The Parker post., 1911-11-18
Two Notable Speeches
fAuthorized Announcement.

AAAOG4NA<A, W. VIZ iAOSUOi~
speeches were made Saturday night
at the banquet rendered the Panama
Pacific boosters by the Phoenix board
of trade. One was delivered by Dun
can McKinlay, former representative
in the national house of repreensta
veyor of the port of San Francisco.
and the other by A. G. Rulofson, pres
ident of the Home Industry league
and one of the leading business men
of the bay City"
The speakers are business men Of
the progressive type who are inter
ested in the development of the
west and who therefore are keenly
alive to the best interests of the
great west and therefore of the Ell
tire country Their fellow booster"
are business men, in the best sense
of that term, who know that unless
their fellowmen prosper they cannot
hope to prosper and the hearty ap-
plause given the two speakers named
by the business men seated at tn
banquet board proved that they wer'
in full accord with the sentiments u,
tered. 1t is too bad that both
speeches could not have been COM
mitted to paper and copies placed in
% in
in order that the latter might know
what business men, real business men
in the common acceptation of that
term, in no sense allied with great
corporations or "big business" tc
use a term of derision common in
the mouths of radicals and prosper
ity destroyers, think must be done il
we are to hope for speedy restora-
ton of good times.
The gathering at which the
speeches were delivered was nOn-po-
litical and the speakers did not in
tend that their remarks should be
political in a party sense, but they
were so particularly applicable to
the present political situation in Ari
zona that every Arizonian who heard
them remarked their significance.
Mr.. Rulofson was particularly ve-
hement in his denunciation of the
corporation baiters who have forced
themselves into positions from which
YIO
if given a square deal, build new or
improve existing railroads, develop
mines, reclaim desert lands, build
great factories and otherwise invest
capital for the betterment of their
own condition and the condition of
the millions of men who would be-
given employment and establish
homes. He inveighed against the
turning over of the affairs Of gov
ernment to doctrinaireS, mere theor-
lists with nebulous ideas of the needs
of the people and no ideas of busi
ness nor of how to keep the wheels
of prosperity in motion.
Whatever may have been the po-
litical complexion of the gathering
Mr. Rulofson's declaration brought
every man within sound of his voice
to his feet with a cheer and dem
onstrated, in the most forcible man
ner possible, the individual feeling
O. the banqueters apart from parry
politics.
The speech in the main was a plea
for the patronage of home industrie-
and he cited numerous instances Q.
failure on the part of the people c
Phoenix to practice that principle
Mr.. McKinlay pleaded for a re-
building, or rehabilitation, of an Alr-
erican merchant marine and by facts
and figures proved the great dam
age done the manufacturing interests
of the United States by the short
sighted theorists in politics who havH
permitted American shipping to
swept from the seas of the world
Both speakers pleaded for a squar-
ing of theory with the necessities
the business situation and urged th.- |.
hearers to give proper encouragement
to capital to indulge in legitimate e
enterprise in order that business,
which is, after all, the mainstay of
the country, might be built up rath-
er than destroyed.
STAND ON THEIR RECORD.
The Douglas International, edited
by George H. Kelly, long the head
and guiding influence of the string
of democratic newspapers known as
the kelly papers" or the Copper
Queen press" expresses the hope
that Arizona may soon be freed from
the domination of the republicans.
who have so long controlled the gov
ernmental policies of the territory.