The Winslow mail., 1923-11-09

should not be ratified. 1t is sound
and logical, just and fair, and may
we'll be considered a satisfactory
agreement. 1t may not be perfect
nothing is. Doubtless there are
phrases which some AriZonans as we'll
as some Coloradoans and some Calf
ornians, would word differently Per-
haps there are some which I, were /
vested with undivided authority,
might couch in different language.
On such things opions vary. But If
the Compact is founded upon justice,
contains no fatal flaws, and in it's
larger outlook affords assurance of
achievement of great end, as l am
confident it does, there may well be,
there must be an overlooking Of tri-
vial and inconseQuentia9 differences.
For it must be borne in mind that
treaty is not written by any one of
the parties to it. In the very nature
Of cases calling for treaties there
and there; a disposition to see the
other fellows side-to appreciate the
opposite viewpoint. There must be a
willingness to get together for the
common welfare.
And here in Arizona there should
be a serious realization that in the
final analysis, whatever the last mea-
sure Of AriZona's technical and legal
rights may be-or might be determin-
ed to be if persued to a long-drawn-
out and discouraging conclusion-we
have no right to prevent develop
ment, to impede progress, to lock the
wheels of industry. From the strict
ly local and selfish standpoint, this
State has no right to obstruct the
development of these vast resources
now going to waste. Our own inter
ests and the interests of our own
people, suffering from the effects Of
business depression and struggling
under the burdens of excessive taxa
ton, demand prompt and constructive
action No possible losses that might
be suffered under the Compact, even
though the objections of it's critics
were valid, could equal the losses of
indefinite delay Arizona's duty to
posterity itself. a name which has Of
ten been employed by objectors to the
Compact to conjure with, calls for the
bequeathing to those who shall come
after, not of a wild and tumultuous
torrent but of river harnessed and
controlled, doing the bidding of man.
contributing to the blessings of life,
productive and not destructive
force. This is the question in its
narrowest and most selfish phase, and
/ take it that we are all human
enough, and therefore selfish enough,
to recognize that appeal. But in a
far larger sense, and very proper
cne, disposition to consider Arizona
alone-even though that disposition
be consicientiously inspired-is to be
deplored Arizona's interests mus
rot be forgotten, of course, and there
is no danger Of that; but it is ques-
uon if that offense might not be more
forgivable than that Arizona should
forget and fail of her duty as pro
gressive, enlightened and broadmind-
ed commonwealth. To take the ground
that the Colorados development
should be viewed by Arizona solely
as a matter of her own concern anf
for her exclusive benefit, would be to
put a blot upon out boasted progress
sivism For if progressivism means
not humanitarian it means nothing.
And humanity's interests and human
itys rights are at stake on the Colo
rado. The future of the whole South
west hinges in no small degree upon
the realization of the Colorado's re-
sources, and there should be no re-
gret in Arizona-there should be
elatfon-if the States surrounding us
and the men and women of our blood
and bone, who people them, come to
realize something of the widespread
benefits of this development. That
will not harm us-it will help us
but it will harm us immeasurably, in
dustrially, socially-yes, and spiritual
ly-if we play the part of a dog in
the manger.