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Show SHOULD BE ADMITTED. There is no reason why Arizona and New Mexico Mex-ico should not be admitted into the Union; there is every reason why they should. They are able to support state governments; they are controlled by intelligent American citizens, men with vastly more general intelligence than the average men of eastern states; there is no reason why such men should be denied the utmost rights of citizenship. citi-zenship. They would have but one congressman each and such congressmen should have a vote as well as a voice in the lower House. As to Senators, the far West Senators have averaged quite up to the standard of Eastern Senators; while some inferior men have been elected, but they have found congenial company in the upper house of Congress. And without bandying words on that subject, it will be most difficult, we think, to point to one measure detrimental to the Eastern states or to the country which has been supported by Western West-ern Senators. The silver question may be cited, but the final killing of silver as money has not made the East happy. The manufacturers and merchants of the East are in sore distress because be-cause of the uncertain situation of the currency in the silver countries with which they desire to trade. They find that those countries are the homes of quite one-half of all the working hosts of the earth, but they dare not either buy from them or sell them goods because of a fluctuating value in their currency. They begin to understand, under-stand, too, that the daily transactions of those people are so small that they can be measured only in silver and copper. They have discovered, too, that notwithstanding the mighty influx of gold into this country, due to the misfortunes of outside lands, there has twice within a year been such a pressure for money that the Secretary of the Treasury has had to go to the relief of the New York plungers. Petitions are In from Mexico and China asking ask-ing for such an adjustment of ratios between gold and silver as will insure stability for their medium me-dium of exchange. By and by, they will win the point which Western men have all the time seen. The warfare on silver was not statesmanship, statesman-ship, but a silly cringing to the will of some pawnbrokers who wanted to enhance the purchasing purchas-ing power of the interest they were collecting on bonds which they had purchased with 60-cent greenbacks; that the true business would have been to hold silver up to its natural ratio with gold and to have loaned it to the Orient, taking pay in the products of those countries and tnus have given to United States ship and commerce the domination of the Pacific. That is the true business still. But, no matter, New Mexico and Arizona cover cov-er 235,380 square miles, one-twelfth of the Republic Re-public outside of Alaska. They are rich In native na-tive resources, two great continental arteries of commerce pass through them, their Interests are indissolubly interwoven with the business of the whole country, their people should have the full rights of American citizenship and their business busi-ness interests should have representation in Congress. Con-gress. There is not one sufficient reason why they should be denied statehood, there is every reason why "statehood should be given them. |