Bisbee daily review., 1906-08-19

how he should vote.
 Will the Aemircan worklngman be more amenable to discipline? Knowl- edge of American political history would prompt the answer that he would not. But who can tell? This is time of changes and upheavals Old beliefs are being abandoned and old idols shattered, and the political labor movement may be a logical out come of conditions.
 The trouble with labor's political propaganda, judged by the old stand ards of Americanism, is that it. pro- poses in effect a political party to serve a special interest. It is very true that political parties in the past have served special interests. and they YeTylikely will do so again. But no political party ever dared ask the suffrage of the people on a platform the cardinal plank of which was avowedly the serving of special in- terests. The greatest good to the greatest number has had to be the profession of every political party, or certain defeat would be it's portion.
 It is not to be denied that at times both the old parties have fawned at the feet of capital while the interests of labor have gone a-begging. The grievances of labor are very real and very keenly felt. and the membership of the labor unions is sufficiently large to work a political revolution if the suffrage of that membership car be controlled from the headquar- ters of the unions. But the idea of +o ErL ends has always been repugnant to Americans, and one has never yet achieved substantial success.
 As has been said before, however, times are changing; and 10 this fact the politicians are keenly alive. They admit that a successful political cam pa:gn by the labor unions is not i'm possible, and all along the line there is a great training of sails to meet the storm which the clouded horizon theatens.
 This universal recognition of the labor unions as a possible political force makes the attitude of Mir. Taft all the more amazing to the old-schnol politicians. By this l mean the school of politics which teaches expediency 10 be the chief of virtues and which knows no policy except to drift with the popular tide. no matter where the tide may lead.
 But, if the repetition will gaia be- allowed, the times are changing-and in some respects have changed. There has come to the country a realization, scarcely yet formulated into accept ed knowledge, that a new era has Gawned in American politics, and that there are now men highly placed in public life who dare speak what they think and do what they believe to be right, without regard to what effect their speaking or their doing may have on their personal fortunes.
 The politicians, that is. the polii- clans who are consumed by greed for office and whose hands are a-foul with it's pelf, don't like this new school of politics. Do the people like it? Theo, dure Roosevelt said things and did things that made the blood of polite ianss congeal. And the people gave him such an endorsement at the polls as no other man of his generation ever had. William J. Bryan has scCrned the men he believes betrayed the Democratic party and has refused to repudiate the faith which twice carried him to defeat; yet state con- ventions all over the country are ha;ling him as the leader of the Dem ocracy and as DemOcracy's choice for President.
 And it would seem that William Howard Taft also is of this school Perhaps by defying the labor unions he has blasted his chances of attain ing the presidency; but if he believes he is right, as undoubtedly he does, he will retain his own respect and the respect of all other right-thinking men, even those. and these are thousands such, who belong to the labor unions.
 While we are on the subject it per haps would not be amiss to take 2 look at this man Littlefield, whom the labor unions are trying to defeat. The unions have a just grievance against him, there isn't any doubt of that. He fought the measures they counted so essential to their welfare, and fought them hard. Yet Littlefield has the respect of these labor leaders who are trying to unseat him. Why! Because he fought them in the open, in straightforward, manly way. Lit tlefield hits hard, and when he IS in action there is something about his personality that is very irritating, that makes you want to swear, to get up and heave brick at him. But no one ever accused Littlefield. of striking an unfair blow. No one ever accused him of having motive for public course other than his conviction or right and wrong.
 Littlefield began life as stone cutter. He polished stones, but took little of the polish to himself. He IS rough and angular and the sharp cor ners stick out all over him. When oth- CT men brush up against these cor ners they get mad and say things; but Littlefield doesn't care. He IS able. of that there is no doubt. When he came to Congress brilliant career was predicted for him. It has been brilliant in a way, but his speech IS too blunt and his honesty too militant for marked success in the House or Representatives, as now constituted
 I.ittlefield. too, it would seem. be-