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THE ARIZONA KEPUBLICAN, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6, 191i
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THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6, 1914
Power dwells with cheerfulness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Europe Aflame
One time a king dispatched a message to an
other ruler: "Send me a white pig with a blue
ribbon about his neck or I'll ." The second king
replied: "I have no white pig with a blue ribbon
about its neck, and if I had ." The message was
interpreted as a threat, and the reply as a defi
ance. The kings went to the mat, and, at the end
of a long and bloody war, they talked things over
and learned that the war was the result of a mis
apprehension. If the first king had finished his
sentence he -would have said that if king number 2
was unable to comply with the request it would be
all right, anyhow. If the second king had finished
his reply, he would have said that if he had the pig
end ribbon he would cheerfully send them.
The present war in Europe, in which the five
most powerful nations are engaged, may have been
as foolishly begun, but without any misapprehen
sion. Notwithstanding the fiction in which each
side is engaged in laying the blame upon the other,
each nation knows why it is in the war, and all the
world knows the causes, for they are many; the
aggressions of Austria in the Balkans which it had
long been predicted would set fire to Europe; the
designs of Russia in the same direction; the de
signs, more or less remote, of Germany against
British India; the growing fear of Great Britain of
Germany as a sea-power and an increasingly im
portant commercial rival, and the ancient hatred of
France and Germany. The attack upon Servia was
only the first tiny tongue of flame from the long
smoldering heap.
One apparently certain result of the conflict will
he the elimination of Germany as a sea-power.
That is something that she must have counted upon
at the beginning. But other results are, to a large
extent, subjects of conjecture.
There is a possibility that Germany counted
upon her annihilation on the sea and was willing
to accept that for what she might gain on the land.
Napoleon was not strong on the sea, but only a
aeries of accidents, which no man could foresee,
prevented him from attaining complete mastery over
Europe. Germany must have counted upon her
highly trained armies to crush France and Russia
in turn and so to establish herself in them as to
make of all Europe a German empire. That accom
plished, the isolation of Great Britain would be ac
complished in an unexpected manner, and at her
leisure Germany, in ten or twenty-five or fifty
years after the war, could build a navy.
In this view of the case, what happens on the
ea in the present war will be a matter of com
paratively little importance. It is on the land that
the great and striking event: will take place.
f American Citizens Abroad
The promptness with which our government has
come to the relief of Americans who have been
caught in Europe by the war is commendable. 'o
end of expense is to be incurred in caring for them,
and bringing them home. The government could
not, or should not, do less, for governments exist
for the care and protection of their citizens engaged
in legitimate pursuits, and travel abroad for either
business or pleasure is a legitimate pursuit.
The present activity of the government is in
strange, though pleasing, contrast to its apathy re
garding the situation of its citizens who happened
to be in Mexico during the revolution. Most of them
were there on business, under the guaranty of a
treaty between the United States and Mexico. Most
of them were comparatively poor men. All their
worldly wealth was tied up there. Their appeals to
the nearest American consular officials brought no
relief. When the situation became more acute the
American government advised them to get out of
Mxico while the getting out was yet good.
No representation was ever made by our gov
ernment to the constitutionalists or to the federals
regarding their treatment of American life and prop
erty. Many Americans had been murdered without
provoking a protest from Washington. After a
British subject had been murdered by Villa, .and
this government had been forced by the Insistence
of the British to take notice of the crime, imme
diately our government made a spirited protest to
Muerta regarding the killing of an American citizen
of Mexican birth by irresponsible federal soldiers.
Finally, when conditions became more critical,
and when the paralysis of American interests in
Mexico was complete, our government tardily ar
ranged to bring its ruined citizens out of the country.
The Americans who are to be relieved now with
Bo great promptness are wealthy or well-to-do.
Otherwise, they would' not be in Europe. In the
cases, of perhaps most of them, their detention
abroad is a matter of inconvenience rather than of
hardship, suffering or risk. Perhaps if they were
lees wealthy and important, our national solicitude
for them would not have been so prompt and active.
This reminds us that while our government for
a year had been indifferent to the appeals of small
American colonists and mine-owners in Mexico, we
managed to provoke an incident which resulted in
the protection of the great American and British
oil interests at Tampico when they were threatened
with destruction.
The Latest Mexican Epoch
After the departure of Huerta from Mexico, the
New York World remarked: "Thanks to Woodrow
Wilson, a great country and an oppressed people are
on the threshold of a new epoch." So they are,
according to the dispatches of yesterday morning,
with Carranza declaring his intention of fighting his
way into the City of Mexico when a peaceful, but
a less showy, way is open. Also, Villa, who for
some weeks has been in a state of quiet prepara
tion, is about to launch an independent revolution.
For more than three years Mexico has been
being placed upon the threshold of a new epoch, so
that that distressed country must be getting used
to it by this time, but each epoch has been a little
worse for the great mass of the Mexican people
than the preceding one, and each has been a little
bloodier than its predecessor.
There is nothing to be said in favor of Huerta.
President Wilson was right in refusing to recog
nize him, as President Taft had been right in with
holding recognition, but President Wilson was wrong
in lending a tacit recognition to the revolutionists
and encouraging a prolongation of the disorder when
it was evident that it could lead only to another
phase of disorder. No man familiar with Mexican
conditions could believe that the triumph of Car
ranza, through the military genius of Villa, of whom
he was already zealous and afraid, was going to
bring peace to Mexico. The earlier Huerta was
overthrown, the earlier there would be another revo
lution. Of all the revolutionary leaders, there was
not one on whose success could be pinned a hope
of tranquility in Mexico. -
It was plain from the time of the failure of the
Madero government that Mexico could be quieted and
kept quiet only by a strong hand. There was no
strong man within, so that the force must come
from without. This government had one of two
things to do: either resign itself to perpetual dis
orders in Mexico and guard our border, or else to
go in alone, or in conjunction with other powers,
tranquilize the country and maintain order by force.
The Republican Ticket
A handful of republican leaders have decided to
put a state ticket into the field, and have proposed
for nomination some gentlemen, presumably with
their knowledge and consent, and some, we know,
without their consent, which will never be given.
This action has been taken, it is understood, on
orders from the national committee which proposes
to keep up the party organization in every state.
There is, of course, not the slightest hope of the
election of any member of a republican state ticket.
There is not a. prospect that a good showing will be
made; not a prospect that the showing will be as
good as that of two years ago when the party
brought up the rear of the procession.
It is very evident that the contest next fall will
be between the administration democrats and the
progressives. Therefore, a vote cast for the re
publican ticket will be a vote thrown away. Those
who are not satisfied with the state administration,
whether they be democrats or republicans, will find
in the progressive ticket the only hope of effecting
a change.
A republican ticket will not militate against pro
gressive chances. The supporters of it for the most
part will be standpat voters who, in the absence of
a republican ticket, would either remain away, from
the polls or else would vote the administration
democratic ticket.
Progressive confidence is growing. From all
parts of the state, from progressives, progressive re
publicans and democrats, come messages of en
couragement for Nelson, Young and Alexander.
The Douglas Dispatch, speaking of the leaders of
the progressive ticket, voices a sentiment which will
sway the independent voter next fall:
These men are well known in the state, and a
feature that should interest the citizens of the state
regardless of their political belief or affiliation is
that they are business men, men who have been
successful with their own aftairs, and who propose to
take these methods into the management of the
affairs of the state. They are not politicians, and
consented reluctantly to'enter the contest, but are in
it and will work for the success cf the party. Too
many states are afflicted with men at the head of the
government who have no idea of conducting the
affairs of the state in a business-like manner, and
they are becoming tired; the cry is going up all
over the country for business men to take charge of
affairs. The taxpayers want something for their
money, and have grown so tired of the methods fol
lowed so long that they are supporting men in whom
they have confidence, regardless of former affiliation,
and Arizona will probably be no exception to this
rule in the coming contest
Mr. Henry Ford, who is revolutionizing indus
try, is about to take a further step. Having begun
sharing the profits of his great automobile building
industry with his employes, he is now contemplat
ing sharing them with 300,000 purchasers of Fords
next year, each purchaser to receive $60. AVe trust
that Mr. Ford's next step will be to Include in his
profit-sharing scheme the millions of inhabitants on
the sidewalk who "watch the Fords go by.v
SNAKE SWALLOWED INDIAN
Rev. Thomas J. MeOormick, assistant director of
the New York diocesan branch of the Society for
the Propagation of the Faith, has received a letter
from Father Hood, a missionary in India.
The latter describes how a dealer in molasses
on his way home from Rangpur went to sleep at
night and curled up in the road under his cart, and
was swallowed whole by a hungry python.
The snake which was killed later, measured
twenty-ohe feet In length. Washington Post.
M,aggi addressed a letter to the Trustees Tues
day night, explaining the impossibility of making a
decent living during the dog shortage, and suggested
that a regular salary for the pound man be fixed In
stead of paying him on a commission basis.
The Trustees are inclined to act on Maggi's sug
gestion, since he was such a competent dog catcher
that he nearly worked himself out of a job. Ex
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Cool Climate
An Eskimo was sighing before his igloo door;
the snow around was flying, which made him rather
sore. The ice was in his galways. the snow was in
his ears, and evermore and always the climate froze
.his tears. "Doggone this beastly blizzard." the Es
kimo remarked, "it chill's a fellow's gizzard and
keeps his larynx barked. Ah, would that I were liv
ing in those United States, where Natures always
giving her sunshine to the skates! I've heard it
said the weather is often there so hot that people
get together and cuss delightful thought! They
have a summer season when blizzards do not blow,
and no one thinks of freezin- or dying in the snow!
Oh, it must be delightful ti. live in such a clime,
away from every frightful old elemental crime. But
Doctor Cook informed me that folks don't like the
heat the information warmed me with anger. I re
peat); they don't appreciate it, the climate they
have there; in fact, some people hate it, and rant
around and swear." His meditations soured him
he might have saved his breath; a polar bear de
voured him, and then it froze to death.
THE STATE AND BOOKKEEPING
One of the nightmares of the business man in
these days of new laws is bookkeeping bookkeeping
for others. It Is reported that some of the state
ments sent to the compensation commission by busi
ness houses are ludicrously in error, the bewildered
office men not having found their way out of the
new tangle.
Bookkeeping was once an art which came under
the criticism of nobody but the man who owned the
business. But now the state has peek at it, and
so does the federal government. Ten years ago a man
doing a fairly large business might almost be said
to keep his books under his hat. If lie got his fig
ures wrong it was his own misfortune.
Not so nowadays. The state must know how
much capital is invested and very nearly what he
will sell the stock at, so that it may levy its cor
poration tax on the money that is at work as an
earner. The state must know the number of em
ployes, their occupations and a lot more, now that
the compensation law is in effect.
The United States insists upon having the man's
income tax report in more or less complicated form,
and It also makes him, as the hearl of a corporation,
report on his business every year, whether he has
lost or gained, so that it may tax him on his profits.
It makes him keep special books on the incomes
of his employes; it makes him keep books for the
government as a "withholding agency" of the treas
ury. Year by year business becomes so complicated
that it is no wonder some heads of small corpora
tions wish they were back at the old salary job. And
if things go on as they are going, some of the
presidents of the big companies may think regret
fully of the days when not they, but the boss, had
to worry.
The bookkeeping we learned in youth seemed
complex enough, but now it is a howling wilder
ness of pyramidic tables expressed In decimals, per
centage charts and tax reports. New York Press.
IN THESE BUSY DAYS
"Gent uptown telephones for an officer at once.
Burglar in the house.'"
"Let me see," said the captain, reflectively. 'Tve
got four men censoring plays, two Inspecting the
gowns at a society function and two more super
vising a tango tea. Tell him I will send him an offi
cer In about two hours." Kansas City Journal.
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Nicaragua
By GEORGE FITCH
Author of "At Good Old Siwash"
Nicaragua is a country which missed fume and
fortune by a very small margin because it was too
thick in the waist.
And. unfortunately, Nicaragua had no means of
training down like an overfed chorus lady.
Nicaragua is situated north of Panama, at a point
where the North American continent has begun to
peter out rapidly. Here it is only about 100 miles
wide. This, however, is 60 miles too much for when
the United States government finished measuring
the Isthmus of Panama it built its great canal there
and real estate in 'Nicaragua went down with a rush.
Like most Central American countries, Nicaragua
consists of a backbone of extremely feverish volca-
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Missed Fame and Fortune Because It Was Too Thick
in the Waist
noes, situated in a puddle of even more feverish
swamps. The climate is very warm and encouraging
to flora and fauna, but very discouraging to human
beinps, and Nicaragua, which has been doing business
for almost 40 years, has only been able to accumu
late half a million people, most of whom look with
suspicion upon trousers and would worship a bathtub
as a god.
Nicaragua produces bananas, coffee, rubber, gold
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are grown here at less than halt' the cost in the Cen
tral States and they very largely escape the diseases. Our fanners ought
to grow two hogs where there is one grown now. It means monev in the
Bank.
The Phoenix National Bank
; SECURITY
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS
s. $300,000
IDEAL RESOURCES OVER
. $3,000,000.
THE
VALLEY BANK
Paid-Up Capital
and Surplus
$165,000
(And no demand liabilities)
behind our Guarantee Title Poli
cies.
Phoenix Title
and Trust Co.
18 North First Avenue.
and silver and dictators in great abundance. It is a
republic, but the constitution was mislaid by Presi
dent Zelaya during house-cleaning many' years ago
and has never been recovered.
Nicaragua has only a few schools and a few short
railroads. However, it has a cathedral which cost
more money and is more beautiful than any church
in the United States, and which would strike the
visitor from the skyscraper infested wilderness of
New York with great awe. All Latin-American coun
tries have begun their existence by building tremen
dous and extremely ornamental cathedrals. Unfor
tunately, most of said countries have rested ever
since completing this job.
Nicaragua is one of the few countries in which
a poor boy has a better chance of becoming presi
dent than he has In the United States. During the
revolution season almost anyone in Nicaragua can
become president but only for a few minutes.
Most of the citizens prefer f-pinal meningitis, which
is less fatal.
Nicaragua was once captured by an American,
William Walker, who took a few friends down there
and conquered the country. But he made the mis
take of trying to become an emperor and his fun
eral, which occurred soon after, was not largely
attended. SETTLEMENT DAY IN CHINA
It is part of the legendary history of China that
the people in a certain province once got into bad
habits, commercially and morally, and it became
quite the fashion to repudiate debts. When every
body had fallen easily into this habit, the governor
of the province, being a highly intelligent Chinese,
perceived that immediate action was needed to pre
serve even the framework of a civilization. So he
made a proclamation to he effect that everybody
owing anything to anybody else must pay the debt
on the first day of the new year, shortly to come,
under penalty of having his head neatly chopped off
Just below the ears. Some of the debtors presumed
to disregard the edict, but when their neighbors saw
the heads of these disobedient ones displayed over
the doors of their late places of business, they decided
that the new rule was a good one. The general re
sult was a complete restoration of commercial in
tegrity in the province, which spread throughout
China, so that to this day the first day of the y-ir
is held sacred as the debt-paying time amiras th
Chinese, who have thereby acquired a world-wide
reputation for honesty in their commercial dealings.
New York Evening Sun.
An ounce of prevention is not worth a pound
of cure where there's something that needs curing.
A dutiful wife is one who does hr duty as she
sees it and not as her husband sees it. Deseret
News.
Hogs
the greatest district in the United
htates tor economical pork production. They ieed
the year round in the open fields, without housing;
the sows produce two litters a year annually; they