Arizona republican., 1918-07-30
The Use of lanquaqe

Inc Use or Language
 It is said of the brilliant Talleyrand that he pos sesscd remarkable insight the grosser nature of man. He had a rare talent caustic epigram and his dsiusoned view of human nature is attested by numerous witty sayings which have become part of the worlds narrower wisdom Among the ob- servations of NJ. Taleyrand this that speech is best used concealing ones thoughts and purposes La parole etc dome rhomme pour diguiser Iense."
 Talleyrand speaking, of course, of the of language by those who know how to it; who can weigh words to a nicety; choose words with the exact shade desired and who can, at the time hold in check their own thoughts that they will break through to discolor and dstort the beautiful delicate word structure thus created
 The great Frenchman not speaking of the of language by such persons open faced friend and fellow townsman, Thomas J. Croaff if he had such unskillfu of language in mind it only horrible examples of the misuse of words to become betrayers of thoughts which the users would fan conceal.
 In a speech Sunday night in which he proved 10 his satisfaction and to that doubt. of part of his audience, that Thomas J. Mooney is persecuted person, victim of corporate greed MT. Croah recklessly, unntentionaly, we believe ex- pressed his disapprova of the Preparedness Day ceedings at San Francisco They untmey, premature; the country not then at and to be at for nearly year. Why, then, agtate and excite the people to preparedness?
 It is known that another Thomas J.. Thomas J. Mooney held similar views with respect to the Pre- paredness Day celebration at San Francisco It has |. been amply proved and is beyond dispute that he vas entirely out of sympathy with the celebration he and q great many others. It is only doubtful whether his want of sympathy merely took the form of or whether he SO thetic to have prepared bomb plot disrupt the parade by murdering and mangng of the prematurey patriotic participants.
 The inference unavoidaby to be drawn from this part of Mr. Croaffs remarks Sunday night is that the conception of the Preparedness Day program l-advsed that the execution of it was an invitation disorder and slaughter, and that those who got hurt merely got what coming to them for being there where bombs likely to go off. We do not think that that is what MT. Croaff meant but have not the slightest doubt that many of the audience who in full sympathy with Mir. Croaff thought that that what he meant. Their crude, approv- ing construction of his language was. doubtless. something like this:
 Mooney did not blow up the Preparedness
 Day parade; he happened to be somewhere else at the time when the bomb went off. But inas-
 much preparedness was premature and wrong,
 the parade needed blowing up; its blowing up was
 justifiable; if Mooney had done it he would have
 been justified.
 We do not think that Mir Croaff desired that or his hearers should interpret his remarks with reference to the Preparedness Day proceedings. He did not, want any such interpretation placed upon them for such interpretation would be approved in federal circles just at this time. But confess that we have no idea what he did why he injected inferential criticism of the Preparedness Day celebration into his speech at a so that any of his hearers could have seized upon the iniquity of preparedness defense of Mooney
 It was, we think a very serious blunder, though rather characteristic of the speaker whose thoughts, words and actions are frequently lacking of tation. so essential to the proper dse of language whether it be to conceal accurately transmit thought
 We have in mind that not long ago friend Mir. Croaff ordered strike in the of protest against the execution of Mooney. He going to show the country the world and the capitalistic class some 1. thing. Two things initiated against the complete success of his plans to stagger corporate greed One was the supcrseding order of parsonage than , Mir. Samuel Gompers and the other was the sensible reluctance of organized labor Arizona to take part in such hare -brained movement.
 little earlier, still within the present year, MT. sCroaff peremptorly by wire Postmaster Gen. iera Burleson to resign and get out. and by tele- sgram of date Mir. Croaff instructed President twson to ask for the resignation of Mir Burleson the event the postmaster general manifested hesi- tancy in acting upon the order from headquarters in iPhocnix.
 . The weakness of Mir Croaff is afflction with chronic and unintermittent desire to bust in" some- fwhere. where the light is glaring