Arizona republican., 1910-12-19
lf the People Want Statehood.

l 1 framed by the late convention-the
 constitution which the people are to
 ratfy or reject at the election Of
 February g.
 If the people ratify the constitu-
 ton. it will be peremptorily rejected
 al Washington.
 It will be rejected because of its inclusion Of the initiative and the
 referendum under the oregon plan of destroying the representative form
 Of government; because of its in
 clusion of the recalI' in all its viciousness, and because Of other ! features which democrats and re-
 publicsns at Washington regard as
 objectionable
 This constitution rejected at Wash ington that is the end Of statehood | for years to come.
 The enemies of statehood are more
 than pleased that Arizona has foolish
 ly played into their hands
 President Taft. Arizona's consistent
 friend. and our most powerful advo-
 cate of statehood. cannot conscien-
 tiously approve the constitution that
 has been framed
 The president hopes that We will yet ens ble him to do his duty by the country and al the same time help us into the Union. by our rejection of this constitution and the adoption Of another constitution which he can approve
 This is the information brought home by Governor Richard F. Sloan. after conferring with the president and with the leaders of the republi- can and democratic parties in con- gress
 Thus are finally. and we may say officially, stated 10 the people of Ari- zons facts which we have for six months urged our Arizona readers to consider The Republican is honest with it's readers at all times It never Intentionally misleads them Before laying before it's readers any information Of grave importance. this paper endesyors to be sure Of its facts. And cnce sure. it insists upon telling the truth. regardless Of any unpopularity of the truth. Had this paper desired merely to be ''on the popular side" it would have rushed 10 the front with other news papers last summer and urged the voters to- adopt the "isms" But We had positive information personally from member of the presidents cabinet that the president would not approve our constitution if il pro- jected the oregon plan" into our state government Therefore. while believing the Oregon plan funda | mentally wrong, we laid stress upon the fact that to make it feature of our constitution would surely defeay statehood. Sooner than we expected, the position taken by this paper has been vindicated
 The achievement of statehood for under constitution com meDded at Washington and by the people of the east, would be of such ble value that in Our judg- ment nothing else 50 beneficial to the welfare of our people could be Capital and immigration houlu HOW lnlb lHc state m d stcaul- ly increasing volume. whereas the very remote danger of our admission under the constitution proposed has dried up the stream of inflowing capital and practically stopped immigra ton.
 The question is squsrely up to the people of the territory. Do they want statehood? If they do. they will vote down the proposed constitution on February g.
 Fortunately. this is time for cool reflection-no party issues are involved-and we believe the people will reflect coolly and will disregard the frenzied advice of demagogues and the bogus frenzy of demagogue news papers.