Graham guardian., 1911-08-25
RATES OF LEGAL ADVERTISING
AUGUST rs, 1911.
STATEHOOD

The Flood Smith statehood reso
luton, admitting Arizona and New
Mexico to statehood, has now be,
come law. Arizona can now enter
the Union, provided she eliminates
the recall from her constitution.
In other words, President Taft
has become our dictator and has is
sued the mandate that the people Of
Arizona do not know what they want
when they seek to come into state
hood with a progressive constitution
and it was necessary for him tc
amend that constitution to his way
of thinking, and if the people OF
Arizona do not obey his expressed
wishes, as set forth in his veto OF
the Flood resolution. and vote
against the recall, then they shall
not be allowed to enter the Union.
In his veto of the Flood resolu-
ton President Taft practically said
to the people of Arizona. you must
do as | say, or else | will not allow
you to enter statehood.
The people of Arizona do not
know what they want. but Presi-
dent Taft does, and he tells them
what they must do. He dictates
the terms under which HE will al
low Arizona to become a State, and
we must comply with those terms
or remain Territory.
The recall was selected by Presi-
dent Taft as the most vulnerable
point to attack in the most progress
sive constitution ever written for
the government Of people of a
sovereign State. The recall was
condemned by the senators who are
working all the time in the interest
of the big trusts and combinations, :"
in which they appear to be ably sec
onded by President Taft.
If there had been no provision
for the recall of public officers in
Arizona's constitution, and only the
initiative and referendum. the same
interests would have attacked these
progressive fundamental laws which
give the people the right to make
the laws under which they have to
live. and President Taft would have
found it just as easy to comply with
the wishes of his masters" and
find the initiative and referendum"
to be "pernicious legislation"
1t may be that President Taft was
also helped in his decision to veto the
Flood resolution by the fact that if
he approved the resolution, he would
practically be sending message to
the people of Ohio that they should
vote for the amendment to their
constitution giving them the right
to recall the judiciary and other
State officials. and as the common
people have no rights that President
TAFT and his supporters are bound
to respect, the people. the ordinary
workers, who have made this great
country. must be kept in subsection
and subservient to the will of Will
lam l. Prince Aldrich, Count Nor
gan and Baron Rockefeller.
They are the people who can make
William | do things. We do not
hear of any vetoes of their pernic-
ious legislation by the great and
only William |. We do read of
their being found guilty of robbing
the people, but we have yet TO hear
of one of the kind of judges that
they put in office. and who are de-
servedly subject to the recall, ever
a sentence which would
punish and disgrace them.
President Taft knows there never
was a law pAssed by Congress in the
interests of the people but which
one could drive wasea and team
Of horses through it. He also
knows that every law made for a !
is SO finely drawn that
it would be hard to stick needle !
IN it. He believes in keeping in