Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1891-09-26
GRUMBLERS.

Newspapers are not grumDlers, neltneI
are they disposed to grumble. Their
policy is always to speak well OF their
town, its enterprises, resources and
people. Which Of itself is we'll and good.
But Of what avail is it when they must
be handicapped continuously by snarl or
! what the grumblcr may term "my
kick?" An improvement is projected;
q mining camp Is to be opened; an irri-
CATION enterprise projected, or possibly
q business measure in town put through.
Strsightway comes the grumble. The
grumblsr is not numerous, but the in
finite injury he may do! Not long ago
q man Of money from the outer world
visited Tucson with view OF invest
ment. Like many another investor he
did not proclaim his intentions from the
house tops. He just walked about the
town and talked. What he heard was
disastrous to his intentions. He left on
the afternoon train, firmly convinced
that there was not a bit OF wake-up
about the town; that instead OF being IN
s.count-y of untold mineral wealth, un-
limited, agricultural prospects and spleD-
did investment outlook, that its papers
had told Of exRggerations no end, t6ht
the mines were no good, the agriculture
was uncertain snd-thst he didn't want
to put his money where 1t was rot
wanted.
"Oh, there amt any good mines in
Arizona! You can't show me any prop
critics that are really making money" was
heard a day or two ago.
"How about the MAMMOTH" was the
reply. "They are are making $500 day,
clear, there; don't you call that good?"
"Yes, l know they make $500 a day,
and often thousand day, but then it
won't last"
So they have it. They make nothing Of
themselves. At best they
can but damage some enemy. In dam
aging any townsmen indirectly they ln-
iure themselves. The pity is that it |
cannot be themselves only to suffer. |
Such cannot be. The town, the county |
the territory-all are infinitely left |
alone with the grumbler-often deter
ring outsiders to an extent utterly un-
and unrealiZed.
E7en the grunblers themselves grum-
ble at their grumbliug. We have heard |
them decry the damage the talk of their |
class has done, little needing the beam
on their own eye. II never saw such a
town in my life," said one. "They run
down and spoil the sales of lots of good |
mines because they can't sell mines of |
their own. Sometimes they are just
ike the dog in +he manger and don't
even have a mine but run another down,
anyway. o, times are dull" be coz
,inued in answer to a question on /
another track. "There amt much busi-
,ess and l mover saw mining 50 quiet.
The miners are just kind o sitting back
md don't seem to" and go he went on
II luo nuc VI OicbuIOns
And now what Tucson wants Is halt
are good to forward the
merits OF country, and Tucson's papers
lave always been found speaking but
he best for the territory, and county,
nd city, but they can do little against
he depreciations, or, at best, the sneers
lurled at every resource or hope by this
lass, which cannot be guarded against
Is might be thieves, which break
through and steal. They cannot be
ragged, and they cannot be removed
bodily. Were it practical or possible no
better investment could be made in
Pima county than to furnish tickets for
Ibout carload OF grumblers, and send
hem to Timbuctoo or some other place
where business prospects and re-
ources may not be pulled down by their
venom. Sheer, growl,
kick" whine, grumble; give US rest.