Arizona republican., 1906-08-31

l Hldue IL, or worse than they SunereQ
 it to become. The public life of a na- tion is but a reflection of it's private life. This government is no better than any other, except as the virtue and
 patriotism of the people make it so. The people are beginning to under stand that when they undertook to be their own kings, they assumed the re- responsibilities as well as the privileges of sovereignty. This awakening will
 go on for, while reforms sometimes die revolutions never go backward and
 this is a revolution that is being wrought in the hearts of men.
 This movement against wrongs is
 not crusade against wealth.
 Wealth in itself is a blessing; the
 abuse of wealth is a curse. Wealth
 gained by honest industry is commend
 able. The poverty of indolence is con
 temptible. This government does not
 rest upon the idle rich nor the idle
 poor. but upon the industry and pa
 triotism of the middle classes. There
 can be no objection to honest riches,
 but there is objection to the crimes
 and privileges out of which tainted
 riches grow. There is no disposition
 to injure corporations that obey the
 law, but the demand is that corpora
 tions even the greatest, obey the law
 Just Ilke anyone else. SpeC1di inter-
 ests should be made to respect the law
 regulating their their conduct, as they
 ask others to respect the law protect
 ing their property. The need is not so
 much for new laws, as to enforce those
 laws we have. There has been too
 much of making of laws to please all
 of the people and too little of enforce
 ment of those laws. to please special
 interests.
 The regenerated conscience of the people has been assailing these abuses one by one and has now commenced to attack the deeper evil of privilege. Graft is a privilege which is exercised either against the law, or one which the law itself may give. No one ever heard of a legislator being bribed to give equal rights to all the people. It is always for the purpose of obtaining privileges for the few. Graft cannot be fully done away with until special privileges are exterminated and the doctrine of equal rights becomes the standard for governmental action. It matters not whether this privilege be in the form of a tariff so arranged as to foster monopoly, or rebates to favor ed shippers. No protection for mOnop- oly is the battle-cry of the new born patriotism. As monopoly is founded on privilege. without privilege monop- Oly must fail. The platform of priv ileges for the few is opposed by the platform of privileges for none. The doctrine of protection for monopoly as against the people. is opposed by the doctrine of protection for the people as against monopoly
 The light is breaking and good men and true men will say. let there be light and yet more light, that we may escape the snares set for our feet. and walk in safety along the highway of a 1 larger freedom to a more capitalized national existence and a higher life
 Let us in this crisis, be neither rad l teal nor conservative. Rather let us be conservative in charging wrong 1 doing. lest injustice be caused in | charging where it does not exist, but | once sure of the evil let us be radical l in it's extermination. Let us have ] neither the conservatism of stagnation | nor the radicalism of indiscriminate | destruction. We want progress along | right lines. States and nations like ! men,, should never be satisfied but | ever strive for higher development
 In this epoch so important to Amer | tcan liberty, we ask the people to set | up no new gods; we ask them to fol- | low no new paths which may lead into | the quicksands of dishOnor and de- i spair. Our safest and surest guide is still the old maxim. that there shall be | equal rights to all, special privileges to | none. With this axiom as our chart, we cannot lose our course: with this rule for our guidance. the infamies of | privilege in every form will be de- stroyed and unto all men there will be ] restored the equal right that belongs to each; the fair and equal opportunity | of each and every man to live and la bor upon the earth which God has given to all.
 The gospel of equal rights sounds the death-knelI of privilege and means the uprooting of monopoly throughout the land. This gospel teaches that it is more important that all of the people be prosperous, than that a few be very rich: that it is better that all of the people should have all of the wealth than that all of the wealth should be in the hands of a few people. The other republics that have lived and died during the flight of time through the ages have been wrecked upon tn rock of privilege. But the hope for the perpetuity of this government was neved brighter than it is today. be- cause the people are awakened to the dangers ahead. As long as the people are aroused, there will be only safety lights for the popular government.
 The ideal republic is one of charity for all, of brotherhood among men. of equal rights for all mankind. We may not achieve the ideal at any time soon. but We can strive for it with the as- surance that this endeavOr will lead us up the heights of attainment until we are face to face with the ideal and the true.
 Governor Folk concluded by intro ducing Mayor Tom l.. Johnson of Cleveland, as chairman of the meeting. The applause was deafening as MT. Johnson came forward on the speakers' platform. At this same momen, wm. Hearst entered the box witch had been set aside for him. For two minutes the crowd cheered without in- terrmntiOn. ManN rnsa and EnaMaE hatsL