Bisbee daily review., 1906-09-07

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 Hold all that you grab.
 But the past year has been an epoch of fruitful warnings to the em- inent and of consolation to the poor and obscure. and unless public officers desist from betraying their sworn du- ties. there may yet arise from an out ragged public opinion an Andrew Jack son to lash them with a whip of scor- pions.
 1 g'.No man. who thinks into things instead of around things will fan to observe. not only in the United States,
 but in many other nations of the earth. that the seeds of anarchy which were sown as dragons teeth. are now rising as monsters and producing frightful fruit Ten years ago 1t was much the fashion of those who full minated in behalf of business inter- estsr to denouRce Bryan as. an anar- chist. But. Gentlemen of the Con- vention. anarchists are not produced by such men as Bryan. Anarchists | are produced by such men as H. H. Rogers, who treats courts with scorn and disdain. They are produced by such men as Chancellor Day of the Syracuse University and by such men Sundays praises God from whom oil blessings flow. and who on all other days of the week puts compound frac1 l lures in the larceny statutes of evry state in the Union. They are produce ed by such men as John R. Walsh, of Chicago. who while shouting nation ! al honor" were at the same time wrecking banks and wringing from the lean and trembling hands of vii dows and orphans their hard-earned pennies.
 The United States has now recog- nized that it was Bryan who first in our day smashed the shrines of man. mon in the temples of plutocracy. It was he who first invaded the Gibral- tar of graft and placed men above money. Possessing the highest civic virtue and absolutely spotless personal aOno., his character is as pure and as bright as the light of silver star on a cioudless summer night, here iE ! fair Arizona,
 'No one who saw the Democratic na- 1 tional convention of 1904 will ever for | get that historic occasion. When Bryan entered the great coliseum. jammed l to it's portals with the brains and chiv- airy of the Democratic party, whirl- wind of applause sweeping through l the great building made the rafters ring. No imagination, however vivid. n-conceive the terrific intensity of that tornado of applause which lasted many minutes. That stupendous dem- onstration was a, free-will offering from a, grateful constituency se the man who, during eight dong and weary years. had faced the ringed forces of the peoples foes, had carried Denoc- racy's banner and who, amidst the becKonfngs of wealth and the threats of power, like Leonidas at Thermopy- lac, and Custer at Big Horn. never dreamed of surrender. but through storm and through diversity. sub- ] lime and grand in defeat. had kept the Democratic faith and would not fiatter Neptune for trident, nor love for the power to thunder; and in I the life and example of w. J. Bryan every American boy can find a kindl- ing inspiration, which. if nurtured, will bring forth in splendid fruition. the holiest impulses of the human heart. for Bryan has taught Inc sons of men as they have not been taught sincenthe days of Hickory Jackson. the transcendent value of an unstain- ed excalibur and the all-conquering power of courage,
 l But gentlemen of the convention, while these national issues are vastly important, we are confronted with an issue in our own territory as ail-im- portant and as; ;far-reaching nsits con sequences as any issue that will ever again arise in Arizona, the issue of joint statehood, anl if the people of 1 Arizona allow themselves to be ca- joled into voting for joint state hood, they will learn to their consternation and amszemsnts ssyhen ii; is everlastIngly tee late 4baf they Il | boon that is guaranteed to Americans, their liberty and their right to be free; and if the people of Arizona are deluded into accepting joint statehood they will learn to their sorrow. when it is too late to make amends. that they are doomed to be ruled with an iron hand by an oiigarchy of corrupt politicians over in New Mexico
 Tt is regrettable that in Arizona there are some who favor this mon strous iniquity. But it seems thai such is the melancholy history of man kind. for even in the Apostolic cabi- net, there was a denying Peter, a doubting Thomas and a bribe-taking Judas, and it is due to the citizenship of Arizona to say with few exceptions that the only per sons within her borders who favor 1 joint statehood are the Perkin War bec!ss. Guy Fawkes. Wat Tylers and Jack Cades. who hope that joint state hood will open an era of graft and