The copper era and Morenci leader., 1922-07-07
ABNORMAL NoRMALcY

ABNORMAL NORMALCY
 The New York World calls atten- tion to the fact that the rumble of insurgency has been growing louder and louder in the last six months. The weather-wise have known that storm was coming for an even longer time, have known it since the farm CTS markets collapsed and the farm bloc came into being. But eastern politicians would not for long time take it seriously Then it thundered mildly in Indiana, more loudly in Pennsylvania. There was a bang in Iowa. But the storm has only be- gun. Senator La Follette's attack on the supreme court, Senator Ladd' S bitter attack on the bankers, are a taste of what the real thing is going to he like. The feeling against money and privilege" and the interests is once more becoming in tence.
 It would be a great mistake to think of this discontent as radical ism,'' if by that much abused ana much misunderstood word is meant belief in socialism imported to this country from Europe. The insur- gency now growing in the west and south is an American perennial seeded, and grown on the American land. It has appeared under many different names. It swept Jefferson into power in 1900 and supplied the substance of the present Republican party in 1856. Since the Civil War it has reappeared again and again, as the Greenback movement, as Populism, as Bryanism, as LaFollette- ism, as the Bull Moose, as the Non- Partisan League. It knows no party lines, for it is an economic conflict that ever so often overflows into poli- tics. It represents the protest, some times intelligent and idealistic, ire quently misinformed and demagogic. of the farmer who is a consumer o1 manufactures and a borrower of credit against the industrialists and the lenders of credit. When farm prices are low, manufacturers prices are high and money is tight, the con- ditions exist for rebirth of this old insurgency.
 These conditions have existed for over year, and such speeches as Ladd and LaFollette are delivering follow from these conditions as night after day. It is idle for MT. Harding s friends in the senate merely to de plore such speeches and view them with alarm. Those speeches have strong backing, and short of mir aculous boom of prosperity within the next two years both political parties will be rent by the spirit back of these speeches.
 This discomfort has at present neither leaders nor program. It has spokesmen and catchwords. The question for the leaders of both parties to consider is whether they will resist it foolishly or turn it by sympathy and leadership to construc tive ends.
 If they are to do that they will have to rid themselves of the delusion, produced by the 1920 election, that the American voter in the mass is req. tionary That delusion has been fatal to MT. Harding and fatal to the present congress. Except under the most abnormal circumstances, such as existed in 1920, the decisive poli- tical sentiment of this country is against the standpatter in ideas and is liberal in tone MT. Harding and the Republican machine thought otherwise and actually went so fa1 as to christen their opinions nor norlnalcy What they want may be normalcy, but what a controlling majority of American voters want and always in the end insist upon is not standpat normalcy out normal progressivism. They sound liltle alike but they are, as the Republicans are about to discover, quite different
 The Yuma Sun last week carried the announcement of Hon. MulforC Winsor as candidate for state sen ator from Yuma county. MT. Winsol has in the past represented that coun ty in the senate twice and those wh, know of his popularity in Yuma vii expect his election. Winsor ha: been prominent as a democrat ant public official for many years. Ht was member of the constitutions convention and was the first private secretary of Governor Hunt. Thel he was made state historian for time and was president of the frs state land board after it's creation Two years ago he was a candidate in the primary election for governor losing to Nit Simms. Many admirer! of Mulford throughout the state will homo tn hi1o