Arizona republican., 1903-10-15

people cannot be lectured too often. They are neglectful of their civic du- tuies, and they are falling more and more under the domination of political bosses, big and little. Good citizens, in short, will not find fault with either Mir. Cleveland or MT. Roosevelt for in- sisting SO often that good citizenship" requires every citizen to follow the securing honest and efficient govern ment.
 It is not always without amusement, however. that MT. Cleveland admiring fellow citizens hear him painting burning word picture of the practical politicians. for MT. Cleveland himself is one of the most adroit politicians the country has produced. A country lawyer who can leap at one bound from obscurity into national prominence, capture the presidency of the United States twice. capture the nomination of his party three times. and upon two of these occasions gain a triumph over the best managers in his party. can not be taught many Eew tricks by the oldest politician that eyer came down the pike.
 And we take leave to point out that if Mr. Cleveland has retired from poli- tics he has lost none of the politicians cunning. Running through his speech of last night are many Of the notes which he sounded So skilfully' in 1892, when, like the Pied Piper of Hamelin, millions of his deluded countrymen that they elected him president by prodigious majority under the vain be- lief that the highwater-mark pros perity which had been registered under President Harrison was not, in fact, prosperity of the right brand. For H. lustration, what does MT. Cleveland mean by this:
 "A new meaning has been given to national prosperity. With a hardihood that savors of insolence, an old pretext which has nreceded the doom of an- cient experiments in popular rule. is daily and hourly dinned in our ears. We are told that the national splendor which we have built up on the showy ventures of speculative wealth. is q badge of success.
 ''Unsharing contentment is enjoined upon the masses of our people. and they are invited, in the bare subsist- ence of their scanty homes. to patrio- fiaal Nv n perity.''
 It is an old dodge to build man Of straw and then knock the stuffing out of the figure. and at this dodge Mr. Cleveland is an expert. Who. pray. has been saying the idiotic things which Mr. Cleveland purports to quote? Certainly, no man in his senses is claiming that our national splen- dor" has been built up on the showy ventures of speculative wealth" or that if it had that it would be "a badge of success" MT. Clevelands own ven- lures toward speculative wealth have not been very showy. we understand, but some of them have given him the badgA of success-that little deal in Northern Pacific, for instance.
 And who is enjoininS ''unsharing contentment upon the masses of our people,? and who is inviting them ''in the bare subsistence of their scanty homes. to periodically rejoice? The fact is that Mir. Cleveland has de- scended to his old tricks or inflaming the easily led and the ignorant against every man whose industry has yielded him a competence. During Mir. Cleve- sharing nor contentment among the people-unless it was such contentment as was gained from sharing the food provided in free soup houses for three millions of men out of work