"Citizens of Arizona - the State is your home! Your spirit should there find appropriate expression. To build an already dated New York monstrosity to stand up to present Arizona to posterity seems to me a crime punishable by you - yourselves. Hoping to save the State - I love the State - from this threat by rousing you to action, I have put on paper definite outlines of an edifice more suitable to the character and beauty of our Arizona and its landscape, at a cost not much more than one half that of the official aberration by which you are now threatened. This would leave ample opportunity for fine sculpture, great murals in painting and stained glass, and furnishing of the highest possible quality suitably employing the artists of this region."
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