Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-08
OUR STRUGGLE FOR POSE

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 Specuating with reference to Mr. Taft's re- ported "astonishment' at continued "denun ciation" anent 'publc lands, forests, mines, and water powers, y coupled with so little of sug gestion as to constructive" legislation, and the absence of "acts" rather than declarations, :" the New York Evening Post says;
 ''Such a nervous overstrain in politics
 as we have gone through will long leave it's
 mark upon our forms of speech. We shall
 continue to think m hundreds of millions,
 to start in alright at conspiracies, to cry
 aloud and spare not even if we have notl-
 ing practical to propose. With these man
 ners of lberty,' as French writer calls
 them, our rulers will have to get on as best
 they can"
 If there is one immediate danger ahead for Mir. Taft's administration, we should say 1t lies in vague and as yet feebly developed fear among the people that he may strive to steer the ship of state through waters too calm and se rene. It is rather generally agreed that it is high time to hark back to conservatism in a measure; that the big business enterprises, even the octupus, mayhap have been waloped sufi- ciently for the time being, and that a quieter and more placid era is not undesirable. But we cannot sail out of the hghtnings and the gales into sunshine and untroubled waters all at once so- to speak. The precipitate cessation of the laundering and the bowling of the winds, and the sudden disappearance of the floating wreck age and all of that will tend to disconcert if we are not very careful.
 Thus far the adverse critic of the Taft admin istration is hard to pin down to specifications and details. He views with alarm without say ing particularly what he is looking at The truth is, he hardly knows. He merely fears something; he has 'presentiment" of evil. He is unable to believe immediately that good gov ernment can be maintained without lot of fireworks and loud noises. He will not say pos itvely that Mr. Tafts administration has done many things that it ought not to have done, but he is frightfully apprehensive that it may.
 It Is evident that we shall have some dillicul- ty recovering poise and equilibrium i'll this country The mere fact that we have entered upon more peaceful ways is sufficient to alarm the more nervous of our patriotic contingent Because we would eat at all of the tree of con servatisnl-whereat We have browsed before, if sometimes not wisely, but too well, indeed we would gorge ourselves to inactivity and laziness again. It does not necessarily follow, of course but our distress of mind will out for the mo ment, nevertheless.
 And so we are not yet through with ultra rad realism in its every aspect There is no real ev- dence at hand that the Taft administration is to be reactionary; but so long as suspicion may be cast upon it, the agitators will remain more OF less conspicuous in the public eye. The people at large are not to be led to condemn because they may be made to imagine that vain things may come to pass But the great applause is not to be e pected, nevertheless, until the Taft administration makes it emphaticay and un- answerably plain that it is not going backward that it is on the contrary, going forward, if along less spectacular lines.
 And until that last mentioned period shall have arrived, occasional "back from Elba' and kindred outbreaks may be expected.