Show WHY WERE THEY SHUT OUT What a n shameful climax New Mexico has brought in her hm eagerness for statehood 1 As yet ct it is not clear clearon on wl at grounds both New Mexico an and Arizona have been shut out the only tangible reason being that New Mexico l had a lobby in Washington to urge her claims that in itself is nothing criminal We Ve suspect the woolen manufacturers have had a a. strong delegation delegation tion in Washington all winter to fight for a retention of the tariff on wool New Mexico is a long way from Washington and it was but natural for her to send men to explain the features of the tho territory which I make her a rightful applicant for statehood Did they go beyond that 1 New Mexico has waited thirty years for statehood She Site can afford to wait still longer but neither she nor Arizona can cnn afford to have haveit it said the they were kept out because of the crookedness ness of her politicians We Ve look for some rather stormy protests from territories in the next few days Surely a great justice injustice has been worked upon Ari Ari- zona zoua By the last United States geological geologic survey bulletin Arizona produced pi last year rear in the precious and semi-precious semi metals That ought to tomake tomake tomake make even the United States congress sit up and take notice Then in ten teu ye re years rs ri more Arizona will have ha more moro laud land under cultivation than all New England and that land will produce per acre three times as much a as the soil of New England Englund does On what principle of justice is such a territory denied statehood statehood statehood state state- hood l' l v |