Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-02-02
Words of Welcome.

the welcome address made by Judge Joseph Campbell to the Boston ex- cursion party last week. Judge Camp bell is one of the most eloquent speakers of the Territory:
 'It was here that civilized people lived and toiled long centuries before they came, whither they have gone, has not been recorded by the pen of history. The massive ruins scattered around us alone proclaim that they have been, and that they have passed away. It was here the adventurous Castillian warrior came, seeking for gold treasures that existed only in legendary tales, to enrich the coffers of dis ant Spain.
 Here, long years before the austere Puritan preached the gospel to your prOSenitOrs, in rude sanctuaries, the patient monk, under no roof but the blue and siar-lit canopy of the heav- ems, told the story of the Cross to the wild, untutored and wondering In- dian. Westward the star of empire look it's way, and in its wake came the bold and hardy pioneers, many of them with the blood of Puritan fore fathers coursing i'll their veins, 10 win back this land from the savage warrior and to SOW the seeds of Anglo-Saxon civilization. And this but quarter of a century ago.
 The trials and hardships encoun- tered by Miles Standish and his heroic band equalled not the suf'erings and pIiyations endured by these pioneers.
 The Apache, the shrewdest, wick edest, most treacherous and unrelent- ing of all American Indians, the most uncompromising and murderous foe of the white man, silently and secretly, or on the wild foray upon burning deserts, on our broad mesas, and in our narrow canyons, sent many a i pioneer 10 death, and the cactus Is the only monument that casts a lingering shadow OCT their graves. But, though they be dead, they still live in the work they have accomplished. Upon the foundations cemented with theil life blood, those that came after them have reared this commonwealth. We feel that Arizona is but little known and our condition but dimly under stood by eastern people, Instead o being a territory overrun by murder Ous Indians; instead Of being the re treat of lawless men we are a peace ful, law-abiding and prosperous peo pie, possessing almost all the advant ages of the eastern states. Scattered throughout this territory are thriving populous communities, of which thi, Is one. The Apache rides on his raid no more, and OCT the ashes of wha were once his watchhres we have rear ed church and school house.
 As you speedily journeyed acros the territory yesterday you looked ou upon broad expanse of desert sands So far as your eyes could reach, ant away to the very horizon it seemed trackless waste. This morning, whel the curtain of night had been drawl aside by the glistening hand of day you have seen green fields that sool will fall in golden sheaves before tn, reaper's scythe; broad acres, surround ing modest but happy homes; loni avenues of trees, that are donning tn robe of spring, while the verdant gar ments of last season have hardly beel laid aside. You have come into valley where the sunshine is Il, stranger guest, and where winter cold, with it's storms of sleet and snow comes not at all. You have seen tha the magic wand of enterprise has beel waved across the desert; that intell; gent labor has wooed the water iron its channel where 1t has coursed fo centuries, has scattered it over tn land, has made fruitful the vast places and has caused the desert t blossom as the rose.
 While you are with us, short thoug the time may be, we will show unt you where we have cast our lot, wher we labor and where we uphold lh dignity of American citizenship When, with wondering eyes, you hay gazed around you, upon scenes tha 1 you knew not existed here, would tn; ] you might say in the words of Ruth ( } old, "entreat me not to leave thee, ( to return from following after thee whither thou goest 1 will go, for tn people will be my people"
 With an open hand and a war
 heart we welcome New Englande
 among us, for we realize that you
 vim and vigor, your enterprise ali
 energy which surmounts all obstacle
 have been benefcially felt in eth'
 sections of this land. We are gla
 that you have visited us, and let |
 trust that the hours you will sper
 with us will finger in your heart
 linked only with pleasant memorie
 We shall mark these days with whi
 stone, and when you are gone, "y
 shall count time by this meeting
 peasants do by holy days and niaidel