Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-12-04
Capital and Labor


 1t is certain that for some time t1 come there will be a constant increas absolutely, and perhaps relatively. ot those among our citizens who dwell Id cities or towns of some size and Wh1 work for wages. This means that thers will be an ever increasing need to con sider the problems inseparable from great industrial civilization. Where sl immense and complex business. especial ly in those branches relating to malul facture and transportation, is trans acted by large number of capitalists who employ very much larger nun Der of wage earners, the former tend more and more to combine into corpora | tions and the latter into unions The relations of the capitalist and wsge worker to one another, and of each n the general public, are not always easy to adjust; and to put them and keepI them on a satisfactory basis is one OfI the most important and one of the | most delicate tasks before our whoeI civilization. Much of the work for the accomplishment of this end must be done by the individuals concerned themselves, whether singly or in com bination; and the one fundamental factI that must never be lost track of is that the character of the average nal, whether he, be a man of means or a| man who works with his hands, is the| most important factor in solving the| problem aright. But it is almost equal ly important to remember that without good laws it is also impossible to reael the proper solution. It is idle to hod that without good laws evils such as| child labor. as the overworking of Wo' men, as the failure to protect employees from loss of life or limb, can be effect lively reached, any more than the e7Is of rebates and stock watering can os reached without good laws. To iai to stop these practices by legislailon means to force honest men into them because otherwise the dishonest WnO surely will take advantage of them VIII have everything their own way. II ln5 States will correct these evils, well anu good; but the Nation must stand reao' to aid them.
 Woman and Child Workers
 No question growing out of our raPla and complex industrial development ' more important than that of the I5 gl ployment of women and children. ll presence of women in industry resoS with extreme directness upon the eaS. acter of the home and upon family ln,' and the conditions surrounding the sn ployment of children bear vital f5ia tion to our future citizenship. Onr iss islation in those areas under the SOlHyii SOi.ri of the Congress is very much peniro the legislation of our more progreSss States. A thorough and comprehtensa,o,. measure should be adopted at thls ,,v s sion of Congress relating to the euRnr$ Rn;, ment of women and children in the Ga trict of Columbia and the Ierri!.'ol"f of The investigation into the condlllo" women and children wage-earners .Ss gently authorized and directed Oy tho Congress is now being carried on in 4s,t various States, and l recommehu for the appropriation made last year in beginning this work be reneWeu, ,gb order that we may have the tholy$Sb S;sb and comprehensive investigator Gal ,;an.l the subject demands. The NS..Sot ...ort Government has as an ultimate tbe for control of child labor the use ol .,-srt st interstate commerce clause to PIs,ter. the products of child. labor from n'. sDi he. ing into interstate commerce. Du. on. fore using this it ought certainly tbe act model laws on the subject IO ,5;ate Territories under it's own liiilD'' control. oosi.
 There is one fundamental Plvsords tion which can be laid down as !, Ies Son. all these matters, namely: Wli0 nrob. esty by itself will not solve tne .Irsstv lem, yet the insistence upon hut mot merely technical hones!; an honesty in purpose and splrit.Ii Iight essential element in arriving at 4 more conclusion. Vice in its crudeT anu o. hut archaic forms shocks everypou'I, ublie there is very urgent need tha. .ays iu opinion should be just as S hides condemnation of the vice when loy itself behind class or profession,~,; ,,;ee f atty, or which denies that 1t IS .our.s it can escape conviction in me