Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-11-02
PRETTY TRIBUTE
 TO THE PIONEER
Leroy Anderson's Bsautii-l Speech OF Arizona of tLl3
 Past and Present.

One of the ablest political addresses
 of the present campaign is to the credit
 of Leroy Anderson, candidate for the
 legislature on the republican ticket.
 Tuesday evening he spoke at the court
 house, and every issue he handled was
 masterly done. In closing his address
 the following beautiful peroration was
 delivered, and independent of parti-
 san regard it was pronounced by all
 as one of the prettiest o1atorical
 events in recent years in this city,
 and was extremely touching in its mo-
 ble sentiment: Mir. Anderson said in closing:
 'Let me say, as I said in the begin
 ming, that our real issue is the inter
 est we have in Yavapai county and the
 territory of Arizona. Through all
 kinds of trials, this territory has been
 founded and developed. Our fathers and mothers of this territory have
 lived to the full measure of their re- responsibilities and we thank them for
 it. We thank the old, gray headed
 and weather beaten pioneers for what
 they were and for what we are today {;
 we thank them for what they have
 done and suffered and for what we now enjoy; we thank them for their splen-
 did confidence in themsevles, in the
 human race and in Arizona, and for
 the many benefits and advantages they
 have left to us. What now is the duty
 of the younger citizens and shall we
 be able to live to the full measure of our responsibilities. The long period of isolation in which our territory grew, is past, the progress of science and invention has made us near neighbors with all the world. Our general development is beginning and the doors Uf opportunity are flinging wide their treasures and responsibili- ties before us. Territorial problems and difficulties call for higher order of statesmanship in the future than the past has needed. "New occasions teach new duties, x" Let us not waste our time in vain prophesyings of glorious futures, nor weaken our hold upon our present duties by sing ing praises to the suppositious great ness of our prospects. Let us rather accomplish the tasks that lie at hand iu the very best possible manner and let our prophecies be changed to wise and skillful preparation, so that our future may be legitimately great and our honor lie in the true poetry of accomplishment, rather than in the hollow dreams of celebration. Our present condition and equipment for such a splendid endeavor is unpar- alleled. Few, if any, other territories have our opportunity and our chance for development; few, if any, other ter ritories have our resources, with their abundant promise of development and I, for one have faith in the future of and her people. have faith in her development; I have faith in her development; l have faith in her splendid opportunities; and in her and faith in their ability to see their own advantages; and be- lieve we will advance as a territory and that we will ever go onward and 4ver upward, until we have reached that glorious goal fixed for us in some dim cycle of the boundless past. believe We will become one of the greatest states in the nniOn, for have also faith in the American people and in American institutions and 1 believe that as God has guided us in the past, he still leads us on, believe the grand triumphal march of human liberty and development of these United States has never paused. And through the mists of coming years, see the hosts of Arizona stand before their maker free. and in the shadow ot these stars and stripes, find peace and happiness for evermore.