Arizona republican., 1910-02-25
4 WoIfvilIe Revelation

newest and at the same time, one of the best of the. cheaper publica- tions, in the March number introduces with some flourish and considerable evidence of pride series of articles on the startling subject: "A Betrayal of the Nation" Turning to the open ing chapters with due curiosity, but with such suppression of excitement as proper poise requires, we have to confess disappointment There is no prospect whatever that the United States senate will be called upon to sidetrack our statehood bill and re- solve itself into a court of high trea- son under the provisions of the fed eral constitution for the trial at its bar of a red handed traitor or trait ors. While the masses of us have been going about our business, there have been no plottings for the over throw of the republic, no gunpowder plots, nor any scheme of secession
 
 caught trying to sell the secret plans of our coast Qualifications, the details of constructing our great guns. or the formula of the navy's favorite ex plosive There is to be no replica of the Dreyfus case.
 Quite as serious. however. as case of criminal treason are the charges which we find formulated. In brief William H. Taft, president of the United States. is portrayed as be traying" the nation and "betraying" Theodore Roosevelt. grave propo- sition. truly. It becomes of interest at once to know who is the prescott ing witness. We find that the wit ness, and the author of the indictment as well. is MT, Alfred Henry Lewis
 The instant conclusion is that Pearson's Magazine made good se- lection. No better man for the job-could have been chosen. Mir. Lewis facile typewriter is at the service of the highest bidder He is at home in writing fiction, and it is all one to him whether it is frankly decorated with the proper title or is called his tory. He has written some of the best stories-and some of the most unreliable histories-in contemporary English For and in consideration of a certain sum to him in hand paid. he wrote a book in deification of Rich ard Croker, the most corrupt gentle man that ever bossed Tammany Hall and the city of New York. Later on, and doubtless for equally satisfac- tory reasons. he in the course of his business and in another book roasted Mir Croker to a deliciously brown turn. Mir Lewis can take an atom of truth-nay. the ultimate unit of the atom which is the electron-and weave thereabout serious essay or humorous story which runneth into many chapters His inimitable ''Wolfyille" stories have charmed readers in all languages. In these stories he has created an Arizona which never existed; but in literature it is there to stay. Bret Harte at his best in writing of mythical California never did anything so good as Lewis Arizona "Wolfville" stories. He was in the territory long enough to learn of few frontier incidents at Florence, at Tucson, at Fort Bowie and other places. and about the dull details of desert horse race he can fashion the gar merits of a story which charms from end to end. and leaves the reader in a state of unqualified admiration for the infinite fund of humor with which the writer is gifted.
 Therefore. for the job of showing ! that William H. Taft is a traitor to the country and to his friend, 1 Theodore Roosevelt, Pearsons Mag 1
  azine could not have more logical selection than MT. Alfred Henry | Lewis.
 Our admiration for Mir. Lewis tal- i ents is not diminished by reading | the March installment of his under taking. Through page after page we follow his well turned sentences. his original adiectives. and his original conclusions. woven around his state ,ments of fact From the facts he | shows in thirty-nine different ways that MT. Taft is a traitor. What | are the facts related by MT. Lewis? our readers may ask. We hasten to state them in all their glaring un- doing of MT. Taft:
 A few days before he became pres ident Mir. Taft invited the Bellamy Storers to dinner Che Storers were