Arizona republican., 1912-03-19

pendOuS results or widespread lldH- | kind. hanging on the outcome of the trial
 Upon you. today this responsibility ] is concentrated. Ton are the peoples representatives. You have the peo- ple'S commission to awaken the pro- visions of the Arizona constitution 1 into life: to give definiteness 10 its principles and intelligent direction to | it's purposes; 10 build upon its strong ! foundation d structure of beauty and symmetry and utility Your respon- sibIlity is not lessened because your duties are so clearly defined-it is . rather enhanced by the fact that you 1 are expected to visit upon the varying views your minds may hold and 10 which the spoken word or written page may give expression, such care
 ful scrutiny that not one may find favor except it breathe the spirit of the peoples rule.
 My charge is 10 all ot you. repub- licans and democrats alike, for l 1 same love of country and state the same patriotism. the same lofty mo- tive for the sacrifice of time involved in your attendance here; but l want to say to the democratic members Of this legislative body, that upon your shoulders rests the Hons share of the burden You are the ones whose pledges touched the Arizona chord of human sympathy; you are the repre- sentatives of the party which made and into whose charge and keeping has been entrusted the constitution of our state: your overwhelming major 1 ity, expressive of the peoples ap- proval of democratic achievement and popular confidence in democratic sin cerity, affords you full power to crystalline into intelligent law the peoples will; upon you and upon the party whose colors you fly will be visited the peoples appreciation or condemnation. You can not shirk. 1 or evIde, or minimize the responsi- bility you have assumed; nor. on the other hand. can the glory it is in your reach tO win he dimmed ny the sophistries of cunning foes.
 I have perfect faith in your ability. your cOnscientiOusncss, and deter imitation. 1 have entire confidence that you will carry your commissions back to the people of your respective counties discharged of every item. I promise you that you will find in me q ready and an enthusiastic Co-opera- tor-in some measure, l trust, an aid. Laboring thus in the common cause [ and for a common purpose l venture ] the prediction that the conclusion of 1 your Iabors will mark the beginning of an era of public hOpefulness, con i fidence and enthusiasm far exceeding
 the brightest dreams vouchsafed in i the past to ArizOna's optimistic, un- comparable pioneers.
 Condition Of the State.
 In natural resources and the posses sion of patent possibilities, Arizona is l bOunteOusly blessed Her acres are broad and fertile. her mountains and
 streams rich with mineral wealth; her forests are well-nigh virgin; her skies are blue; her climate as Of an- other Italy; her balmy air bears 1 health on its never receding wave, her people are honest, hardy, self reliant, brave Thus endowed. all 1 things are possible to the forty-cighth state of the union. Whatever of ills 1 there may be-industrial, financial or ! sOcial-there is that WhercWith to
 right them: and with all these assets 1 to show against the liabilities of fast 1 a fsn iFl 1 reporting to you that the condition of the state is good.
 Recent reports from almost all sec
 tions bring the news of bounteous rains with which to gladden. the hearts of hUsbandmen. and remove ! the fear of season Of drOuth from 1 the minds of the stOcknen. The metal markets of the world give i'm petuS to one of AriZona's greatest in 1 dustries by announcing the steadily
 rising price of copper. q condition
 which will doubtless remedy the slight falling off. during the past
 year, in the production of this min cral which finds it's natural habitat
 in our wealth laden hills. and oc-
 casion renewed activity on the part
 of prospectors, developers and pro-
 motors, and reawakened confidence
 on the part of investors.
 The completion of one of the worlds greatest irrigation systems insuring an abundant supply Of life giving water for the fertile acres of the Salt River valley; the approach | ing completion of another, of its kind unparalleled in the union, Siv- ing like assurance tn the favored | farmers of Yuma valley; the opening
 of the Parker Indian reservation and
 the allotment and reclamation of the splendid body Of land included there
 in; the promising prospect of simi-
 lar development on a scale of great
 magnitude in Pinal county; the de-
 velOpment of artesian wells in Sar
 simon and Sulphur Springs valleys
 in the south. and Verde valley in th.
 north, and scores of other projects
 of greater or lesser magnitude. and
 widely distributed over the state. fol
 the impounding and storage of water combine to give certainty to the be
 lief that Arizona will soon take hel . ,,I. ehiaf 1pripttlfnrDl