Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-05-04
RESPECTABLE JOURNALISM
 PAYS BEST.

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 journalism is conducted is the grea = secret of the power of the press of tn,
 United States, and the higher the plane
 the greater the power of the press. Ari
 zona is in need of good newspapers, con
 ducted by responsible men, and edited 2 with scrutinizing care, avoiding the mis Q erable vagaries that characterize the
 low down sheet, having for its sole ob- ject the brutal abuse of people circling
 ina moral sphere infinitely above the } coterie of such disreputable papers or
 the people they are conducted in the in-
 terest of. Great good can come to the
 territory from press that advocates the
 right, and vigorously denounces the
 wrong; but no benefits will be derived
 from the newspaper mongrel that lends
 its columns to wholesome blackguard-
 ism. The Phenix Gazette has of late
 been teeming with abusive articles, act
 uated by ill conceived disappointments,
 jealousies and malice, and written in spirit that shows total disregard of the future welfare of the territory. A
 stranger reading the articles that have
 appeared from time to time in the Ga
 zette, could we'll be excused from want ing to settle in a place that sustained a
 journal of that character, and Phenix is
 unfortunate in having in its midst a
 paper that will use its columns so re- gardless of good sense and common
 decency.
 One of the articles lately appearing in
 the Gazette to be most severely cen l sured is that containing the tirade on | Secretary Noble. To say that it was
 conceived in malice, and published in
 total ignorance of Arizona's interests, is
 drawing it very mild. There is no gain-
 saying the fact that when President
 Harrison selected MT. Noble to preside
 over the Interior Department, he con ferred upon the great west an inestima-
 ble boon. He realized that the Interior
 Department, more than all the other great departments combined, had to do with the sparsely settled portions of the
 United State west of the Missouri river, and he made a selection that did him
 proud, and at the same time, insured the most benefcient results to the west, that could accrue under the most circumstances, through the medium of an intelligent and honest ad- of the affairs of the Interi- or department. Secretary Noble has never been regarded as a professional { politician, and he did not seek political preferment at the hands of President Harrison in the present instance. The ( honor came wholly unsought, and the l compliment to Secretary Noble was the greater on account of the recognition of his eminent fitness for the very exalted { position to which he was called. The { whole country applauded the Presidents wise selection of a great lawyer to wrestle with the intricacies, and arduous labor heaped necessarily upon the head . of the great Department of the Govern nent, certainly the greatest, as far as the west is concerned. The wisdom of Sec retary Noble's selection has grown on the people interested, and the appointment S very appropriately regarded as one of he most opportune of the present ad- Arizona and her sister Territories can congratulate themselves upon the satisfactory state of affairs, md rest easy in the assurance that her Indian, land, pension and other vital in lerests will be wisely directed by mind ,ertile in the governing laws, and per ,ectly equal to the exigencies of any oc- ,asion that may arise. Arizona as an entirety, appreciates the great necessity ,f having a man as Secretary of the In Jerior who is thoroughly conversant with western affairs, and who has such great weight with Congress, as to be able to l accomplish the greatest good for our Territory in any direction that his en- ightened mind may deem most expe- lient. In Secretary Noble, we have Iuch man, and the disgruntled billings rate of such journal as the Gazette C will only have the effect of disgusting . lecent men, and causing its readers to S urn from such articles in order to de s Yote their valuable time to more whole some employment. The Gazette claims ! o be a Democratic organ, but that don't f excuse it from the ordinary proprieties ,f life Its past history of financial em- will soon be repeated if its , present. course is indulged in, and the 2 ooner the Territory is rid of papers of T his class, the faster its interests will be developed. Any paper that will come I put, and accuse the Honorable Secretary I ,f the Interior with lending his aid to I and grabbers, grant rings, etc, should either be repressed beyond recognition, z even by its own intimates, or should be ( relegated to the oblivion its course so ( richly merits. The interests of candi- I dates of the Salt River Valley are not ( subserved by this class of C journalism, especially in the columns of l a Democratic ;paper of the standing of ;; the Gazette.
 THE cost of an entire barbecue it ! strikes one as being rather a dear price