Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-11-02
CAM,
FICKAS,
MORFORD.

Here are two expressions of opinion
which. taken together. make interest
ing reading:
PRESCOTTS Taxless political rail-
BIG roads do not mean pros
HANDICAP. perity; hundreds IF
thousands of dollars of
illegal bonds foisted upon the people
do not mean prosperity; gubernatorial
mine blacklisting proclamations do not
mean prosperity. These are local issues
which mean the reverse of prosperity.
The national knockout of prosperity is
the decentralization of silver-Prescott
Courier.
Judge j. J. Hawkins returned yester-
day from his visit east on professional
business. He went as far east as New
York and down into Connecticut. The
judge, as is we'll known, is an uncom-
promising democrat, but does not be-
long to the calamity bowling wing of
the party, who shuts his eyes and ears
to existing condition of affairs. In
speaking of business conditions in the
east he said: There is no use at
tempting to deny the fact that the peo-
pie all over the east are experiencing
an era of unexampled prosperity under
the present administration. I have
never seen anything like it before.
Factories are all running full on over
time and the demand for labor is
greater than the supply of laborers.
Everybody who wants work can get
employment at good wages and times
are just booming. ''-Journai-M Miner.
The Courier persists in looking
through black glasses and emitting its
calamity howl despite the fact that
Yavapai county is the scene of greater
activity in mining than ever before.
and that Prescott is making municipal
improvements that a few years ago
would have been considered impossible.
A stranger reading the Courier would
be justified in the opinion that Prescott
and Yavapai county were on the down
grade, whereas every intelligent per-
son in the county knows that every
branch of trade there is feeling the i'm
pulse of the good times. Judge Hawk
ins. who does not permit his political
convictions to warp his judgment, who
has travelled and kept his eyes and
ears open, punctures the COurier's
statement of the national knockout of
prosperity" by corroborating the evil
dence supplied By The Republican that
times in the east were never better.
While the interview with the Judge
quoted above relates particularly to
what he saw in the east, it is a fact
that he undoubtedly will substantiate
that the west also is forging ahead.
In Colorado. in Kansas. in Missouri, in
Iowa, in illinois, in Ohio-no western
state. in fact. can be considered an ex-
ception-there is constantly increasing
activity along industrial lines. Ari-
IONA is no exception to the general
rule. The territory is going to the
front at racehorse speed. And in the
face of conditions with which every
school boy is acquainted the Courier
continues to insult the intelligence of
it's readers by keeping up a cry that
lost all its force when Bryan was laid
out at the polls. The people of Pres
colt are unfortunate in possessing a
newspaper that is bent upon slamming
the door in the face of eastern invest
ors and creating the impression that
Arizona, of all the states and terri
tories. is beyond the influence of the
good times Judge Hawkins speaks Of.