Arizona republican., 1920-05-10
MONDAY, MAY 10, 1920
It is with word as with an arrow; the arrow once loosed does not re- turn, nor word to the lips.
 -Abdel-Kader.
The Fire at the Capitol

To estimate the fire loss adjust the insurance whe connagration is still raging is premature. general remarks on the subject fire-its pre- vention control-may with tmeIiness always be injected momentary periods of silence wakes. love-feasts wherever audiences, large small. gather. It is a more profitable subject than tariff with which a stranger entertain sorrowing friends at funeral while awaiting the belated arrival of the preacher.
 Thus deftly lay the foundation for side on the fire which democratic politicians the capitol started under the ample o Land Commissioner Mouer. The fire is still burning languidly outburst Saturday afternoon, but the land commissioner be not infIammable fireighters retiring with scorched hands and singed eyebrows to gather more kindling. They determined find whether the land commissioner is composed of asbestos, wool. a Salamander anyway
 There is injunction almost divine, if not in origin, in application human affars Don't start anything you can't finish" This is understood thoughtless. There nothing left unfinished in this world. Everything have q finish-an end kind. It is abhorrent to . that anything should be left unfinished The full text of the injunction is Don't start anything you can't finish (yoursef according your original design your pur- but which in the failure will be finished by your enemy according a remodeed sign and for his purposes.)"
 The foregoing was the intended form of the restraining order but the fountain pen of the court ran dry, resulting in an omission of the Illuminating words within the above parenthetical enclosure would impress upon you. children everything started will be finished in fashion
 We perceive in the distance political finish democratic brethren who have been fooling with this fire, who have breathed-in the flames almost invariably fatal inhalation
 We do not know whether fire ought been built under the land commissioner not. The Mouer- Burners evidently thought that confagra- the O primaries n which all of them be candidates again office or another would be opportune; when linn their outlines sharply before the people they would loom gigantic objects always in a dancing firelght.
 Discarding for the moment the. rhetorical figure have pains to construct, rumors affecting the administration of the commissioners office are They circula- ton months there then report the commissioner had been asked to resign and it was supplemented by reports that he about resign consistently declined to confirm these reports The land department was then composed of the members who constitute it now. They at least much about the truth of those they know of the truth of the present which rest mainly certain letter of. doubtful origin which the democratic members have but which they heard come into possession the governor
 If the land commissioner is culpable, it may be supposed that he culpable then. if so. must have been the democratic members land department.
 Returning to metaphor a conflagration at that time would have presented more impressive pyrotechnic than any that can started now when the primary is seething and about a flame of its own.