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Show PRESS PARAGRAPHS TWO MORS STARS FOR THE FLAtS- Omaha Bee: "The nation should hav a wholehearted Welcome for both or the new atates. They come with the amis of Industry beating Kor th di--d from l&M to 1919 New Mexico's rat of growitj m population wa ST.S per cent, exceeded by only five other atate. and Arlauna rate of Increase wa J Pr cent, exceeded ex-ceeded by only l other state, of which New Mtalco wa one' Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: "The admission of the two terrltorle will mark , milestone In our hlstor. There will be no more territory within the boundaries of the United Slates proper prop-er to be Invested with statehood. Oov-eminent Oov-eminent In territorial form, will disappear, disap-pear, thou li of course there etlll will be territory Tike the DUtrlct of Columbia and varlou government reervatlona, t well as our outlying powwslons that will be governed by trie federal government." Jyracuee Post -Standard: "Whit th new atate are email In population, they are. It should b remembered, la rye r than one or two eaetern atate, which they re sure to exceed etlll more decade after decade. Could they have been Induced to unit aa one state It would have bee better. ut aa ther w no hope of pei-luadlng pei-luadlng them to accept union it la well thai they bay bean' admitted.". Baltimore American: "Th country I benevolently Interested In the future of the two etatea. and will look to them to justify their statehood, not by plunging Into th vortex of politic, but by making mak-ing the moat of their opportunities and resources. In time either of them may rise to a place of the wkleet Importance in th count of the nation." Atlanta Osnltutton: "If th cletny in the final adoption of the tatetMo resolution accomplished nothing else. It served to bring before the people of th country the argumenta for and agalnat Judicial recall. It haa, served to emphasise empha-sise the danger In that form of government govern-ment Which mak a Judge on th bench subject to the temporary whim of a people peo-ple untrained In legal procedure or line of thought." Lo ' Angel ' Kkpr': ''When one th territory ha become a sovereign stats It will be easy to put back Into the constitution con-stitution that wMrh new must ae struck from the constitution; H the permanent surrender of principle Were tbe price exacted ex-acted for statehood. "'Arlxorra should and would refun to pay It." Duluth. NewB-Trtbun:. "Both of theae teritorlee have Waited long and anxlcua-ly anxlcua-ly for admission to otarcnood and they have had to take pot luck aa twin. The were ready to accept pretty nearly any conelltutlon anv. convention, no matter how constituted, might offer. That th constitution as framed were adopted by a vote, no matter how overwhelming, shows little aa to the actual majority sentiment." Providence Jouml: "It .1 Incredible, of course, that the people of Ariaona should permit A difference of opinion oa the Issue of the Judiciary recall to poat- Kne further a dealre to become a mem-r mem-r of the family of atates, were It posl-tlv posl-tlv that the destr t tron and deep. Such a case of aulka. woulg be unbe- S orpin a. people professing quallfica-on quallfica-on for sovereign dignities." Rprlnxflled Republican: "h 'political effect of th early admlaaton of New Mexico end Arisen may now be dl-cerned dl-cerned the more surely. The Democrat will get two new t'nlted State senator. sena-tor. If not four. But more Importent etlll. perhaps, la t Ire. fact that Wew York and Pennsylvania combined will have no more power'rn the tpper branch of congress con-gress than' these twe 'sagebrush tatea.' " Cleveland Leader; "The country hai hopes of the two new statea hope rather rath-er than great eKpectatlona. They will be bis enough far Intmena wealth, population. popu-lation. Industrial and eoatmerotel Importance, Im-portance, and power and . preellg aa state, but their else Is deceptive. Nevada Ne-vada la also very large." |