Arizona citizen., 1873-05-31
THE CITIZEN.
TUCSON, PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA.
Saturday,, May 31. 1873

A GENTLEMAN having travelled ex-
 tensively over Arizona, expressed sur
 prise to us at the kind hospitality he
 had universally received from the
 people. We remarked to him that
 probably the cause might be attrib-
 uted to the fact that he had used them
 kindly. He said if he had done oth-
 erwise he certainly should have been
 an ingrate. We mention this circum-
 stance to illustrate principle. Now,
 if this gentleman had approached
 each station with scowls and curses,
 and had denounced the keeper for liv-
 ing on so God-forsaken spot; had
 complained of the food that was
 given him, when it was probably the
 best the poor keeper could give; if he
 had discouraged the weary miner
 when he showed him his bag of ore,
 in which all his earthly hopes rested,
 and charged the farmer with being a
 lunatic for attempting to make an
 honest living from the fruits of the
 soil, and generally cursed the country
 and people by sections and quarter
 sections, and so on down to the small
 est subdivisions, he would undoubt
 edly have had reverse story to relate
 of his experience with the people. At
 least such has been the case with
 those who have tried it heretofore.
 We know of many who have pictured the people and Territory of Arizona as something monstrous, in order to convince their friends at distance that they were heroes, and had en- countered dangers and hardships so far ahead of what Kane and Hall have passed through, that to them a trip around the north pole would be but a pleasure. Now, the fact is, that it required some privations and hard ships to subdue the wilderness where New York and Philadelphia now are, and such always has and always will be the case in all new countries. But the faint-hearted, grumbling, discour- aged class are not of those who have subdued the wilderness; they are @ curse to any country, and the sooner they leave it the better it will be for the country. In this connection there is another idea we wish to illus trate, which will show why our friend was used so hospitably by the people. He had undoubtedly learned that hu- man nature is about the same the world over, and that there are but few whose hearts cannot be reached by kindness. It is almost invaria bly, the case, that those who complain most of i'll treatment by their fellow-men, have brought it upon themselves by toward others. The man or woman who seeks no better en- ployment than prying into and dis cussing their neighbors' faults, are sureEto have their own character and conduct we'll ventilated, and the per son who never has friend except to use and make serviceable for his indi- vidual benefit. will surely be left alone at the time he most needs help. The miser will receive no sympathy when he meets with losses, even if he has been wronged, for he has looked with cold indifference upon suffering all around him, and has grasped his money bags still closer. The fault-fnder and growler will complain at the unsocia bility of his fellow-men, for the ight-hearted will not associate with him. The bor- rower of trouble will always have an ample stock on hand, because with the natural difficulties we all have to contend with, his borrowed stock will load him down. The reformer who seeks to elevate the religious and moral sentiment to higher standard, and to obtain the means to pay the robs widows, orphans, and the poor, will declare he is persecuted, because in these depraved times the people call him a hypocrite. Now, in view of all these facts, per haps it is about as we'll for every one to first manage his own affairs as best he can, and by so doing he will find but little time to look after his neigh bors; to see how bright and beauti- tiful he can make the world appear, instead of imagining that it is clouded with darkness and filled with gloom to see how much good he can find in his neighbors instead of seeking only their faults; to see how many he can