Arizona republican., 1917-07-20
1.-THE BIsBEE TEAPARTY"
(BoSton Transcript


 tenderness and the ardiness of the president in dealing with the reasonable organization through which Germany is waging today on the United States via Arizona and the west, repetition of humiating history. It is continuance of the policy that paltered with the Mexican mess and plas tered with phrases the murderers of our Lusitania dead. What happened in Bisbee earlier in the week is what will happen in Boston and every other Amer can community when the federal fails to afford the people protection from foreign foe ire spective of the title under which the enemy organizes The Bisbee deportation the the dupes German intrigue uprising of law and order outbreak of loyalty" led by the sheriff of the county officer elected by the people, subject the recall and directly and daily responsible to his con- stituents for his official conduct When repeated ap peas of the governor of Arizona to Washington for troops to restore order and down riot and rebellion failed to bring response, Sheriff Wheeler proved himself equal the emergency swore in the liberty loving and law demanding citizens of Bsbee and nearby camps and with their armed assistance drove out of the county and the state line the spies and the propagandiss the supporters and the sympa thizers of the enemies not of Arizona alone, but of America, who unable to prevent the transportation of American army to France today trying to stab that army in the back by tieng up the produc tion of those materials that go into the ture of the munitions of with which the defend of the Stars and Stripes be steadily and adequately supplied if they are to have a sporting chance the fighting front
 On another page will be found calm and careful recital of conditions in Arizona today analysis of the developments of which they the natural and
 
 their existence Of course the president is handi- capped by having at his side secretary of pacfist, who prevented the general staff, and weeks, from rendering any advice assistance in the reorganization of the service the gov ernment that it might deal effectively with German warfare American soil. Secretary Baker turn is handicapped by having his confidential assistants a group of pacifists who appear be much more afraid of offending itinerant socialist sen- stive citizen of German birth blood than they are alert in their effort to rid America of the of
  the president has written and spoken such un- feigned eloquence several recent occasions. But he wrote and spoke about Mexican bandits and for several long and lowering years about German ders of American citizens land sea. With the memory of Carrizal and the Lusitana fresh in their minds the people of Arizona evidently decided that they must act for themselves they would avoid the bloodshed and the shame of another of "watchfu wating."
 Where is the red -blooded American who planes them? As the crow flies Bisbee is long way from sachusetts are next-door neighbors. New England sympathzed with Arizona when Arizonans were shot down by Mexican bandits and New England sympa- thlzes again with Arizona today when Germany is using the camps of that copper commonwealth as a base for warfare against the United States The proclamation of Sheriff Wheeler which preceded the Bisbee deportation of "I W. W's," will go down in the history of the German American war as a. great document Its every word rings with the determina ton Of the people to steady the pasied hand of the government and to wage against Germany from the mines of Arizona to the trenches in France and beyond with all we have and are" When the gov- ernment warns with the spirit there will be less ground for complaint regarding the conduct of the