Arizona republican., 1911-05-26
-abilius.

thoughtful patriotic. laW-abidinS. trusting citizens of this great land"
 Mr. Knox and other members of the presidents cabinet have been no less uut.onken IL has been clearly obvious from the beginning that those alleged friends pf Arizona who were attempting (" force certain measures down the throat nf the administration were in reality AriZInd's worst enemies Many cf these men had the best intentions iu the world Some of them wer' merely self-eNploiters. The results of the I- bnrs of an were the same-to cr-AarraSs Arizona
 Now We have this majority report which win further embirrasS Us i'm our hopes The minority report will allow us to reach our goal with greater -casc We would therefore prefer that you remove for all time this trouble some appendix of our constitution and allow us to come into that health and vigur to which we are entitled
 MT. Chairman. this deSir, for state hood has become ruling passion with the people of Arizona. They want statehood as they want nothing else. So long has it been held out to them as a bdublc tu child. and then with drawn. that they have been driven ai- most to desperation. An understand ing of the people of the territory would heIp toward an appreciation of their sentiments m the matter Many of you are familiar with the nature of our citizenship. but for the benefit or those who have never studied the character ot the genus. Ariz,nian. | viii eudcavor to make a chara ter sketch Of him.
 The citizenship of Arizona k made up of people from every state in the Union and from almost every nation on earth The man in the east who has moved to Arizona and started life anew has of necessity been man of intelli- gcuce. enterprise and courage. He is .of the material of which pioneers are made. men bold and strong in body and courage. The United States has de- Vcloped the strongest citizenship of amy nation con earth because she has drawn the strongest spirits from all the nations ni the world. Sne has dis played her charms to those who We're bold enough Co throW off the inertia "f the ages and strike anew into the UncNplpred. These pioneers or Europe. the !ittest of au her sons. have settled
 u the older communities of this couu- try and bred sons and daughters. Then the west again began to call. to offer her attractions to those wao were again bold enough. strong enough and
 intelligent enough. to conquer the dif- faculties that lay in the way of sec ond migration Again were the strong est and fittest taken west.
 when these selected active spirits reached Arizona they gound that the country was full of men and women just like them. one man had come from New York. one from Iowa. one from TeNaS Each man had brought the ideas of the section from which he came Each tried out his ideas Of farming OF mining or cattle raising in the light of his earlier experience. Each compared notes with aH his fellows Each learned t,I,ration Each constant ly broadcucd his horizon. "'Iiy life of the west SD pr".ed itself dcuonstra- tion school or methods. a college for th, pushing back Of the mental horizon. 't nursery TOT the sons tdI bdhShlerS and the sons and grandsons "r select ed pioneers.
 So. Mr. Chairman. ! say to you that the people oi Arizona are the results of generations of the fittest men and women that the world has to offer In no other community has better op- portmity been offered tp build up tine highest type of the dominant man. Tho result is the citizenship of Arizona as it exists today. which | claim is the highest type or citizenship on earth. The logic of the development of the tcrrit"ry shows why this statement ot mine should not be mere boast but an actual fact