Arizona republican., 1912-08-07

strength of all industries, and show ing beyond all peradventre the public element and public concern in indus trial health" He proposed several spe- cific methods for preserving and inn proving our human resources, and therefore our labor power" Wage scales ana other labor data should be made public: all deaths, injuries. and diseases due to industrial operation should he reported to the authorities; wage commissions should be estab lined in the nation and state to deter mine the minimum wage scale in diff ferent industries; the federal govern inert should investigate all industries with view to establishing standards of sanitation and safety; there should be min and factory inspection accord ing to standards fixed by inter state agreement or by the federal govern mert; rational and state legislation should establish standards of cOmpen- sation for industrial accidents and deaths and for diseases clearly due to industrial conditions: for the adoption by law of a fair standard of compensa- tiOn for casualties resulting fatally which shall clearly fix the minimum compensation in all cases; the none
 tary equiv yalent of living wage varies according to local conditions, but
 should be sufficiently high to make
 morality possible and to provide for education, recreation, proper care of
 the children, maintenance during sick ness and reasonable saving for old age: excessive hours of labor should
 
 and night labor of women and children
 should be forbidden; one day of rest m seven should be provided by law; con tinuOus twenty four hour labor should be divided into three shifts of eight hours Dy law; tenement house manu fracture should be entirely prohibited and labor camps should be subject to governmental sanitary regulation; all industries employing women and chill dren should be specially subject to government inspection and regulation; insurance funds against sickness, acci- det, irValidism. and old age should be established by a charge either in whole or in part upon the industries; the suffrage should be granted to women, if for no other reason, to enable work ingWOmen to combine for their own protection by the use of the ballot. AS people we cannot afford to let any group Of citizens or any individual Ci- tizen labor under conditions whica
 are injurious to the common welfare.
 Industry. therefore. must submit to l such public regulation as will make 1t means of life and health. not of
 death or inefficiency"
 The Farmer.
 ''The country life commission should i be reVivel with greatly increased pow CT; it's abandonment was a severe | blow to our people. The welfare Of | the farmer is q basic need of this na- 1 tion." The country school should be
 brought in touch with country life.
 For this reason the progressiVes ap- i prove of government co operation with 1 the farmer to make the farm more 1 productive Cooperative associations l of farmers both for the production and 1 the selling of agricultural products | should Dc encouraged. 50 long as the | farmer leaves cooperative activities l with their profit-sharing to the city man of business, so long will the foun- | datiOns of wealth be undermined and the comforts of enlightenment be i'm possible in the country cHra"unities.
 The Tariff.
 On the tariff he says: "I believe in 2 | protective tariff. but I believe in it as g | principle approached from standpoint
 of the interests of the whole people and not as bundle of preferences to