Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-10-16
"AooNIzERs" AND
 THEIR ORIGIN.

One thing we like about practical, hard headed, old Joe Cannon, is his bluntncss of speech. Another is h's Jo.'s greatest success IS his pictur. osquc way of talking, whether "witn pr without" reference being made here to certain short and breezy cS- pletivc~. useful for emphasis. despite n prejudice against them m polite so- city. Speaking recently to an audi snee of bankers. many "t whom. doubt less, are staid chIrch members. Uncle Joe left pIi the cuss words. hut what he said hit the iulls'cyc:
 ''Whcn some on, throws his coat tails over his mead aGd s'arts agoni,- ing, let him agoniZe whii, you go Cn about your business consorI atively. We are doing first rate and ci forcing tho law. Our chief executive seems pretty api n, keeping his oath ,o see that the flaws are enforced. When the croaker cones along let us moi pay much atten- ton to him. hut just lct him croak. anI don forget this those who will fol- low vii toe quite as good az we are, and q1i,c as able to guard agains, evil"
 Like The plague oi tno frogs ,n Egypt. pest of rroakers mas been iooscd upon thc land. Their voices arc raised in lamontation of evils present, and more to come. Who gre these Jcr. emiahs! One of them i. thc president of great railroad. What Is the dan ger he deeries, Simply that capital has been frightened away hy the pub Tie demand for regulation of inc great corporations. Yet he is doing his best to frigntcn capital, by the dolcful pre-. Gctions he makes.
 Our laws. the new ones. and those proposed, for the correction of admit ted evils in railway management, are far less drastic than those prevailing with marked benefit in other countries. Perhaps n little light may be thrown upon the subject by n significant cir- cnmstance or two. One is that the road of which this gentleman is inc president has not dcsisted in it's ur- lawful practices. In iis pursuit of business, II mas run amuck of the law. Today Il K reported that this same road has endeavorcd to hse the "big stick" by way of retaliation on the people, by the withdrawal of colonist rates ,o the coast.
 What, folly, this egregrious attempt to bulldozc free pcopje' Are We a nation of such cowaraly poliroons that snch threats snail deter us from n course wisely and patro,ieally chosen : 1 The railroads, and other great corpor. ations, ofe making the gravest kind of thunder when they pursue snch tac- bes. The laws are made to he obcyed. If the laws are unjust, the people will be found ready and willing to change them. But defiance of the laws will not be tolerated.
 VH'H N'hi NfWhtI taxes Hts bad boys over his knee. and gives them spanking, he expects them to mend their ways. If they refuse to be good. they invite another spank ing. and harder one. No one has been hurt, SD far, but, apparently, there is serious trouble brewing for d few of them
 lt win he found, almost invariably, that this "agonizing.' as Uncle Joe calls it, comes from such sources. The newspapers which are doing all they can to scare capital, ana produce hard times, as, for example, the New York Sun, are the very ones wbicn are tho known apologists and defenders of the scandalous methods of high finance. \ distinct and concerted effort Is being 'tnade to drive the coubtry back into "'onse'yatism. II |. not new.