Arizona republican., 1901-08-15

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 and to Miss Marie Mat. tingly. who was the author of the feat.
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 The editorial follows: sa
 Arizona is a. great and growing ter. ritory. It is rapidly equipping itsel! for statehood. Rich in mineral re. sources, vast capital is finding profit. able investment within It's borders. Its population is steadily 'increasing. Oh. stacles to the development of the ter ritory have gradually been overcome and its future is promising. Indeed. Bu, the pride with which Arizona people point to its richness and achievements and to the certainty of its early ad- mission into the union is as nothing lcompared with the supersensitiveness with which they resent the mere sug- gestion that Arizona sometimes gets hot. If the outside world would but cease to mention Arizona weather, es- pectally in July and August. and if the weather bureau would kindly refrain from starring Yuma and Tombstone as record breakers in the matter of tenn perature. Arizonians could be happy perfectly so. The weather does not bother them at all. It is only the out side comment upon it that makes them miserable.
 few days ago The Post printed very entertaining feature article on the intense heat often encountered in midsummer on the sand desert of Ari- zona. Far-off Phoenix, famed for hos pitality and its charming environment, heard of this article and forthwith took 1t sorely to heart. The Arizona Repub- lican, usually of keen discexnnent, en- tered a temperate protest against what 1t enormously conceived 10 be an at tack upon the city! The editor of an- other paper, equally ill-informed and whom Phoenix really owes it to her. self to eivilize. let loose volley of scurrilous personal abuse. in rufflanly manner suggestive of the mining camp, aimed at the writer of the offending article.
 And now comes a letter--a courteous letter-from the secretary of the Phoe- nix board of trade, who, impressed with the editorial outbursts aforemen- toned, assures us that "the article was in the whole absolutely ruthless" tells of the indignation 1t created. etc, etc. and trusts that The Posts spirit of fairness will see to 1t that nothing of this sort be printed again. All of this. too. when not the shadow of re- Election has been cast upon Phoenix by or through this paper
 Absolutely truthless!" Here is an allusion to Phoenix in the article which caused this much ado about nothing:
 The absolute dryness of the air is the one quality which makes the at- mosphere of that zone endurable. A sunstroke is unknown. While the ter- rible heat Con the desert will some times produce brain fever or perhaps even insanity, 1t rarely affects the heart as 1t does in damper climes. For instance, when the mercury reached 120 in Phoenix not single fatality was reported. while In New York at gs there were seventy-three deaths in one day from heat. Another remarkable fact in connection with this-what one would suppose to be uncomfortable heat is the fact that but three horses died from it's effects in as many years in Phoenix. while hundreds of them suc- cumb yearly from thls cause ir the cit- les of the east"
 Certainly the secretary of the Phoe- nix board of trade does not mean to pronounce this reference to climate and city as absolutely ruthless" for in his own letter. written three weeks after the article was printed. he says substantially the same thing. Here 1t is as he puts it;
 Tt is true that 1t is hot in Arizona and the mercury sometimes climbs higher than in any other part of the union, but 1t is equally true that the lack of humidity in the atmosphere prevents our suffering from the heat so much syou people in the east Heat prostration is unknown, and doctors have not any recollection of sun stroke ever occurring here"
 But the writer of The Posts article the article that at long range provoked all this hubbub--had something better still to say of Phoenix in the only other allusion made to that city. We NouDe NHStHtI tnt stCretdTy or the board of trade or the editor of the Arl- zona Republican himself could have put 1t more strongly. Read this:
 "The people of Phoenix suffer less less from the heat than the inhabi- tants of any other town in the low al- titudes of Arizona. Tn the capital there is no scarcity of water. Great canals carry water there for hundreds of miles across the desert. While in the desert towns water is a precious luxury, in Phoenix 1t Is used as lavishly as in Washington. The streets are watered twice each day, the lawns are kept fresh and green. while cooling irri- gating stream flows on either side of the avenues -4
 On second thought, when the mer- cury drops Phoenix will find that she has been all wrought up over nothing. Nobody has slandered her It Is simply a case of her newspapers going of half-cocked. Arizona Is all right. and will keep on prospering in spite of some Of her newspapers, her sand deserts and the weather bureau. # Is not nee essary to become summer resort to get into the union. We hope the people of Phoenix will realize this and keep cool.