Bisbee daily review., 1911-03-29
ARIZONA AND
 HER ADMISSION.


 HER ADMISSION.
 New Mexico is an eligible applicant for admission to the Union. The constitution adopted by her people has received the approval of the president. il is not open to serious objection by congress. and the bill admitting her would probably have passed at the last session but for Senator Owens insistance that if Arizona were kept out New Mexico should not come in.
 The case of Arizona is very differ ent Tn her constitution she has em- bodied the principle of the initiative, the referendum and the recall. The initiative and referendum are popu- listic devices for modifying or practi- cally abolishing the representative principle in government. The recall goes further. notably in Arizona. where judges are made removable at the whim of the people. We cannot at all agree with eSPresident Roose- welt, who said at Phoenix that. all though he did not approve the ap- plicatlon of the recall to the judici- ary, nevertheless that this was "a matter purely for Arizona's own de- cision. and that the opinion of out siders on this question should not have the slightest bearing upon Arizona's right to the privileges of statehood. If that be true, then the somewhat pronounced opinion of outsiders concerning polygamy ought not to have any bearing upon Utah's right to the privilege of statehood. Outside opinion did, in tact, have a very decided bearing, for Utah was compelled to eschew polygamy, and the leaders Of the church were pledg- cd to abandon it before she was ad- mitted to the Union. It is a pretty serious question whether polygamy or the principle Of the recall of judges is the more dstestable and un.Amrican Both are distinctly open to those objections, and, we think. in about eqhal measure. There is, of course, no question at all about polygamy There is just as little question that putting a moose about the neck of a judge and intrusting the other hand of the rope to the crowd is so repugnant to the prin- ciples of our government in nation and state. that the people of a ter ritory who embody the recall of the judiciary in the constitution ought to be left to enjoy the territorial form 'of government until they come to their senses.
 The nature and the quality of the judicial office have been clearly de fined and firmly established in this country by century and a quarter of experience. The qualities that are everywhere and by everybody demanded of a judge are that he shall be a man of high character, learned in the law. of sound tudg ment and of impartial mind The recall is a device so hateful in it's nature that it would tend powerfully Ito keep of the bench the very men whom it is for the public interest to have placed there. Attorney General Wickersham stated the matter very forcibly when he said at Cleveland Monday night: Who of us will be secure in all that We hold dear if our judes can only retain their places by consulting the passing fever of the crowd instead of the laws of the land "Selfrespecting men would hesi tate to accept nominations for the bench in state where they might al any time by rendering just decis. ion. or by sound interpretation of the law, eIpose themselves to the peril