The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1873-11-08
ENERGY.

her resources. Whether it be in
mining, mechanical, agricultural.
grazing, or mercantile pursuits,
still the great want is energy.
The Indian war, that great in
cumbus that hung like pail for
as many years, over the Territory
has, thank God, ceased. For
many years men were excusable
for an apparent lost ofenergy, for
failing to enter heartily into the
various avocations that tend to
make a new and wild country,
habitable, and fit to be a home for
civilized man. A home where
might be nurtured. cultivated,
and enjoyed, those followed as
sociations that cluster around the
domestic hearth.
Because Arizona was a land of
blood, and every road and noun
tain pass was besieged by the
savage and blood thirsty foe.
Hundreds of brave and resolute
men who were not to be turned
back by any obstacle, paid the
penalty of their energy with their
3 lives. And many a home in
other States and other lands, was
made desolate by the death of
husband, father or son, at the
hands of the Apaches. But hap
PLY, that state of things no lon
ger exists.
The Indians are under the con-
troll of the military power, are
placed on reservations, where
they will be taken care of, and
will not be permitted again to
roam the country and scatter
death and desolation in their
path. The time has come when
the white man can go where he
pleases in safety, and can enter
into any Of the avenues Of indus
try without fear of mOlestation.
Then the time for energy has come
The time has come when men
should throw off the supiness and
lethargy engendered during the
years of doubt, perplexity and
danger, and put their shoulders
to the wheel of the car of progress
and shove it along until Arizona
shall TEEN with all the blessings
of a happy and refined civiliza-
ton, and "the desert be made to
blossom like the rose" This hap
py consumation is within our
reach. But we can only gain it
by energy. Sloth and inactivity
nevor overcome the difficulties to
be encountered in the settlement
and development of a new coun-
try. Idleness and its handmade,
vice. never accomplished. any
good.
Those who go moping round,
misunderstanding for something
to turn up" are only drones in
the hive, and are not wanted in
Arizona now. What we want is
men we will make things turn 10
Men who have the energy and
the will 20 encounter and over
come the difficulties and inconve.
nienees that are incident to all
new countries. For such men
there is wide and inviting fietd
now open; field in which ener-
gy and perseverance are sure to
reap their reward. Then men of
Arizona, awake! arise! and come
out of the slough of dependency!
"Nowis the accepted time" Now
Is the time for action. By energy
we may all succeed and have a
happy home in Arizona-a home,
"Wheie man, creations tyrant, casts aside,
This sword and sceptre, pageantry and
pride,
While In his ssOftened looks benignly blend,
The Sire, the Son, the Husband, Father,
Friend,
There woIhans reign, the Mother, Daught-
er, Wife,
Strews with fresh flowers the narrowway
of life,
In the clear heaven of her delightful eve.
An Angel grand of love and graces lie,
Around her path domestic duties meet,
And Preside pleasures gambol at her feet.
Where shall that land, that spot of earth
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