Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-06-24

mined only to be true to the prncIples which brought the party into existence and to the spirit which has inspired it from i,s birth.
 We faced scccssi"n rather than as sent to the extension of slavery. Rath CT than submit to secession we took ur the dread burden of civil war. But few years ago we permitted thousands of republicans to leave us, thereby i'm pcriling our political power. rather than abandon the gold standard and plunge foe country nto disaster and 1 ii .houor.
 1 True in Great Crisis.
 ! Iu these latest wears. as iu inc most rcmotc.' we have been true 'o our ira. ditinn. In the process of development a point was reached where the country was confronted i, situation moro pcrilou. than any i ha, ever faced "N ccpi in inc Civil War and we rcpubli cans were. therefore. obliged 10 deal ! with problems of he most complex and l difficult charactcr
 To our honor hc it said. W" have moi .hruuk from inc task Much as been done much. no doubt. still remains to ! do but the great underlying princi' | plcs have been established and upon 'h,m we can build. as necessity arises. | carefully and deliberately.
 have spoken of the seriousness of ,h. situation with which the country was confronted. lis gravity can hard lv he over estimated. I' grew ont or conditions and was the result of forces b,vond th. control of men. Scicnc" and invention. inc two great factors in this situation. have not only altered radically. human environment and our relations to naturr. but. in their appli. cation, they have rcvolutionizcd econo' mic conditions. These changed ccono' mic conditions have. in turn. affected profoundly society aud politics. They have led, among other things, Co com hina,ons of capital and labor on a scale and with a power never before witnessed. They have opened the way to accumulatious of wealth in masses beyond the dreams of avaricc and ncv. CT before contemplated by men.
 The Menace of Wealth.
 IL is the huge size of private for tunes, the vast extent and power of modern combinations of capital, made possible by present conditions, which have brought upon us. in these later years, problems portentious in their possibilities, and threatening. not only our social and political welfare. but even our personal freedom, if they are not boldly met and wisely solved.
 The great body of the American peo pie. neither very rich nor very poor. the honest, the thrifty. the hardwork- ing, the men and women wno earn and save, have no has. envy-no fanatic hatred of wealth, whether individual or corporate, if it has been honestly gained and is wisely and generously employed with sense of responsiNi fly io the public. But this great body of oar people. by habit and instinct alike, wisely conservative. these peo. pie, who are the bone and sinew of our country and upon whom its fortunes and its safety rest, began to observe, with deep alarm. the recent manifesto. tions of the new economic conditions. More and more they came to believe that these vast fortunes and these huge combinations of capital were formed and built up by tortuous and dishonest means and through a cynical disregard of the very laws which the mass of the people were compelled to obey. They began to fear that political power was being reft from their hands and put into the possession of tne money hold CTS. that their dearest rights were in danger, that their hopes of success and advancement were cut of by business systems which they could not under. stand hut by which the individual was sacrificed and held down.
 ominous Unrest Apparent.
 To those who looked beneath the surface an ominous unrest was appar. ent. The violent counsels of violen, men, who aimed at the destruction of property and the overthrow of law began to be heard and hardened to- The great order loving, industrious masses of the American people turned away from these advocates of violence but, at the same time. demanded that their government should give them, in lawful and reasonable ways, the pro lection to which they were entitled against the dangers they justly appre hcndcd
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