Arizona republican., 1899-02-03

largely upon Increased railroad facili- ties and these you cannot obtain if you
 legislate against them. Capital, as you know, is very timid and unless your new railroads can make show ing of more than meeting operating
 expenses, you cannot secure new lines. The mining interests are but in their infancy. Look at the advances made within the last three years since the railroad has tapped the rich mining section about Prescott. This advance will be more than duplicated by the building of additional lines. Take Colorado for instance: That state is
 now at the head of the list in the pro pduction of precious metals, and until the railroads penetrated it's mountains
 the rich ore bodies they contained
 were practically untouched"
 Here MT MoDoel was informed that
 the present passenger rate in the terri tory was six cents a mile and that
 bills had been introduced in the legis-
 lature for a reduction of the passeD ger
 rate and fixing a maximum freight
 rate.
 Well, six cents a mile seems a large
 rate to one from the east and yet that
 is not a high rate for Arizona. Rail-
 road building is very expensive here
 and look at the mile upon mile that
 
 afford one cent of traffic of any kind
 It is not like a country where you have a station every few miles that af- ford large amount of freight and pas sengers Take this north and south road that I came in here on. 1t has nice nest egg for the future and good support in the present, here at PhOe- nix, but see the stretches between here and Ash Fork that afford no patron age whatever. So it is with every road in the territory or any that may be built.
 You want storage reservoirs for this valley and for other portions of the territory whereby you claim you can bring several million acres Of the richest land on earth under cultiva- tiOn, yet how are you going to build those storage reservoirs; why by in ducing eastern capital to come in here and build them. So you want capital to come in and build more railroads and to get the capital to come you must guard against what has been termed in the middle states, granger legislation
 Induce railroads to come in, get all the new lines built that you can and the freight and passenger rates will soon adjust themselves through com petition, just as they have in Iowa. Look at the imperial Hawkeye/ state. It has encouraged railroads until 1t is honeycOmbed with them and today it is the greatest state west of the Mis- sissippi. It's population is fully two and half millions and the people are proud of their railroads as a part Of the force that built up the state.
 "On the other hand take Arkansas, a state richer in natural resources han T 4+o1 -fo fo ten years before Iowa was and up to 1856 led Iowa in population, but to- day it has not half the population of Iowa. True Arkansas was set back by the civil war but just as soon as rail roads and other business enterprises inaugurated after the war began to forge ahead a little, a mania for ad- verse legislation seized the people and railroads and corporations of all sorts were so taxed and restricted by legis- lation that capital shunne1 Arkansas, as a healthy man shuns a pest house, Arkansas instead of progressing has not even stood still. It has gone back ward. Texas might have been the great imperial state of the west today but for her inimical legislation against railroads and capital.
 Say what you will, railroads are a wealth producer and a. civilizer. Ari- zona will do well to shUn all adverse legislation The man who introduces and advocates it, is an enemy to the. territory unwittingly perhaps, but none the less an enemy, for he pre- vents it's proper advancement. Push your storage reservoir enterprises, shun legislation directed against the investments of capital, encourage pub lie enterprises of all sorts and your territory will rapidly become one of the greatest and richest states in the west"
 MT McDoeI. accompanied by his family left for Los Angeles last night, and will spend a month in southern