The oasis., 1894-03-08
HAVE FAITH.


 cul ar attitude of a goodly portion lso
 far as numbers gol of the people al-
 ready here. It is the sentiment of
 doubt of the great capacities and na-
 tural resources of the territory, so
 freely expressed by some of these,
 which makes possible the perpetrati0n
 of libels such as the Haywood letter.
 giving tone to their uttcrance, and giving their perpetrators the opp0r-
 unity to fling back in the faces of
 angry critics las Haywood has done an
 assertion of truth in his own utter
 ances, substantiating the same by
 reference to ''citizens of our own ter ritOry with whom he had conyersed."
 Enemies of the territorial admins tration see in the Haywood letters the peculiar handiwork of Governor Hugh
 es and his associates in the executive
 department of the territory. It may
 be true. It may be false. In no sense
 does TIE OASIS care which it be.
 This journal is not an apologist for
 the territorial administration and
 has no call to inquire into the trHth
 OF falsity of the charges made against
 it by enemies within it's political party.
 But the object of this article is to call attention to the fact that in all parts of the territory are citizens of Arizo- na who give voice to all that Hey wood has uttered, and do it continual ly, in season, and out of season, with no apparent motive: while the motive of Haywood as pointed out last week, is most plainly patent-to head off l more silver votes at Washington.
 Ike class of people to whom this ar ticle refers exists right here in the great Casa Grande Valley. During a residence i'll the Salt River Valley | some years ago, the writer found many or them, and he has lately en- countercd them in Tucson and other parts of the country. They are people ignorant of the methods and policies by which far less favored regions have been rendered greatly fertile and pro ductiye: and unwilling themselves to make eXertion, cannot conceive of anyone else doing so, they are without the faith of their neighbors in the pos abilities of this great commonwealth, are always ready to throw cold water Jn the efforts of their more energetic and will at moments notice -egale the stranger with long and lach- 'ymose plaints against the possibility )f doing anything here in Arizona. 2
 lnits own speciality work in Southern Arizizona THE OASIS has bad some title experience with this class of )eOple As is well known the mission if this journal is the development of { he agricultural and horticultural pos abilities of Southern Arizona in gen. ral, and the great Casa Grande valley n particular. With that idea in view , nuch of it's space has been devoted to , aud agricultural topics,
 nd their application to this valley. f The arguments adduced and conclu- e ions deduced have all been drawn T rom careful study of the special of the region, the amount i f water supply and natural capacities f f the soil what has already been r one here and what has been accom- e lished elsewhere under similar or in- II crior conditions. Yet there are peo- Il lie here, who. when questioned by Il friends elsewhere as to the informa- q ion set forth by THE OASIS. haze re- urned reply that il was all a tis- ne of lies" When Senator Cleveland S ought the Hill ranchc, band of 4