Duncan Arizonian., 1912-05-08
A Business Governor sad
dress TO Business Men
and State Officials.
Governor Hunt Addresses
Most Elaborate Banquet
Gathering Ever Assem-
bled i'm Arizona
The Governor said:

WI. IOdSCiIldSC0r, OonLlomon
of the Board of Trade, Senators
and Representatives: realize
how stereotyped it sounds when |
tell you that it is a pleasure to
me to be here tonight. But Ste
reotyped as the expression may
be. the truth thereof is not af-
fected or diminished. | have at
tended great many gatherings
of late, educational, religious,
scientific, professional and Just
plain social gatherings, and have
enjoyed and trust profted by ali
OF them. but there has gradually
grown upon me the feeling that
something was lacking; and when
received an invitation to meet
with you this evening there flash
ed over me the realization that
what was needed to round out
and complete the unwonted whirl
OF events | have lately experience
ed was an opportunity to fore
gather, concult, swap items, COM
pare notes and break bread with
a circle of business men. The
habits of years are strong upon
me, and for many years my life
has been almost entirely moulded
along business lines. The associ-
ations of years become second
nature, and so 1t is that | must
confess unusual enjoyment not
often, you understand, because |
know how wrong it is, but just
now and then enjoy an evening
OF fellowship with business men.
And so it is that | am afforded a
great pleasure in being permitted
to meet here tonight with you
business men-you men whose
lives, on the average, have been
much as my own; who have hew-
ed out your own paths much as I
hewed out mine; who have strug-
gled and worked and built, as I
have toiled and labored and
wrought; who know the Difficult
ties, the trials and the disappoint-
ments | know, and l trust the
success which energy, honesty
and prudence bring. It is a sat-
isfaction to me to join circle of
men, as yourselves, who have
travelled and are travelling the
road [ have travelled, and have
come to the knowledge some of
you have, at any rate, and the
others will-that none of it, aside
from the excitement of life, is
worth a hill of beans except for
the benefit you can be to your
fellow men, and the good you
can do the world.
1t is pleasure and | esteem it
a privilege to be with you tonight
and to talk with you freely and
frankly, as business man to
business men, without fear of be-
ing misunderstood or misinter-
preted or misjudged.
That pleasure is not diminish
ed, but rather enhanced, by the
presence of these gentlemen who
represent in Legislative capaci-
ty the business as we'll as all 9TH
er interests of the state. MANY
OF you legislators are business
men yourselves, and while the
work of lawmaking is generally
conceded to be to some extent
theoretical. | am confident that
your experience and your iudg-
ment are sufficient to direct your
efforts along most practical lines,
while your intelligence and pow
ers of discrimination will enable
you to profit by the suggestions
which doubtless will be offered
by the competent business men
gathered about this festal board. |
am not quite certain of what |
| am expected to say tonight, but
the auspices are such, the at
tendance is such, and the events
of the immediate past, the pres
ent, and the probable events of |
the early future are such that /
am strongly disposed to talk busi-