Bisbee daily review., 1910-08-07
STILL DIRECTING TO STATEHOOD

TO STATEHOOD
 The Worlds Work Is one Uf s1' many eastern publications which can not reconcile thePselves 10 the ad mission of Arizo1a and New Mexico says the Rep2olican.
 The magazine mentioned is duhi ous as to the character of New Mex ico's population. and as to Arizona the chief complaint is of our sparse nopplation. It comedies that the Salt River Valley is a fine section and that Prescott. Tucson and bis- bee although mining towns" are permanent. well ordered cities; ana ,t ouotes an eastern gentleman or prominence as saying that he would rather send his children to the schools of Prescott than to the schools of New York. But to give Arizona an equal footing with the great s,ates in the senate of the United States is. thinks the Worlds Work most uuiust to the populous states This magazine betrays an inexcus' able ignorance concerning the pTinci- ples which the government was foan- ded when it says:
 Senators and members of inc house represent people. not square miles of territory: and to give two senators and one representative to inc e5.Ooo CT so.OOO voters Of Arizona ;s an injustice to practically all the rest of the population, and special nrivilege to those particular people
 The writer of this article evidently never read Madison's journal of the debates in the federal constitutional convention. In devising the system of cheeks and balances designed to create a strong central government and at the same time preserve the autonomy of the states, it was de- cided to base representation in the bouse of representatives on popula- sion. and representation in the senate on states as units. There was much ohiection to giving the smaller states of that time the same power in the senate that was given to the big states and this objection was an- swered by pointing out the popuious states would make their power fei' through their large representation m .ha house and each state would be nrotected equally by giving 1t the
 a concentration in the senate. canators therefore. do not represent o,,her .4neople" or square miles" but they represent states as such ana II s,.s not matter. and was not in' consider the mater from the stand inc big or little in size or population' This provision for an equal allotment of senators was one of the wisest provisions in the federal constitution and has been one of the greatest fac .,-, q, all in preserving the union oi states. Had it been possible for suen -....- .s New York. Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania to control the gov .-,us,+ through a disproporticnate representation in the senate based on ,bair pouulation. the people of the smaller states would have become SC disoontented with the arbitrary power of the controlling states that there ,yon,a have been an overwhelming sentiment in favor of disunion. long ago.
 Now that the long battle TOT the admission of Arizona and New Mex ico has been practically won. any di' cusion of the wisdom of admitting them is more or less academic 70 De sure. and the people of the territories may feel somewhat like the judge on the bench who told a disgruntieo lawyer that he had stil another rem edy left-he might ego down to the tavern and cuss the court" but It IS not wise for us to disregard ai'o eether the sentiments expressed in tbe Worlds Work These sentiments are undoubtedly shared by con