Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-08-23
TWO GREAT PERFORMERS.

It was a fortuitous combination of
 circumstances which brought about a
 conjunction of two planets in the re-
 form skies at the St. Louis Union
 station last Saturday night. Hon.
 William J. Bryan and Mrs. Carrie Ma
 tion were both there, and both awaiting
 their departure on the same train out
 to fill dates at Illinois town. In this
 way the planets were brought in con-
 junction. The one from Kansas ap-
 peared to have dimmed in lustre, for
 the nonee, the one from Nebraska.
 Mrs. Nation assured Mir. Bryan that
 he was stainless knight, with shield
 unstained by tobacco smoke and with
 breath untainted by the odor of rum.
 Mrs. Nation set MT. Bryan on a ped
 estal, and fguratively fell down and
 worshiped him. And in so doing she
 struck the name of Folk off the list of
 the anointed. She had heard of his
 taking drink of whisky, and emitting
 to dilute it with water. Not that
 dilutiOn could pardon such an offense in the eyes of Mrs. Nation. Taking it raw is no worse in her sight han taking it mixed. "But," said she to Mir. Bryan, ''I won t say anything good of any man who smokes and drinks.'' Thus, at one fell swoop was Mir. Folk disposed of. For he does both.
 The Nebraska planet appears to have been the one obscured by the eonjunc- tion. He did nothing but laugh, while the one of Kansas shone out with a brillianey to dazzle the eyes of all be- holders. She seized the opportunity to address a crowd of trainmen and bystanders on their vile habit of smOk- ing, and justified her faith by her words in following her usual tactics of knocking or pulling cigars, pipes and cigarettes from the mouths of all attending votaries of nicotine. MT. Bryan, from the safe elevation of the rear platform of train, had set before his very eyes an object lesson in how to tackle the monumental and over shadowing evils of the age. MT. Ma tion showed him how to go up to the help of the Lord against the mighty. Not by mere and empty words, said Mrs. Nation to Mir. Bryan, in effect, but | by the force of strong arms and reso- lute wills, are the dragons of these de- generate days to be met and overcome. i Still MT. Bryan only laughed. It is much to be feared that Mrs. Nation s work was all in vain.
 Planets differ from one another in Mrs. Nation is willing to try eloquence first, but once convinced that is seed scattered on stony ground. she drops it, and goes after the unbe- liever and the unrepentant with force of arms. This is never to be com mended, but it shows Mrs. Nation to be a few laps ahead of Mir. Bryan in having made the discovery that she can never induce the people to do the things she would have them do by mere power of lungs, While they remain a perverse and stiff-necked generation, that their ways are ways of thrighteousness which are leading them to ruin, Mrs. Nation would save them, if need be, by other than oral ar Mir. Bryan, defeated in two by unprecedented majOrities, still believes that the pen is mightier than the sword. ''It is, Gin the hands of men truly great.' Mrs. Nation has reached the conclusion that she is not that sort of man. Thus far she is ahead of Mir. Bryan, and thus far, when the Kansas and Nebraska planets are in conjunction. it is the Nebraska planet which goes into eclipse.