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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 18, 19LT
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SATURDAY MORNING, JULY IS, 1914
Liberty is one of the most valuable
blessings that Heaven has bestowed
ii on mankind. Cervantes.
The Progressives and the Women
The progressive party is the only
one that has stood consistently for
equal suffrage and whose platform pro
claimed it before equal suffrage was a
fact in Arizona. It is the only party
in which there has not been a division
of sentiment on this question. In both
vf the other parties the leaders gener
ally fought against suffrage and ac
quiesced in it with ill-grace when it
had become inevitable.
The women have been invited and
urged by the progressive party, not
only to come to its aid at the polls, but
to assist in its earlier deliberations and
to take part in the selection of candi
dates and in the formulating of its
policies.
The wtmicn of this county are, there
fore, urged to attend and take part in
the progressive meeting at the.K. of P.
Hall this afternoon at 2 o'clock.
A Hopeless Contest
No more hopeless contest was ever entered upon
-than that which the republicans of this state pro
pose to .undertake next fall. It is not possible for
; them to win a point or to acquit themselves cred
itably. The party is under precisely the same man-
;aement as that which left it the fourth in the race
two years ago. Republicanism has nothing to offer
voters that it did not have then. It is undoubtedly
not as strong as it was then.
" It can hope for no accretions in the coming
campaign from the progressive party, but, on the
contrary, it has suffered from desertion to the pro
gressive cause. It is true that there is a democratic
schism to be reckoned with this year that did not
exist two years ago. Many democratic voters will
not vote the democratic state ticket next November.
While some of the more reactionary democrats may
be attracted to the republican ticket, that is, to such
a ticket as is likely to be nominated, the great mass
of dissatisfied democrats will not embrace the op-
: portunity for expression, by voting the republican
ticket. They will more naturally turn to the pro
gressives for relief of their grievances without such
a compromise of their party principles as would be
involved in an alliance with republicanism.
Progressive republicans, too, will turn from their
party, at least, until the management has passed
from reactionary hands, and they will naturally turn
to the progressives, whose campaign will attract all
men and women who stand for good government
and who are in irreconcilable opposition to machine
bosses and machine-controlled politics.
Mr, Bryan as a Defender
As a deefnder of the proposed Colombian treaty,
Mr. Bryan is an unconscious humorist. The main
points of his defense of the treaty are, that Colom
bia needs the money and claims $25,000,000; that it
baa lost more than the equivalent of it, and that it
blames us for the loss. The question of our culpa
bility, Mr. Bryan affirms, need not be discussed.
We need not go back of the fact that Colombia lost
the department of Panama which was worth much
more to it than the amount we propose to pay under
the treaty. Another reason why we should pay it,
Mr. Bryan thinks, is because we are stronger than
Culombia; therefor, we should yield without ques
tion to . the . demand, however frivolous, of any
weaker nation. Thus Spain and Haiti, and in some
time" to come, the government of Mexico may find
their claims against us for damages fortified by the
precedent Mr. Bryan would establish.
It is pointed ' out by Mr. Bryan that we are
: really proposing to give to Colombia only $17,500,000
. Instead of $25,000,000. We had promised Colombia
$10,000,000 for a strip across the isthmus and $250,
" COO annually, which latter sum might have been capi
: talised for $7,500,000. But Mr. Bryan overlooks the
fact that though the grasping" president of Colom
bia, who was the government of Colombia, was in
clined to accept our offer, he made the mistake of
holding us up for more and lost everything. He
might ha.ve obtained more, but the rebellion of Pon
' ami intervened, and at the end of It Colombia had
'nothing we wanted. We were compelled to conduct
tiour further-dealings with Panama, the possessor.--.The
French claim of $40,000,000 had already been
agreed upon.
If Mr. Bryan declines to pass upon our respon
sibility to Colombia, for the loss of Panama, he
; leaves no basis for the payment of $25,000,000 or
any other sum to' Colombia, except the weakness of
Colombia and ' Its needs and the strength of the
United States' and ' is "opulence. Referring to the
repeated demand of Colombia, for an arbitration of
its claim, Mr. Bryan believes that it is not a proper
subject for arbitration. Perhaps not, but not for the
reason put forward by Mr. Bryan, who believes that
if there Is any doubt regarding the Justice of it,
that doubt should be resolved in favor of Colom
bia. Likewise, Mr. Bryan and Mr. Wilson opposed
the arbitration of the canal tolls controversy, pre
ferring to resolve whatever doubt there, may have
been in favor of Great Britain.
Mr. Bryan offers the further defense of the
Colombian treaty that it is "identical with the
DuBois memorandum, on the basis of which the
Taft administration unsuccessfully sought to pla
cate Colombia." But there were many things done
or proposed to be done by the Taft administration
which a large majority of the'American people failed
to approve at the presidential election two years
ago. If the Taft administration had succeeded in
placating Colombia" that act would have been as
hateful to the people as any committed by it.
Death's Head at Crossings
The safety supervisor of the El Paso & South
western Railroad company has just issued a post
card containing the design of a death's head over
a railroad crossing where a locomotive is running
down an automobile. That suggests the hanging of
a skull and cross-bones over every railroad cross
ing in the country to remind heedless chauffeurs
that death is lurking there.
Almost daily we read in the telegraph news
of one or more fatal collisions at railway crossings,
generally the result of a miscalculation by a chauf
feur of either the speed of his own machine or that
of an approaching railroad train. Frequently such
collisions are caused by an obstruction of the view ,
of either the driver of the automobile or the driver
of the locomotive. But the greater number of acci
dents of this kind result from the automoible driver's
belief that he can pass the crossing first.
Few other vehicles in comparison with the num
ber of automobiles are caught on grade crossings.
The slower the vehicle the greater its safety, because
the driver gives the locomotive plenty of time and
room. He knows his limitations, while- the driver
of an automobile generally overestimates his, throws
all caution to the winds and places his safety in
speed.
The card of the supervisor of safety announces
the fact that within a period of two years 300 per
sons were seriously injured and 750 were killed in
automobiles at grade crossings in the United States.
If engineers of railway trains were not more care
ful than the average driver of the automobile, the
mortality list would have been much longer.
The card issued by the safety supervisor con
tains the result of a test or series of observations at
EI Paso, covering a period of a week, within which
o607 drivers were observed crossing the tracks of
the El Faso & Southwestern. How the drivers con
ducted themselves is shown in the following figures:
"Of these, 2907 (or 80 per cent.) of the drivers did
not look in either direction; 620 (or 17 per cent.)
looked only in one direction, and only 80 (or 2 per
cent.) took the precaution to look both ways before
crossing the tracks. Of the number who looked in
neither direction, 236 crossed at a speed greater than
20 miles per hour, and 6 of the same number saw
the flagman and crossed the tracks, disregarding his
signal." ;. " .
Mount Lassen, according to the proud Califor
nia newspapers, is a busy little volcano, its eight
eenth eruption having been recorded. But we sus
pect that the great number of eruptions within o
short a time is a matter of. the Californian way of
calculation rather than of the frequently recurring
activity of the volcano. It appears that what, in
the case of other volcanoes, Stromboli, Vesuvius and
Etna, is an eruption covering sometimes periods of
weeks, is divided by the Californian newspapers by
the days of its continuance. As 'the eight-hour day
is in force in California for all except a few classes
of labor, among which the labor of a mountain is
not specifically included, by the statute, a contin
uous eruption of Mount Lassen for twenty-four
hours is counted as three eruptions.
A BENEFACTOR, NOT A BLUFFER
Secretary of the Navy Daniels feels some just
indignation over a misconstruction of a recent in
terview with him which put him and the United
States in the undignified position of trying to bluff
Japan by a display of naval strength in the Pacific
atfer the Panama canal is opened in March next.
He makes it clear that, though a considerable part
of the Atlantic squadrpn will go through the canal
as a guard of honor to the foreign ships proceed
ing to San Francisco, no permanent substantial en
largement of our forces in the Pacific is intended
or regarded as desirable.
The last thing, the very last thing, that should
be associated with the opening of the San Francisco
Panama exposition is a "bluff" to any other nation.
Japan is sensitive. Her nerves are on edge. Think
ing Americans understand her feeling, and know
that the affront offered to her people by California
against the protest of the national government is
not measured or limited by tho amount of actual
damage done to subjects of Japan by the California
land laws. The conciliating of Japan is difficult
enough in any case. A plan for a naval demonstra
tion in the Pacific would be Irritating, not conciN
latory.
The United States stands in this Panama canal
opening and exposition opening as the benefactor of
all nations, the benefactor of the world. In that
attitude there is force as well as dignity. Let us
maintain that attitude with equal consistency and in
telligence. Brooklyn Eagle.
NEARLY SPOILED
"Well," said tho editor, "how about that high
life scandal story? Is it true?" -"No,
sir," said the reporter.
"No facts at all?"
"Not a chance." ; .
"Everything denied?"
"Absolutely."
"Good heavens! Cut it down to "half a page,
then." Yale Record.
THE REAL SPOUTER
"What is a gusher In an oil field?" asked the
old fogy. ,
"The man who writes the prospectus," replied
the groUch.-i-Cincihnatl Enquirer,
FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF
ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND, HEIR TO THE AUSTRIAN THRONE
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Here are the first photographs taken after the Austrian tragedy, in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir
to the Austrian throne, and his wife were shot while on an official visit to Tarajevo, Bosnia." The upper photo
praph shows the wreckage after the bomb explosion, and the lower photograph shows the young student. Govric
Princip, being taken to jail after his arrest
Queer Justice
' By WALT MASON
When Bully Boozer beats his wife, we put him
in a cell; and there he leads a pleasant life, and
likes it passing well. We fill his plate with whole
some fare, when sounds the dinner gong, and see
that while he lingers there his life's a grand sweet
song. We hand him magazines and books, and
papers day by day, so he can loaf in cozy nooks,
and read the hours away. Sweet women call and
hand him tracts, and cheer him up so well that he
forgets the ugly facts which put him in his cell.
Meanwhile his wife, with blackened eye, is toiling
o'er a tub; she has to toil, with sob and sigh, to get
the children grub. Her husband, sentenced by tho
court, earns money when he's free, and, though ho
is a yellow sport, he feeds his family. Because, he
filled himself with ale. and started household strife,
we lock him in our cozy jail, and punish kids and
wife. He has the rest he's long desired, with time
to read and sleep, the while the woman, sick and
tired, must work and watch and weep. Thus Tows
our justice in a rill the kind we keep on tap;
the innocent must pay the bill, while sinners have
a snap.
LOOSENING PARTY TIES
(Cincinnati Enquirer, Democratic)
Viewing the country over, it seems, clear that
a great body of the electors are dissatisfied with
both the democratic and republican parties, and that
this great body includes many of those who voted
republican or democratic tickets in 1H12.
In Utah, which was one of the two states which
went republican in 1!H2, there has been effected a
complete fusion of democrats and progressives a
fusion that promises to wrest the state from the
republican party.
In. Vermont, the only other state of the union
which went republican two years ago, there is much
dissatisfaction with the state organization of that
party, and the progressives are said to be making
Important gains from the ranks of the . O. P.
In Louisiana the democrats arc joining the pro
gressive party in such numbers that it will be no
surprise if the democrats should lose control of that
state during the next two years.
In the Third congressional district, out of four
teen members of the democratic distric t committee
six have resigned and taken their places on the pro
gressive committee of tho district.
These men have bctn active and Influential
leaders in the democratic party, and it is well known
that thousands of democrats in Ixmisiana are in
opposition to the present federal administration, op
posed to its tariff law schedules, opposed to its sur
render to Great Britain and the railways in the re
peal of the tolls exemption law, disgusted with its
failure to protect our citizens in Mexico, and ready
to join the progressive party to defeat its 'policies.
There are negotiations on foot in New York
, state that look to the union' of independent demo
crats, independent republicans and progressives in
a movement that will have 'nation-wide influence on
political affairs if the amalgamation now hoped for
can bo effected.
The opposition to the present administration in
creases with each passing day. The management
which can consolidate that opposition would seem
to call ' for co-operation of independents, progres
sives and republicans.
Neither one, alone is strong enough, but united
there would be no doubt, of results to the com
bined elements. " '
The situation in every state, in the union is such
that not a weak candidate should be placed upon
any democratic ticket if the" other candidates have
hopes of winning.
Candidates for office who have not kept faith
with promises and pledges made the people in other
campaigns, if nominated again, are very likely to
drag down the entire ticket to defeat.
Candidates who have refused to abide by the
platform pledges of the democratic national plat
form cannot command the fuH strength of the party,
and wise and prudent action of the voters of the
party at the primaries will see to it that no bolters
of the platform again E pn the tickets.
The Grizzly Bear
By GEORGE FITCH
Author of "At Good Old Siwash"
The grizzly bear is the most bear that is con
tained in a single hide. He lives in the Rocky
mountains and vicinity, and until the high power
rifle was invented was nut bothered much by his
neighbors.
The grizzly is sometimes ten feet long from the
tip of his nose to the end of his very brief and
economical tail, and when he stands up on his
hind legs and prepares to embrace a friend or foe,
he looks as tall as a lighthouse. A large grizzly
weighs almost a thousand pounds, but he does
not have to roll over on a personal enemy in order
"When some foolish enemy mistakes his peacefulness
for cowardice he becomes a cyclone, an eruption, a
catastrophe and a destroying besom, all at once"
to kill him as an automobile does. He can bite
through a gun barrel with his teeth and he can
scratch furrows in a battleship's sides with hia
claws. Nothing is more discouraging than to meet
a provoked grizzly and to have to attempt to reason
with him while being hugged into a small bundle
of messy remains.
The grizzly is amply equipped to take care of
his own affairs, and his greatest virtue is the fact
that he always betrays an earnest desire to do this.
He does not attempt to interfere with the plans of
the passerby so long as he is left alone. The grizzly
is a whole peace commission by himself. He spends
a placid vegetarian life, digging up roots, eating ber
ries and occasionally attacking a mouse or a ground
squirrel for dessert, and whenever man appears on
the horizon he retires to some secluded spot. How
ever, when some foolish enemy mistakes his peace
fulness for cowardice and attempts to exterminate
him, the grizzly becomes a cyclone, an eruption, a
catastrophe, a Mexican- revolution and a destroying
besom all at once. - Only- those who are extremely
What Would You Do?
If you are a farmer and could borrow, say, $5,000 on long time at
a low rate of interest, what would you do with it?
The question is of such vital importance that its answer by the
farmers of the country will have great weight in helping to formulate a
rural credit policy. by showing a need for. it, and there is great need
for it. Think it over. -
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good shots and who have plenty of ammunition and
a large tree in the immediate background should at
tempt to show up the grizzly's cowardice.
The grizzly, on account of his great willirgness
to defend himself, is let severely alone by all animals
and most men and Bhould form a very instructive
object lesson to those earnest advocates of peace
who declare the United States should set an example
to the rest of the world by throwing its guns in the
ocean and arming itself with a Chautauqua salute.
MAN'S RIGHT TO LAND EXTENDS TO SKY
A very interesting and important decision has
been handed down in a French aerial trespass
case. The first chamber of the cjvic tribunal
of the Seine, whicli decides the case, has award
ed damages against MM. Esnault-Petrie, Far
man and Borel in respect of the flights taken by
their pupils over lands in the vicinity of their flying
schools.
The court, in making the award, held that, though
in theory' a landowner had rights over the atmos
phere overhead, this theory in practice only applied
as far as the tops of trees and buildings. It was
held that above this point the liberty of the
air was complete and aerial circulation legally
unhampered, but in the present case the defendants
had flown too close to the earth and must pay dam
ages. The court's decision involves several interesting
points. Article 552 of the civil code states that prop
erty in the soil carries with it property to the
air above and the earth beneath. That the rights
of private owners extend usque al coclum is also
a doctrine of English law. But the decision of the
French court appears to assert that these right3
only extend to an arbitrary height, and that above
that height the air space, bting of its nature free,
people have the right to fly over other people's land.
It seems to assert, further, that this right of flying
must be ' used in a proper way, and that if the
flight causes prejudice to the occupier of the land
the airman is liable.
The decision, therefore, tends to limit article
552 in the direction of the German and Swiss codes,
which enunciate the principle that the occupier
cannot prevent persons going over his land at a
height at which he has no interest to exclude them.
In September, 1913, the Comite Juridique Internation
al d'Aviation at the congress at Frankfurt passed the
following articles as intended to be incorporated
in the proposed international code:
"No one can, on the ground of a right of prop
erty, oppose the passage of aircraft under condi
tions which do not present for him any appreciable
Inconvenience. Every abuse of the right of passage
lays its responsible author open to an action for
damages."
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