Arizona republican., 1903-09-08

WdSe-NOfker can De nelpeQ m Hedlti+
 fashion save by helping the other; but
 also that to require either side to obey
 the law and GO it's full duty toward the
 community is emphatically to that
 sides real interest.
 There is no worse enemy of the wage
 worker than the man who condones
 mob violence in any shape or who
 breaches class hatred; and surely the
 slightest acquaintance with our indus
 trial history should teach even the most
 short-sighted that the times of most
 suffering for our people 2s a whole, the
 times when business is stagnant. and
 capital suffers from shrinkage and gets
 no rSturn from it's investments. are
 exactly the times of hardship, and
 want. and grim disaster among the
 poor. If all the existing instrumental
 ities of wealth could be abolished, the
 first and severest suffering would come
 among those of us who are least well
 off at present. The Wage-Worker is wei
 off only when the rest of the country
 is well off: and he can best contribute
 to this general Weil-being by showing
 sanity and q firm purpose to do justice
 to others.
 In his turn the capitalist who is really
 a conservative. the man who has fore
 thought as well as patriotism. should
 heartily welcome every effort, leglsia'
 tive. or otherwise, which has for its ob-
 feet to secure fair dealing by capital corporate or individual, toward the
 public and toward the employee. Such laws as the franchise-taX law in this
 state which the court of appeals re- gently unanimously decided constitU- tional-such d law as that passed in congress last year for the purpose of establishing q department of commerce. and labor. under which there should be q bureau to oversee and secure pub licity from the great corpora tiCnS which do an interstate business-such q law as that passed st the same time for the regulation Of the great highways Of commerce so as to keep these roads
 clear on fair terms to all producers in
 getting their goods to market-these | laws are in the interest not merely Of
 the people as a whole, but of the prop
 ertied classes. For in no way is the stability of property better assured 1 tban by making il patent to our people 1 that property bears it's proper share of l the burdens of the stat" that property 1 is handled not only in the interest Of ! tle owner. but in the interest of the
 whole community.
 In ether words, legislation to be per
 manently good for any class must also | be good for the nation as 9. whole. and ! Legislation which does injustice to any | class is certain to work harm to the na- | ;ion. Take our currency system for eX- ample. This nation is on q gold basis. 1 The treasury of the public is in excel | lent condition. Never before has the per capita of circulation been as large
 2s it IS this day; and this circulation, | moreover. is of money every dollar of i which is at par with gold Now. our i having this sound currency system is of benefit to banks. of course. but it is
 of infinitely more benefit to the people
 as q whole. because of the healthy
 effect on business conditions.
 | In the same way, whatever is advisa- 1 ble in the way of remedial or corrective ! currency legislation4-and nothing rev
 olutionary is advisa ble under present
 conditions-must be undertaken only
 from the standpoint of the business | community as d whole, that is, of the | American body polite as d whole. | Whatever is done. We can not afford to | take any step backward CT to cast any | doubt upon the certain redemption in | standard coin of every circulating note. l Among ourselves We Glilef III many | qualities, of body, head and heart; We ] are unequally developed, mentally as | well as physically. But each of us has | the right to ask that he shall be pro- | tected from wrongdoing as he does his | work and carries his burden through | life. No man needs sympathy because 1 he has to work, because he has a bur | den to. carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing: and | this is a prize open to every man, for 1 there can be no work better worth do- | ing than that done to keep in health 1 and comfort and with reasonable ad- Vantages those immediately dependent l upon the husband, the father, or the l son.
 | There IS no room in our healthy | American life for the mere idler. for | the man or the woman whose object it | is throughout life to shrk the duties 1 which life ought to bring. Life can mean nothing worth meaning, unless it's prime aim is the doing of duty, the achievement of results worth achiev- | ing. A recent writer has finely said: | After all, the sadiest thing that can 1 happen to q man is to carry no bur | denS. To be bent under too great a