The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1873-12-20
HARD TIMES.

for leading article; nevertheless
1t is suggestive, and full of i'm
port, and may serve as a text for
a few remarks. Just now, from
every direction, borne upon the
breeze or flashed along the wires,
comes the disheartening cry,
"hard times" 1t comes from the
banker, who in his grasp for more
wealth, has overreached himself,
and falls with those who had con-
fided in him, in one general ruin.
Itcomes from the merchant, who
in consequence of the great con-
vulsions in the money market is
unable. to make his accustomed
sales, and collect bills due him
from those whom he has accom-
modated. It comes from the far
mer, who cannot realize an ade-
quate price for his hard earned
productions. 1t comes from the
mechanic, who cannot find en-
ployment, or sale for the produc-
tions of his skill. But worst of
all, most pitiful and most to be
deplored, it comes from the toll
Ing mililons-from those who de-
pend upon the work of their
hands for their daily bread. 1t
Is heart.rending to read the &C
counts that come to us in the pa
pers from the east, of the hun
dreds and thousands of men, wo-
men and children thrown out of
employment in the great manu-
featuring districts, and unable to
obtain the common nocessaries of
life! Yet such is the mournful
truth.
tits hard for people raised in
the great West. and who have
never been in those great hives
of the East, to realize how any
person could suffer for want of
food in America,-in this tenn
inn land of plenty, where boun-
teous nature pou1s into the lap
of industry more than the people
can consume or dispose of.
Here there are no hard times, in
the true sense of the term. In
Arizona, young and undeveloped
as she is, no person has~ever been
allowed to go hungry. Notwith-
standing all that we have suffered
from the hostile Indians, plenty
Of the necessaries of life have al
ways abounded. And those who
through sickness or other misfor-
tune have been unable to provide
for themselves have always been
supplied with a liberal hand.
But still, even here, there are
some who are continually crying
"hard times" You can always
find them loafng about the corn
ers of the streets, in the stores and
saloons, and there is one eternal
growl about the "hard times"
They will bore you to death des-
cribing some other place that
they have seen or heard of. pos
sessing superior advantages to
where times are always
flush. You never see these growl-
ers trying to make the times any
better by putting their own
to the wheel. Oh, no;
they are not on that. Now there
is plenty Of work to do in Arizo-
ma. Here is wide spread Terri
tory, most of it yet in a state of
nature, Astounding in resources of
incalculable wealth, only awaiting
the hand of industry and enter
prise to make it one of the most i
attractive regions of the world. |
But idleness and growing will
never do it.
Get up, roll UP your sleeves and
pitch in. Go to mining, farming,
stock raising, sink artesian wells,
20 at it in earnest and you are
sure to win, and the cry of hard
lines will soon be heard no more
.beut your cabin, but the sun of
property arise upon your way