We have had experience of it from the first days of our Government.

There is no commandment that a Territory shall become a State in any given time, or ever.

We can hold back a Territory, as we have Arizona and New Mexico, or hasten the change to Statehood according to the conditions, and the perfect movement of the machinery requires only the presence in Congress of dominant good sense.

Congress is easily denounced, but no one has found a substitute for it, and it is fairly representative of the country.

Congress will never gamble away the inheritance of the people.