Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-08-17

the revision. Taken as whole his tariff talk however, is very mild and 
 He handles the question of trusts in a very gingerly manner, and says that officials are to blame for not enforc- ing more rigidly the laws enacted. He does not, with any great show of vehemence or otherwise state that in case of bis election he will make a vigorous legal onslaught on the ranks of the trusts. In fact he rather praises the trusts with the very faintest sort
 of censure and in way that the trust
 magnates are given to understand, as
 in fact they have always understood
 before, that they will not suffer any inconvenience from his election.
 Lest credit might be given the republican party for its success in ad- vancing the United States in the esti- nation of other nations as a world power, MT. Parker very astutely says:
 "Ours is a world power, and as such it must be maintained, but l deny that it is at all recently that the United States has attained that emi- nence. Our country became world power about a century ago, when, having thrown off foreign domina- tion, the people established a free the source of whose sprang and was continually to proceed, from the will of the people themseles. It grew as a world power as its sturdy citizens, to whose natural increase were added immigrants from the old world seeking to obtain here the liberty and prosperity denied them in their own country."
 Speaking negatively he says five are not military people bent on con- quest, or engaged in extening our do- mains in foreign lands or desirous of securing natural advantages, however great, by force; but a people loving peace not only for ourselves, but for all the nations of the earth. .'
 This must be a comforting epxres- sion to large number of democrats who have for the past five or six years been trying to educate themselves and others that under republican rule we have grown into militarism to dangerous degree.
 Mir. Parker, however, in spite of the above assuring remark adds a note of warning. a regular democratic protest as follows:
 "I protest, however, against the feeling, now far too prevalent that by reason of the commanding position we have assumed in the world. we must take part in the disputes and broils of foreign countries and that because we have grown great we should intervene in every important question that arises in other parts of the world. 1 also protest againt the erection of any such military estab lishment as would be required to maintain the country in that attitude. We should conf1ne our international activities solely to matters in which the rights of our country or of ohr citizens are directly involved. That is not a situation of isolation, but of independence.
 After being relieved of his official judicial duties for a short time, and having had time to study the history 1f this country for the past eight years, Mir. Parker will find that the policy outlined in the above para yraph very closely resembles, if it is lot identical, with the policy pursued )y the administrations of Mckinley md Roosevelt.
 Democratic papers have headed the peech of acceptance with the words: 'The Silence Broken.' Verify, Parker has broken his silence, but the principal element of the breaking was imply sound. As probably not ore -oter will read either his speech or he platform upon which he stan ds | t matters but little W hat either con- ! aims, though.