Arizona republican., 1911-10-27


 day America had no literature, none of the arts, and few of the sciences There was not a steel plant in the country, not a coke oven, no mines, not a smelter, and the telephone, the handmaiden of present day business, was not to come into existence for sixty seven years after he had closed his term as president. He knew absolutely nothing of the problems of the present day-he could know nOth- ing of them because they did not ex- ist.
 Yet We are told we must adopt the ideas of Thomas Jefferson, with out the abatement of one jot or little, or we are not progressive" Could there be a greater absurdity?
 Of course our democratic friends will say they refer to Jefferson's ideas of government. But here they make a greater blunder than ever.
 The cardinal doctrine of Jefferson's statesmanship was the utter and ab- solute divorcement of government from the affairs of private life. It was his favorite maxim that govern ment is a necessary evil-that the best government is that which gov erns least.
 Now, what is the democratic at titude at the present day on that proposition?
 The democratic party. and especial ly the democratic party of Arizona, would make government the trustees of the peoples private affairs. Its creed is the creed of paternalism. It believes everything and everybody should be regulated by law.
 The democratic party believed that when it adopted the greenback pro- paganda.
 And wasn't it the republican party that saved the country from that fetich?
 Democracy believed in the omnipo- tence of human laws when it es- poused the cause of free silver when it proposed to make all of us rich by making the government hints work over time. It actually thought ii could create money-not recognizing the fact that for every dollar the gov ernment coins there must be an equivalent somewhere of a dollars worth of work
 And if history is to be believed 1t was the republican party that saved the country from the silver craze. Was that, or was it not, an ex- ample of progressivism?
 the vicious spells system. The re- publican party established and ex- tended the merit system. Everybody knows that that system has saved the people millions of dollars, and has in creased the efficiency of the govern ment a hundred fold.
 Which party was the party of progressivism there?
 It was under republican rule that the great west has been developed It was under republican rule that the transcontinental railway lines have been established. Republicanism killed slavery; it gave us our mone- tary system instead or the wild cat currency that was a treasured heir loom of the democratic party; it made us respected in every quarter of the globe; it built up our vast system of industries in which unnumbered mil- lions of people find employment; it is digging the Panama canal; and for a half century it has written practi- cally every law under which the pro- gress of this country has been made possible.
 Do these things stand for progress ivism or for reaction? Popular election of senators is one of the things which modernism de- mands That proposition was killed by Senator Bristow of Kansas. one of the devotees of the spurious pro- gressivism of Bourne and La Toilette Read any Arizona insurgent paper and you will find it filled with glow | ing dissertations on the progress and prosperity of this territory. Do you know that that progress and prosperity have been accomplished under republican rule? The government of Arizona has nearly always been administered by republicans.
 A testimonial to the progress of Ari- zona is testimonial to the progress