Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-13
THE EAST IS "SKEERED"

Our very respectable friends in the magazine field, the Review of Reviews, the Outlook, and the Literary Digest, meaning those periodicals which ably represent "our best citizens,'' the same being large stock and bond holders in street railway and other public utility corpora tions, are greatly perturbed just now over the awful prospect of the accession to statehood of the territories of Arizona and New Mexico, says the Los Angeles Record
 The Review of Reviews, usually so staid and respectable, is agitated almost to the point of hysteria.
 Listen: "It has been the tedious task of the senate committee on territories to get the tricks and schemes worked out of the bills as drafted for enabling acts''
 ''Tricks and schemes' is distinctly good Would that these same overworked senators might have extended their efforts on ''tricks and schemes" to the Aldrch tariff bill Would that the zeal of these noble champions of the peoples rights might develop into still other and mayhap more important fields of endeavor.
 But listen again: 'Among other things con gress is likely to insist upon converting New Mexico into an English-speaking state, and even having English taught in the public schools. There will be an effort made to guard the pub lie interest in lands, and in other minor ways to minimize the calamity of adding to our forty six states two more that are not at all prepared for the responsibilities of statehood.'
 This Is meant to be funny. Why do you not 1augh9 Of course, the fact that New Mexico, with total population of 275O00, actually has eight fourishing daily newspapers, all printed wholly in English, besides any number of week lies, v to be exact, also all published in English counts for nothing with the astute collegian who wrote the brilliant observation referred to, but it would seem that even the most casual com parison of New Mexico in this regard with such states as Florida, Mississippi Wyoming and ldaho coupled with reasonable regard for truth and consistency, would have convinced the writer of that paragraph that some several thousand people in New Mexico did and do speak the English language, possibly quite as correctly as the gentleman from New York
 But listen to this final outburst the same be- ing the peroration of two-coumm tirade: "But there will be no way to mitigate the objection of having four new senators of the United States come from communities which have not as yet bred national statesmen and which have little reason to be proud of those who will most eagerly seek the places in Washington
 Did you get that? "NATIONAL STATES MEN"( Let that sink in. We must believe that the real breeding place of national statesmen so to speak, is that region from which this astute economist writes From New York we have had Depew and Platt true representatives of the Adams Express company. From Rhode Island that unterrifed tribune of the people, Nelson W. Aldrch. From New Hampshire that self sacrificing altruist, Jacob GaIinger. From Pennsylvania that SaintIy Soul the late Mathew Stanley Quay, now in Glory; also Boes Penrose holder of Philadelphia Traction bonds and upholder of the rights of corporations, and from New Jersey, almost under the shadow of the Revlew of Reviews sanctum, that lover of the widow and orphan, John F. Dryden.
 Paucity of language forbids us to dwell mon the virtues of J. Edwards Addicks of Delaware surely statesman of renown; of Powder KinoI Dupont, and of many others of that galaxy of National Statesmen," who have basked and thrived in the effulgent rays of that particular brand of true culture which finds it's consum- nation in the eastern part of this republic
 But we trust it may not be considered pre- sumptuous if we of the untamed west eynroos