Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-29
SMITH LAUlS
 DUR PIONEERS
Eloquent Tribute Is Paid to Men Who Biazed the Path Up to
 Statehood
IS TARIFF REFORMER

In accepting office Mark Smith said: Mir President, Mir. Speaker. and you
 Gentlemen of the Arizona Legisla-
 tive Assembly.
 Permit me frankly to say | love your greeting aand your cheers. Any man would be insensible to ann 1 ton and it's qualifications who va not proud of the fact that his coun- trymen had selected him for a posi- ton of trust and grave responsibil- ity in their interest Permit me also to express my thanks and gratitude for the unanimity with which you gentlemen have carried out the ey press wish of the people who com. missiCned you to perform the duty that calls you in joint session today. And l would forget myself, if I failed here, through you, to express to your constituents and mine my profound obligation to those dear friends who have through SO many years stood steadfastly by me in the face Of every charge that venom could father or malicious circulate against me. This has been the oasis in the desert of rest and comfort and from whose cooling shades was gathered the strength and inspiration for higher and nobler service of my country and my fellow man. and this further ez pression of the peoples confidence renews and sanctifies my purpose. to give all the brain and time and heart to the best services as God gives me to see it.
 fn n fGr1 Fn congratulate the new. state Of Arizona on it's selection of this body of stall waTt, true and patriotic men, who with a single purpose will strive for the upbulding of a great common wealth on the foundation of equality. justice and fraternity, so happily set forth in the constitution Of our state. The foundations are wisely laid and l have no fear that vou gentlemen will fail in rearing a superstructure worthy of that foundation and worthy of yourselves.
 No state has ever started in the main with an abler. hOnester or bet ter list of state officers. The laws which you Tass will be honestly eX- ecuted fly those gentlemen without fear or the hope of favor or reward, other than the plaudits due to duty faithfully performed
 But in the natural exultaticn or this hour, a host of sad, yet tender memories assail me. Thirty-two years ago l came without money to this land of strangers. Earthly for tune easily evaded hands that cared too little for it, and l remain as poor ir .hs q rIav ! A but have gained a wealth in the friendships of early days, far dearer to me tran all the blanIishments wealth could bestow. How [ miss their sun burned. strong and kindly faces. With what rough joy they would greet this day. l can feel the warm grip of many a vanished hand and my soul is entranced by the sweetest music on earth, in voices silent now to all ears but mine. No band of devoted souls in the history of the human race bore more pain with less complaint. faced more dan gers without flincEins and accom- Tlished more for their posterity and berefitted their coming country in a greater degree than did the Arizona pioneers.
 And for all this what did they ever receive at the hands Of the fed eTal government, except oppression and injustice. Hand in hand with that gallant army whose ranks wer5 always thinning. ] fought for a quar- ter of a century to see full glory of this day in which a full legisla- ture in a free state, operating under a free constitution adopted in wis dom by the untrampled voice O. a free people proceeds 10 be the great task before it.
 Ye who have been reared among peace and luxury and housed and clothed and cOmfOrted by pleasant surroundings, can have small appre- citation of the hardshiDs endured by the state builders of the west. Rare ly now can we look into the brOnzed
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