Wants Statehood | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 5, 1895

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 21, No. 48.

Wants Statehood.

ARIZONA wants to be a state. She is knocking already at the door of the capitol, and the probability is that she will be quickly admitted, and become the forty-fifth state. What has she to show?—She has 77,000 people, an assessed valuation of over $27,000,000 ($350 to each), 579,000 acres under cultivation, 750,000 more in process of reclamation by means of irrigation, 10,000,000 more capable of cultivation, 40,000,000 acres of grazing lands, 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 feet of standing lumber, yearly mining products worth $12,000,000, and 37,000 Indians who have lost all love for fighting. What is more, she has a governor (Hughes by name) who dares to say, in an official report, that the liquor business is a crime against humanity, and ought to be abolished by Congress in that territory. Arizona has, under his administration, reduced the number of saloons 37, and of wholesale houses 3, and as an accompaniment has for the second time in the last 17 years reduced her indebtedness instead of adding to it. Let Arizona come in.—The Voice.