Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume35 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 35
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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N LIBERTY OR HUMAN GREED? By Ex-Congressman Robert Baker. ¥ WOULD counsel the people to letX the streets of Tucson run with theblood of martyrs as have the gutters ofWarsaw! Strange language and strong, surely,for the mayor of a large American city toaddress to the people of a distant sectionof the United States. What great dangerthreatened the people of Arizona that theMayor of Milwaukee should thus addressthem? The meeting at which this languagewas used was held at Tucson, Arizona, January 6th. We are told that the speechevoked scenes of almost riotous enthu-siasm. But what was the occasion ? Was the orator calling upon them toarise and defend themselves from an im-pending foreign invasion ? Was he enunciating some great doc-trine of human rights and human liberty ? Was it to assert that human life mustalways be held sacred, no less to< the Fili-pino than for the American ? Was it to express sympathy with anoppressed people—the Jews in Russia,for instance ? Digitized by Google
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Photo, by G. V. Buck, Washington. D. C. Hon. ROBERT BAKER MEMBER OF CONGRHSS FROM THE VI. NEW YORK DISTRICT The Akhna Digitized by Google Digitized by Google Human Liberty or Human Greed ? 241 Was it a belated expression of sympa-thy with the Boers, who had yielded uptheir property and their lives in defenceof liberty ? Was it to applaud the Campbell-Ban-nerman ministry for prohibiting the fur-ther importation of slaves—Chinese cool-ies—into South Africa ? Was it even an appeal for them to takemeasures to prevent their being still fur-ther despoiled by the trusts and otherprivileged interests ? Oh, no! Nothing so foolish; nothingso idealistic as that was the cause of the riotous enthusiasm. The occasion was a meeting to protestagainst joint-statehood, t. e.f againstthe admission of New Mexico and Arizonaas one state. This being what one of thespeakers described as an infamous planto deprive Arizonans of their liberty. Scratch a Russian, it is said, andyou will find a Tartar. With

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