Bisbee daily review., 1914-02-22
PERKINS: HIS NOTIONS.


 Here Is highly fantastic notion of American nstItu. tlons acquired by George w. Perkins of Bull Moose fame and recorded by the New York World:
 We have succeeded with the experiment of a gov
 on this hemisphere on the. centralized and
 cooperative plan reducing destructive competition to
 minimum, and that the necessities and best
 interests of our people require that least try
 to do business somewhat similar plan, our
 statesmen are putting every possible obstacle they
 in our way
 The only centralized and cooperative plan of gov ernment that we know anything about in the United States exists fin the Socialist and Progressive platforms The only government that the American people have had actual experience with is neither centralized nor coop eratiye. It Is de-centraized and indvidualistic.
 It starts with the town and local sefgovernment. Out of this is developed system State government with all It's power defined Those powers not defined are reserved to the people of the State governments developed Federal government of enumerated and delegated powers Those powers mot expressly dele gated are reserved to the States and to the people
 Instead of the centralized and cooperative govern ment which exists in Mir Perkins imagination. We have a highly competitive government
 Mir Perkins dream of government a dream of Prus- sian bureaucracy That Is what he when he gor hes the capitalization and cooperation of Germany Prussian bureaucracy has many excellent qualities. peciay fin the way of cashregister efficiency. but never be of the people by the people and for the people. Should the RoosevetPerkins theorg get the American in its clutches. free institutions will have to shut shop, They cannot sur vye in that atmosphere and whenever the people of the United States deliberately accept such government they will have lost their fitness for freedom.
 This Is issue that most Republicans. except few courageous lenders like Mir Taft deliberately dodge Job E. Hedges said in his Buffalo speech that "the diff ferences exist the rank file of the publican and Progressive parties not great as leaders try make them appear" If this be true. then the rank and file of neither party understands its professed principles those of the other.
 Senator Borah at the Lincoln Day dinner of the Re publican Club pleaded platform that would express the genuine convictions of majority of the party He careful however not to define these genuine con victions. If he will read Mir Perkins speech which is coherent expression of the purposes of Roosevelt ism he will find that the Republican party in its history and traditions is removed from Rooseyeltism from calhounism. Would Senator Borah accept the Perkins speech a definition of Repubcanism'
 There is the rrepressble conflict, providing both fac tions sincere and honest If they sincere and honest, there is conflict whatever It is all the man euverng of two of managing politicians intent on jobbing each other.
 We shall know more about that when we know def intely whether Theodore Roosevelt ready to sell out to the Republicans in return for the Republican nomna ton for President and whether the Republicans will ing sell Theodore Roosevelt in for the Progressive That the test of principle if prin oiple there be.