Arizona republican., 1922-04-12

has its honored pioneers in this re
union. Let me now introduce th'
mayor of Phoenix, Mr.. Willis H
Plunkett, who will welcome you Il
our city"
Mayor Gives WeIeoms
Mayor Plunkett was greeted by
salvo of applause as he arose. Hit
remarks follow:
'Phoenix feels that she is intensely
honored in such gathering as this
today. It has gone through many
trials and tribulations since you as
sembled here year ago, and 1t teels
that It has been triumphant through
it all because OF you and your de-
scendants. The keys OF the city are
yours ana its welcome is as strong
and sincere as l can make 1t.
NThe next speaker to be introduced
by Mr. Heard was one whom he
termed a real pioneer in every sense
of the word. Gov. Thomas e. Camp
bell. Repeated rounds of cheering
met him as he took his place at the
speakers table, and applause and
laughter frequently interrupted his
remarks as he touched some respon-
dent chord or detailed some humor-
ous fact in the early history OF the
state. His address follows:
Governor Speaks
In one form or another, through all
apes. nhilosophers have declared that
loye Of home is one of the primary
and essential virtues. in itself pa
triotism that exteqds from defense
and care of ones family to the same
consideration for the community ana
the state and the nation. This gain
ering well typifies this spirit, for you
have come together in honor OF your
ancestry. i'm commemoration of the
valiant deeds or civic service of those
who NAV have gone to their eternal
reward and TO cement more closely
the bonds of fraternity established
in times when mere existence had in
its elements OF danger and travail lit
tle understood by the generations.
Through this gathering will come
much of education to the younger
generation of today and to those who
shall follow. Through 1t may come
proper appreciation of the price that
has been paid in the making of
great state and proper respect Tor
those who made ii SUCH
speak to you as one OF the young
er generation ] am as much pio-
neer as I could be. for I was born IN
what, POLITICALLY, has been sometimes
called ''oId rock-ribbed Yayapai.'
have chased the agile long-ear 1
have sat at the feet Of prospectors
and miners who were full of the lore
that comes from many a lonely camp
on the star-lit hillsides; ! can bark
back to the days when hard riding
troopers were useing the 45-caliber
argument to quiet the restless In.
dians: / well remember the strain
ing mule teams and the lurid Ian
guage of the drivers; l have been
honored with a box seat on stage
coaches beside veterans OF the reins
who had had many an encounter on
the road, and have known in friend
ship many of the early day knights
of the Round Table" men Of whom
it was said they had never turned q
crooked card. I even can remember
when lumber was sawed on the Yav-
apai hills and freighted TO Phoenix
by bull team.
These memories to me are most
precious. OF course some of the
features were not such as would ut
properly into our modern scheme OF
civilization, where every comfort and
every mechanical assistance is de-
manded in our daily lives. Prescott
and Phoenix were three days apart
by ordinary horseback travel: wood
vas the only fuel; the telegraph and
in the Southwest. There was general
understanding that a mans protec-
ton and we'll being depended more
upon himself than it did upon the
community. But, with all this, there
was a spirit of sturdy manliness IN
the atmosphere that may have been
engendered by the times, but which
even more was dependent upon the
character of the pioneers themselves.
They had to be sturdy men TO even
make the Journey hither, and to the
devoted women who came with them
even a greater degree of praise must
be given, not only for their coming,
but for the way in which they MAIN
tanned the home in the rude cabins
that necessarily first were reared.
Rarely in any OF the early towns
were the doors ever locked. Horse
thieves and stage robbers were not
uncommon, but the petty crimes of
modern DAYS were almost unknown.
/ have heard it said that the friction
of the frontier often polished an or
dinaTy man into a fair specimen and
that it brought out all that was good
and made extraordinary men of the
many. One thing. / know. 1t is that
never did you appeal to your neigh
Dor in vain. His purse or his rifle
were at your service, while his hos
pitality was boundlesS.
Folks back east like to consider
Arizona as a very new sort OF land.
with a background Of cactus and sand
land Indians and desperadoes, an en-
pertaining sort of place. but of little
Historic importance. When I meet
such people I like to tell them a few
ltaings. | like to tell them that with
lin weight years of the time OF
the landing OF Columbus and fully 20
years before the English sailed into
Chesapeake Bay and so years before
the Pilgrims bumped into Plymouth
Rock. the Spaniards had made full
exploration of the present land OF
Arizona / wonder how many Of you
appreciate that the imperial city OF
San Francisco was founded by a
Spanish expedition from our own lit
tie pueblo of Tubac on the Santa
Cruz river, in 1916, this expedition
under a native of Pimeria, named de
ANA: or that Tucson already had
been established when the bell rang
Liberty in old philadelphia / am not
referring to the ruins of the ancient
pueblos within this valley or in ale
most every canyon, when / speak OF
Arizona as a land of historic value,
far superior to anything that might
be offered by, New England.
Then comes appreciation Of the
American settlement of the South
west. / feel apologetic when say
American" and can excuse myself
only by explaining that you cannot
very well say United Statesan." In
Arizona, we have a large population
of the real American-the Indians of
whatever tribe-and some of them
are on this ground today eager to
participate in the upbuilding of the
commonwealth and accepted for their
good intentions and sturdy character.