Arizona republican., 1912-02-06
Parker Expresses Strong Belief in the Possi-
 bility of States
 Development !
WILL SOON LEAVE
 FOR OLD COUNTRY
Compares This Region With the Farming Country in Some Parts of
 Australia

| Sir Gilbert Parker the we'll known British statesman and author who has ! tarried for a little more than q week ! in this valley. will leave this morning | for Prescott and after a brief stay there will hurry tc the homeland tO | talk. up his duties in parliamen His | lencomiums of this southwestern land are extremely laudatOry and as sincere as they are emphatic. He is not only enraptured with the climate which he declares is iucOm parable but he IS most complimentary tO the personality of the Arizona people. Seen at the HO- teI Adams last evening. Sir Gilbert eN- pressed the wish to come again for a longer stay and said his return next winter k as certain as any plan so far ahead can be. Whether he comes ear ! Her in tine season. or later, will depend upon political events in England which may shape his duties for him.
 Speaking of southern Arizona and those parts of the state he has had no time to visit. Sir Gilbert said: Tt is d regret that I cannot visit Tucson. l did not wish tO rush down there and spend day and rush back again. That ! i> a tourists way r- doing things and | am not a tourist. I did not wish to pay so poor pupliment 10 Tucson, as to attempt to exhaust it's interest in a flying visit When | come again L am going bv the Southern Pacific tc | Tucson and -hJ,. there pitch my camp first"
 Asked to say something concerning of Nrfz smoke n the chief features that had appealed to ! his interest in the following words: T have done what I wanted to do in coming to Arizona. I have gone far to re-establish my health and to get rid of the malaria. which has pur- sued me Ut intervals over the last twenty-five years. in fact since I was a boy. I had the choice of going |" Sudan or coming tO Arizona Arizona was my own individual choice. People in England and even people in New York said. why Arizona? Well, when was a boy on my way tO get ma laria in the south sea I had snIffed the air of Arizona as passed through en- route to Los Angeles and ever since that time my mind had reverted to that
  through the northern part of this ter ritOry. | had d conviction that 1T | could again breathe the air of Arizon;t that l should do two things, Start upon new career of health and renew the inspiration of my youth. You se'e vt politicians in the old land are more reformers than builders. You here in the rev world are more builders than reforners Every day you see the fruits of your labOrS. Every house ycu build and every fieI you open up tc cultivation k part of the cOnstruc- ton of d nation. You make laws with the paper clean for the drawings. We are only altering old laws and accre- tons of interests of various kinds which are disturbed as soon as We begin tu make fresh laws.
 Well. | go back to England much yOunger in health and much younSer in spirit. Arizona has done more for my health in these seven weeks that T have been here than all the doctors land all the watering places of th5 world. Egypt and the sudan did me good but Arizona has done me bet ter think you have got the most wonderful climate in the world. The dryneSs of the air night and day, it's 'bracing quality. it's tonic. are unsur- 'passable | say this deliberately and wilI repeat it whenever I get the chance.
 'I have found health and inspiratiol here and I have found wealth. I have fnund a wealth ot good companion-
 hax [ lever run up against people so greas hearted. so generous. as my Arizona fr:ends-for | will call them that There are only two places where any thing like the same hospitality anu frank and tactful generosity may be found in anything like the same degree. Those two places are up-country in Australia and the western provinces of Canada. but Arizona in my eXpert- euce has no rival and | leave this state with greater regret than I have ever left a country where I came as a stranger to learn only that I was at home.
 "I believe in the future of Arizona. | believe that it will be one of the most prosperous states of. the union. Naturally large portions of its terri tory will not be available either for in- Justry or for agriculture but YOU have enough territory left to yield you, and mining ard an agricultural production which will in the ultimate sum make you the successful companion of many northern. eastern and southern states. remember when 1 passed through Arizona in 1886 that it was regarded as