Arizona republican., 1921-04-12
GOVERNOR UNABLE
 TO ATTEND TODAY;
 SENDS GREETINGS


 Campbell was forced to notify The Republican yesterday that he win not be in Phoenix today and that there fore it will be impossible for him to attend the Pioneers reunion at River side park, at which he was to deliver his regrets, Gov. Campbell accom- panied them with letter of greeting and appreciation to the pioneers who will take part in the celebration of today and tomorrow. His complete letter follows:
 T am honored indeed by your in vitation to address the pioneers in the reunion next week, but I find that important official work will take me from Phoenix on the day set This I regret the more because the pioneers of Arizona constitute the men and women who, as a class stand highest in my estimation. Pos sibly this is family feeling on my part, for my father and mother are pioneers and I myself am a native son of dear old Arizona.
 T feel that I should send a word of greeting and of appreciation to those who have gathered in Phoenix in answer to your invitation. I feel, too, that I should express to them my own participation in the affection that every true Arizonian bears to this land. The affection felt is differ ent in the case of most of the pio- neers from that entertained by one who merely happens to have been born in the land. Most of them came to Arizona voluntarily and have re- mained voluntarily and served in the up-building of what now is a mag nificent, commonwealth, rich in de- veolped resources, with green and productive fields where once the des- ert stretched, with railroads where once were burro trails, with indus tries where the Indian once wove his blankets, with Christian worship where savage war drums once sound ed. and with homes of com 'ort where the tepee of the savage once was reared.
 These things all have needed indf- vidual and collective effort They have needed tenacity and integrity Of purpose. They have needed service such as was known in the ancient days of martyrdom. They have needed vision with eyes in which the light of faith remained undimmed and constant. They have needed sturdiness of body and strength of spirit.
 q can visualize. indeed I have ac- tually seen, the conditions that were known to the early day people of Arizona Nearly all of those who came in pioneer days lived in a man ner that now would be called merely existence. They remember the adobe huts with mud floors, with the cook ing done between two rocks upended in the door yard, and remember the trials that attended the breaking of the trails, the taking out of the first canals. the washing away of the dam, the drouths that succeeded the floods and the despair that had to be fought back, all along that weary road. Pos sibly all of it is typified in the remark Of the small boy in the East who said at evening prayer: Goodbye, God, am going to Arizona
 Then there is another phase-the | Indian How many there are, and among the number, who remember I how good friends and relatives have been slain by a savage, ruthless foe that lurked behind rocks and bushes that tortured for pleasure and against which nothing but drastic | force proved effective. I do not know | how many whites were slain by the savages of Arizona l do know thai list of 2500 names has been com piled and in addition there undoubt- edly were thousands who died on the lonely hillsides, unknown and unre- l corded This warfare continued fol 1 practically all the years from the time of the coming of the first Span iard in 4539 down to the time whes I Geronimo's band was captured 1T 1886. I believe this latter date has been set to mark the division lint between the pioneer and the so-caflet old resident I doubt whether 1t wa! in the mind of the person who drew this line just what the date repre- sented, but the date, in the consider ation Of the Indian phase alone, is ; significant one.
 s1n the vanguard were the mission aries who sought, and I regret u say with little success, the Christian
 iziug of the red men Of the hills ant
 plains, many of the Soldiers Of tn
 Cross meeting martyrdom CLOS
 unon their heels followed the miners who sought the treasures that lay and that still lie, in southwestern mountains, and who staked fhei
 lives for the wealth they hoped |
 gain. There is, too, chapter ot gal lant service of the American soldier
 I am well aware of the fact that tn i old timer frequently looked back Wit dissatisfaction upon the work of tn
 hlue- coated men who were gathere' | in dozen military posts For tn
 most part their forces were made
 nuate. but l feel that they did a 1 that their number could have done
 We must remember that 1t flnaH | took one quarter of the stanoih
 army of the United States to rounl
 up the last band of Apaches. Tn
 bravery and military skill of the sol