Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-27

 bulk of the land of the continent and of its resources has passed out of federal control long ago It is the states which must determine by their policy whether the natural resourc- es of the country gre to be exhaust cd or renewed. wasted O. conserved, and the matter will require all the more careful craftsmanship and planning because it will touch life very intimately at many points.
 In short. politics is not a matter of broadly or !lined plans. 1t is ysry t1te-ssy1 ExzsEg and nowhere will leqseis<'vs =zs sss6skon have to be more carefully and judiciously plan ned than within the several states. Their welfare and development are in their own hands. It is well for the stimulation of their people that it should be so. They can depend uT. on no one but themselves to effect their emancipation from conditions which are onerous to them. Neces sity will force upon them an active role of reform and readjustment. and we may look forward with confi- dence to a time of general stimula- ton when state will follow state in handsome emulation in the effort to serve the life of the people in its detail as advantageously and as promptly as possible.
 Party Lines Dinner.
 l. is probable that the partial ob- liberation of party lines so common. ly remarked upon today is in part due to this increased and increasing activity of the states. The questions which affect their internal interests do not often square with the dues tions which divide national parties from one another. It is difficult to translate the particular interests of an individual state and it's people into terms which sound like a dem ocratc platform as distinguished from a republican platform. Men are beginning to realize that patriot- ic endeavor in these fields is not a matter of paTtisanship. but a matter of intelligent information. and that it requires kind of action from which 1t is possible to shut out party feeling altogether. Civic activity is hard sometimes to translate into party terms, and what is interesting men in America nowadays more than ever before is the detail Of civic ] duty. They are more and more dis playing their anxiety to comprehend ] the needs of the communities in ' which they live and to meet those ' needs in as candid and unselfish a way as possible. I say "unselfish. ] and yet it is not altogether a matter ! Of unselfishness, either. The best in- dtcation Ge enlightenment in any | community is that its business men | should begin to realize that nothing 1 benefits them individually so much as the uniform and equitable devel ] opment of the communities in which ] they live and of the whole country What will bring us ont into a new day, if anything will. is the growing ] perception that the common inter est is synonymous with individual ! interest; that a free. comfortable happy. energetic people are the best capital that country can possess and that only those things which stimulate the general body Of tho people and Go them justice will make business in the narrow sense truly ] prosperous and profitable.
 Let Us congratulate ourselves that now in each state in turn men art addressing themselves to new quest; they are seeking the common term of their life, that is 10 say the general interest, in the conscious ness that when they have discovered 1t and have by common counsel go together, in common endeavor they have at last discoyere5 the best wal to serve themselves as we'll as tho best way to serve the country. Mod ern business is upon a great ana public scale. Modern business me1 are engaged in nothing less than tn, states manship of econonric deyelc~. ment, and only as they address themselves to the matter in the spir it Of statesmen will they really achieve the large ends at which thel are aiming.