Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1891-05-30
COMMUNICATED.
Regarding the Recent Description Of
Tucson in the Dsnver Queen Bee.
Tucson, ARR. May 2

TUcsoY, ARR, May q 1891
EDITOR OITIzFN:
A copy of the Queen Bee under date o
May Goth. printed at Denver, Colorado
paper claiming to be published purely
in the interests of women is before me
Its editor Mrs Churchill having recent
ly canvassed this territory and city as.
sumes to be competent TO write up not
only its physical aspect, and pass Judge
ment upon the social, moral and mental
status OF its people, but to criticize its
customs and to to dictate in regard to its
church aud civil government.
Not TO know so distinguished a person
as Mrs. Churchill is | doubt not Ito &C
knowledge oneself unknown" But the
true seeker after knowledge must be
lowly, and as | am earnestly desiring
more light" upon the position which
this person holds in the world of think
ing men and women at least in my own
estimate of her | commit grave Unjust
ice, humbly admit my ignorance and
ask in all sinCaceIty who and what is she
and why III the name OF the highest
perogativs granted our sex, If perfectly
sane and the power she would believe
herself and have others believe her TO lee
in the great movements and advanced
themes OF the day, is she travelling
about the country and by her appearance
and conversation bringing the cause she
represents into ridicule and disgrace?
Hore | do not wish 70 be misunde rstood;
there are many thiE$ In the standard of
high vomanhoOd besides that virtue the
possess on Of which she claims has sub
jected her to a long and continued state
of perse cution that to be placed on the
list of martyrs would seem hardly a
sufficient reward.
In this copy of the paper before me is
letter written from here which contains
SO much In praise of our truly pleasant
and clearly city that we can but give
credit to the taste and appreciation of
the writer and wonder that SO much of
injustice and rubbish should have been
allowed 10 mar the imagery Of an other
wise complete pen picture.
In conversation with her | decided
she was absurd but harmless; and WON
dered why she was permitted to wander
about talking her vagaries; when read
ing her letter l have decided her still
absurd but dangerous, inasmuch as any
person who would even if they could so
misconstrue harmless conversation or
through the columns of a paper whose
avoWed mission is the upholding and up
lifting of OR sex deliberately expose a
fellow woman who in their superior
strength Of mind they adj ldge weak to
the mercy of an unfeeling public, is to
say the least detrimental 10 a great re-
form, and, if possible, dangerous to the
cause they would advocate. That "a
horrid man" should fare Ill at such hands
is not strange in view of the long wears
of suffering and persecution endured |
from him according 20 his own showing
but that poor weak minded sister |
should become the object of so much |
contempt from this large Drained gener-
ous minded proprietor and editor of the |
Queen Bee g indeed pitiful to one not |
so largely endowed ,T;;.h TIE tribe spirit |
of philanthrophy.
But the most ludicrous discrepancy |
between the OF ening and dosing portion |
of this most remarkable letter brings |
to my mind very wildly lecture once |
read written by an Acknowledged semi |
idiot who took the bible for his subject |
and began by saying: "In the beginning, |
God created the heavens and the earth" |
and wound up with some verses about a |
"pretty girl swinging in the lane"
And so again to confirm or disprove |
my own opinion even at the risk of be-
ing accounted another weak Drained |
woman within the limits OF Tucson | |
ask who and what is this woman who SO
presumed to sit in judgement upt n
others while so doing she brings lire
puteon what should be noble and holy
cause?
I, F. 9