Arizona republican., 1912-04-02
HERE'S MORE NEWS
 ABOUT MR. PARKER
Englishman Talks About Woman Suffrage. Malaria, Theodore Roosevelt. and Number of
 Other Things.

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 Sir Gilbert Parker. NJ. F.. has just returned to London after spending three months in the desert of Ari- 2ona. Whither he went in search Of health after the strenuous parlia- I mentary session of last yaer
 In an interview with one of our ] representatives today Sir Gilbert paid
 high tribute to the rejuvenatine qualities of the highlands of Arizona
 and pointed out several problems which are as acute in the United
 States as in this country.
 "I went away in bad health" re
 marked Sir Gilbert. and l have come
 back d new man. l went to Arizona.
 and there found what I was after.
 |, has. l think the most wonderful climate in the world. certainly the
 best l have ever known The ma
 larial trouble from which l was suf- ferng for so many years yielded to the climate and the springs. called
 the Castle Hot Springs, tO he found
 in what is called the Eavapai county. Tin which is situated the town of Prescott. which, with d population Of only 5000 iS a mining center. and the most metropolitan little city l
 have eyer come across.
 'I lived at the club there mile
 above the level of the sea. which had
 all the comforts and conveniences Of
 q club in Piccadiliy. l was in Ari-
 zona on the day President Taft pro-
 claimed that which had been terri
 tory a state. and I heard orators ty,-I. 70 ba
 ple on such occasions The only place
 in our old dominions which compare with Arizona are the portions of the
 high veIdt of south Africa and the T. far interior of Australia. and par luculary western Australia, although
 the greater part of Arizona is over
 a thousand feet high. and much Of
 it is from 5000 feet to 7o00 feet high
 while the mountains go as high as ! la.G00 feet above the level of the sea TO me Arizona has a very special II political interest. because it is at tho
 stage in agricultural development where Australia was when l lived II there in the middle eighties. Arizona i is just beginning agricultural devel- l opment as Australia was beginning then.
 She is just beginning irrigation. and what was considered to be purely mining country with an agri cultural future no better than that oT the Sahara desert is becoming a ] source even of profit to the state. ! one great thing President Roosevelt did which should make him for ever a benefactor in the eyes of his coun- 1 trymen was to establish the con , servation of water and the cpuserva- ! tion oc forests
 The Roosevelt dam which con serves the water of tile Salt river | and the Tonto river and tn" Verde : river is monument of wisdom. sci | entific genius. and statesmanship. | 1 Vast plains of mesas are being con l i verted to agricultural purposes. and | 1 Arizona is doing again what was | done eight hundred or a thousand 1 I years ago. when some forgotten race | 1 irrigated vast regions there.
 1 In the Salt River valley the au- | thorities were up against as they say. the problem of small ownership | of land. Men had got hundreds of | acres of land capable of irrigation, | and. with water to irrigate t. they ! had not the money to provide the | irrigation which is expensive.
 The new state authorities are carefully considering the necessity of assisting the small men to go upon
 the land and work five and six and | ten irrigated acres. So you see that when the British politicians goes a long way from home he stumbles upon some of the problems which perpleX him in his own country.
 The question of feeding the United II States is becoming just as grave a II question as the feeding of England. T as they have got to make their sec ond best land and their desert land Il yield food. through irrigation
 Arizona is demorratic state | That is to say. it is in the hands Of a democratic party with a democratic government. Theodore Roosevelt is I extremely popular there because the state of Arizona furnished him with a quota of the rough riders which he commanded in the Spanish-Amer- ican war
 Arizona is one of the states which is sure to adopt the recall of the judges and Woman's Suffrage. AL II lHouSn Jle recall or Ine judges was blue-p -penciled out of the constitution II when the latter was granted by the II federal government. it will be put back again by the state legislature II this month or next month so I was II told. II
 T suppose that Arizona is one of U the few places in the world where Woman Suffrage might be tried The WomenS vote would counterbalance Ii the floating foreign mining popula- tion-'COusin Jacks and Round heads they are called-which has no 1 stake in the country. and is of nomadic nature. That is the differ ' ence between Woman Suffrage in America and Woman Suffrage here
 "They can try it in the individual \ states, and if it does not work they < need go no further They can try ! i' with a population of two or three hundred thousand people. like the state of Idaho or Arizona. If we give Woman Suffrage it must be 1 to the bulk of the female population Of country numbering 45.000.000 So you see" added Sir Gilbert. T still was not far from home when