Bisbee daily review., 1908-09-01

to the citizenship of Arizona, because
 Arizona possesses a proud people, an
 upright people who obey the laws be-
 cause they recognize in the laws
 moral obligation, and Cicero's noble
 language when he pictured upright
 men, fittingly applies to Arizona cit
 izens. people who do not submit
 to the laws from fear. but pay obedi-
 ence and respect to the laws because
 they consider it to be the most hon.
 orable course to pursue.
 "A considerable number of Ameri- 1 can statesmen in both great political
 parties seem at times to be alarmed,
 lest some foreign power may some day destroy our government, but, my fellow citizens we need never fear that any foreign nation will destroy
 the government of the United States if evil days should ever come to this
 government they will be brought by | internal disorder and not by any hos | tile foreign power It has been said of the individual that prosperity is | a greater floral test than diversity.
 Many man gets along very we'll un- | der narrow and unfavorable circum- i stances, compelled by the very neces- | sity of labor, and the man who has | plenty and does not need to work or to worry, is the man who is in danger | from the lurking evils of temptation.
 And 1t is likewise with nations and | civilizations. One absolutely identical
 story has been written of nations,
 since the beginning of time. By an in eyitable chain of causes and effects, | Providence punishes national sins with national calamities.
 "Assyria was 9 most powerful na- | ton in ancient times, and the won derful city of Babylon, with her aquez ducts and hanging gardens, was the
 most beautiful city iL the world, but ts profigacy and its corruption ! brought destruction to it's splendor and 9 drunken festival ended the Elm pire. It was not foreign conquest l that overwhelmed the Democracy of
 ancient Greece. So long as her peo- pie developed love for literature and art and were attracted by the pur- suit of true happiness only, she shed a halo cf glory throui hout the world, | but in the course of time there arose a naughty aristocracy, the exact counterpart of the trust plutocrat of America of today, inflated by grind | ing the masses, Illegally accumulated vast fortunes, and then by Tiotous | living and yoluptuous excesses sank with the nation into decay.
 Tt was not external barbaric strength that crushed the Roman cm- pire. It was the dry rot of social ana political corruption that destroyed the
 glory of Athens. It was the same
 disease that undermined the world wide power of Rome, and the ques-l ton frequently asked by friends of
 Republican forms of government is, | Why is not Rome today a fiourishing republic as she was in the days of
 her ascendancy and glory, at the time l immediately preceding Virgil and Hor- ace, Cicero and Tiberius Gracchus? ?"
 Briefly put, the answer is,'The arro- eance, excesses and corruption Of
 wealth. One historian says:
 "'The main source of strength among Romans of this period, was az rieplture The greatest generals and statesmen, after holding for time the helm of the republic, and gaining victories and triumphs. did not scr.I- pie to return to the blow and live in retirement. Every school boy knows how Cincinnatls was called from his blow to save Rome and after winning victories of the greatest magnitude, returned to the portals of peace and
 useful labor So long as the eagles of the imperial empire of Rome in their triumphant march northward to the German forests, southward to the sands of Africa, eastward beyond the
 Eiphrates, and westward to the coast of Britain, were borne by men who were free, the legions were invicible. and it was only when her standards were feebly clasped in the nerveless hands of mercenary troops and indus trial slaves that Rome tottered and fell before the onrush of the bafbarians
 of the north. and her shouting legends, laureled ensigns and golden eagles sank with her liberties into the dust, degraded and iITecoverable. Riches, power and magnificence drowned their love of home and country, revelling in luxury and debauchery, the empire crumbled to destruction.
 'sMy fellow Democrats: The rule of the people shall soon begin. Never again can predatory wealth buy the presidential election as was done ip 1896. Under the banner of our great leader from Nebraska, that leader of | linfiexible justice, stainless manhood
 and dauntless courage, fighting for principles which were enunciated by the immortal Jefferson. and perpetual
 ed by Hickory Jackson of heroic and blessed memory, principles which won