Bisbee daily review., 1916-05-17

SCl tilOSt dlC tllt nations like those men are the na- tions that are going to serve the world and save it. There never was a time in the history of the world when character, just sheer character all by itself, told more than it does now
 "A friend of mine says that every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells. The mischief of it is when all they do is swell and not burst. If they would only swell to the point where you might insert a pin and let out the gases. it would be great delight. I do not know any pastime that would be more diverting excepting that the gases are probably poisoned, so that we would have to stand from under But the men who grow, the men who think better aI year after they are put in office than: hey thought when they were put ine office. are the balance wheel of the whole thing. They are the ballast that enables the craft to carry sail and to make port in the long run, no matter what the weather is.
 No Light Ordeal
 ''So I have come willing to make his narrative of experience to you. I have come through the fire since I talked to you last. Whether the met al is purer than it was, God only '5nows, but the fire has been there, the fire has penetrated every part of it. and if l may believe my thoughts. nave less partisan feeling, more i'm patience of party maneuvers, more en thusiasm for the right thing, no mat ,er whom il hurts, than I ever had be- fore in my life. And I have some thing that it is no doubt dangerous to have. but that I cannot help having ! have profound intellectual contempt for men who cannot see the signs of the times. 1 have to deal with some men who know no more of the modern processes of politics than if they were living in the eighteenth century and for them | have profound and com prehensive intellectual contempt They are blind They are hopelessly blind; and the worst of it is I have tc gpend hours of my time talking to them when know before I start, a. much as if I had finished, that it is absolutely useless to talk to them.
 You will remember the red queen in Alice in Wonderland or Allie, Through the Looking Glass'-I forge which, it has been so long since ) read them-who takes Alice by tho hand and they rush along at a grea pace and then when they stop Alic' locke around and says, but We arc just where we were when we started. Yes, says the red queen, you hay, 10 run twice as fast as that to get any where else
 'Standpats Hopeless
 That is also true, gentlemen, o the world and of affairs. You have got to run fast to stay where you arr and in order to get anywhere yol have got to run twice as fast as that That is what people do not realize That is the mischief of these hopeless dams again the stream known as req. tionaries and standpatters, and othe other words of obliquy. That is wha is the matter with them; they are no even staying where they were. They are sinking further and further bacl in what will some time comfortabl, close over their heads as the blacl waters of oblivion. l sometimes i'm agine that see their heads goin; aown, and 1 am not inclined even tt throw them life preserver.
 The sooner they disappear, the bel ter. We need their places for people who are awaks and we particularly need TOW. gentlemen, men who vii divest themselves of party passions and of personal preferences and vii try to think in the terms of America If man describes to me in any othel than those terms, l am not sure O aim. and l love the fellow that come into my office sometimes and says Mir. President. l am an American, their hearts are right, their instinc true. they are going in the right di rection, and will take the right leader ship if they believe that the leader i, also. man who thinks first Of Ameri ca
 Estemporized All
 You will see that did not premet Il itate these. remarks or they woulf have had some connection with eacl i other They would have had som plan. have merely given myself th, V pleasure Of telling you what really, [,