Bisbee daily review., 1911-08-17
SOBER DOWN NOW AND
 LET'S HAVE STATEHOOD.

Now that President Taft has ye- toed the statehood resolution and according to yesterdays Associated Press report. there is little hope of the veto being overriden. it is 70 be hoped that there will be a sober ing down of these who have so strenuously fought for that feature of the constitution to a realization of the fact that statehood is not possible at this time with the TO- call feature of the constitution re- maining in that document. and look squarely at the situation and de eide whether or not 1t is better to have statehood without the objec- tionable feature in the constitution or whether it is better to remain yet a territory for perhaps two years and lose not only this fea- ture Of the constitution. but every other feature of the. constitution which provides for the independ- ence of our people in the matter of government.
 There will be nothing to be gain cd by abuse of the president be- cause of his action. and there will he very few outside the ranks of the socialists and the insurgent re- publicans who Will undertake serl- ously to combat the arguments Of the president against the recall of the judiciary.
 When the Flood resolution was before the lower house of congress, there were very few, in the long discussion, who undertook to de fend the judiciary recall feature of the Arizona constitution as a sound governmental principle, although the democrats took the position that Arizona had the right to make her own constitution and experiment with the recall if that was desirel by a majority of the people.
 The only manner by which the people of Arizona can gain their independence in the matter of gov ernment is by securing admission into the union as an independent state. Until such admission is se- cured we must remain as we are with our judges and governor nam ed by the president in Washington Will any sane man say that 1t IS better to remain a territory than to accept statehood without the re- call? It Is all well enough to talk about the rights of freemen, . which rolls SO freely from the ton que of the demagogue and tkos~ who will sacrifice every industrial interest of the territory in order that they may be cheered by the minimizing crowd, but without state hood they well know that the peo- pie of Arizona can have no right of self-government on an equality with the people who reside in state and provide their own governnent-
 What Arizona needs today is the stimulation of our indusdies. which we believe would come ct once with the admission of the territory as a state; we want the right of self government. but we need this indus trial stimulation which VII mean the coming of money from the money centers of the east for the development, not Of the recall, bni  of our mineral wealth; not of the recall, but of our opportunities te develop of in our promising fields and thereby add greater wealth thaa has ever come from the mines; mol for the development Of tho recall but of the agricultural possibilities Of the Sulphur Springs and othei valleys of the territory by the cree ton Of great pumping plants whicf will supply the moisture for crops not for the development of leather Iunsed politicians, but for the de