Bisbee daily review., 1910-08-21

the few, we have many histories, tribal and monarchic. to assure us; and still the same histories-suppli- mented in our own country by stead fly accommodating experience-alsoa as- sures us that in government by the many, there is a constant. and more or less of a successful struggle by the few. to gain and to keep ascend eAcy over the many.
 We behold in the United States to- day little other than a contest for place and pelf on the part of rival set of professional politicians wear ing different uniforms. Scarcely one in a hundred of these have any real Not infrequently they al ternate from camp to camp. There apears no permanent cure for such a state of things. There are alleviants. however. Now and then public opin- ion. either from caprice. or actually worn out by oficial imbecility. or imposition, rises on it's hind legs and
 kicks the stuffing out of the party in
 power. For at least a while. this
 does have a tendency to bring the
 boys to a realizing sense. as 1t were. and induce them to eat humble pie a lick or two.
 Truly. Dr Elliot of Harvard hit the nail on the head when he declared the other day that the need of the time is independence and publicity
 Theoretically. people rule. In prac- tice, things are done by few gath cred together inside of lock and key. too often in a darkened chamber.
 Predatory wealth struggles to keep it's footing and to hold its own. Az gregated capital is confused with pre- datory wealth. The three coordinate branches of our triple scheme of government are at loggerheads, the executive seeking the power of the autocrat, the congress weakly rebel iious. the rank and file running loose like horses across a meadow. Inevi- tahly the corrupt political manipula- tors see their opportunity: inevitably the corrupt leaders of graft see theirs. Amid the clash and chaos socialism thinks it has a chance. while thhe leaders of te people. and the would-be leaders of the people of varying degrees of honest zeal and good intention-truckle to every yagrant fancy of the hour. sure-foot- ed stability and clear sighted states for the most part invisible. Behold for proof. the conditions in Illinois and New York, to
 ook nowhere else.
 The country at large is suffering rom an overdose of partyism-the Domination Of one party-its leaders come to believe that they own the earth and have the world in a sling. Yet, to upright onlookers. this con lition is at once laughable and pitt able. It is the simple truth to say hat the plight in which they find themselves is unexampled. for, if ever a party organism in this or any country showed itself to greater dis advantage than the republican party at the present moment. we do not recall it. The inner lights of truth and faith, of wisdom and courage, seem to have gone out of its leader ship. There may be some reminis- cent hatred having a certain sincerity In an applicable, like Heyburn. rep the dregs Of sectionalism migrated from Hell-for-Sartin to the bad lands of Idaho: but the spirit of Payne is the spirit of Platt. the spir- it of Dalzen is the spirit of Quay the spirit of sharpers, not the spirit Of statesman-whilst the speaker of the house-emulating a great historic parsonage of the same Christian nom- enclature-sits iron-clad in the Rock CT, at Danville and quizically mur- murs he's hard hearted. sir. tough and devilish sly"
 Nothing but money, big money. will save US" says the boss of prac- ;ical politics, ito hell with the pub Iicity bill-it isn't worth the paper It is printed on," which reminds me