Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-22
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can citizen to kick when things don't
 go to suit him. That is the chief ad- lvansge of being an American citizen. I for whether the people rule or not, nobody can keep them from kicking. Just now everybody is kicking about the fair. And why shouldn't they, 80 long as they are good natured about lit? That is the only way to make a better fair. The last fair did not go fright. and neither did any other fair for that matter, and the bigger and better the Arizona fair becomes. the more there will be to kick about. So | far as can be learned there wasn't a
 perfect man or woman on the fair 1 grounds during the whole show: net
 even among the hardest kiekers Bul after all it was the biggest and best
 fair ever held here and mighty few better ones were ever held anywhere,
 though there have been many larger
 ones in some of the big states.
 But after all there hasn't been kick heard that was spoken in malice nor
 a charge that intended injustice was done to anybody, by anybody, and that
 Is saying a whole lot. for as big a
 show as the fourth Arizona fair prov
 ed to be. Every criticism The Re publican has heard offered. has been founded on the desire of the critic ta see things done better if possible next year, profiting by the experience gain ed, and has not been an arraignment
 of anyone's shortcomings, more than
 a difference of opinion as to judgment
 or expediency. Someone has to be in l charge of things on an occasion like RFhAf a,al al hrxrr- dred of the hardest worked officials III the various departments, that ever gave up a week or more of their good
 time to public enterprise without re-
 muneration, to say nothing about an- other half a hundred or more who
 were paid for their subordinate. ser
 vices and earned every dollar they got. Most of the kicking was done by
 one department against another, or
 against some official. merely in the
 hope of getting some favor for the benefit of his or her department and
 all of which was laudable in its pur-
 pose even if irritating for the moment. Unfortunately there were limita- tions to the powers of everybody, even | the commissioners who were forced at all times to cut their garments ac- ! cording to their cloth, and therefore forced to deny many requests they would have complied with gladly if they could
 Concerning the labors of this army of workers who did so splendidly, and who are entitled each and everyone to the congratulations of the public 1t might be said that The Republican could find fault with something in each of the departments if it wanted to, could suggest something that it be lieyes would be an improvement and be entirely impersonal in the matter also, but it appreciates their Iimita- tions. It is possible some people could find fault with The Republican too. by comparing it's fair week work with that Of the great metropolItaI
 daily papers on similar occasions. but 1t is sincerely hoped they will not, for even The Republican has it's limita- tions
 Some little review of the kicks may be profitable to all, and help in better cooperation and better exhibits next | year. A lady standing in the woman's i department said, Pm not going to spend three months on piece of needlework to bring to the fair wben
 the best l can get is B premium" A gent over in the COW sheds said 1 Suppose I do take premium, it costs me more to bring my stock here than i the blue and red ribbons both bring me. They ought to offer priezs that ! would be an inducement to work for" | The men in charge of the county eX- J h'bits complained because they had to lbe divided up in the various depart ments, dairy, honey, products, etc. A gentleman with a young horse who Ewes here in the valley says the
 purses for Arizona bred stock are not large enough, $500 to S400 is not sui I ficient inducement, and it was the Ibreeding of good horses the fair was designed to stimulate Another man | says 1t costs s5 or $10 and a days
 work to bring hog to the fair and
 the ribbon is not worth the money. A lpoultryman says T used to snow a half dozen or a dozen coops of chick ems and win on most of them, so with
 g prizes I could pick up enough inoney to pay me for nay trouble" And
 50 1t goes all the way through. Those Interested in any branch of the exaib- its whatever it Is, feel that they are lneglcted unless the inducements are financially remunerative possibilities, lcr unless the department they are in terested in is given a little precedence of some sort. And then all exhibitors
 want just little the best of it on
 season tickets, all of waich, by the
 way, is perfectly proper, and is allud-
 ed to here only to point a moral, and that is that after all the revenues that
 maintain the fair come from but two
 resources. One is the territorial treas ury which furnishes only the smaller part of the expense money, and the
 rest Is the great big public which
 digs up at the gate, not one day in
 the week. but every day in the week.
 The public likes to see the exhibits
 but if that were al lthere was of the fair one days visit would dispose ol lit.
 But to keep the public coming day
 after day, the people must be enter
 tained. for observing people know thai
 however meritorious things of req
 value are, the world Is looking foE + fun. The world don't have to go to .
 fair, but it likes to go if 1t can have
 fun, and while it is there 1t loves tt
 feast the eyes also on what is being
 achieved in an industrial way. To rais' Imoney enough to pay premiums a all the public must come througi literally and come all the week. ant is willing to do so if the attraction