| Show statehood statehood BY A territorial VASSA yassa Ii amongst the hundreds of cogent reasons for our admission we will briefly allude only to a very few leaving to other occasions a further and more extended elaboration that there is no organized opposition to the admission of the state that we shall then stand in the senate of the united states the p peer eer een of the great states of new york y or r pennsylvania and massachusetts c chu hu that as a territory the great principle of all popular forms of government is ostracised ostracized ed and we enjoy taxation without representation that we are now in a state of nonage pupilage and vassala vassalage e which ia Is derogatory to the ambi eions ofa of a free freo people peppie and on h a par with conquered satrapies satra pies with political satraps sent to us for rulers wit without houta voice in their election tha that t bj by gui bui our oun admission stability will wil be given to our land titles wh which ch can never bo be enjoyed and attained under a provincial rule like that by we WO are now new governed that wealth and the accession of a more conservative class of population always follow the admission of a state that we shall have land grants for our capital hospitals asyl asylums u m sl universities and other public b buildings u ild iid ings that the saline lano lands which are more extensive in colorado than id ju any state in the union will ba be granted to our state government that upon eur our ur admission in place of the swamp lands which congress always gives to the various state governments governments ments we can with justice justlee lovern Sovern demand amand the arid lands whick which at present are unproductive and useless for the purposes purpose of irrigation that each township of land in the state already set aside for school purposes will then be brought into active use and made available for the education of our youth and the establishment of graded schools and universities that as a state we can select our own rulers an inherent right in every democratic republic republican ani or representative form of government that we shall have an immunity from carpet and outside influences in our internal affairs the right to enact our own laws and to enforce them by an executive and judiciary of our own selection that we shall have our oar court of last resort not composed in part of the judges who have prejudged oun our case in nisi p prius 7 us our supreme judges will be other than those who sit on the circuit benches that we can then elect more than three judges to remedy existing evils and the difficulty in in collecting debts which is now tedious an and d al almost m ost h hopeless op eless these and hundreds of others if we had the time and space to elaborate might be mentioned why we should bo be admitted as a state denver democrat |
