Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-01-16

tHelcht, nOt H'ip NlHuiHH 'h' bv" p'' tisnn admiration of every man and woman who has studied our much mooted subject of liberty
 1T we are to rightly consider the rail way interests of our land. wc must look upon them as similar to the veins and arteries of our own bodies With ont them circulation K impossible, and mnlnuirition results They carry the raw products East and bring the man ufncturcd goods West. They connect tho hungry dcnzens of the apartment houses of New York with the produc commercial harmony the mines of the Wos, and the hints and mills of the world.
 Mr. Hartman cannot bc considered less than menace to this country, be. cause he is brniny man n financial general. pitted against. "" will admit. n political general. with waiting, anxious public at his back. Hartman is keen. shrcwd-and, worse than all else. not nt all adverse to wiping out opposition at my cost. In him we do not deal with the cphcmcral aspirant satt, hc has not shown that he will not tolerate the rebate system. He stands out ns m empire builder, with the phy- sicaI, mental and financial grip that makes men empire builders.
 Mir. Hartman, it is alleged. has of. fcrcd t1O,O0O,O00 for the rcinstn'c. mcnt of Odcll as the political and cx. ecutive head of New York. He has shown that. without regard for cost, hc will defy the government of the United States. When the forefathers Of this land found that England would tax them without giving them n voice in the matter, they rcbcllcd. And now, IF years later, we find one man ac' tually taxing the public more than England ever taxed the colonies. It was tyranny then, because men had | the room to think and the desire to do so. Now it k matter of course. "The lucky devil" suggests the "av- craze man." eff 1 only had his chancc.' Patriotism has ceased to cx- ist except where it can show its mar l tial power. Patriotism of the ballot, and patriotism in recognizing the laws of the land, and obcying them, is all most thing of the past. In its place, we have complacence'
 Tho magnitude of the IIarrimnn' Standartk Oil undertakings may be sum med up. briefly, thus: By controlling the railway interests of the country, the magnatcs will have absolute mon opoly over s5,O0o,o0o people. That con trol will mean:
 | A tax on raw materials;
 A tax on foods;
 | X tax on manufactured goods;
 4 tax on machinery and tools;
 
 A tax on money;
 A tax on liberty itself.
 It is the business of the govcrnmcn, to ask pertinent questions. It is tho duty of tho government to break ur what is shown 10 be n criminal conspir acy against the commonwealth. lt is the privilege of every American to take part in it-honestly, thoughtfully. i' is his concern.
 But after all-at the root is polit teal corruption, bad everywhere and growing no better.
 Is Theodore Roosevelt to be the DO litical Cromwelli
 | PUBLICITY must he absolute, and PUNISHMENT must follow crime That is the only preventative. The very men who have thrust this condi ton on the country cry out against ouI fast living. But maybe that is not fair, after all. WE are responsible every mothers son and daughter of us. We have made this monopoly pos siblc.
 There k something wrong somewhere, Thcrc is some principle in our ma chincry that does not work properly And if we have no other redress than Co start at the wrong end and work | backward. let us continuc the ut. tempt to step on the features of the hydra headed monster as those features are poked obnoxiously above cor. tain level. It is like trying to kill the tnpc'worm without getting its head It fattens and grows. Denver Record GUILTY ON ONLY 6,325 COUNTS