Bisbee daily review., 1913-03-05
Mining, Markets and the Metals

/ tHg government a IdNlte instrument IN
the hands of private interests; a bank
ing and currency system based upon
The necessity of the government to
f, sell its bonds fifty years ago aud per
| fectly adapted to concentrating cash
aud restricting credits, an Industrial
! system which take it on al its sides
| financial as well as administrative.
holds capital in leading Strings. re-
| stricts the liberties and limits the
opportunities OF labor, and exploits
without renewing or consc irving fas
natural resources OF the country:
/ body of agricultural activities never
| yet given the efficiency of great bust
ness undertakings or served as il
should be through the instrumentality
| OF science taken directly &C the farm.
, or afforded the facilities OF credit
( hest suited to its practical needs: wa
| tercourses undeseloped. waste places
unreclaimed, forests INTENDED, 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
elective mears OF production, but we
/ have not studied cost or economy as
We should either as organizers Of in
dustry, as statesmen, or as individ-
uals
Nor have we studied ard perfect
ed the means by which government
may be put at the service OF humani
| ty. in safeguarding the health Of the
nation. the health of its men and its
I = omen and its children, as well as
their rights in the struggle for exis-
tence This is no sentimental duty
| The firm basis Of government is jus
| tee, not pity. These are matters of
/ Justice There can be no equality or
/ opportunity. the first essentlol of jus
tice in the body polite, il men and
women and children be not shielded
/ i'm their lives, their very vitality from
| the consequences of great industrial
/ and social processes which they can
not alter. control, or singly cope with.
{ society must see to il that it does
/ rot itself crush or weaken or damage
/ its own constituent parts. The first
| Cuty of law IS to keep sound the So
! ciety it serves. Sanitary laws, pure
( food laws, and laws determining con
4 ditions of labor which individuals are
powerIess to determine for themselves
are intimate parts Of the very busi
1 ness Of justice and legal efficiency.
! These are some OF the things We
ought to do, and not leave the 9TH
ers undone. the oid-fashioned, never
I tc-be-negIected, fundamental safe
guarding OF property and of iudivtd-
ual right. This is the high enterprise
/ OF the new days; to lift everything
that concerns our life as a nation to
the light that shines from the hearth
fire of every mans conscience and
vision Of the right. 1t is inconceiV-
/ able that We should do this as par
tisans; it is uncomfortable We should
I do it in ignorance OF the facts as
they are or in blind haste. We shall
restore, not destroy We shall deal
/ with our economic system as It Is ana
as il may be modified, not as 1t might
be il We had a clean she.t OF paper 1
( to write upon; and step by step we
shall make it what it should be, IN
( the spirit of those who question their
+ wn wisdom and seek counsel ana
I knowledge, not shallow self-satislsc-
ton or the excitement OF excursions
whittier they cannot tell. Justice, and
only Justice, shall always be our
motto.
And vet it will be no cool process
/ Of mere science. The nation has been
stirred. stirred by a solemn passion.
stirred by the knowledge u wrong, OF
ideals lost, OF government too often
debauched and made an instrument o.
evil. The feelings with which We
fare this new age of right and oppor-
tuDity sweep acl oss our Eeart-stringS
ike some air out OF God 5 own pres
eace. where justice and mercy are
recOuciled and the judge and the
brother are one. We know our task
10 be 10 mere task Of politics but q
task which shall search us through
and through, whether we be aDla 20
understand our time and the need OF
or neople. whether we be indeed
tteir spokesmen ana Interpreters,
neither we have the pure heart to
c3Tnprehend and the rectiiled VIII 20
choose our high course OF acton.
This is not a day of triumph;
* dav OF dedication Here muster.
not the forces Of party. but the forces
of humanity. Mems hearts wait upon
uE. mems lives hang in the balance;
mems hopes call upon us 20 SaS
What We will 90. I summon All non
est men. all patriotic. all for~ arc
locking men, to my side. God helping
me. / viii not fail them, il they NIii
hut counsel and sustain rue'
WASHINGTON, d. C., E.areh A.
with the change in the national al
,,,fuistration now an accom- plished fact
,o,itical interest turns to the extra