The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1908-01-30

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from the speech:
81 believe myself to be as con
servative as any one within This com
pany. belieye that in connection
with personal liberty, the RIGHT o.
personal property is the basis of al
our material progress in the develop
ment of mankind and that an,
change in our political system which
lmpalrs the right of private propert,
and materially diminishes the motive
for the accumulation of capital b,
the individual is blow at our whole
civilization.
But no one can have been an OBJ
server of the operation of the exer
else of the right of property and the
accumulation of capital and its use
In business by the individual, without
seeing that there are certain limita
tlons upon the methods in the use Of
capital, and the exercise of the right
OF property, that are indispensable tc
prevent the absolute control of the
whole financial system of the country
passing to small oligarchy of in
dividuals.
If the abuses of monopoly and
discrimination can. not be restrained:
II the concentration of power made
possible by such abuses continues and
increases, and it is made manifest
that under the system of Individual
ism and private property the tyranny
and oppression of an oligarchy of
wealth can not be avoided, then
socialism will triumph and the in
stitution of private property will
perish.
1.-The administration has been thus
Tar successful in showing that dam
gers from individualism can be eff
fectively regulated and that abuses
In the exercise of private property
can be restrained. Thus great con-
sentative victory has been won and
the coming of socialism has been
stayed
SIN these words Judge Taft has
taken a position which the timid
candidates are unanimous in permit
ting him to occupy alone.
There is no occasion for surprise,
therefore, that President Roosevelt,
who has the welfare of the republic
SO dearly at heart, is intellectually
for Taft as the next president of the
United States.
GAS to Arizona, we can at best have
but small voice in the national con-
vention. We have been deprived of
four delegates by the national COM
mittee. As against six delegates in
former conventions, we shall have
but two at Chicago. We have lost
four delegates, because certain candi-
dates-Fairbanks, Foraker, Cannon
and Knox-felt assured that the ter
ritories would be with the national
administration for Taft, and in an
unguarded moment they were able,
through cunning management in the
national committee, to cut Arizona's
representation to two delegates,
And quite shrewdly they guarded
against the seating of any additional
delegates, by providing in the official
call that if we send more than two. a
contest shall be deemed to exist-the
result of which would be, of course,
one-third of vote for each if we
send six delegates and each of them
is seated.
I'm robbing the republican party of |
Arizona of four votes in the Chicago |
convention, an outrage has been COM
nitted against the territory, which
every true republican In Arizona will |
resent. Still, 1 believe, it is stated
lere and there that we owe all kinds
II gratitude to the candidates who
ire SO solicitous for our welfare that
heir managers deliberately perpe-
rated this outrage upon us.
"As 1 have said, We can have but
little influence in a national conven-
ion, at best. Nevertheless, once in
very four years, we do have some
hing to say in national affairs, bv
elping to nominate the president; !
nd although We have but two dele I
ates this year, those delegates will |
ave weight in the nation and in the 7
onvention if it shall be known be- I
orehand that they represent a de- I
mite sentiment of the republicans of V
ais territory-if it shall be made ! I
nown that Arizona has a choice
mong the candidates. There is but
ne way, however, for us to have any
al voice the contest, and that is =
= instructing our delegates. Ari- I
ma is called at the foot of the list. S
ter all the states; and invariably, /
republican conventions, where a =
aJority suffices to nominate lit re- "
lires two-thirds in democratic con- 5
the result is reached and d
is oyer but the shouting, before
e formal call of Arizona is made.
"lf we have choice-and unques-
'nably the choice of Arizona repub-
ans is Taft-why should we not
We the manhood and courage to ex-
ess that choice, by instrUcting our
legates? Unless delegates are in
-ucted, nobody can say what are the
ailments of the people who send
EN-, and the choice of the conven-
m depends upon the caprice of
sses and the personal views or the
interests OF delegates. By
.tructing delegates to a national
lvention, the representative form
government is carried to a logical
ult. By failing to instruct. the