Arizona republican., 1903-09-08

should recognize this community Of in terest among our people. The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamen- tally upon the welfare of all of us, and therefore in public life that man is the best representative of each of us who seeks to do good to each by doing good to all: in other words, whose endeavor it is, not to represent any special class and promote merely that class's selfish interests, but to represent all true and honest men of all sections and all classes and to work for their interests by working for our common country.
 We can keep our government on sane and healthy basis. we can make and keep our social system what 1t should be. only on condition Of judging each man, not as q member of class. but on his worth as q man. It is an infamous thing in our American life. and fundamentally treacherous to oar institutions, to apply to any man any test save that of his personal worth or to draw between two sets of men any distinction save the distinction of con- duct. the distinction that marks off those who do well and wisely from those who do i'll and foolishly. There are good citizens and bad citizens in every class as in every locality. and the attitude of decent people toward great public and social questions should be determined. not by the accidental ques tions of employment or locality, but by thcse deep-set principles which repre- sent the innermost souls of men.
 The failure in public and in private life thus to treat each man on his own merits, the recognition of this govern ment as being either for the poor as such or for the rich as such, would prove fatal to our republic, as such failure and such recognition have al ways proved fatal in the past to other republics. A healthy republican gov ernment must rest upon individuals. not upon classes or sections. As soon as it becomes government by class or by a section il departs from the old American ideal.
 It is, of course, the merest truism to say that free institutions are of avail only to people who possess the high and peculiar characteristics needed to take advantage of such institutions. The century that has just closed has witnessed many and lamentable in stances in which people have seized government free in form, or have had il bestowed upon them, and yet have permitted it under the forms of liberty to become some species of despotiSm or anarchy, because they did not have in them the power to make this seeming liberty one of deed instead of one mere ly of word Under such circumstances the seeming liberty may be supplanted by tyranny or deSpOtism in the first place, oT II may reach the road of des- potism by the path of license and an archy. Ii matters but little which road is taken. In either case the same goal is' reached. People show themselves just as unfit for liberty whether they submit to anarchy or to tyranny; and class government. whether it be the government Of 2 plutOcracy or the gov ernment of mob, is equally incompat-
 ble with the principles established in the days Of Washington and perpetuat- ed in the days of Lincoln.
 Many qualities are needed by q peo- pie which would preserve the power of self-gov5rnment in fact as well as in name. Among these qualities are fore thought. shrewdness. self-restraint, the courage which refuses to abandon ones own rights. and the disinterested and kindly good sense which enables one to do justice to the rights of others. Lack of strength and lack of courage unfit men for self-government on the one hand; and on the other, brutal arro- gance. envy, in short, any manisfesta- ton of the spirit of selfish disregard. whether of ones own duties or of the rights of others. are equally fatal.
 In the history Of mankind many re- publics have risen, have fiourished for less or greater time, and then have F.,Il I-r- power of governing themselves and thereby of governing their state: and in no way has this loss of power been so often and so clearly shown as in the tendency to turn the government into d government primarily for the benefit of one class instead of a government for the benefit of the people as a whole.
 Again and again in the republics of ancient Greece, in those of mediaeval Italy and medieval Flanders. this ten dency was shown, and wherever the tendency became habit it invariably and inevitably proved fatal to the state. In the final result it mattered not one whit whether the movement was in favor of one class or of another. The outcome was equally fatal, whether the country fell into the hands of a wealthy Oligarchy which exploited the poor or whether it fell under the domination of turbulent mob which plundered the rich. In both cases there resulted violent alternations between tyranny and disorder, and a final complete loss of liberty to all citizens-destruction in the end oVertaking the class which had for the moment been victorious as we'll as that which had momentarily been defeated. The death knell of the re- public had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for it's interests as opposed to the interests of others.
 The reason why our future is assured lies in the fact that our people are genuinely skilled in and fitted for self government and therefore will spurn the leadership of those who seek to ex- cite this ferocious and foolish class an tagcnism. The average American knows not only that he himself intends to do about what is right but that his aver age fellow countryman has the same