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THE 'ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 15, 1914.
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SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 15, 1914
By union the smallest states thrive,
by discord the greatest are destroyed.
Sallust.
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To a Misunderstanding Neighbor
A great deal of The Republican's time is spent,
but we trust not wasted, in setting its neighbors
straight. A few days ago this paper took occasion
to reprove the Douglas International for its an
nounced yellow-dog partisan policy. It would stand
by the democratic party, right or wrong; it felt
bound to support the candidates of that party re
gardless of its own opinion of their fitness. All of
which. The Republican thought, smacked of servility
rather than independence. No law of God or man
requires loyalty to the unworthy.
The International retorts that The Republican
is hide-bound, and that it is the last paper in the
state that should prescribe rules of conduct for in
dependent newspapers, after having opposed so
steadily a fusion of the progressives with the re
publicans when the latter offered to surrender every
thing but the party name.
We have already explained that we opposed
fusion because it was neither moral nor expedient.
If the progressives had gone into it, they would not
have been honest, and the republicans could not
honestly have made the surrender they proposed to
make. Such a fusion, moreover, could not have
bound all progressive and all republican voters, and
it could not have attracted any democratic voters.
It would surely have repelled hundreds of progres
sive voters who were formerly democrats.
The Republican and progressives generally were
not hide-bound; they were not sticklers for a straight
progressive ticket. Many favored a genuine non
partisan ticket. That would have been both moral
and expedient. That kind of a ticket would have
attracted every man, progressive, democratic and
republican, who wants a good state government and
does not believe that the present government is a
good one. We expected, if such a movement was
instituted, that it would have the support of Major
Kelly and his democratic associates, and we believe
now that they would have been loyal supporters of
it. But we know that neither he nor any other
democrat would nave supported a progressive
republican fusion.
Again, we say that the non-partisan plan would
have been a success but for the selfishness of the
republican leaders. They would not consent that
their party should lose its identity for a single cam
paign. They were willing to throw party principles
everything but the party name overboard. The
progressives were willing, for the sake of good gov
ernment, to lose their identity for two years and to
hold their principles in abeyance.
No other party in Arizona offered to make so
much of a sacrifice.
Price Regulation
The time will come, we suppose, when the gov
ernment will regulate the prices of the necessities
of life, such as wheat, bread, perhaps meats, sugar
and whatever else enters into daily use by the aver
age family. It will, of course, be a long step to
ward such a regulation, but it seems more probable
now than it did a generation ago that the govern
ment would undertake the regulation of railroad
rates, or that it would lay clown rules for the con
duct of private business.
It is not to be supposed that the government
would fix and maintain a scale of prices at all times,
but that it would take the power , to do so; such
power as exists in Great Britain, has existed for
many years, and which in the present emergency that
government is threatening to exercise.
Our government regulations so ,far. have not
been of great benefit to the people, ' and were not
primarily intended to be, though the people have
been led by politicians to believe that they were
to be the chief beneficiaries. Such rules as have
been enforced against commercial exchanges have
been intended to keep the gamblers from cutting
one another - throats, a matter in which the people
at large had no concern at all. Neither are the
people concerned in the operations of the stock ex
change except In so far as they disturb the financial
current, and the new banking act will probably be
a sufficient guaranty against such disturbances.
How many fortunes are made or lost on Wall street
by , the speculators on the exchange is nothing to us.
Railroad rate regulation is really only beneficial
to the great mass of the people, in that jt gives
stability to the rate situation and prevents nite cut
ting by the railroads, from which the people at large
never received any benefit, and prevents rate boost
ing by agreement, for which the people always paid
in the shape of increased prices.
But price regulation is another matter. What
ever benefit would come from that would" ( come
directly to the people. - jj
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f Republics del Norte
Carranza will probably remain in Mexico City
as long as Carbajal, perhaps as long as Madero,
but we do not think that his regime will be as long
as Huerta's. He finds an empty town. Everything
has been grafted closely, and he will do well if ho
can find anything to loot and send abroad as his
predecessors have done, against his hurried flight
from the capital.
Already the revolution Is under way and it is
the most formidable in its beginning of all Mexican
revolutions. Its army is larger and better trained
than any that Carranza can summon, and at the
head of it is the most skillful and successful gen
eral, idolized by his soldiers and admired through
out the republic.
The new revolutionists may be content with a
"Republica del Norte," composed of the best and
richest states in Mexico. If so, they will leave Car
ranza in the south to hold his own against Zapata
and such other chiefs us may rise against him.
A division of Mexico may, after all, be the best
Solution of the Mexican question. The country is
too big, considering the character of its pop
ulation, which lacks homogeneity. Except that the
people of the different states speak the same lan
guage, the Mexicans of some states are as foreign
to those of others as if they were of different races.
A northern republic under such a ruler as Villa,
who, besides displaying military' genius has shown
some aptitude as a statesman, would probably be
an orderly republic. The contact of the people of
the northern states of Mexico with Americans and
Europeans has prepared them for such a govern
ment. The southern slates are very much the same
. as those of the Central American republics, over
which this country has found it advisable to estab
lish an espionage, at times, to prevent the wildest
excesses.
An Interesting Vote
We await with interest the vote in the senate
and the house on the adoption of the conference
report on the emergency bill admitting foreign built
ships to American register. We are informed that
there will be a stubborn opposition in both houses to
the amendment, permitting such ships, after two
years, to engage in coastwise trade, hitherto a sacred
institution for Americans only. "We shall like to
compare the vote on this proposition with the vote
for and against the granting of free tolls through
the Panama canals to American vessels in the coast
wise trade.
Every suspected railroad senator and represen
tative voted against the free tolls proposition, on
the pretext that it was in violation of the treaty.
Their co-workers, the administration congressmen,
voted against free tolls on the curious ground that
the railroads owned the coastwise vessels.
Now, will the railroad anti-free tolls senators
and representatives vote to sharpen competition
which may reduce water rates, or will they rest on
the preserved inviolability of the treaty and the
sacredness of our coastwise trade as an American
institution? As to the administration congressmen,
will they assume that the railroad-owned ships have
been sufficiently chastised by the payment of tolls
and will they believe that the time has come to
discriminate between American and foreign built
vessels in the coastwise trade by excluding the lat
ter? That would be more effective than any sub
sidy which our democratic friends so much detest.
RECRUDESCENCE OF NATIONAL SENTIMENT
(Chicago Tribune)
It is the ideals of youth that determine the
course of mankind. Given the ideals which the
young men of a country cherish, and the history of
that country for the next thirty years, until a new
generation of young men with new ideals arises, can
be fairly correctly foreseen.
The ideals of the young men of Europe and of
the world up to within the last fifteen or twenty
years have rooted in science and rationalism. Dar
win, Spencer and John Stuart Mill were the buiding
posts of one part of the young generation. Saint
Simon, Karl Marx and Henry George were the
prophets of another. The young men of the last
half of the nineteenth century in the main stood
for ideals of liberalism. Their ideals were social
ized ideals. Race and national boundaries were
more or less submerged by the greater cause of
humanity.
A reaction from these broadly human ideals to
ideals of narrow nationalism is now in full swing in
Europe. This reaction has caught in its flood by no
means an insignificant part of the population. While
socialism, with its preachments of internationalism,
retains its hold upon great hosts of laboring men,
nationalism is gaining ground among the middle
classes. And so fast is the nationalist movement,
with its clannish divisions, spreading that, accord
ing to one authoritative writer, Europe today "is
organizing itself into two great camps socialism
and nationalism."
The assassin and would?be assassin of Arch
duke Francis Ferdinand of Austria and his wife are
the accentuated expressions of this rising national
ism in Europe. They show the distinction between
the past and the present idealism of youth in clear,
sharp lines. In common with assassins and would
be assassins of royalty in the last two generations
the assassins of the heir to the Austrian throne
have youth and enthusiasm. The assassin, Prinzip,
i 18 years old. The would-be assassin, Gabrino
vich, is 21. But while the nihilists and anarchists of
a generation back slew royalty to further, as they
thought, political freedom, the assassins of the Aus
trian prince slew royalty in order to gain a king, so
to speak a king of their own nationality. The
anarchist assassins of the past slew royalty to
break down social and economic barriers. The na
tionalist assassins of today slay royalty in order to
strengthen national barriers.
The sentimental nationalism for that is what
jt is which inspired the assassination of the heir
to the Austrian throne will, for a period at least,
again occupy the center of the world's stage. Ap
parently there is good ground for such a predic
tion. Even the United States may not escape some
of the problems created by this sentimental nation
alism, for it is from the countries where this na
tionalism is strongest that we get the bulk of our
immigrants today, and the Americanization of such
aliens may prove no easy task.
HATCHED BY THE SUN
In breeding goldfish, an industry which has
flourished in China from time immemorial, the
eggs are removed from the reach of the adult male
fish and hatched by the sun in shallow dishes.
The amateur golfer r.ddref-ses his ball, swings
four times and then addresses it again more force
fully. Philadelphia Inquirer.
GERMANS WANT SVEABORG, THE
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A view ot Sveaborg.
The plans of the German war office are said to include the capture of Svenborg, the "Gibraltar of the
Baltic." Sveaborg is a port in Finland, commanding the entrance to the bay of Helsingfors and the
Finland capital, from which a railroad runs to St. Petersburg.
Watchful Waiting
By WALT MASON
The Huerta reign is done, and watchful waiting
won. The ciazy tyrant hung to office long, and
clung, with equal strength and zeal, to gin and
lemon peel. The symbol of bis cause a pocket
corkscrew was; a bottle in his hand, he ruled his
bleeding land. What sort of men are they who'd
tolerate the sway of such a drunken freak? Are
they insane or weak? But watchful waiting won,
and toward the rising sun the jim-jam despot snil
ed, and Justice must have wailed. All loaded down
with wealth he'd swiped by force and stealth, lie
sailed across the sea to riot in Puree, or booze in
London slums with kindred thirsty bums. The
man whose hands were red with blood of count
less dead, the man of concrete heart, was suffered
to depart from that poor land he jobbed, and har
ried, rent and robbed. Was theie no dungeon deep
where slimy reptiles creep? Was there no gallows
tree or ax for such as he? Ah, well, the tyrant's
gone, and there .perhaps will dawn a brighter, bet
ter day let's hope so, anyway. Peace has an in
ning now let's hope so, anyhow. But should the
dove depart, and should the fireworks start, with
bloodshed, as before, we'll watch and wait some
more.
HOW COCOANUTS GROW
(Homer Crop in Leslie's)
I had always imagined that cocoatnuts grew on
trees just the way we see them down at the gro
cery, but instead of that they have a thick mat
around them. It's harder to get this off than it
is to get the nut open. I wondered how my friend
was going to get the hull off when he didn't even
have a knife. Taking up the nut, he stepped up to
the tree, turned his back and with long, powerful
strokes began hammering the nut against the bole
of the tree between his legs. After a dozen strokes
the rough outer covering split enough for him to
get his fingers in and pull it off. Then the nut
began to look like the kind Ed Andrews has. Again
I wondered how he could get into this, for back
home it would be a Job with a saw and ax.
Picking up a pointed stick, he punched out two
of the eyes, one for an airhole, and turning up the
cocoanut offered me a drink. It wasn't very fancy,
but it was filling. When the milk was out he took
a stone and gave the nut a few bard blows und the
nut opened almost in half. With the sharp edge
of another stick he rimmed the white meat loose
as though with a spoon and there it was for me
to eat as though he had had a whole carpenter shop.
The meat was soft and slippery, like trying to pick
up buttermilk.
In Missouri I had never eaten them that way.
for by the time a nut travels that far the meat is
hard, and I hurt the man's feelings by telling him
that I preferred the tough kind. One of the nuts
was hard and he threw it contemptuously to the
pigs that stood in a circle around us, noses in, but
I rushed out and rescued part of it in glee. A few
moments later I caught him looking at me as if he
couldn't quite make me out, a man seemingly nor
mal but who liked ripe cocoatnuts.
MEAT EATER SEEMS PEEVED
I want to warn meat-eaters against a cunning
conspiracy to convert them Into vegetarians. A man
whom I have since discovered to be a notorious nut
eater, lured me into a strange restaurant yesterday
morning and set before me something that looked
like a mutton cutlet. I cannot tell exactly what first
aroused my suspicions, but suddenly approaching the
cutlet from behind I tore off its false frill and dis
covered it to be some nuts and potatoes in disguise.
Then I saw through the whole game at once. Some
desperate band of vegetarians are sitting up at
nights training bananas to look like pork sausages,
and teaching innocent little wainuts to go about
masquerading as deviled kidneys. If I had eaten
that mutton culet. as they called it, thoy would have
lured me on with celery steak and things until at
last I should have been so firmly in their grip that
they could boldly have thrown off their disguises. In
a year or so I should have been tame enough to
eat potato peelings from the hand. Meat eaters
all, we must band ourselves together against the
vegetarians, and fight them with their own weapons.
As soon as I can find a chef who can make a mut
ton chop look like a boiled carrot I shall open an
imitation vegetarian restaurant and send out men
disguished In sandals and health-fiber suits to way
lay and bring in nut-eaters. Then we will give them
Cambridge sausages disguised as bananas, mixed
grills masquerading as fruit salads, and chickens
which the vegetarians will think are cabbages, until
they get the bones in their throats. Ivan Heald, in
the London Dally Express.
"GIBRALTER OF THE BALTIC"
Habits
By GEORGE FITCH
Author of "At Good Old Siwash"
A habit is an action with a self-starter.
Most actions have to be begun by the man
who produces them. But a habit attends to the
starting itself. It goes wherever it pleases and
carries its unfortunate owner along with it.
A habit is produced by repeating an action
er and over again. Some habits are very diffi
cult indeed to produce. It is distressing to watch
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Drinking coffee with a loud baritone gurgle,
a man patiently pouring gallon after gallon of
whiskey down his throat in the hope that some
day he will get the habit and can get drunk with
out putting any care or thought on the process.
It usually takes a man as long to acquire this
rabit as it would to acquire a university education
at half the cost. However, there is one consolation
;he habit will last much longer than the educa
tion would. One can forget Greek and Latin but it
is as hard to overlook the drink habit as it is to
Ignore a case of jumping appendicitis.
There are many different habits. Some of them
are very meritorious such as going to church, get
ting to work on time, breathing through the nose
and swatting flies. Among those habits which
should be removed by the aid of gas if necessary,
ate those of swearing, chewing tobacco, looking up
while driving, sleeping on the back and voting the
ticket straight because father did it before the war.
There are also many peculiar and harmless
habits. Some men always put on their left shoe
fust. One of these men once lost his left leg and
had to go barefooted ever after.
Other men get into the habit of drinking their
coffee with a loud baritone gurgle. This harms no
one but it keeps the performer very lonesome dur
ing his meals.
William J. Bryan once got into the habit of run
ning for the presidency. However, he bioke him
self of it by a great effort. It takes a strong
minded man to break himself of a habit.
We should all strive to run ourselves and not
turn the Job over to a few habits, picked at ran
dom. Sometimes they do a good job, but more often
they run us as unsuccessfully and recklessly as a
nineteen-year-old boy runs a racing automobile.
PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE
Crawford (in fashionable restaurant) Don't or
der anything for me. I'm not hungry.
Crabshaw But you will be by the time
waiter brings it. Life.
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THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
(Hugo de Vries in Science)
The idea of the origin of species by leaps and
jumps has the great advantage of answering in an
unexpected and decisive way the numerous and in
part very grave objections which have been brought
forward against the theory of evolution from the
serious difficulties which its adversaries have never
ceased to urge against it. The oldest and most
serious objection is based on the obvious useless
ness of new characters during the first stages of
their evolution, if this is supposed to be invisibly
slow. Imperceptible odors cannot guide insects in
their visits to flowers and assure to these a suffi
cient advantage in the struggle for life. Adapta
tions for the capturing of insects by plants would
be of no value in a primary and imperfect condi
tion and therefore cannot be evolved 'by the action
of natural selection. Imperlect instincts would be
rather obnoxious, according to Wasmann, and thus
would be liable to be destroyed instead of increased
by this action. So it is in many other cases. Be
ginning characters would always be too insignifi
cant to be of any value in the struggle for life.
Evidently the principle of leaps and jumps at once
relieves us of the necessity of this hypothesis. It
does not admit a gradual appearance of characters,
but assumes these to appear at once in the full dis
play of their development, and without the aid of
natural selection.
BATTLESHIPS THAT CAN BE SUBMERGED
The discussion on the relative value of dread
naughts and submarines, raised by Sir Percy Scott's
now famous letter to the London Times, still con
tinues. The latest contribution is from Sidney F.
Walker, a naval engineer of considerable experience,
who urges that whilst Sir Percy Scott may be per
fectly correct in his forecast, the naval constructors
who believe in a large and powerful capital ship
may also be right.
May it not be possible, he asks that the war
ship of the future will merely lie on the water when
not going into action as the submarine does now,
and will be submerged whenever danger arises and
when going into action?
Proceeding, Mr. Walker declares that he is well
aware that it is a very far cry from the submarines
of even the present day to a submerged battleship,
but he points out that it was also a far cry from
the pre-submarine days to -be submersible of today.
The advance of naval engineering, he says, has
been very rapid during the last .10 vears. and the
great engineering firms are better equipped today for
solving the problems that arise than probably any
body of men ever were in the history of the world.
Rooster Day
The Poultrymen of Kentucky and Tennessee estab
lished a rooster day, May 1( on which day all deal
ers paid as much for roosters as for hens and pul
lets. Those states have a reputation for selling in