Arizona republican., 1899-10-08
EXPERIMENTS NOT WANTED.

business men ana the HDdncl3i CldSI-
The great overturning in 1892 when
Grover Cleveland was. elected to a
r second term as president was not only
most surprising change OF political
sentiment, hut proved great disaster.
Especially disastrous it was to he
very class who were responsible for
the calamity by needing demagogic
arguments and counsels. A visionary
leader like Mr.. Bryan is al
ways a dangerous factor in
every campaign, be it national
or municipal His evil counseIs must
be watched and counteracted After
three years of unaUampled prosperity
we shudder to think of what the re-
suit would have been had Mr.. Bryan
triumphed in 1886. He is at his cid
tricks again, CT rather he has never
stopped. The only difference being
that "anti-imperialism" is substituted
for free silverism" in his vocabulary
of campaign issues. He gees up and
down the country preaching his Sc
ditious doctrine more particularly to
the ti1ler of the soil, who is the bull
warlk of American liberty. It is a
trite saying that when the farmer is
prosperous the country is prosperous"
Mr.. Bryan's greatest hope Of success
next year is to make the farmer dis
! satisfied with his present prosperous
condition; to scare him into the be-
lief that he is about to be over
whelmed by competition with the
heather labor of the orient.
Although Arizona has no voice in
presidential elections, she has vital
interest Beside, she must combat
these dangerous theories at home.
We reproduce from a Chicago trade
paper, the Dry Goods Reporter al
excellent argument in favor of ''let-
ting good enough alone;"
1t is not too early for the man De
hind the riow to make up his mimi
4 that the present conditions are good
enough for him. and that he will OPP
pose any new political experiments at
the next national election. A bad cur
rency Injuries the farmer as severely
as anybody. Anything that skaters
business confidence and puts a stop 10
new Industrial enterprises hurts the
man behind the plcw by killing his
home market for agricultural pre-
ducts. It Injuries the merchant aud
manufacturer as well as the working
man and farmer, because we must all
suffer or enjoy the same conditions.
The business world is intensely de-
sirous that there should be no check
to prosperity next year, and it will do
all in its power to keep things as they
are Will the man behind the ploW do
! the same?
Agriculture is the greatest American
industry, employing more men than
any other. The army behind the plow
| is as potent for good or i'll as the
army that conquered Spain. The men
behind the guns won victory by their
straight shooting, and the men behind
! the pillow must do their share by
straight thinking. Amy crooked rea-
soning that will shake the foundations
of the present superb prosperity
would bring defeat and loss TO the
| farmers of the naticn as quickly as to
any other class. The name of the
party in power matters nothing. We
only know that the principles now III
force are the foundation On which
we have built up the greatest business
foreign and dome stic-that the coun-
! try has ever had. 1t is important that
none of these foundation stones be
] wrenched out by indulging in any po-
litical experiments. or even by aroui-
| ing q suspicion that any such expert
mants are possible next year. TO
considerable extent it rests with the
man behind the pl0w to say that
/ If II 70 G ri
| 1t is one of the nisfortunes of our
system of government that it subjects
the whole business of the nation to
season of dread and fear Of cha age
once every four years. When pTesl-
! DENTAL election comes during hard
times it makes the times temporarily
worse, and when it comes IN good
times it often checks activity. The
! harm is in direct proportion to the
uncertainty There is no reason why
there should be any such harm at III
| in 1900, because there need be no
| doubt as TO the result. If the COM
mercial world and the agriculture
world will but join hands and say
they will let we'll enough alone, there
will be no trace of an election year
slump If there is an expansion q1ss-
ton to solve nobody is likely to do It
better than the president, WIZ - a.
ouainted with it from its beginning
If there is any currency legislation
needed. let the party do it that mas
ushered in the present prosperity
Stability is all that is needed now in
order to carry the present wave Of ac-
tivity. not only to the beginning OF
the next campaign, but far beyond
| 1900. 1t is not too early fer the man
behind the pillow to declare that ne
is not going to pull up his prosperity
nv the roots 10 see if it is growing.