Weekly journal-miner., 1910-06-22


 were over all, the Territorial story
 finished, the bokk sealed and the Is
 will, quick as the lightning flash. be.
 come the WAS.
 "Arizona Territory was born iii q
 halo of manhood at her masthead
 and dies in a sunburst of the same glory. She mas no cause for shame
 in her line of governors. They had
 their faults, but what mortal has not
 The ship of state has been guided
 free from reefs of graft and dis
 honesty. Her hull shows but few dents
 from contact. She IS weather beaten. yet seaworthy, safe and sound, and
 when Governor Sloan lets down the
 gangplank to board the new ship of
 state, wise men will not but one ad-
 vantage, yet the greatest of all ,in-
 dependence. That liberty is worth more expense, more graft and higher taxes.
 'I passed through the throne rooms today; observed, unused and philoso- phized, as I idly wandered through Our Territorial governors will live in history; that has been seen to by low ing friends. Their pictures hang upon the walls, and a knowledge of hurnan nature and mans memory I noted has been anticipated by having their names engraved in letters of steel and set upon their frames-and the build ing is ireprOof.
 "'The pictures of the different sec retaries also hang upon the walls. Cruel friends and ones ignorant of human kind display their lack of wisdom in this ante-room. The pie. lures there hang. but they are name less.
 "What sad mistake has been made If those good friends had only read that one little piece of philoso phy by Josh Billings, when he said: If you want to know how much the world misses you, stick your finger in tub of water, pull it out and look at the hole Had that knowledge been used, the names would have been there.
 ''I could not call all their names; no one so far discovered by me can. It is the cruelty of fate. recognized Akers, Stoddard, Nichols. Page, and then I thought no secretary would follow me to put my picture on the wall Again I unused, and was sad, until the thought occurred to me that none of this bunch would be forgot ten. except possibly Judge Nichols. I see him in Los Angeles, resting un- der his own fig tree, mid green fields, by the side of the still Pacific.
 "The rest of us, however, will never be forgotten. Stoddard's memory will ever live in the minds of us who have followed him for letting those fees get away from the office. The Arizona Democrat will ever keep alive the memory of Akers. Page stands enshrined in the niche of fame. a martyr to political gratitude, while I, should the memory of me ever decay, kindly rejuvenate it by to the files of the Democratic papers of the Gila valley, and see who md what I was.
 "Governor Sloan, the last of the line of governors, I know, .egrets to go and is lOath to leave. What man wouldn't weep to let loose if two hundred and fifty dollar a month job, when it costs five hun fred to hold it? It is a sad, sad. bought No more can we meet in weet communion and see which one an touch the other. No more will ur bankers. the ill-mannered and un rateful things. when they see us oming first. have to plunge across ! he street through the mud. and down a he valley. and as a fluff, get busy I egotiating with a Chinaman for a S ickel's worth of radishes. No more C -ill we have to sit out back of the II ence. examine into ourselves. and J -onder if we are not deteriorating u r we would not have been appointed e D office n ''Statehood, the handsome, charm " lg young damsel. stands beckoning IT , Governor Sloan and the citizens of rizona. She has called him from ne center to the front of the stage. U ime has lowered the curtain be- U. ind. The coyness of the damsel has s' i'm entranced. Strong men love a U aautiful woman. and when a man is s' ound who cannot, it is best for him ', , take a gun, go back of the barn, u .r nd say Here goes no.hing.' Arizona ,l IS few men of that rothingness. ,I Statehood, fresh, young and beau ot ful of promise, parts the curtain and h, l look intently into the future. Our co lture governors will come from Ari- s+ ma. Her citizenship is filled with eI en able to bear the high responsibil- vi V, but you, the voters, must do isl ,ur duty to get them. You must ba ok well to the acts of your legisla- oo re; keep in mind good service does Ii, ,t come from cheap men or cheap nr bor. If, in instituting your gov In, ara ynaaOar in xyour al-