Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-08-03
PHOENIX, ARIZONA AUG. 3, 1911.
Governor Sloan's Advice to Los
Angeles.

At a luncheon given in his honor
by the City club of Los Angeles, the
other day, Governor Sloan delivered
an exceptionally thoughtful and en-
PERTAINING address The esteemed
Los Angeles Times being in a sensi-
tive mood, we presume, editorially
complained that the governor was
not sufficiently heedful of the ethics
which should govern a guest and
that his sentiments were -phrased in
advice of an unwelcOme nature
In another column we print the
very appreciative and commendatory
resolutions which were adopted by
the club which was addressed by the
governor-which would indicate that
the Times stands alone in its ability
To find something Objectionable in
what the Arizona executive said.
Governor Sloan's address was, in
fact. an eloquent plea for a better
understanding of the modern Arizona
After an interesting recital of facts
showing the rapid development of,
this territory, the governor in his con-
Guiding remarks ventured to make
some suggestions in support of the
proposition that Los Angeles needs
Arizona more than Arizona needs Los
Angeles-aI of which lent added force
to his suggestion that there be a
recognition of their mutually of in
terest and that they pun together
for the common good. This is what
he said:
I didn't come here to tell you
anything about your own bust
ness. l don't know how a mer-
chant builds up O. trade. That
is something out of my line, so
far as the practical manner OF
building trade is concerned. But
know that the merchants of
Kansas City and of st. Louis
and Chicago are alive to TINS
situation. They send live, ener-
getic young men into every dis
trict of Arizona, drumming up
business, and they don't carry
il on by correspondence either,
and they don't expect that our
trade is coming to them just as
matter of course. They rec
ognize that they have compe-
tition, and competition upon TINS
coast. And so they are active
and energetic and earnest in not
only retaining the trade they al
ready possess but in augment
ing and charging that trade.
And that is the problem that
confronts the business men Of Los
Angeles.
In the first place, stop pat
roniZing us, and stop knocking
us. You don't do it in a ma
Icious spirit, but it is a kind of
Joke with you to refer to the
climate of Arizona. Now, it
doesn't hurt us one half as much
as it hurts you, because every
man that comes to Arizona and
settles, builds a home, cultivates
a farm or goes into any bust
ness. only adds one more to the
population tributary to the bust
ness of Los Angeles.
So. if you give us the bene-
fit of your friendship. your en-
couragement, your aid in this
behalf, / want to assure you that
YOU will meet with a ready re-
Spouse from us
There is another thing which
| believe ought to be called to
your attention. You know in this
country there is a tremendous
movement in the direction of good
roads. and / am glad to see that
California is interested in this
great subject; that you are spend
ing YOUR money and spending il
lavishly in this direction. You
are building magnificent high
WAYS You want to continue
that good work, but I want to
say that as important as a good
road up and down this coast
may be to you, a magnificent
transcontinental highway, SPAN
ming this desert between Los
Angeles and Arizona is infinitely
more commercially important to
you.
We are doing that work now.
We are building splendid high
WAYS. We are coming to it by
levying direct tax upon the
people. We will meet you on
the border of Arizona and Cali
fornia within a year or a year
and a half with a fairly salts
factory system of highways; one
that will attract to us these auto
mobile tourists.
If you have a transcontinental
highway over which automobiles
can come in the winter or in the
early spring or in the fall. with
certainty that they will not be
tied up by snow drifts or buried
in mud, the tourists win come
here by the thousands.