Arizona republican., 1907-10-04
The Residents of Three States Gathered to
 Greet Him at Cairo
His Views the Adjustment of the Government to New COnditiOns---The Further Journey Slightly De- Iayed By An Accident.

present taken by some well meaning pessimist of today. you will find it a real comfort to read Martin Chuz- Zlewit, to see what a well meaning pessimist of the past thought of our people sixty-five years ago; and then think of the extraordinary achieve ment. the extraordinary gain. morally no less than materially. of those six ty-five years. Dickens can be read by us now with profit: Elijah Program. Hannibal Chollop. Jefferson Brick and Scadder have their representatives to- day, plenty of them: and the wise thing for us to do is to recognize that these are still types of evil in politics. journalism, business and private life. and to war against them with all our hearts. But it is rank folly to regard these as the only, or the chief, types in our national life. It was not of much consequence whether Dickens made such an error or not, but it would be of great consequence if we ourselves did; for a foolish pessimism is an even greater foe of a healthy national growth than a foolish opti- mism. It was not that Dickens in
 
 no basis in fact: on the contrary, what he said was true. as far as it went: the trouble was that out of many such half truths he made picture which as a whole was absurd; for often a half truth is the most dangerous falsehood. It would be simply silly to be angry over Martin Chuzzlewit; on the contrary, read it, be amused by it, profit by it; and don't be misled by it.
 PoGRAMS AND BRICKS OF TODAY
 Keep a lively watch against the present day Programs and Bricks: but above all. distrust the man who would persuade you to feel downhearted about the country because of these same Programs and Bricks. past or present. It would be foolish to ig- nore their existence. or the existence of anything else that is bad in our na- tional life; but it would be even more foolish to ignore the vaster forces that tell for righteousness. Friends. there is every reason why We should fight whatever is evil in the present. But there is also every reason why we should feel a sturdy and confident
  wrongs to right; there are many and powerful wrong dOers against whom to war: and it would be base to shrink from the contest, or to fail to wage it with a high, a resolute will. But I am sure that We shall win in the contest, because I know that the heart of our people is sound. Our average men and, women are good men and women-and this is true in all sections of our country and among all classes of our countrymen. There is no other nation on earth with such vast natural resources. or with such a high stand- ard of living and of industrial eff ciency among its workers. We have as a nation an era of unexampled prosperity ahead of us; We shall en- joy 1t, and our children will enjoy it after us The trend of well being in this country is upward, not down ward; and this is the trend in the things of the soul as well as in the things of the body.
 THE GOVERNMENT.
 Government in its application is often a complicated and delicate work, but the principles of government are, after all. fairly simple. In a broad general way we should apply in the affairs of the national administration, which deals with the interests of all our eighty-odd millions of people. just the same rules that are necessary in