Arizona republican., 1902-10-19
Passing of an Esteemed
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If newspaper readers had not learned long ago that the prophecies of demo- cratic politicians are about equal in value to the promises of those same politicians, it would be interesting to turn to the files of The Republican and other Arizona newspapers of two years ago and read of the speeches which were made in that campaign by demo- cratic office-seekers in this territory on the imminent danger with which the republic was threatened by "mili- tariem" President Mckinley had an nounced the year before that he needed an army of one hundred thousand men wherewith to suppress the insurrection in the Philippines. Our democratic friends were sure that this was a mere subterfuge of that tool of the money power-William Mckinley" MT. Bryan assured us, and the small fry in Ari- zona echoed the wall, that the need of more troops in the Philippines was to be used as a cloak for the increase or the standing army ultimately to 9 half million of trained regulars; that these regulars would be stationed near all the great cities and places where laboring men were employed in large numbers, and would be used to shoot down or overawe them when ever they went on a strike-in short. the money power" proposed to have an enormous standing army in order ;o enslave the free workingmen Of Amer ica, and the "McHanna administration" had eagerly lent itself to this scheme for the destruction of the nations very pillars And when congress convened the air thundered with democratic elo- quence against the conspiracy to create a vast standing army.
 And when MT. Roosevelt came in, the democratic prophets were sure that the man on horseback had arrived; every hamlet in the land would soon echo to the tramp of armed soldiers.
 This prosaic Associated Press dis patch from Washington under date C; October l6. 1902. tells how the admin istration is proceeding to carry out the republican policy of placing the coun try under the heels of a military des- potism:
 "The order reducing the army to the minimum of 59,600 men is in course Of preparation at the war department. and is one or a series of orders that have been issued cutting down the reg ular army as the decrease could be made as a result of reduction of the force in the Philippines. The manner in which this order will be carried out is to discontinue enlistments until the number fixed has been reached"
 The great army of 100000 soldiers which was created at the request of President Mckinley by a republican congress has accomplished it's mission. Peace in the Philippines has been achieved-although democratic prophe- cies told us the war would last one hundred years-and the gallant soldiers who went from American farms, mines, factories and stores to uphold and de- fend the flag, are returning to the ways of peace, just as their fathers who wore the blue and the gray became quiet citizensaas soon as their military duties were done at the close of the civil war.
 The nightmare of "militarism" con- jured up by desperate politicians of the democratic party has gone the way of all the ghosts of the democratic past But, happily for the amusement of the people, our democratic friends are al- ways able to trot out a new set of calamity goblins.