Arizona republican., 1913-01-10

town running day and night, besides
 two gins. saw mills. gris mill and some
 other little industries. I built three
 of the five mills and ran two of them
 up to three years ago. Without going
 into details, I will say that these mills
 were built and equipped at an average
 cost of about $300.0 each 1 sold
 some people land last week to put the
 sixth cotton mill on. which I under
 stand will be built soon at a cost of
 more than half d million dollars. I
 mention this fact to stimulate the idea
 I have just expressed. as to your pro-
 posed industries here. We have q town
 of some 5000 population, which with q
 "On q solid basis of weekly payrolls,
 our average at present is something
 like $1O.0OO and at least this much
 more is paid out for raw material. Ev- erybody's contented and happy. Our mills run sixty hours per week, II hours per day. closing Saturday at noon, and it is impossible to disting- Gish on our streets on Saturdays and Sundays the girls who work in the mills from the bankers and the mer- chants daughters They dress well and are just as healthy and pretty as the bankers and merchants and the mill presidents daughters. In fact there has been a complete revolution | in ten years in the mill industries in | our state. There are some 5S cotton mills in the county I live in-Gaston, and my recollection is that there are something like 400 mills of various 1 l{irds in the state.
 Ten to r. years ago land in GaStOn | county could be bought at from $5.09 to $15.O0 per acre. where these mills were built: now the price is from $25.O0 to $250.00 per acre and it is poor land at that The soil will average about the thickness of sne of your l jack rabbit skins and this only empha- sizes the fact that it takes industry to | impart a solid value to land,
 Mr. Smith speaking further of the progressive spirit of the people of Phoenix which he had observed in his ! two days stay naturally spoke of po- litical matters he said:
 T am progressive. The word sounds good to me. Back in North Carolina. former republicans-at least 99 per cent of us-joined the progress sive party. The word sounded so good we could not resist the temptation to throw Taft and his stand patter's' ard grafters overheard, and we are now fullfledged progressives. We boiled something more than 5O,OOO straight progressive votes for MT Roosevelt in our state on two weeks rotice, and l think we will poll 125,0OO in the next election for the progressive platform whether Mir. Roosevelt is our candidate or not. We think there Is somthing bigger and better in the world than the dollar mark. Sane and sensible people have arrived at the | conclusion that business and humanity are or at least should be boon com pariors. going hand in hand as we | progress and no human document, ac- cordirg to our beliefs, has ever so | thoroughly or cleverly portrayed the | interest of the times so clearly as the progressive platform.
 "I. myself, have no axe to grind, have i nothing to sell, do, not want to buy | anything but I would not be fit for hu- | man society if I did not want to see my | fellow men progress in business. ma | teriaI welfare and moral uplift l care nothing for politics further than It benefits humanity and builds up our | country Statesmen tell us that poll | tics is the science of government not l sectional feeling or abuses, or party | prejudice, and this is just where the
 progressive platform comes in. While l. for one am not pessimistic enough
 to believe that we are on the eNe q q
 revolution, I do believe that unless the
 progressive platform is enacted into
 laws that the country will take a
 plunge in that direction. At any rate,
 We prOgressives feel cOntented to per
 sue this policy. knowing that nothing
 but good can result in the end -