Arizona republican., 1910-01-17
TERRITORIAL PRESS
 RELATION TO PROGRESS
AN ADDRESS BY COL. JAMES H.
 McLINTocH
In the University Department of His
 st tory Series.

Tucson. Jan. 16.-(Special Core spondence of The Republican.)-T was a large attendance of the pio- neers at the Saturday night lecture. one of a series of lectures arranged by Professor H. A. E. Chandler, of the department of history at the uni versity. The lecturer was Col. J. H. McClintock, of Phoenix. on the sub ject of "The Relationship of the Press to the Development of Ari- zona" Col. McClintock said in part;
 The influence of the press upon the development of Arizona is some thing that cannot be measured with a yard stick nor with pint pot In deed, I know of no way in which IL can be measured unless it be by the quality of the citizenship that has grown up under its ministrations. For you know there may be a measure or quality, as of quantity. A newspa- Der. mark you, usually expresses the opinions most acceptable to its read CTS. Sometimes it is ahead of the times. Sometimes it is rabid and incendiary Sometimes it is dull ana didactic. But in each case you VIII find that it has a class of readers well in sympathy with it. If this be found not so, it will be found also that the journal is of short life.
 Some minimizing ones are prone to dwell upon the development of the land caused by the advent of the rail- roads That is not exactly the right way of putting it. Rather let us say that the country develops the rai- road. for the railroad would not come into district that had no support for it The same rule may De ap- plied to the press The newspaper IS considered a great ciyIliZer ana mighty engine of development But consider for a, moment how speedy would be the demise Of newspaper stuck out on a desert, with nelther people nor financial support. Tn IL there would be similitude to an orator addressing a prairie dog VII lage on the value of municipal ln- corporation. Sad as it is to admit there had to be provision for the cost of white paper and of materiai food before the editor came, however new was the camp into which ne dropped.
 A few days ago, Major Doran, one of the oldest of pioneers, warmly as sured me that the press hau peeii one of the most potent, possipiy 'he most potent, of the factors that hau worked for the civic uplift or ATT zona I believe he was right Anu vol if was not because all the eoi- tors were uplifters or reformers- Sohie of them had bad habits ana d ie" undoubtedly had quit their former houes bv request. But the buik or ,ha editors of the formative period in Arizona undoubtedly were men or a,,ep more than average standing III thair communities. Often the best oi tbase editors got to consider gamp- lirg hlasphemy, drunkenness and riot- one conduct as merely attributes or inc true western spirit, not to De censured They considered, ana prop arIy think that the vices enumer- .,ed were not nearly as bad ones as inc lying: cheating and social ana conmercial viIlanies of the oider states But never could you find one of these frontier papers advocating anything editorialy on anything other than high moral grounus' Whether
 moral plane or not, he knew tne way to please the American cltizen u, any state is to cry aloud for CIVIC and individual correctness. News napers don't advocate the practlce oi vice-unless. mayhap. they nave first cloaked it as virtue. You kho" that no melodrama could live were the villain not foiled for keeps in the last act. Step by step. the newspa- ,ars of the southwest have thus hep, inst A bit ahead of the growing tide ol ,ooraIitv and good order and they are stu keening up the good work ATT zona is now a goodly land, put the newsnapers are at least as good as their communities-in many cases Just a shade better.
 In ancient times. temples were pe- ,,evad hest favored by the gods whe1l slave had been built up aiiVe III the foundation wall. The same sym boIism has endured through the ages
 rhara has to be a sacrifice at the hottom of every good-usually an un- thanked and unappreciated sacriiice 4 The idea conveyed in the ahcien' adaee ..,rhe blood of the martyrs the seed of the church" has been eN- pressed in many ways in many lands and has been true in all The plo- neers of the southwest. fighting pach the Indian and the desert. did ser vice little understood today and less valued than it should be. even by ths pioneers who survive, of whom there