Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-29
CHRONIC aRoWLERs.


 CHRONIC GROWLERs.
 Chronic growlers are to be found II almost every community. Nothing goes right with them. They are always ready ,a predict dry weather or wet weather ss indications suggest. They will tell ,ou thst the dry weather is going to destroy the crops and that the grazing vill be so short that most of the stock vill die Of starvation, or that the fall of -s1a will be so great that nearly every b,ly will be down with malarial fever. They are also usually we'll posted in mines, and will tell you of more ven- tu-as that have failed than you ever dreamed Of, but, strange to say, they sla tell you nothing whatever sbout .5asa which have met with success. Though their knowledge of mines and nIrlug is altogether superficial, they ssn tell you exactly what Is and isn't" roin. out all the shortcomings and defects of the system, and finally close hy saving "all mining men are thieves, every man has his price, etc." old threaI-bare sayings that people have r-5vn sick and tired of. With them, -7.hlur m the country Is worth having. The grazing lands are nothing like what ,hey az n countries they have lived ID. or passed through. Rail road and other monopolies are sapping ihs lif5s blood of the people. and it IS 5aly question of time when We shall al be 0n the verge of starvation and tae country will relapse into desert waste. Bad things of every imaginable sort will overtske us. They will tell you that the bottom of Prescott: has dropped 0u. and that the same fate awaits Tombstone; that Tucson will gradually 30 back to pueblo and that the remain ;ng towns and villages are not worth noticing These chronic growlers are DO; confined to any particular trade or p-o'esslon. but may be found among all classes 0f people, yet in one sense they comprise but A single class-"the uusuc- ,esstul class" or ID other words those vho have travelled much, seen much, | e1Derieuced much, and have allowed 1 tls bss: opportunities Of their lives to | pass without fastening on at the right | Gna. or have met with unavoidable re- 7erses snd failed to rally. They have come Go the conclusion that everything going wrong and that all people are bad or soon will be; they have not the ess: idea that they themselves are to blame. They do not seem to realize that .lei- talk Is very disagreeble to Is live, energetic men of the country, zao are trying to develop its resources, s1i make the most out of it, neither do hey realize that many good men, who s,s able and would assist them in their bszne-s or profession, avoid them, be- '.ase they believe croakers and chronic gr5Elers are not the kind of people who s-e needed n a new country. Men who lave faith ID the country and are will Ing 10 invest their money and labor in, tgi,liny # up, do not care to be com psled 10 listen to an old croak- sr's story, in and out of season. They have business to attend to, besides they have studied the dark as well as the bright side of the picture and have ideas of their own. As ssassless as are lhe harangues of the chronic croaker, a dozen of them can do more damage to a community, than the energy and perseverance of five hundred g)oi, live men can overcome. Having bELi;.e 10 do, they usually congregate E55l; saloons, hotels and public places and are among the first to salute the stranger upon entering town. The stranger ls naturally interested in tn1ing out what there IS in a country; its resources and prospects,; vls,ae- 1t is a desirable place to settle s:c, and fl he Is not an observing per con and of strong mind, the professional e-oaker VII crive him out of town in less than a week. Arizona owes less to i-is class oi citizens than any other. s1d II the country that furnishes them bread and butter does not suit them, E1a-d It not be more manly and honor lol5 IL them to leave it, and let those Fao are trying to build it up Lave 8 chance to do it? It i'll becomes snsa or set Of men to ''dam the bridge i-at carries them safely over"