The Weekly Arizonian., 1869-12-25
sPEcULAToBs Vs. PRODUCERS.


 The present year is one which has produced decidedly bad results in Arizona. Leaving the Indian question aside, we find that there have besu other influences at work, which, wAils they do not jeopardizs lie, render it a series of dis appointments and snncyauces. The course pursasd by specuIst5rs has proved ruinouE to themselves. ruinous to the producer, and there- fore rninous 10 the best interests of the Terri tory. Isolated from the business world ws are a people obliged to live among ourelves, or in other words, to depend upon one and other Commercial advantages we have none; not that our position is at fault, but tRat we pos1sEs none of the artificial facilities. such aS steam boats. canals, or railroads, necessary to the maintenance of commercial intercourse. Re have bat one market, and upon it's mans agemsns 6epea1s our rrogress or retrogrssalon. SPeeu- lators know .hi., but are to greedy and seltish to think of benei.ng the country, and while engaged in the mad struggle 10 obtain con tracts are ever ready to sacrifice the bone snd sineu of the country to their own shortsighted- ness and avarice. Our market, as everybody in the coantrY well knows, is the quaEtsrmss- sers department which up to the present yea: was regulated in 6 manner that gave enconr- egement to every class and profession, to settle in tue country.
 With 69 however came thereTolution. Short sighted, heartess speculation nonoPolized this market and wrung the last bolt from the hsr- row ofindustry. TAo speeulatOr Obtainsd his contract from government at figure below tns prices obtained by producers in former years. There being but ono market for pfoduce, the speculator has but to name the price which he can afford 10 pay, and ths producer necesss- riIy Yictiu of speculation, must accept the terms offered or receive nothing for his labor, The results which have followed this thought lsss system of speculation are now painfully evident. The producers gre impoverished and literally discouraged. lew specuatoFs have made trifing profit whica Is swallowed up by tho general stagnaticn of business. The whole settled portion of the country which only q yesr1go vas scene of busy industry, Is gradu- ally losing by abandonment. many of its oldes seulers-men who have lived and ls5oTed Eert fer .en and twelve ysars.
 Men inured by iorg residence 10 she hard .h;ps of frontier life will not ice from danger The numerous murders and robberes by Indi ans which these cid pioneers witnessed durin! their stay in Arizona of so many years, coul, not influence them 10 leave. They knew tha danger lurked around them, but this knowledg only influenced them ta array themsslve against whatever danger threatened They di not think rhilo guarding against dange of the existence cf which so nany terribl waruings had been given them, that subiI enemy was plotting st their backs; but it VI even so This attack from behind proved to much for the honest old pionssr aud A sing scourge frem the lash ofthe specolator ecc5-s piished su that thirteen years of bsrearc1 Indian warfare failed to do.
 Bu, it tisnot too late to retrisTe the snkir fortunes of the Territory and its inhabitants ths business be at once and properly attend' to. Lot speculators but cast aside their u wholesome avarice for spell, call meedI and form an organization; (cNll ii q "Socie for .he Protection of Industry, or some oth appropriate name which will have for it's 0 feet the regulation of ,he market. Let Pgic be n aiu;ained which viii warrant the ccn,rat or in allowing the farmer A reasonable pTi for his produce. This done, next adopt mea urss, by petition or otherwise, to have tRe il port 6uijss on produce from Sonora so inere' ed that 1t cannot bs delivered hsrs st lev figures ,han our farmers can alferd 10 fuEn supplies
 This would be protection of indust-y g
 not protection alone, but protection, cid 8 encourag combined And not only
 arower at the wheel Of industry would tbe
 fecis of such agreement 5e felt, but settleme
 would continue to encroach upen the Iudi
 driving him to the interior. ThiI would
 forcing indirectly from government that
 against tue hostile Indians which it refuses
 give directly. If the people would see fair pie
 take the pIAcs of Ihiverins indigsues let Il