Arizona republican., 1906-01-04

livered by Mayor Morris Goldwater, to which response was made by Professor Scudder of Jerome and by President Kendric c. Babeock of the University of Arizona, who is also president of the association. The annual address of President Babcock will be delivered tonight, the subject of the address be- ing Professional Spirit and Progress" The address of Mayor Goldwater was brief. pointed and humorous and was as follows:
 Mr. President and Members of the
 Arizona Teachers Association:
 Physically, feel as I did some years ago, when standing before one school marm, I attempted to recite that once famous piece beginning,
 You'd scarce expect one of my age,
 To speak in public on the stage"
 Circumstances over which I had lit tie control, make it my pleasing task to voice the pleasure which the good people of Prescott feel at your gather ing in our city to discuss educational topics. It is hard to find words which adequately express this feeling. I can only say, we are glad to have you with us. l do not know what plans have 1 been made for your entertainment but no matter what they may be, I am sure you are welcome, and when you have visited our public library and private school, erected by the volun- tary contributions of the community. and have seen our manual training school, and our public school buildings built by the burden of taxation, which our taxpayers have voluntarily impos- ed upon themselves, you will believe that pOr0porpity y,rbiob ic co Iiharo I in providing the ways and means of education, is sincere in saying that it is glad to have with it the teachers of our future citizens and statesmen.
 And now having fulfilled the plea . : sant task assigned me, may I intrude on your time a few minutes by talking of matter which Is on the mind of nearly every AriZonian, and which should be of importance to you
 l am not going to speak of educa- tion, but of ignorance. I have lately learned that there are two kinds of 1 ignorance, which I designate as the fg- norance of the east and the ignorance of Arizona. I do not know which Is the worse, but the ignorance of Arf- zona seems just nov to bother our eastern brethcrn a great deal. You will find this Arizona ignorance spoken of in many prominent magazines and papers, which take their cue, or orders from the patty in power, and "croo6 1 the pregnant hinges of the knee whei e thrift may follow fawning' This Ari- zona ignorance IS described with such statistical accuracy, such detail and minuteness. that in none of the ar ticles, which I have seen, is any mn- ton made of teachers associations university. normal schools, or of th.. salaries paid to teachers. This brings us to the other side of the shield, the ignorance of the east. But the eas; does not know it's ignorance and as some one wisely said ito be ignorant of ones ignorance, is the malady of the ignorant" And that is what's the matter with the east. There is some ignorance in Arizona among the bet ter classes, which does no harm how ! ever and is not denied. How many oi you for instance know Senator Bever- | idge's initials, or where he was born What do you know about Bill Hamll- ! ton?" 1 call him 'Bin" because tho | press always speaks of Hamilton bilr , and that is all l know of him. But ! the east can equal this, and in higt 1 places. A few weeks ago at a banquet ! given 10 Mark Twain, the editor ol what was once the leading weekly ot the United States, used the following language: With characteristic per versity he (Mark Twain) arranged i that his birthday should be the very day selected by the great and good father in Washington for the giving of thanks. Why thanks should have been given at all, unless for great crops of corn, wheat and cotton, or perhaps for an exceptional crop of rascals thie year, was difficult of comprehension i Nevertheless we felt that if our chiel magistrate had reached an understand ing with his only superior, it would b | unbecoming In us to be insistent"
 With due reverence to Deity, and with all respect to the president ol the United States, I ask, can Arizona's ignorance do worse than this. I dc not think that President Roosevelt
 cares for such fulsome flattery nor dc I believe the east will adopt a new slogan of "Allah is Allah, and TeddJ is the profit"
 : But to return to Arizona; the great i trouble with the eastern papers a . present seems to be a fear that unless Arizona is forced into the union witt i New Mexico as one state, Arizona may some day be admitted by herself ana ! her two seuotars "elected by railroad and mining influences" will stand equd l to the unbought CD gentlemen who ] represent the great states of New York ! Pennsylvania or Ohio. I have yet tC see the magazine article that compares our coming senators with those fror. Rhode Island or Delaware.
 Coming as many of you do, from
 different parts of the United States to sOjourn Q while. and return to youl home, taking back with you I hope a part of the wealth, with which Ari- zona is so richly endowed do you not owe to the territory slight duty be- yond that of educating its youth. Ca. you not eradicate some of the ignor- ance about Arizona in which the wis; men of the east are steeped? Ever MT. Albert Shaw, will hardly dare JC assert that you are "bossed by railroad corporations, owned by mining com panies," or have been influenced by gifts of mininP stocks and like inn proper methods" I know it is her culean task I am asking of you, but the education of our future senators can halt while you make the effort anC