly between constitu- II
ton making and the making of mis-
statutes. We have men, II
of course, as every state has, who
will insist that the constitution should III
be a document that will undertake to