The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1874-11-28
PERSEVERANCE,.


time, as we'll as the one we have
chosen, perseverance,. 1t signifies
that sublime quality of head and
heart and nerve that inspires the
possessor to push on tow; I'd the
goal of his ambition. 1t has
crossed trackless and unknown
oceans without chart or compass.
1t has sounded new seas and dis
covered new continents; it has
upheld the spirits of the pioneer
and the explorer when among
new and untried dangers and pre-
vations, far from the land of his
nativity. 1t is to-day, as it always
has been, and always will be, the
handmade of civilization and the
main spring of progress.
What would the world be to-day
without this spirit of perseUer-
Gnces 1t would be inert and
helpless and retrogading to bar
barism. We are speaking now of
perseverance in any just and
righteous direction; in anything
that promotes happiness, peace
and the general progress of civil
lization and refinement. There
is such a thing as perseverance in
bad cause. It is a lamentable
truth that men sometimes perse-
we're in wrong doing. But that
is not the kind. of perseverance
of which we are speaking. We
allude to that indominable quail
ty that makes men press forward,
and, undismayed and unterrified
by any obstacle that they may
meet, devote their lives and their
energies to some laudable pursuit
that is calculated to make them
selves and the world in which
they live better or wiser or hap
pier.
There is no place in the world
where perseverance is more de-
manded or where its fruits are
more valuable than in a new
country. There is no place for
listless lounging and loafing and
waiting for something to turn up.
If men are addicted to idleness,
there is no place for them in the
settlement ola new country. They
had better hang around the pur-
lieus of the great cities, be wharf
rats or beach combers, sleep I'M
der the wharf at night and live
on offal in the day. Idlenes is
the mother Of vice, and it is as true
to-day as in the time of DR.. Watts,
that "Satan finds some mischief
still for idle hands to do" 1t is
a matter of surprise what there is
in n new country to induce loaf
ers and vagabonds to come to it,
unless it be the hope that they
may become suddenly rich with
out any effort of their own. But
it is a lamentable fact that they
do come, and once there, they
generally stay, for they seldom
get money enough to get away.
The men who are wanted in a
new; country are men of true per-
severance and energy; men who
are not easily. daunted or disheart-
ened, and men sound moral
principles, who while tHey)con-
quer the wilderness and open the
way for the blessings of civiliza-
ton, at the same time lay deep
and strong the foundations Of
sound morality, without sectarian
cant or religious bigotfy. We.
want men who are not ashamed
to work, with heart and hand,
brain and pen. q
d. Heart of the people, working men. 40
Marrow and bone of humEn powers
Who on their sturdy backs ssstsR
Through streaming time this rid of ours!
Give US such men, bet them
come with their household Gods,
and while we are uneovering the
vast hidden. wealth and develop
ing the boundless resources of our
great Territory we will build up