Arizona republican., 1899-06-18
THE FAULT FINDER

1 read with a great deal of interest
 that part of Governor Murphy'S ad
 dress before the graduating class of
 the Prescott high school, in criticism
 of Professor Edwin Markham'S poem,
 The Man With the Hoe" Thinking
 people, I do net mean those who mere
 1y think they think, will agree with
 the governors argument, in the first
 place that Markham did not divine
 the meaning of Millet's famous paint
 ing Of the same title; that he not only
 did not comprehend the artists idea
 but went a long way aside to find one
 which the artist could not have con-
 ceived. But all this ground has been
 fully and ably covered in the gov ernor'S address.
 The poem itself has been admitted
 by CalifOrnians to be a work Of merit. I haven't heard this admission made
 by any one outside the golden state, where a sort of conspiracy seems to have been organized years ago for the exaltation of the fruit growing and wine making industries of California and for the edifi- cation of California literature and pugi,ism. I first took note of this patriotic conspiracy about the time that Mccarthy beat Proctor Knott. I was therefore net surprised when I read an illuminated publice< tion of ''The Man With the Hoe in the Examiner a few weeks ago along with the announcement that it had been published t'by universal request knew this was not so, or, at least, that the number of the petitioners was greatly exaggerated I knew of 9 hundred other persons beside myself who had not requested it's publication. do not believe that such a request had been made by ten persons. Among the illuminatiOns of this unhealthy poem was reproduction of Millet's Man With the Hoe" The Man" had been given a yellow and agonizing cast to fit Professor Markham's Man
 There is one thing in this matter from which I have derived amusement That was the San Francisco newspapes' trial of Professor Markham in which it was charged that '@The Man With the Hoe" was a plagiarism upon Miss Cases f@The Man With a Hoe of ear Her date. The accusation rested less upon the similarity of titie than upon the frequent similarity of senti~ IuOnC dIlU 6ApItSSICu- oOIu0 Ol luo QG- lenders of Professor Markham came forward and said that they knew he was not a plagiarist, for they had heard him use many of these poetic expressions in ordinary conversation as long as fifteen years before the Case infliction. That practically set tied it. These were the professors ex- pressiOns. Years ago he had framed ! The Emptiness of Ages Slaves of i the Wheel of Labor" Times Tragedy | is Written in His Face" and had ever since been trying to fit them in some where.
 If there is enc man on earth who | ought to be strung up to the nearest pole CT to any old post that | is high enough and strong enough to ! bear his weight it is the man who with a fatuous smile on his greasy | inquires whether this lis | hot enough for you" If there is any | one thing that will make man who is quite hct enough already ten degrees hotter, it is this asinine query, and | the only penalty that will reach the | 0ffense is to hang the querist by the | neck until he is dead, dead, dead, and ] may the Lord have no mercy on his | aggravating soul.
 THE KICKER'S LAST KICK. This weather's downright awful,