Bisbee daily review., 1904-08-18

dissolution of the Union has been finally settled. They say that 1t was this movement to America of working men. under both high tariffs and low tariffs after we became Federal Re public, and no tariffs at all, as in Co lonial days. was proof of the fact that higher wages have been paid. at every stage of our history, to white men working in fields and factories and mines and forests in the United States, than were being paid to the same white men working in similar pur- suits in tfe old country. They say. that the currents of labor flow. un- Ike the currents in our rivers. to- ward the highest level-toward the place where the rate of wages and the standard of living are highest. They say-these foolish people-uearly all Democrats-that taxes are necessary evils and never fin themselves bless ing to be sought for: that there is some element of common sense in the old aphorism of having as little gov ernmental interference with the af- fairs of men as possible. consonantly with the protection of life. liberty and property. All of which illustrated to what heights of palpable absurdity so- called intelligence can climb.
 What a queer, oldtime. childish idea was that of our ancestors. that the President of the United States is simply a chief executive and that his duty consists in executing the laws as they are written. need not tell o;r ha& ch hA aln1tnd Vice-President it would be one of your duties as a sort of heir-apparent to the Crown to train yourself and to influence your chief-Judge Parker in the way of usurping the other de- partments of the government Your opportunity will not be as great as that of the President himself, but. Is President of the Senate. you may have some opportunity; the oppor- tunity of changing the Senate rules to ycur own notion. or doing some other revolutionary thing. which. as a play 10 the galleries, will make your good old Welsh name famous, as that of one of the most spectacular and strenuous of men. Men. sir. are not responsi- hle for the size of their opportunities. They are responsible for taking ad- vantage of them-sometimes for not public. for instance.
 Tt will be your duty, as a part of the executive branch of the govern ment. to look down with contempt up- on the legislative branch. You will soon learn that the cattle who inhab- it the Senate chamber and the other wing of the capitol-the Lower House (which has been getting constantly lower and lower every day for many years)-are but little, if any, better than the other cattle who sent them there-the farmers, and mechanics and doctors and preachers and merchants of the United States. Influence the President to feel as you do. He may be told that any man who has such profound contempt for the legislative branch of this government is unfit to be the head of it's executive branch What stuff! And yet this last seuI- ence is an actual quotation from member of congress, Tell your chief that the man who uttered the senti- ment was only a Southerner. and not even a Southerner of the right sort not an image of God in ebony-but just a white man of that coarse and brutal strain which turned loose upon the world George Washington, Thomas Jefferson. John Marshall. Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln. Gen. George D. Thomas, Admiral Farragut, Sidney Lanier and Thomas Nelson Page.
 Tn conclusion, sir, pray for war nobody can tell what great things war Yill end in when once begun. It might result in making your chief the first Emperor and Lord Protector of the Western Hemisphere You would, of course, in that event become Prince d'Outre Mere I know you would run some little risk of having him desig- nate his Secretary of War as his sue cessor, but I believe I would chance it. Besides. peace is a tame and unstren- uous thing. and 'smothers out some of the finest instincts of manhood Shakespeare said: Tn thy right hand carry gentle peace to silence envious tongues Our forefathers, even down through the times of Lincoln and Grant, thought this sentiment sound morality and sound policy. for nations. as well as individuals. We know now that the right policy is to tread softly and carry a big stick
 Who was the fool who said, War is he'll anyhow? My word for it, he never saw real war.
 Remember, above all things, that our chief duty as citizens. but especial ly as rulers is not to be weddings or towards A weakling. sir, is strangely domesticated animal, who listens before he acts. and who weighs evidence before he decides. who mod estly yene.ates greatness-in others who actually prefers piping times and peace to the 'pomp and circumstance of glorious war Weddings are men who fear the strenuous life. the only national life that is really worth the living'-the life of Crown-Colony-Con- quest. the Life Militant. in a word. We are getting to be as people, your committee is glad to sfC, splendidly military. A flag, brass band and choice collection of epaulets, escort ing Secretary of War to and from the in VIZ x-bar, no ,v