Arizona republican., 1898-06-13
AT THE HOTELS.

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 Ben Clay is one of the leading men of this county, a successful rancher and cattleman with headquarters near the flourishing town of Buckeye He has been confined to his room at the Commercial for a week under the care of physician, his disability arising from an uncared for injury while rid ing a bucking horse some time ago. Yesterday he was downstairs '.one day ahead of the doctors orders," as he said. T just couldn't stay up there another minute, so 1 came down. I feel first rate and will be as right as a top now in a few days. I never was sick a day in my life before, and I never knew what it was to lie still and think for so long a time. And I tell you I have performed some deep thinking. I cannot give you the re- suit now because I wouldn't have it mentioned for the world, but I will tell you confidentially that before the birds peep their first song in the early spring of next year you will have a chance to record the fact that Ben has little home of his own and one of the sweetest birds in Christendom to warble in it," and Ben walked away humming to himself:
 She's the dearest and fairest of them And love her for the goodness in her
 heart.
 We'll be married most likely in the
 fall,
 And we never, never, never more will
 part.
 t'It makes me weary" said Judge Barnes Of Tucson, at the Adams, Sat urday evening, ito hear this talk about the Monroe doctrine. It has no more to do with the question of our occupying and owning Cuba, Porto Rico, the Philippines and any other old island anywhere in any sea, than we now have with the snow that banked itself up against the Green mountains of Vermont the winter before last In that doctrine we said to foreign powers that they shouldn't come over here and undertake to acquire any thing over which to maintain domin7 ion of government. That is all that paper was. There is not word in it to prevent us from going over there and acquiring, holding, owning, pos sessing and exercising government su- preme with reference to it.
 Disqualification. There you have the question and the study of the day. You put mark right here It will only be a short time now when five powers will constitute the world, Great Britain, Russia, Germany, the United States and France, if she be- hayes herself. I say United States because I see signs of assertion dawn ing. If we do not assert ourselves now, having the golden opportunity, the chances are that we shall not be one of the five powers and that we will be one of the dictated to. For cen turies there has been the struggle against disintegration all over the world. It has gone steadily on, a lit tie looping off and falling down and crumbling here and there among the nations until the time has arrived to crystalline all that is best most per feet and most powerful, into one great combined controlling force. Every thing falling short of the require ments will be outside of that combina- tion and must necessarily come under it's control and dictation. No namby- pamby nonsense, no crawling behind the Monroe doctrine, no shrieks of fools about change of policies, noth- ing must come between us and our maintained demand to be one of the leading factors in that combination. We have moved out into the world. away from home, upon our own re- sources. The dead and gone days of cur babyhood and childhood can never be recalled We are in the full vigor and prime of great nations man hood. We are to show to the world that manhood right now. We have everything to do with, and above all we have the greatest quantity of that kind of capital more important than all else-brains.
 We shall lead the world as con- trolling force Shall be the big dog in the struggle. Let us all go and get cigar"
 "Yes, I am going back home to- night" said Judge E. M Sanford of Prescott. ''I wish I had more time to talk with you, but the fact is that at this season of the year I am con- tented not minute when away from my office. And that is because I have the most comfortable offices in the territory. Somehow I cannot find