Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1910-06-11

| greatest crisis in years as to the sta
! bility of constitutional government now
! confronts the British people. The re-
| cent death of King Edward for few
| DAYS softened the feelings of the peo-
pie toward the nobility. but the contest
appears now to be on to the finish
I May we not predict that liberty and
! equality will win for the Great Ruler
! always favors the side that is just
1T was the same spirit that is striv-
ing for justice and right in England
today that caused Englishmen in the
| american colonies TO throw the cargo
of tea overheard in Boston harbor and
/ brought together the delegates in con-
vention in Liberty hall in Philadelphia,
from whose deliberations came forth
! that most famous of all documents, the
! Declaration of Independence. The de-
| sire for liberty and the right &c govern
! themselves as their own consciences
/ dictated made soldiers and patriots of
! all of the men of the thirteen colonies.
IL was this spirit that made famous
/ George Washington, Thomas Jefferson.
John Adams, Patrick Henry and Ben
| jamin Franklin, a galaxy of famous
men whose superiorS no age of the
/ worlds history has produced. II took
| years of terrible war and self denial
! to prove to the mother country that
| the principles enunciated in that i'm
! mortal declaration were true.
I'm 1897 again the delegates from the
now thirteen states met in Philadelphia
| and through their united efforts was
produced the Magma Charta of Ameri-
| can liberties, the Constitution of the
! United States. 1t is the consensus of
! opinion of all writer's on intentional
| law that the Constitution of the United
| States is the most simple, the most
! just, and the most comprehensive code
/ of principles ever brought forth for
the government of a ration in the en-
tire history of civilized government.
For half a century the principles Of
the equality of all men were apparent
! ly adhered to, vet during all this time
/ the right and practice of human slav-
cry was agitating the nation Finally
| in 1860 with the election of Abraham
| Lincoln To the presidency the issue
! came To a head. Civil war broke out
! between the north and south sections
! of our country. Then for five years
succeeding was waged the greatest
| struggle for human liberty that any
constitutional government has ever
endured. with the success of the
north and the PRONUNCIATION OF Abra
ham Lincoln's emancipation proclama
ton the principles of the right to life
and liberty were forever established
With the final settlement of the vexing
question of slavery, ii was presumed
that for all time the liberty OF its citi-
zens would be guaranteed and civic
righteousness would prevail.
From the close of the civil war I'M
til now our country has gone forward
by bounds in the increase in popula-
ton and wealth. Through this very
marked advancement new economical
and national problems have presented
themselves The most perplexing one
has been Occasioned by the great
strides made in mechanical advance
ment. In the past twenty-five years
America has made more advancement
in this line than in all of the former
years from national independence. To
secure capital sufficient TO operate
these utilities il became necessary to
form large corporations. From the I'M
lawful combinations OF these corpora
tons great trusts have been organized.
whose stockholders have buiIded for
themselves immense fortunes and
evolved an aristocracy as exclusive as
that OF monarchial Europe
"A trust, if operated for the good of
ALL is of itself not iniquitous. as il
furnishes means for the accomplish
ment of the ends that under the old
way of each small operator for him
self were never attainable. But with
the assumption of power that does
come from large capitalization the
trusts are driving the small operator
from business by the means of bribery,
underselling or through the purchase
of officials OF state and nation. The
Standard Oil company, the greatest of
all trusts, is an Illustration OF the
wrongful ends employed to stIfle COM
petition in business. The stockhold-
ers of this corporation absolutely con-
troll the output and selling price of all
the petroleum used on this continent: =
they own the largest banking houses
of the nation and in a large meaure
dictate the financial policies of the ma
tional government. They nave ac-
quired the control of the majority of
railroads and defy the authority of our
interstate commerce commission.
rs it any wonder. then, that the la
boring men are forming trusts, or
unions, as they call them, to combat
the power of the money barons? One
trust is as detrimental to good citizen
ship, however. as the other. The money
trusts are corrupting our executive
and legislative officers, and even in
some cases have secured control of |
our courts. while the unions are con-
stantly tying up mail trains. great |
manufacturing enterprises and running |
important financial operations through |
their constant strikes The money |
trusts produce a class of naughty men, !
who have no interest in national af- |
fairs beyond their own selfish gain. |
while the labor trusts breed socialists. |
who parade the streets of our great |
cities with the red flag of anarchy and |
trail the Stars and Stripes in the dust.
Fortunately for the stability of this |
nation tendency toward better feel
ing between the two classes of citizens
has arisen. This awakening is due to
the preaching and working of such |
patriotic citizens as ex-President I
Roosevelt. Governos Folk and Govern
or Hughes. Judge Lindsay, Senators
Cummins and LaFollette, Mr.. Bryan
and many other well known national
leaders