Arizona republican., 1921-04-13
Great Service Rendered
 by the Pioneers is Told
 by Governor Campbell

A native son of Arizona, Governor nomas E. Campbell is a real pioneer as well as his father and mother.
 It was matter of keen regret that the governor was prevented by press ure or business from welcoming the pioneers In person at Riverside park on the first day of the reunion in Phoenix. In the following interesting ietter he recalls the early days in Ari- zona and the many hardships encoun- tereo and overcome by the pioneers: am honored indeed by your in Vitation to address the pioneers in sne reunion next week, but I find mat important official work will take ne rom Phoenix on the day set Inls l regret the more because the pioneers of Arizona constitute the men and women who. as a class, stand highest in my estimation. Pos stoly this Is family feeling on my part, for my father and mother are pioneers and 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 Tn answer to your invitation. I feel, too. that I should express to them my own participation in the affection
 
 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 10 Arizona voluntarily and have re- rnained voluntarily and served in the up- building of what now is mag nificent commonwealth. rich in de- veolped resources, with green and
 
 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 indi- 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.
 T can visualize, indeed have ac- tually seen. the conditions that were known to the early day people of Arizona Nearly all of those who aame in pioneer days lived in man ner that now would be called merely sxstence. They remember the adobe nuts with mud floors, with the cook sng done between two rocks upendeo ir the door yard. and remember the frfals that attended the breaking of he trails, the taking out of the first annals. the washing away of the dam, he drouths that succeeded the floods and the despair that had to be fought Jack, all along that weary road. Pos sibly all of it is typified in the remark of the small boy in the East who said tt evening prayer: Goodbye, Goo, ] am going to Arizona
 linen there is another phase-the Indian. How many there are, and l enong the number, who remember now good friends and relatives have aaen slain by a savage, ruthless foe fhat lurked behind rocks and bushes, nat tortured for pleasure and gainst which nothing but drastic orce proved effective. do not know row many whites were slain by the sayages of Arizona. I do know that list of 2500 names has been com iied and in addition there uhooupl- ,dly were thousands who died on the lonely hillsides, unknown and unre- orded. This warfare continued foi medically all the years from the e,n,e of the coming of the first Span ard in 1899 down to the time wner -eronimo's band was captured II Tgs6. I believe. this latter date na' 4een set to mark the dlvlSlon mt between the pioneer and the so.calle' id resident. 1 doubt wnetner IL Ma f the mind of the person Wno ore' Ais line just what the date repre- eanted. but the date. in the consider ton of the Indian phase alone, IS sfgnificant one.
 aIn the vanguard were the mlssion aries who sought, and l regret .av with little success. the Chrlsiaii Tire of the red men of the hills am 1laiTs. many of the Soldiers or Tn ross meeting martyrdom. CLOS non their heels followed the miners gho sought the treasures that ias a,d that still lie, in southwester
 ,,Xs+oins and who staked thei sfyes for the wealth they hoped [ ain. There Is, too, chapter or gal Int service of the American soldier am well aware of the fact that tn oid-timer frequently looked back wit aissatisfaction upon the work of tn alue-coated men who were gatnere dozen military posts For tn -uOst part tnelr lOTSeS "eiS l4tsAN mate, but I feel that they dld that their number could have don' We must remember that it final took one-quarter of the stanoin rmy of the United States to roun ID the last band of Apaches. Tn Dravery and military skill of the sol tiers of pioneer Arizona were we hown in such fights as those of th Caves, of Turret Butte, of the Bi Dry Wash. of Date Creek and doze other encounters I might include.
 'I have wondered occasionally wh under the conditions prevailing, tt turdy men and women of pionet aays remained in the country at al certainly they received little mont Try profit through their residenc
 doubt whether the return for labC "a the Southwest was any great' nan that known in sections whel he benefits of civilization preyaile
 the time. I am compelled to cor Iude that two factors must be take ito account. One is that the pit ears actually loved pioneering, thi
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