Arizona daily citizen., 1901-02-09
STILL
THEY KICK.

Democratic newspapers continue .
their struggle against the inevitable. /
Perhaps the question just now recurring
with greater frequency than any other
in the democratic press, could he sum-
med up as follows: ''Why is the in
dividual lost sight of in the develop
ment of a nation" This is the mean
ing OF the cry rising out ofthe democratic
press. Capital, az a matter of course,
is held responsible for the welfare OF
the individual. The trust, it is claimed
by democracy, ought to be abolished
because it brushes an individual here
and there. The republican administra-
ton, SO democracy believes, is to he put
down because it favors the trust. And
withal, the democratic press gives tit.
terance to a continuous. mnnotonous
cry.
Just why the individual is sacrificed
to the progress OF the nation, and just
why nations are lost in the struggle of
the world, and, again, just why worlds
are sacrificed in the evolutions of the
universe, We are unable to state it is a
matter OF regret on our part that We
cannot enlighten recaleitraut and disor-
ganized democracy on this point; the
only answer we can give, is, that we
know these things have occurred
throughout time, and evidence points
the prediction that they shall really
occur throughout the future. That is
these things are so, simply because they
are observed to be so. This is no
ence to the democratic press, how
~ger. The democratic eye is not par
t'elIarly obseryant eye, and perhap
%, ght not know that it saw a thin,
Nm it really saw it. The democratic
ID is not generally of analytica
quality, and perhaps could not be in
duced to reduce matter to its element.
even though the preservation of demo
cratic doctrine depended upon it. There
fore the democratic press is persistent
in its attacks upon eternal principles.
Ii the survivors OF this defeated and
disbanded party will but point a solitary
exception in the foregoing principles by
which men became tribe, tribes
nations, and nations a world of human
beings, all struggling for practically the
same ends, We shall be under great
obligation to those surviving sachems
In the meantime, we shall continue ia
believe that the far-seeing policy of the
republican administration means the
preservation of our nation in the world
struggle, and that an adoption of the
puerile tenets OF the survivors of dis.
banded democracy means inevitable
death in the crush of the things
The present republican policy is based
upon those laws which have always in
the past, and which shall always in the
future, insure the greatest good to the
greatest number. 1t is commendabIe IN
that it is provident for millions; and it
lives because it follows principles which
insure continuous existence.
1t undoubtedly would be nice if people
and nations had not so many necessities
to bother them. The trifling matter,
for instance, OF accommodating means
necessary to a livelihood creates unrest
in the individual breast, and the I'M
ending struggle for supremacy in the
world gives the nation practically all
that it can attend. Not being OF power
to alter the verities, the republican ad-
ministration is simply conforming to
them, and thus assuring itself OF its wei
fare. Democracy failed to conform to
these conditions. and as a result is dis
organized, disbanded, deserted.
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