The Prescott daily news., 1913-03-05

AAAsAAANO<AS, w WEDNESD LA into and scrutinize with candid. fear less eyes. The great government we loved has too often been made use of for private and selfish purposes, and those who used 1t had forgotten the people.
 At last vision has been vouch- safed us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good. the de- based and decadent with the sound and vital. With this vision we ap- proach new, affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore. to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life without weakening or sentimentalizing it. There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to succeed and be great Our thought has been Let every man look out for him. self, let every generation look out for itself,' while we reared giant machin. cry which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves. We had not for gotten our morals. We remembered well enough that we had set up policy which was meant to serve the humblest as well as the most power ful, with an eye single to the stand fat o1o membered 1t with pride. But we were very needless and in a hurry to be great
 Chief Items in Program.
 We have come now to the sober second thought The scales of heed lessness have fallen from our eyes. We have made up our minds to square every process of our national life again with tbe standards we so proud ly set up at the beginning and have always carried at our hearts. Our work is a work of restoration.
 We have itemized with some degree of particularly the things that ought to be altered and here are some of the chief items: A tariff which cuts us off from our proper part in the commerce of the world. violates the just principles of taxation, and makes the government a facile instrument in the hands of private interests; bank ing and currency system based upon the necessity of the government to sell it's bonds fifty years ago and per fectly adapted to concentrating cash and restricting credits; an industrial system which, take 1t on all it's sides. financial as well as administrative, holds capital In leading strings, re- stricts the liberties and limits the op- portunities of labor. and exploits with out renewing or conserving the nat ural resources of the country; body of agricultural activities never yet given the efficiency of great business undertakings or served as 1t should be through the instrumentality of science taken directly to the farm, or afforded the facilities of credit best suited to its practical needs; water courses un- developed, waste places unreclaimed, forests untended, fast disappearing without plan. or prospect of renewal, unregarded waste heaps at every mine. We have studied as perhaps no other nation has the most effective means of production, but we have not studied cost or economy as we should either as organizers of industry, as states men, or as individuals.
 Matters of Justice.
 Nor have we studied and perfected the means by which government may be put at the service of humanity, in safeguarding the health of the nation, the health of it's men and its women and it's children, as well as their rights in the struggle for existence. This is no sentimental duty The firm basis of government is justice, not pity These are matters of justice. There can be no equality or opportunity, the first essential of justice in the body polite, if men and women and chil- dren be not shielded in their lives, their very vitality, from the conse- uuences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control or singly cope with. Society must see to it that it does not itself crush or weaken or damage its own constituent parts. The first duty of law Is to keep sound the society 1t serves Sanitary laws, pure food laws and laws determining conditions Of