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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 17, 1914
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TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH IT, 114
SAINT PATRICK'S DAY
Oh, thou tormenting Irish lay!
1 "ve got thee buzzing in my brain,
And cannot turn thee out again.
Eliza Cook.
Politics of No Concern
We have learned with surpri.se that some excel
lent citizens who evidently think more of party than
of prosperity are wondering what effect the result
the city election next Thursday will have upon
county and state politics next fall, especially the
effect upon county politics. We 'ilo not believe that
it will have any effect, but whatever effect it may
have, would be of no concern to us. The average
citizen has only a vague interest in the fate of any
political party, but he has an intimate and vital
interest in the well-being of his home city. There
arc from 2.I.0110 to 30,000 people living in Phoenix.
It matters greatly to all of them whether we have
a .ood government or not. There are not more
than -00 or :iwi in this city who, from an office
seeking standpoint, are interested in the welfare of
any political party not more than one in a hun
dred of us.
All of us, except the one in a hundred, should
therefore devote ourselves to the welfare of the
city. No interest of Phoenix should lie sacrificed to
the upbuilding or the bolstering 'up of any political
organization.
No sensiole man is going to sacrifice his own
happiness and that of his household for any polit
ical party. Xo two sensible men would do such a
thing nor would any three or more sensible men
make such an insane sacrifice. Then why should it
be expected that the voters of phoenix, who ore pre
sumably sensible men and women, should make sacri
fices which would disastrously affect their homes,
for these homes in the. aggregate constitute the city
of Phoenix, that some political party might thrive,
that certain men might be elected to the state and
county offices next fall?
The effect of the election day after tomorrow
upon the fortunes of any man or party should not
be considered by the voters at all. Phoenix is too
valuable to be made the plaything of politics. In
the making up of the ticket which The Republican
is supporting, as it supported it throughout the pri
mary campaign, this effect was not considered. If
tin: ticket composed of JL'IXSE LEWIS, JOSEPH
CoI'E, DR. DA.VIERUX and HARRY D1EHL is
elected, the interests of Phoenix will be looked after
and parties and politicians will be lei t tu look aflcr
themselves next fall.
Vote for Phoenix
Every citizen of Phoenix, that is, everyone who
is qualified by registration to vote, should be at the
polls day after tomorrow. Civic pride alone should
take him there, even if he has no special interest
in the result of the election. If it goes out to the
world that 5,000 or 6,000 votes were cast at the
city election, it would be a better advertisement of ,
the size and citizenship of Phoenix than any fed
eral census or the literature of any board of trade
could give us. There would seem a city worth liv
ing in and there would be the kind of people worth
living among.
We are not assuming, of course, that there are
any voters in Phoenix who feel no interest in the
result of the election. We believe that, in some de
gree, every citizen feels an interest, but that in
terest sometimes is not sufficient to overbalance
the slight inconvenience of going to the polls. A
comparison of the poll lists at the late primary elec
tion with the registration list, showed that several
hundred business men and property owners, to whom
the result must have been important, did not vote.
We hope that they will all vote day after tomorrow,
if not for good government, for the good name of
Phoenix.
Voters may generally be divided into three
classes: those who have an intense and unselfish
interest in good government; those who have a self
ish interest (and a selfish interest is always in
tense), in the result of the election and those who
have a very slight interest or none at all. Voters
of the first two classes always vote. The voters
who remain at home would generally vote with the
first class if they should go to the polls. We hope
that they will be there on Thursday, and then there
will be good government for Phoenix. We feel sure
that if there is a heavy vote, Lewis, Cope, Dameron
and Diehl will be elected.
What Brand of Nerve Food?
Upon what nerve food doth our neighbor feed
' that its gall hath so enlarged? Commenting upon
tlie candidacy of Judge Sutter of Cochise county for
tlie democratic gubernatorial nomination, the Bis
bee Review says:
"As yet, the democrats of Arizona have hit upon
no name which has been received with such a ring
ing response as attends the mention of Judge Sut
ter. In comparison, the candidacies of Governor
Hunt and Dr. Huglxs seem artificial, and it would
redound to the credit already vouchsafed both if they
made early announcement of their retirement from
the race in case future developments confirm the
promises of party harmony and strength which at
tend the first tidings of Judge Sutter's acceptance.
His candidacy cannot be viewed as other than a de
mand that Arizona must have an incumbent in high
office, men of assured capacity, adequate adminis
trative ability and sane and unselfish ideas 011 pub
lic questions."
Now. isn't that nerve for you, the hanging up of
the semaphoric signal to Governor Hunt and Dr.
Hughes to take the siding while the Sutter de luxe
train rushes by with coaches ablaze with electric
or Pintsch lights? What has become of the sacred
and time-honored rights of Maricopa county citizens
to run for office and fill them if they can get the
votes? .More than 50,0"U of us, now since women
have been made eligible to office, are affected. Is
Cochise the "whole cheese?"
While as an outsider we have no concern with
democratic politics, The Republican, as an institu
tion of Maricopa county and jealous of tile rights
and privileges of its citizens, calls upon Dr. Hughes .
and Governor Hunt to stay on the main line and
dispute with Judge Sutter the right of way, at the
risk of either a head-on or a tail-end collision. It
is better to be tumbled into the ditch and be taken
thence to the scrap heap than to be left standing
ignominiously 011 a side track at a whistling post.
This suggestion of the Review is an affront to
the spirit of our primary law and an effort to
frighten candidates away, that the people may be
limited to a Hobson's choice. Maricopa should show
its resentment by putting more candidates for gov
ernor on the track, so that when the smashing col
lision comes it will be a grand one, one worth while.
An Ugly Subject
"A boy may fall and get up again, but, as a
general rule, you may as well kill a girl as for her
to go wrong," said Evangelist Brown at the skating
rink on Sunday night. Of course, there is rhetorical
extravagance in the homicidal suggestion, for the
soul of a fallen girl jny be saved as well as that
of a fallen box, and that is really the most import
ant matter alter all that she may ultimately stand
right with God, whatever men's estimate of her
may be.
But the statement of the preacher brings us
again to that ugly question of the single and the
double standards, the rules of morality for men and
women and the vain attempt to apply the same rule
to both. We may complain against the injustice of
the double standard, and it is cruelly unjust, but it
is as immutable as a law of nature and must pre
vail, whatever we may say or do against it. We
disregard it in our laws, in our preaching and in our
writing. We organize against it and unanimously
declare it to be wrong, but down In the heart of
every man and woman there is a realization that it
must always divide nun and women.
From the earliest times it has prevailed in sav
age tiibes and has not lost the slightest degree of
its force under the highest civilization. We found
the rule among the Apaches with a horrible pun
ishment for the women who transgressed. It was
recognized in the Mosaic law. The Christian law
did not attempt ifti eradication, but substituted Tor
bodily punishment, compassion and pity.
It is useless to attempt its abrogation, but,
rather, effort should be directed toward making
plainer, if possible, tile terrible, inevitable injustice
"f it, as deep seated and uncrudieable as the tend
ency to human en or.
FAMOUS SHORT POEMS
I Printed in connection with the work done in the.
! English department of the Phoenix Union j
! High School. Conducted by Prof. I. Colodny. j
Ode
We an- the music-makers.
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
Anil sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers.
On whom the pale moon gleams;
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of tlie world forever, it seems.
With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory:
One man with a dream at pleasure.
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down.
We, in the ages lying ' .
In the buried past of the earth
Built Nineveh with our sighing
And Babel itself with our mirth:
And overthrew them with prophesying
To the. old of the new world's worth.
For each age is a dream that is, dying.
Or one that is coming to birth.
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaiighnessy.
1SI4-18SI
ICELAND
I'd like to live in Iceland.
They have no telephones:
The gossips do not have a ehunce
To rattle old dry Ixmes.
Chicago Post.
I'd like to live ih Iceland,
I really would, I swear,
I'd like to live in Iceland,
They do not tango there.
Los Angeles Express.
I'd like to live in Iceland,
And feel as fine as silk.
Without a single cent to pay
For ice to keep the milk.
Younsstown Telegram.
I'd like to live in Iceland
I hope you get me, Steve
I'd like to live in Iceland
One minute, T believe.
Springfield Union.
HILLY SUNDAY, WITH "MA" LOOKING ON.
- STRIKES DEVIL OUT IN NEW YORK CITY
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Billy Sunday and Mrs. Sunday.
The Rev. Billy Sunday and his wife, whom he affectionately calls "Ma"
Sunday, were probably never so surprised as at the meeting held by the
evangelist recently in New York city. The hall was packed to suffocation
by an audience of over 5,000. Outside the street was jammed, and it in
estimated that 8,000 were turned away. - Sunday slammed the very life out
of the devil, with whom he has been tussling ever since he forsook baseball
for the devil fighting business two decades ago.
Tuesday I j Farm Notes j
By WALT MASON BY HOWARD L. RANN j
Oh, Tuesday is a large, fat day, indorsed by
pulpit and by press; a day on which to shoo away
all mental colic and distress, on Tuesday hustling
people thrive, and see their bank accounts inci eased ;
we all are glad that we're alive when Tuesday's sun
shines in the east. But Tuesday has no charm for
men who play the old, sail loafing game: who fain
would own the potent yen, but will not work to get
the same. You see that bunch in every town, the
shiftless, lazy frowsy ghosts; they're holding drv
goods boxes down, or bracing poles and hitching
posts. Fair Tuesday conies with noble gilts, but
idlers have no show thereat; as on her shining way
she drifts, she eyes the bunch and mutters. "Seal!"
Her gifts are for the bustling boys who hump theui
:cives the whole day long, and in the evening find
their joys at home, 'mid laughter, mirth and sons,
iuu cjuuI not ask a smoother day on which your
labors to pursue; but if you fool the hours away,
all clays will look alike to you.
INCREASING THE COST OF LIVING
A man in close touch with the affairs of the
railroads in the official classification territory says:
"Last year the cost to the railroads of furnish
ing the information and reports required by trie In
terstate Commerce Commission amounted to between
$7,000.00(1 and $lJ,(Hiif.OfMi, an amount equal to 5 per
cent dividends on close to 'Oo.OoO.ooo of capital.
This does not include the expenses involved in con
nection with the investigations of multitudinous state
commissions and various legislative committees.
"Isn't there an opportunity here for the com
mission to save the railroads some income, as they
have in the matter of division of rates with indus
trial nlant railroads?
"I do not know of a railroad president who does
not stand ready to furnish the federal as well as
the state commissioners with, all the information
possible, but it has long been a principle of ruil
road efficiency that only statistics which are to be
useful and used are permitted to be compiled, und
none just for statistics' sake. Hence it cannot but
be disheartening for the roads to be continually put
to the expense of compiling statements, when. I am
Informed, already there is piled in the commission's
rooms in Washington many of them with the
strings as yet untied, volumes of railroads statistics
which cost money to compile and which have not
yet been put to any use.
'It is planned to give the commission full con
trol over issuance of railroad slock and bonds, and
the staff of the hoard has already three to five
years- work ahead of it with the data now in its
hands.
"There should be fullest publicity in railroad
affairs, the need of which has been recently shown
to have been sadly wanting in the case of certain of
our prominent systems, but, on the other h.nd. the
oot of presenting such information should bo taken
into consideration. It takes its place with higher
wages and taxes in the 'increased cost of rail
roading.'"' Wall Street Journal.
MANILA BAY IN 1898
"As to the Dewey-Von Piederichs controversy,
history records the fact, that whatever Dewey siid
Von Diederiehs finally did as he said," remarks the
Hartford Times. And that remains the only fact of
importance. All the rest is "leather and prunella." '
OLD AND NEW
The old-fashioned woman who used to carry a
-ck of spinach home In her gingham apron -now
has a daughter who 'phones for a two-cent stamp.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Some men would rather be the supreme high
gastricutis of the Ancient Order of Woodchoppers
than be elected to congress or act as marshal at
the county fair. The chances are that when a farm
er finds his chief delight in swinging a 4S-cent gavel
and studying an expurgated edition of the Masonic
ritcal his corn field will be so choked with squirrel
grass that the neighbors lan't tell it from head let
tuce. We have known men who could quote Ro
bert's Fcjles of order until their bellows creaked,
but they couldn't make a Din-acre farm pay 4 per
cent, net without forcing a trial balance that was as
crooked as a grain-vine. As a deadly scourge the
lodge fever makes the Asiatic cholera looks as
harmless as a frost-bitten lady bug. It is more
fatal to tiie ambitions of some men than to have
their notes called in at the bank with a noise like
a peg-legged man falling on a tin roof.
The line fence has caused more heart burnings
and tang.eloot litigation than all the divorce courts
in Christendom. You can start a scrap over the loca
tion of a fence on land that couldn't grow cockle
burs 011 a bet. and if the surveyor runs it a foot out
of the way the district court will be kept busier than
a blind mule on a high-geared treadmill. If it were
not for the line fence, several thousand lawyers who
are now riding around in self-starting automobiles
and crush hats would be eking out a precarious
livelihood by collecting bad debts for a brewery.
$
It is all right to pray for rain, but the man who
plows deep and uses seed corn with teeth like a Jig
saw will never have to fatten his kine on faith, hope
und charity. They are putting out a triple-tongued
seed corn now that goes down deeper than the bron
chial tubes of an ostrich. It is said that this variety
of corn throws out roots like a bench-legged wis
dom tooth and grows faster than a robust beard in
the dog days. .Men who have studied it declare that
it comes up through the ground with a sibilant
noise like kissing a hair lipped girl through a screen
door, and they say that it has more vitality than a
pair of corduroy pants, it promises to be a great
boon to the farmer.
WHAT WE'LL HAVE TO PAY
This government was never built to be, and is
not filled to be the general regulator of the people's
lives and business. To make it that is to weaken
fatally the energy and enterprise of tile people, to
destroy local self-government, and ultimately to
Management Counts
This bank is managed by men of the highest integrity and ability. Un
der their supervision the bank has grown in strength and safety and
has won the complete confidence of the people in this community.
You are cordially invited to avail yourself of this security and to deposit
your funds, large or small, in a checking account in this strong, growing
bank.
The Phoenix National Bank
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Try paying your bills by check
and you will agree with us when
we say that such a method is
very convenient. We re
spectfully solicit your
banking business.
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"Do it the safe way"
overthrow liberty as the men of our race have al
ways conceived it. There is no blessing that does
not cost something, and liberty is no exception. Are
we willing to pay the price? We must, for instance,
expect that liberty will sometimes run into license.
We cannot, if we are to be free, have an "efficient"
government as it is known in despotic lands. A
strong central authority of the supposed need of
which we hear so much from men who ought to
know better is, and always has been, the deadly
foe of liberty. We can have such a government,
with all its many advantages, but we shall have to
pay for it in the weakening of our institutions, and,
as sure as fate, in the loss of our liberties.
We hear a great deal of the change in the spirit
of our people, and there has been a change, in
many respects for the better. But has the old and
precious inheritance lost its hold on us? Are the
traditions of a thousand years no longer in our
blood? It is not a question of conservatism or rad
icalism, of laissez faire or constant meddling, but
of truth to the spirit of American institutions. In
dianapolis News. .