Arizona republican., 1908-03-19
PHOENLX ARIZ.. MARCH 1s, 1907
LAST NIGHTS BANQUET.

 at the Hotel Adams last night was a notable event. The effect of that ban quet will be a longer and a stronger pull altogether. It may be that the ad dresses conveyed to many of the guests nothing that they had not already known except this that the speaker knew it and had been thinking about it too. In that fact was the ground work for a concert of action in some particular direction and in many di- rections.
 It is the easiest thing in the world to push Phoenix and the valley for ward just now. The effort is aided by a natural momentum. Much has been done for this community even when it was in a state of inertia How much more therefore can be done for it when it is moving of itself, under its own strain as the seamen say or under its own motive power, in the language of the automobilists. We shall quickly see great accomplishments which may be traced directly back to that gather ing of last night We shall see better prices for realty. and employment of labor more remunerative and greater in volume. We shall see more people in the valley and in town and we shall see an improvement of business condi- tions which are already good.
 It has not been the policy Of The Republican to discuss the personal and private merits of demerits of men but on this occasion We can not forbear a word in regard to John c. Adams the giver of the banquet. MT. Adams is not a better. a wiser or more ener- getic business man than a score of men who were gathered about his tables last night He has been sue cessful but not in greater degree than a large number of his guests. He has an abounding faith in Phoenix but it is no more intense than that of nine tenths of the business men and farmers of the valley.
 But he possesses one quality which comparatively few men are endowed with-the ability to incite others as well as himself to strenuous action. Of that quality he has offered many man. ifestations. The Board of Trade, or the Chamber of Commerce as it then was, was a languishing organization when MT. Adams became interested in it. Its new life began with his iden- tification with it and from that mo- ment it has lived usefully, and at times at a high pressure. When occasion re- quired ginger" was thrown into it by a process like that employed last night, or by some other peculiar to MT Adams.
 Altogether Mir. Adams has proved himself a valuable asset to the com munity and as such he is accepted at par by his associates on the board of trade and by those who measure by re- suits. His achievements as d public spirited citizen are too many to be catalogued here. We VIII alude to only one because the means by which its success was assured are recalled by the function of last night--a banquet.
 MT. Adams in the face of vigorous opposition had secured in the closing hour Of the legislature the passage O. the territorial fair bill carrying an ap- propriation so meager that it was of no service at all save as a nucleus for an adequate fund. That was secured one night at a banquet given by Mir Adams for that purpose and thus was secured to this valley and to the whole territory an institution which has been of more value than all it's other insti- 1 tutions save and except it's schools and churches. gratifying sign for the future was the enthusiasm manifested by the goo ! businessmen gathered last night at the banquet-a precursor of the results {. which the Givcr Of the dinner intended | to be achieved. In these results the whole community is interested as it was in the means employed to bring 7 the members of the board of trade to- 1 gether. The town had been talking of ! the banquet for days, not because it . was banquet, for banquets are com i mon and uninteresting to those who are absent and frequently objects of detestation to those who are present The people were interested in this one because of the results, of whose ac- complishment it was to be the begin ming. It is however matter 9f regret that :. a few persons, could see in the func- tion only political scheme and sought to 'discredit it. thereby offering by