Year: 1879

The ReV. T0dhUHter'S Lecture.

 THE CITIZEN last Friday referred t this lecture and its author. As he wa

 unnecessarily free in the use of hi

 tongue about Arizona, its worth ant

 the people, this paper will be neces

 sarily free with him and his repute, sayings. It is not pleasant to unfav 'orably criticise anybody, much less ; clergyman one would prefer to respec and treat accordingly. But when al educated one-and we believe MT. T

 is up in the books-puts himself or the record as our late visitor is re ported 10 have done, duty override preference The Rev Mir. T. is re ported as saying in his lecture on tn,

 evening of the Sth:

 l In Arizona no one knows anything ] To your questions the Mexican say: |" Quies sa5e," the Indian grunts anC shakes his head and the American

 white says he does not know" This was perhaps meant for wit, anC

 with this charitable remark we give some more of the lecture, viz:

 Everybody in Arizona is prospec l tor or prospective prOspector. Wher l struck Tucson some one hailed me on the street: | say. stranger looking for a mine?" No" Law ver?n No" Doctor? No

 " What the - are you, then?"

 This may have also been intended 1. for wit, but the unchristian people and it must be confessed we have some ! of this class. think no such inquirie: were ever made of Mr. T. or of any body else in Tucson. Here again VIC must come to his rescue and say that but one Todhunter of this kind ever

 was in Arizona, and his odd appear ance may have so alarmed a nervous citizen as to excite these inquiries, he obviously regarding MT. T. as sus. picious character, and yet did not want to appear rude by asking him il he were a burglar, road agent, horse thief or escaped convict, when the more complimentary questions might reveal his true calling. But let's have some more of the lecture:

 He never thought of asking me if was a clergyman.

 And, dear Mr. T., right here you pay a high compliment to the level cOndi- ton Of your interrogator's head, for you really did not excite any such suspicion on first sight, and the report of your lecture leaves the impression that you might be anything but a clergyman without the slightest change of appearance or utterance. But the reader is perhaps impatient for some more of the lecture, and here it is:

 I thought Tucson presented a better appearance morally than any other place I visited in Arizona, but they told me l did not know the town. In my opinion, Arizona, apart from its mines, is what a fellow-traveler from Chicago called mighty poor coun- trv to move to- If I were in the Cab inet I should advise that the Govern ment turn the Territory over to the Indians and the coyotes. The former are fat and thrifty and the latter don't slink away. and haven't the Sneaklng side-long look they wear in other places. I think men and animals who have lived in Arizona for dozen gen erations and are still fat and vigorous ought to be left to enjoy it in peace.

 We ought to be grateful for the good mans thought of our peoples superior morals. but his ignorance of our town is inexcusable, for it is morally certain that several of our well-informed, hos pitable young men, aided perhaps by a veteran or two of some acquaintance with the mysteries of this ancient and vast city, would have taken pleasure in showing him round and thor oughly posting him on the true in wardness" of this town Had he only been posted on the town," his lecture would or could have been made much more interesting. without interfering with its truthfulnesS.

 For the present, we will only fur ther refer to the remainder of the lee ture by calling attention of President Hayes to this Todhunter, in case he needs new Cabinet Minister; in fact. WE think he would make better Min ister of War than of the gospel. and McCrary's soon-to-he-sur- rendered portfolio is just the one Tor him. His church would douhiiess