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Arizona republican., 1908-05-03
The End of an Aristoeracx.

Writing of the American negro, ''No race or class of men ever passed from slavery to freedom with record equally pure of revenge" say Carl Schurz in the May McClure's. New ertheless their absolute irresponsibility frequently provoked the whites to an almost insane state of irritability. In government records General Schurz has left an accurate and detailed his tory of those first days of the Recon Struction. In his memoirs running through McClure's he has added much picturesque incident. We quote:
 At Natchez I witnessed a signifi- cant spectacle. I was shown some large dwelling which before the Civil War had at certain seasons been occupied by families Of the plant ing arictocracy of that region. Most of those houses now looked deserted and uncared for shutters unhinged. windOw-panes broken. yards and gar dens covered with a rank growth of grass and weeds. In the front yard of one of the houses l observed some fresh stumps and stacks of cordwood and an old man busy cutting down with an aX a magnificent shadetree. There was something distinguished in his appearance that arrested my attention-fine features topped with long white locks; slender, delicate hands: clothes shabby. but of a cut de- noting that they had originally been
Arizona republican., 1908-05-03
Little James
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GA Discussion of a Biennial Peril
 Which has ust been Avoided) 0
 My Paw he sez to My Uncle Jim Last Mite after tn returns was in sez he. "Th' Wave of Reform which Is ty high today but it jist mist us. I'm glad at we don't haf to go through Skeer like that fer th' next two Geers. Tn nearer we got to tb' Eleckshun tn more I felt like l was Purishin' of a Consumin' Thirst like a Victim of tn Dessert. I wuddent go through tn Horrows of tn last three Weeks agn an run tn risk of bein' Turned into q Campbell which they say can go Ate Daze without nothin' 10 Drink"
 Uncle Jim he sez, But we only got two Yeers of Leese of Enjoy ment when We got to go over it all agin an Scrap to git fun bein' Turned into a Campbell agin. This is a Offal Life when feller can't see no Future but th' Bi-ennyal Chanst of gittin' showed into a Mennagery as one of its Cheef Attrackshuns which Furnishes Delite 10 Wondern SkOol Childern an Stood ents of Animil Histry. l feer its only a Queschun of time when we're agoin to git Transformed.
 'Th' Sloon is gittin' to be a. Institu- shun of tn Past. Its gittin' fewer an fewer every Yeer like tn Amerrycan Injun an tn Buffalo an it wont be many Yeers till Fokes who wants to know what AnniZer Bush Beer was Fl haf to look in tn Dickshunany which will say A Extinck Beveridge which usr to be much in Favor among tn Amurryan People Prevyous 70 tn Period. 1905-1s0S'"
 My Paw he seZ, My only Prair is at I may not live to see that Evle Day come. l aint Prain none to die but what I meen is at I hope at within My Span of Life of Four Scoar Yeers an Ten this Cattystrofy may not fall onto this here Nashun. hoap at tn time wont never come when Beers a back number till they git a better Beveridge. I hoap at tn Festif Coktale may Pervale till it has a wor- thy Successor an at in my time we wont haf to have Recoarse to tn Bootlaiger an tn Sightless Pig"
 LITTLE JAMES.
Arizona republican., 1908-05-03
4 TURNING OF STATES
EVIDENCE.

Tie complaint of Banker McDowell that he is a victim to the temptations which beset the Phoenix summer widower will not endear him to the married male population of this city. On the contrary he will be despised and hated as a squealer. There are obvious reasons why the husbands of Phoenix object to such publicity of the temptation whose existence MT. Me Dowell has so frankly disclosed.
 The excuse which he has offered for his downfall is apt to result in sudden changes in the plans of Phoenix wives who have been looking forward to pleasant months on the seashore in the mountains or in visits with distant friends. oblivious of the dangers to which the surviving Phoenix widower is left exposed. The railroads running out of Phoenix are also likely to feel the effect of Mir. McDowelrs revela- tions.
 It may be presumed that now that McDOwell has peached not a woman will leave Phoenix this summer unless she can be assured that every other woman goes and that none will be per mitted to enter until she returns, thus reducing the Phoenix summer wid- overs temptations to a minimum, or we may say to nil
 Why could no. that man have sui fered in silence? Why could he not have borne himself like a true sport and left the Phoenix husbands who have not yet been caught in the annual en- joyment Of those temptations which he found so pleasant though a trifle cost ly? Mir. Mcdowell by his weakness in thus accounting for his downfall for feited the sympathy of every Phoenix husband who had looked forward with pleasant anticipations to a few weeks or months of summer bereavement and sweet sorrow for the departed.
 Will the women of Phoenix thank MT McDowell for this hot glaring light he has thrown upon an already torrid Phoenix summer? We think not. On. the contrary Mcdowell has cut him. self off from all friendly relations with Phoenicians male and female. Abas McDowell.
Arizona republican., 1908-05-03
Slang.

To hear any one condemn slang brings to mind the story of a fond country mother who was very solicit ous that the well-bred manners of her little daughter, who had been scnt tO the city for her education. should ;,ot come into contamination with the ill- bred manners of certain city children of whom she had heard.
 Be very careful she wrote. that Mabel does not associate with children who use slang. which she has nevel' heard. Above all. do not allow her to sit next to the S- children. knew their father before he went to the city and, confidentially. they're q bum lot. the whole push of them.
 Commendable as may have been the desire of this country mother her let ter proved that she was not altogether unsophisticated. Then why fear for the sophistication of her child. which was bound to come sooner or later. If the words of President Woodrow Will son of Princeton have any weight
 The only class of English idinms the average young college woman is at home in is slang. and that's all she uses with gusto" And she is not the only one. for the virility of slang comes from its adaptability-it suits the word to the occasion.
 Slang may be correctly defined as unauthorized popular language which hangs like a fringe on the skirts. of reputable speech. It breathes the at mosphere of thought untrammeled by cOnventionalities; it is absolutely lee forcible. and vigorous. and as each year that passes marks an advcnce in our civilization. so also slang words often prove to be milestones by inc way
 Of the utility of recording these slang terms in a dictionary we have it on the authority of Dr. Isaac k. Funk that We should bear in mind that the slang words of one age are often the accepted literary words of a sue ceeding age, and it is the function of a dictionary to furnish the keys that will unlock all phrases and sentences He holds that it is to the commcc pee pie that We must look for tho enrichIng of our spoken language and that they regard any word as a good Uor1 If it clearly and forcibly conveys an iiea.- From The Talk of the Town" by r. H. Nivetelly in The Bohemian for May.
Arizona republican., 1908-05-03

made for person above the ordinary wood chopper. My companion. Fed eral captain. did not know him. accosted him with the question to whom that house belonged. It be- longs to me-. he said. l begged his pardon for asking the further question why he was cutting down that splen did shade tree. T must live he re- piled. with a sad smile. My sons fell in the war: all my servants have left me. sell fire wood to the steam boats passing by He swung his aX again to end the conversation. A warm word of sympathy was on my tongue hut I repressed it, q look at his dignified mien making me appre- bend that he might resent being pit jed, especially by one of the victorious enemy
Arizona republican., 1908-05-03

An old sailor who has been an in mate of Sailors Snug Harbor for many years paid visit to the ship Preussen few days ago T was anx- ious to see what a 4.700-ton sailing vessel looks like and how a ship over 400 feet differed from the old kind. Well. there was no great difference, except in size. Of course, we had to do with our hands much that js done on the new ship by steam. but I'd be at home on her in an hour. One thing puzzled me-what they called the fifth mast. and was glad I asked the skip per. for that's what the boys wanted to know when got back to the Har- bor. The spar between the mizzen and gigger mast they call after the name of the ship. and it's something like Light But if five-masters get com mon a new name for the extra spar will have to be found, and thatll be ono on us old boys"
Arizona republican., 1908-05-03

An Indiana man with an income of bigamy It wouldn't be necessary to
Arizona republican., 1908-05-03

call any witnesses to convince the court of his insanity.
Arizona republican., 1908-05-03

MT Carnegie confesses to an admir- alton for the Bohemian life. Bohem- ianism very often has a fascination for a man whose bank account is So large that there is no possibility of his ever experiencing its hardships.
Arizona republican., 1908-05-03

There are HOO people in society now in New York, according % the pronouncement of Frederick Townsend Martin. one would have suppos9 were at least a million.
Arizona republican., 1908-05-03

The theory of London physicians that excessive talking is productive of insanity is unquestionably true. though it sometimes destroys the reason of the takers friends instead of affecting the mind of the talker himself
Arizona republican., 1908-05-03
ENGINEERS AND MErALLUReIsTs

Q. A. King, Assayer X Metallurglst, aining Milling, Smelling and Irrigation Machinery IS Y. Second Ave. Phoenix. Ariz
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-12-20
PROGRESS OF WORKING MEN.

When we speak of the contrast be-
tween the rich and the poor We have
in mind at the latter extreme the
wage earners who own no property
and must subsist soley from
their daily earnings. which, though
generally assured. are sometimes
precarious. | am not saying that this
class of our citizens Is not better off
today than il has ever been in the
past. On the contrary | believe 1t is.
Certainly Karl Marx 5 predictions in
regard To the effect which capital and
machinery were TO produce on the
laboring classes have been falsified by
events. Not only have their wages
been increased, but the hours of la
hor have been reduced and the sani-
tary and other conditions greatly inn
proved. Let concrete example
give you the measure of the improve
ment. ! have just been reading the
memories of the Reverend Robert
Collyer, who has rendered high SER
vice to our country as a noble min
lister of religion for a great many
years. Mr.. Collyer was born in Eng
land in 1928. And at eight years OF
age, with many more children OF
about the same age. he was put 10
work in a factory for thirteen hours
day. five days in the week and
! eleven on Saturday. From six in the
morning till eight in the evening
with only an hour for dinner and
rest, he stood at a spinning frame and
did his work The weaker children he
says. were so crippled that the mem
DRY of their crooked limbs still cast
/ for him sinister light on the scrip
ture text, "the Lord regarded not the
| legs of man" What remarkable
Improvement Mr. Collyer has seen In
! the condition OF wage earners during
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-12-20
THE MANN OF EQUALITY.

| have no faith i'm the socialistic
schemes of state ownership of capital
and equal compensation for all. On
the other hand | recognize the lesson
of history that inequalities of for
tune. when they have become very
conspicuous and firmly established
under the aegis of existing insti-
tutions. lead to revolutions. A
reasonable equality of economic con-
ditions SCENE to be the lesson taught
by the experience OF the ancient
Greek republics as their history has
been interpreted for by the penetra
ting analysis and profound reflections
of Aristotle. There is one wise and
Just observation of human life which
the Greek drama contributed TO our
New Testament. That EVIL COM
munications corrupt good manners
was a maxim of Menader which Paul
cited to enforce his celebrations to
the Corinthens. Everyone recognizes
the truth and Importance of the
observation There is, however
another maxim of Menander which
I sometimes wish had also become a
part of the New Testament for it Is
a no less just reflection on human
life and an indisputable corrollary oil
the political experience of the Greek
republic. This other maxim of that
profound Greek observer who taught
us that "evil communications corrupt
good manners" is this: Choose
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-12-20
An Address Which Calls
For CaefuI COnSidera-
ton By All Thinkers

At the National Corn Elk
hibit at Omaha during last
week there were a number of
notable addresses. The ex-
position had attendance of
many thousands Of people in
the immense building provided
for the occasion. The address,
however, which stood forth
preeeminently and which has
since aroused a great deal of
comment throughout the eoun-
try was delivered by DR.. Jacob
Schurman, president of Cornell
University, on Wednesday. 1t
follows in full:
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-12-20
DelUes Into Socialism

Here is speech entering into the question of socialism
which commendabe fairness less than for thorough
with which the matter dcussed Deep study has been
given the question many phases by the speaker who
stands high in the world of letters It good matter for
every citizen with the welfare of his eowmen and his country
and his resde heart read and consider thoughuy
of the ables not the abst dsserta
ton on the subject that has been given the public
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-12-20
THE soCIALlsTIC REMEDY.

While | sympathiZe with the social
istic desire to improve the condition
of our unpropertied classes, | have
no faith in the socialists panacea.
That forced unjust. and unnatural
equality for which he stands would
destroy the genius. energy, and in
itiative OF the individuals to which
the progress of civilization is in the
last analysis due. And the socialist S
supposition that the state would
manage great industrial enterprises
as successfully as private individuals
is refuted every day by experience
and observation of the manner in
which in all countries business is
conducted by the political leaders
and managers who constitute govern
ment for the time being.
Nevertheless | am profoundly con-
vinced that a new and serious prob
lem is arising for us in consequence
of the increasing equalities of econ
omic conditions. And | suppose nc
one could deny that the cantrast be
tween the rich and the poor would
eonceiyably reach a point at which
there was no alternative but reyolut
ion That is TO say. the number oil
people in the country without pro
perty might become so large anc
wealth so concentrated that ii would
not seem to the voters worth while
10 perpetuate a form of government
under which such inequalities haC
been developed and were being main
tanned And We must not for {
moment lose sight of the fact tina
The right to hold private propert.
and the right To bequeath it. as wei
as the existence of the Republic itsel
depend entirely on the sentiment
of the voters of the country. TIL
majority must be reasonably satisfied
with our institutions. or our institut
ions will be modified TO meet thei
views and sentiments
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-12-20

- years since a boy of eight years of
age. when he went to work in that
Yorkshire cotton factory.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-12-20

OMAHA. Dec 16.-Dr. Jacob
Gould Shurman. President of Cornell
University Ithaca, ~ Y. took as his
subject The Problem of Great For
tunes" He said:
The majority of problems which
today interest American voters are
economic problems. 1t is economic
problems which are transforming. re-
casting and reereating our political
parties And herein our history is
but following the course of European
history. IF We look over Europe
says Mr.. bryce in his American
Commonwealth. We shall find
that the grounds on which parties
have been built and contests waged
since the beginning of free govern
ments have been in substance but
few. In the hostility of rich and
poor or of capital and labor, in the
fears of the HAYES and the desires
of the Havenots. we preceive the
most frequent ground, though il is
often disguised.
In the United States the situation
is intensified by the existence of great
and increasing inequalities of econ
omic conditions. 1t is this phenom-
enon which fosters socialism amongst
us. and the socialistie spirit is far
more widely diffused than the num-
Der of voters for the soeialistic ticket
would indicate. Many minds are
rendered susceptible to the allure
ments of socialism by resentment at
existing contrasts between our very
rich and our very poor. while that
equality which is the foundation of
the socialistic state has something
in it akin to the sense of justice and
fair treatment which is the deepest
element in the moral nature of men
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-12-20

equality and flee greed Ii this
maxim were generally accepted and to
measurable dree applied To the
business of life. we should not he
confronted with the grave economic
conditions that are continually ac-
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Arizona republican., 1908-09-17
INVASION OF NEW YORK
 BY CANDIDATE BRYAN
His Constant Comparison of the Two Na-
 tiOndI Platforms
ROOseVelts Good Words for Taft, He Regards as Worthless the Endorsement of Judgment Proof Political Bankrupt

Ravenna, N. Y. Sept. 16-Carrying his campaign into the Empire state. William J. Bryan in several speeches today on the way to Rochester, where he spoke tonight, explained the differ ences in the platforms of the demo- cratic and republican parties and se- Verely arraigned both Taft and Roose- welt. His first remarks were made at Cornwall where he spoke for two min utes. At Newberg, the home of ex- Governor Odell he denounced the re- publican platform and declared that he could call Mir. Taft as a witness against it. He spoke to a great crowd at Kingston The democratic candidate warned his hearers not to allow the re- publican leaders to scare them from support of the democrat ticket by threats of a panic. He referred to Mir. Taft as Mir. Roosevelts appointee. and said the presidents endorsement of Taft lis the endorsement of a political bankrupt against whom you cannot collect even if you tried"
 MT Bryan expressed his gratifica- tion that the east and the west were this year united and harmOniOusly fighting in defense of the democratic platform.
 Tt might be possible to win a dem ocratic victory" be declared. by the electoral votes cast in the south and in the states west of the Alleghenies but it will very much strengthen the hands of the executive and strengthen our party in congress if We canNWin a victory in which the south. east and west can claim a share. Our desire is" he said ito restore a permanent prosperity and a universal prosperity
 If we win it it will be a victory for the plain people of this country who are asking nothing at the hands of the governemnt but justice and who ought to be satisfied with nothing less than justice"
 He closed by telling the audience that everywhere in the United States the trend was in favor of the demo- cratic party and that in no state was the republican party gaining in either strength or in votes.
Arizona republican., 1908-09-17
Nomination of the State Ticket. With a
 Single Exception. by Reclamation
That Exception, Said Senator McCarren Was an Insult to Kings County Democrats Which Might be Resented.

Rochester, Sept. 1G.-NOminating all but one of its candidates by acclama- ton and adopting a platform which arraigns the administration Of Cover nor Hughes and pledges it's earnest support to the Denver platform and candidates, the democratic state con- vention today nominated as the head of its ticket for governor. the present lieutenant governor of the state. Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler. of Duchess coun- ty.
 All opposition to Mir. Chanler disap- peared after a conference of the state leaders which occupied a greater part Of last night. The ticket decided upon by the leaders. with one exception. seemed to meet the approval of all the delegates and the nominations Were made with great enthusiasm until the office of state engineer and surveyor was reached.
 The conference candidate for this of was Philip P. Farley. of Brooklyn an anti -McCarren man. Senator McCar- ren, amid the cheers of his supporters took the platform, ito resent an in- suit" He declared the nomination of Farley was agreed to without any re- gard to the Kings county delegation and was intended to embarrass them. He declared that he would always sup port the democrat nominees but would not hold himself responsible for the action of the people who felt them selves insulted. Farley won on roll call but a motion to make the nominal tion unanimous was lost by two or three scattering negatives.
 Judge Parker addressed the conven- ton and declared that Sherman the republican candidate for vice president had invaded Wall Street for political contribution in 1896 when chairman of the congressional committee. "Evi-
Arizona republican., 1908-09-17

dence," Judge Parker said, was not wanting of the purpose of the republi- can leaders to continue the plan of se- curing funds from those interested either in legisltaoni or non- enforce ment of the law" He quoted Taft as admitting that a great majority of the trusts were formed under republican rules.
 He recalled RooseVelt's inviting Har- riman to help raise campaign funds in 1904. The latter" he said, went to New York and procured $265,000. a quarter of a million which he scattered over New York for practical uses by practical men" Parker declared that the election of Bryan and Kern would go far toward securing this underlying and most important of all many need ed reforms.
 Judge Parker was liberally applaud ed throughout his speech. at the con- clusion of which the committee on res olutions reported.
 On the call of the roll for nomina- tions for governor the only name plac- ed before the delegates was that of Lieutenant Governor Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, and the nomination was made by exclamation
 John A. Dix of Washington county was nominated without opposition for lieutenant governor.
 Secretary of State John s. Whalen, Comptroller John H. McGlynn and State Treasurer Julius Hauser were renominated by exclamation. George D. nominated for attorney general by ac- clamatiOn.
 Albert Haight of Erie county was nominated for associate justice of the court of appeals. Judge Haight is also the republican nominee.
 For state engineer and surveyor,