Arizona republican., 1917-07-25
Deportation in the Past


 These observations made from the side lines We speak not as a time-keeper but merely a student of the game. curously interested on- locker having in mind at Bisbee of little more than week ago. Whether or not the whole sale deportation warranted we leave to discus sion by journals devoted to furhering the interests of organized labor the hand and the so- called copper -rveted press on the other. From lofty eminence we view the struggle the plain below.
 We observe that the deportation of the I. W. W. is more severely condemned by those who are most camorous for democracy, not merely for the democ- racy know, but for democracy such existed in Athens in it's golden age and which has since had counterpart except in the town meetings of the New England states, in which every citizen had a voice and used it with the freedom which dis tngushed the l. W. W. Bisbee, in which individual authority that it could not be delegated and in which those who made the most noise or cast the most votes were the rulers. There was a pure democracy no bosses, everybody a boss.
 In that glorious period following the Pisastrtdae. the tyrants, there nourshed institution which is severely condemned by those advo- cates of pure democracy, most clamant against the Bisbee proceedings-ostracsm, providing for the de- portation of those whose activities believed to be detrimental to the state. They may have been
 
 tyrants those who too impatient for mill lennium and disturbed their neighbors. At the beginning of a stated period it was decided whether any deporations should be taken within that period If so, when complaint made against any ndivid- ua1 the citizens together each with ostrakon potsherd piece of broken jug or pot which he somehow recorded his judgment. If 5000 votes were cast and majority of them were adverse the person complained of deported usually for period of ten years. but special stigma to him. Some of the eminent Athenians were depored: Xanthppus the father of the great Per icles; Hppias Themistoces, Cimon Thucyddes Aris- tides and many others.
 The for ostracism were some times rather flimsy. For instance Aristides, of the greatest and the best of Athenans known as Aristides the Just. One citizen wrote "Raus Nit Inn" on his potsherd because, he said, q have grown weary of hearing him called "the just" In the same way, we some times get tired of hearing neighbor called Honest John." So, it is seen that in this de- hshtful period of Athenian history deportatons common and there was frequently less provocaton than stirred the people of Bsbee. It was a way of clearing the atmosphere when it became heavily charged with dscontent.
 Socrates lived within this period but suffered death instead of ostracism rejecting the gods of the city and introducing new dvinities He is also guilty of corrupting the youth" Socrates had counterpart in Bisbee for told that "the greater part of his mature life was spent in the market place streets and public resorts Athens in conversation with all who cared to listen" From the use of the word, '1isten conclude that these conversations" like those of the Hon. William B. Cleary late of Bisbee, were one-sded.
 Socrates domestic relations with his termagant wife, Xanthippe, may have made him 8 philosopher and have driven him to the public resorts The names of all the thoroughfares of Athens have not been preserved, but surmise that the place on triangular space at the junction of oKalous street Breweros Gulchos and Tombstonecanyonos We surmise also that he talked, he sat upon a soap-box with hand gently raised to command attendance, whereas MT. Cleary, less sedentary of habit, not to say restless, was wont to stand or jump soap-box and punch holes in the atmos- phere with both fists and then slther it into frag- ments with rapidly moving arms
 The purer democracy of Athens treated it's phil osopher less kindly than democracy treated MT. Cleary. The latter was only ostracsed while his great prototype compelled to slake his thirst with hemlock
 We have instituted these comparisons between the democracy of today and that of ASA B. C.; between Athens and Bisbee and between fate of Socrates and that of Mir. Cleary chiefly in support of our contention that the world in 240O years has changed less than we apt to think it has, and that what little change there has been, the better
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