Bisbee daily review., 1910-10-07

ing ana conuefnhlns tne rdifoaus' which would mean that they hereaf. ter would be run like the postofiice department, through government em- ployees. which would practically place the executive in command of the ar my, and navy and the transportation of the country upon which the life of the great cities depends from day to day.
 What. with that prospect before them, will the capital class do in the near future?
 Will it not be natural for them to call in what they can as rapidly as they can?
 If they do, what then will be the business state of the country within six months?
 When he was arraigned before the Saratoga convention on Tuesday, in an absolutely truthful address, the mob hissed the speaker down.
 What can be hoped for when peo- pie cease to reflect, and became a bowling mob?
 We doubt whether, were the regu- lar democrats and republicans in New York state to combine in No vember, they could defeat the Roose- welt candidate
 Fortunately the presidential cleo ton is yet two years off, and men will have time to gather their wits together by that time.
 There was a time when we be- iieved that Colonel Roosevelt was an gan to Goubt when he was proved an liar. especially in the TiH-  honest and patriotic man. We be his vanity. egotism and ambitions man-Chandler incident,
 We believe him now to be the most dangerous man that has ever been in public life in the United States, unless it shall become evil dent to all in the near future that have overthrown a naturally cratic mind.
 We believe that this was all plan ned before he left on his African hunting trip: that the knowledge Of it was what prompted the insolence of Pinchot, which made it necessary to dismiss him from office. We be lieve that he was behind the insurg- ent movement; that had 1t not been the tariff there would have been some other cry invented.
 When, Tn the early days Of the re- public. a crisis was pending. Daniel Webster said: "On the great ques- .ions which occupy us, we all look for some decisive movement of pub lie opinion. As I wish that move ment 10 be free. intelligent and un- biased, the true manifestation Of the public will, I desire to prepare the country for another appeal, which I preceiye is about to be made to popu- lar prejudice, another attempt to obscure all distinct views of the pub lie good, to oyerwhelm all patriot ism and all enlightened self-interest. by loud cries against false danger and by exciting the passions of one class against another"
 Do not these words apply as well now as they did four-score years ago. Further on in the same speech he said that he would not believe the people of the United States capable of being effectually deluded, cajoled and driven about in herds by such iabominable frauds as this
 If they shall sink to that point; if they so far cease to be men. think ing men, intelligent men. as to yield to such pretenses and such clamor. they will be slaves already: slaves to their own passions, slaves to the fraud and knavery of pretended friends; they will deserve to be blot ted out of all the records of free dom; they ought not to dishonor the cause of self-government. by attempt ing any longer to exercise 1t; they ought to keep their unworthy hands entirely oil from the cause of re- publican liberty, if they are capable of being the victims of artdhces so .A.,to-r of t~fcHs oa r<afa ao fhyon6-