Bisbee daily review., 1915-02-18
ADVERTISING ARIZONA

Notably within the past year, Arizona has beeu the subject of more nationwide publicity than before accorded in her history The effect of this publicity is to advertise the state The question we'll be asked: Has this advertising been good or bad
 Amy attempt to suppiy consistent and categorical answer to the question calls for review Of the char acter Of the publicity to which the leading of t6eh country lent themselves Was it complimentary or condemnatory? Was it calculated to stimulate con. fdence in the man who might invest in Arizona secuu ties, or frighen him away?
 One of the first subjects to be exploited concerning Arizona as the executive action resulting in the -s. prieve of an murdere,s condemned to death in the State This was unsayory advertising for Arizona IL contributed to universal belief that Arizona subscribed to iaxy in the treatment of criminals: that measure designed to correct lawessness ignored that t protection to person was denied property relatively unsafe The country treated grim rdicule at th expense of Arizona In this instance the State unquer onaby suffered the of advertising it received
 There was next written in large type the adyers- ing sign boards of the national press comments -hc results of meh Fall election; how the people of Ar. zona had initiated an ant-aen law which needlessY assared every industry the State and fragrant y untenable it swiftly declared unconstu ion al; how a aocaed Mothers Pension measure had sneak ed into the statutes under utuar disguise that con cealed it's magn sociastc tendencies and threatened the sick and needy with abandonment
 And now the exploitation of Arizona is being rs sumed Material for the advertising is being taken from the activities of those in the legislature who persist raising their radical hue and cry, concert tha. serves to hold the State up continued derisou and scorn It may all be very well to claim that the rad calls are exercising their right speech; that hor. is virtue in proving the country that Arizona posscss
 legislative rosrum consecrated unrestricted liberty of thought action But is this liberty is it bond age? If this liberty" is exercised by minority as }. the case whose frantic energies exceed the activities tbe majority which is either compaiscent weakly conciiatory, then Arizona is suffering from bondag that is sulufyng and humriating. The country know that conditions in Arizona such that her weabacke, majority permits itself to be demoralized by svo and unprncpled minority And Arizona endures th shame and the blame
 The newspapers which treat of the situation n Arizona are those grouped under the title Of th yellow press" They are papers which enjoy the high est standing in this country papers to which leaders il national thought and action for information abou Arizona. Let us quote illustration recent comn'ep by the New fork Times the Kinney bill
 'If the Legislature passes the law of its motio it is entitled to a monopoly of credit for the ngeuiou evasion of the spirit the decision which annuned it previous effort But the Legislature is merely refec ing the edict of labor organization the conditio is worse. A Legislature ought not to be echo. union ought to have more compassion toward those its kind but its superior in obedience the law an in readiness to give equivalent for received Unions will not do the work suitable for the Herae and necessary be done if the higher grades workers are to be kept busy. The community caunC afford either have bigger class labor degraded common work, or to have common work made to co, much skilled
 "The spirit of such legislation is nhuman and ant social but pressed with the preense of considerable for humble workers It is time to check such hypocrs and to require that unions shall conGne their efforts what concerns their business leaving others equ freedom to make their way in the world"
 Oklahoma is suffering today from almost conplei industrial stagnaton resulting from legislative indiscr tious which have branded her with an evil repustio Constructive and desirable capital passes Oklahoma with the verdict "unclean unolean" Texas is strur even now to emerge frou slough created by obnoxious