Bisbee daily review., 1912-10-20

care lndR hOfttAiEcue t1hSSl Nhoh AR is justly conducted, to see to it that the food the people eat is pure. Pure food laws, whether of the state or ot the nation, are of capital and funda- mental importance. No man should be allowed to sell impure food. or adul- terated food, or food from which the nutritious quality has been taken. And one of the greatest scandals Of our time is that the pure-food laws we fought so hard to get are so often ignored and violated and eircumyent. ed.
 This is not as new function of gov ernment as some people suppose, put it is one which, unfortunately, our own governments, state and federal, took up very tRrdily, and which re- QuIred the persistent agitation of such men as Doctor Wiley 10 make effec- tive in the field of public opinion.
 do not know any function of gov ernment in which the two sides We nave to make sure Of in politics are more clearly illustrated. In the first place, the law must be clear, explicit, founded upon iact, unmIstakable in It's commands and in it's penalties' But the law will not enforce itself
 And the indispensable second re- quirement is that the government should be absolutely independent or the influences which would desist or impair the application of such laws 1t must be beyond being reached Tn any way. Its inspection of foods must De thorough, intelligent, fearless; and it's application of the law must be ab- solutely without respect of persons or interests, financial or political.
 It is a serious question now in many quarters whether these things can be said either of our pure-food or of their administration. Until that doubt is entirely removed, our government will not have squared itself with the duty and the standard of the times.
 The Policy of Conservation Must Not
 Be Guided by Political Expedleney
 The matter of the conservation oi our natural resources affords another illustration. We must renew our for ests. We must preserve, by scien- Itifc care and cultivation, those that We have, We must see to 1t that the mineral resources of the country are I not extrayagantly wasted, and that with the care of our forests there shall lgo the renewal also of those sources ! of the great rivers which lie on the Tmountainside and in the forested iyalleys.
 II It will not do for the government merely to prevent the use of the for ests, merely to hold settlers of and make enterprise wait until it shall nave determined what it will do with these things. It must adopt a policy of use as well as of reservation, and in this is must be guided by knowledge, not by mere political expediency.
 Such knowledge is available. This is an age of specialization. There are
 men who can tell us, if we wish to near disinterested counsel, just ho" these things can be used without be ing wasted Or exhausted.
 Again it is a question of good house keeping The government must ad minister our resources as a good trustee would administer a great es l tate for the support of the living and | the benefit of those yet unborn. That is the reason why the ques | the front in our time and has sf 1 broadened it's meaning. We now dc l not hesitate 10 say that 1t is the bus l mess of government not only to set | that men live under just laws, but tS see that active means are taken tol | the conservation of their health anC l strength and for the establishment O 1 every condition which will make then ! strong and free.
 l Governments Duty Toward Fsrme l We now see, to take another illus | tration. that it is the duty of the SoV ernment to take the scientific knoNl l edge developed in the universities ou
 70 the workers of the country, to tn l armers, for instance, to whom shout 1 De carried every item of what VI l know about the character and use c 1 soils. about irrigation, about the rE l -ation Of crops, about the climatic an other conditions which determin | what crops can best be produced | particular localities; about the prese l yation of fruit from insects an 1 disease: about the best times fo
 planting in order to forestall cond ] fions which have oftentimes cut ou , | crops OH, ana every thluB SiSS 'Ss may make knowledge the servant industry. Knowledge is not develo ed for it's own sake, to be consumed
 the universities. It is valuable onl
 for guidance and enlightenment.
 Market Basket Symbol of Prosperit The interest of government in hig r 1 prices and an excessive cost of Il E ing is direct and manifest nowaday . ! Every law should be altered whiC + ] gives rise to conditions which nal !, | it harder for the rank and file of m' r. to live And every means ought
 be adopted by which labor may r kept in heart and made secure of 2 just earnings.
 { It is not by accident or the me 2 trick of parties that the marketbi , ket is made a symbol of the people c | prosperity and content An essenu C matter with every man is, How shi 0 he earn enough to support himself Il those who are dependent upon hiT j If anyone is allowed to fix prices [
 justly or arbitrarily; if anyone is e lowed to secure what he doesn't ear
 if one man is permitted priyile L. which another man does not enl' .A rg nv mo n fl