Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-26

mat lhSfe are bftShteF oas ahead for Arizona. is the opinion of B. A. Packard. the well-known Doug las pioneer. Indian fighter. banker and all around Arizona booster. This grand old Arizona character does not hesitate to approve tine course of President Taft in making it neces- sary for Arizona to eliminate the re- call of her judiciary as prelimi- nary to statehood.
 "I am for statehood first, last and all the time" says Mir. Packard. but rather than have such a thing as the judges of our state made the creatures of an lnflamed public pas sion. would rather have Arizona remain a territory indefinitely. l have been against the thing from the beginning We would probably have had statehood months ago had 1t not been for the course of a lot of selfish agitators. and a whole lot of them were not labeled democrats. either. In fact, the loudest mouthed of the lot were republicans.
 But it looks now as though we are going to be a state very soon. That is the complexion Of the news from Washington and I believe Aug ust will see the dawning of a wonderfully bright day in the birth of Arizona as the forty-eighth state. Statehood has brought an era of great development and prosperity 10 every other territory admitted in the past, and as Arizona and New Mexico are the very last on the map to be admitted, their share Of initial prosperity should De more than usual This is a logical con clusion. for it follows that because capital has had immense returns as the result of investment following admission to statehood in the past, 1t will be eager to seize the last opportunity Uncle Sam has to offer along that line"
 Brighter days are ahead for Ari-
 zona That fact is just as clearly
 established as if the transformation
 had already occurred. A state that
 is so richly endowed with natural
 advantages, and whose every county lis so pregnant with great opportun- ties, cannot but grow and prosper
 by leaps and bounds. when the ter
 ritorial shackles have been entire
 ly removed. From one end of the
 state to the other there will be g
 raIlying cry of progress backed by the most solid evidences of pros perity, when Arizona takes hel ] rightfuI place in the sisterhood o states, and the dream of the lonl . misty years has been safely accom- plished.
 It has been surprising to the req
 friends Of Arizona that there hal been any hesitation about the elimi nation of the one impediment tha
 stood between Arizona people am their just dues. This talk of deyo ton to principle and the right Of |
 people to say for themselves wha
 shall constitute their state eonstitu
 ton, is a sublime sentiment, bu - from some cause or other, the worlr : has never believed that the recal of the judiciary reflected the req sentiment of the intelligent an ! thinking people of Arizona The ou rage upon common decency and tn a prostitution of purpose involved ha never comported with the genera idea of Arizona justice and inteil e gence. It has appeared to the cn i side observer as an effort on tn part of designing politicians to ca a " a socialistic point at the exDens C of the inalienable rights Of fire c people, and in cutting out the recal U the people Pf Arizona have asai z given evidence of that sanity th' $ has heretofore characterized th q state. The people Of the new stat IL of Arizona will prosper. for the re IT son that they deserve to prosper e Fl Paso Times.