Bisbee daily review., 1903-10-15


 rule-and We. shall find that in the DO 'litical thought there will be no place TOT the suggestions of sorGidness anc pelf
 Who will say that this is now our happy corGitiol? Is not our public fife saturated with the indecent de hands Of selfishness? More than his, can any of us doubt the exist ence of still more odious and detesti- ble. Evils which, with steaSy canker- ing growth, are more directly than all others th catching our safety and na- tional life. speak of the corruption Of Jar suffrage open and notorious, of the buying and selling of political places for money, ahe purchase of po- litical favoIs and privileges, and traffic in official duty flor personal gain. These things are confessedly com mon. Every intelligent man knows that they have grown from small be- ginnings until they have reached frightfpl proportions of malevolence; and yet respectable citizens by the thousands and hundreds of thousands have looked on with perfect calmness, and with hypocTitical cant have oe- clarei they are not politicians, or with silly pretension5 of faith in our strength and luck, have languioly claimed that the country was prosperous, equal 70 any emergency and proof against all dangers.
 A new meaning has been given 10 aational prosperity, with a hardihood that savers of insolence. ar old pre- ext, which has preceded the doom of
 apartments in popular rule. is daily md hourly dinned in our ears. We are told that the national splendor We nave built upon the showy ventures of speculative wealth, is a badge Of our success.
 The people should be taught the wickeiness of attempting to make free opportunity the occasion of seizing especial advantages and should be warned against the danger of ruthless rapacity. IL should depreciate osten- tation and extravaganza in the life of cur people, and demand in the man agement of public affairs, simplicl.y and strict economy. It should teach federation in all things. save dishon- esty and infidelity to. public trusts. 1t should uphold the interests of labor and advocate its fair treatment. but should sternly forbid its interference with those contented with their toll. and its attempt to force compliance with it's demands by violent disturb ances of peace and good order. It should recognize in the vice distribu- tion of capital and industrial enter prise the best assurance of intelligent. wholesomely interested, political con duct, and should condemn unnecessary, unnatural and speculative combina- tions in trade or enterprise. as teach ing falsely business lessons and put should insist that our finances and currency corcern, not alone the large traders. merchants and bankers of our land but that they are intimately and every day, related to the well-be- ing Of our people in all conditions of
 
 ments are necessary, they should be made in such manner as shall certain ly maintain the soundness of our peo- ple's earnings and the security of their savings. It should enjoin re- spect for the law as the quality that cements the fabric of organized socie- ty anc makes possible a government by the people. And in every sen tence and every line of this creed Of good citizenship, the lesson should be taught that our country is beauti- tul and productive field to be calculat- ed by loyal Americans, who with weapons near at hand, whether they SOW and reap or whether they rest, will always be prepared to resist those who attempt to despoil by day or pill fer in the night.
 Tn the day when all shadows shall have passed away and when good cit izenship has made sure the safe ty. permanence and happiness of our nation, how small will appear the strifes of selfishness in our civic life, and how petty will seem the machina tions of degraded politics? There shall be set over against them in that time reverent sense of cooperation in Heavens plan for our peoples great ness, and the joyous pride of standing among those who in the comraieship of American citizenship, have so pro- tected and defended our heritage of self-goyernment that our treasures are safe in the citadel of patriotism, where , neither moth nor rust Ccth corrupt, xyI,ara hroa l,