Bisbee daily review., 1918-09-15
At That Gnd At That!

viewpoint. Some people seem to think 1t Is necessary to this districts further growth, happiness and prosperity to promote class hatred and incite feud and brew bitterness in both politics and society. On the other hand there are many workers and business men and employers of labor who believe that none of these are necessary to the dis tricts welfare; in fact they go further than this, and contend that feud and fac ton are a detrinent The late democratic primary did not go to suit this column. But still this column does not hold and con- tend that only horsethieves and wobblies and anarchists and German agents voted against its candidates. Many readers ot this paper and pleasant acquaintences ot this column and perfectly good citizens voted for the more radical of the candidates on the primary ballot. This column tries to be a game, if not graceful and happy loser
 It Is much more interested in the devel- opment and improvement of the district than it IS in politics and those who seek and hold office for gain and fame. It believes that the news item that records the cree ton of a house or the improvement of road or the coming of new business firm or the digging of well or the development of a mine or an increase on a payroll Is a more important item than an editorial for or against the ambitions of certain pilgrim for fat office or a robe of,vanity placed on his shoulders by the state. On the other hand, while this column does not pretend to know of the doctrines and practices and intentions of all the rank and file who voted against its candidates last Tuesday, yet 1t does know something of some of the lead CTS for whom they voted. Some of them seem to think, according to their declara- tions, that this district would be richer and more populous and happier and better off in every way if every mine were shut down and every employer of labor were driven away and every shop door closed and bolt ed from both the inside and the out And they have even pledged themselves to un- dertake, in a general way, to bring these things to pass.
 Sounds pretty raw, doesn't it, when pre- sented in this way? You didn't mean 1t in that way? Well, maybe not, but from the way you talked to the more radical of your friends before election these were the natural conclusions to be drawn. This comes from radicalism. These dangers to a community emerge from the broth of an intense and bitter political feud heated under the fire of a class hatred that IS fann- ed by both thoughtless and vicious men of the leaders and the rank and file. Thus are the bad results of a too intense partisianshiP engendered and nurtured and the district as whole must suffer the most. The in- dividual who talks the most and who has most to do with stirring up trouble gener- ally has the least to lose His followers must suffer as well as his opponents, even in the event of his victory at the polls. If all who voted for Colter are not wobblies. neither are all who voted for Sutter' i'm placable enemies of labor and union labor. The trouble is, we get all worked up over a political campaign and go to extremes. To the man who clings to the happy me dium the extremist always looks either silly or dangerous, and often he is com bination of both. The real friends of labor who have the good of labor at heart seek not to make war on all things except labor and the real friends of progress and devel- oRynent and humanity in general desire good and not evil for the workman whose arm must be depended upon to make these things possible. But there must also be steam, cranes and shovels and railroads and vast expenditures of money and great or ganizations to multiply the might of the workman's arm And yet to hear some radical rave, there Is more money for the