Arizona republican., 1913-03-05


 gotten our morals. We remembered we'll enough that we had set up policy which was meant to serve the humbhest as well as the most power ful, with an eye single to the stand ards of justice and fair play, and re- meTnbered 1t with pride But we were Sery needless and in 8 hurry to be great.
 Things to Be Altered.
 We have come now to the sober second thought The scales of heed 2essness have fallen from our eyes. We have made up our minds 10 square every process of our national life again with the 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 of from our proper part in the commerce of the world. violates the just principles of taxation, and makes the government a facile instrument in l the hands of private interests; bank ing and currency system based upon 1 the necessity of the government to 1 sell it's bonds fifty years ago and per l fectly adapted to concentrating cash ] and restricting credits; an industrial 1 system which, take it on all it's sides. l financial as well as administrative, | holds capital in leading strings, re- l stricts the liberties and limits the op- 1 portunities of labor, and exploits with 1 out renewing or conserving the nat l ural resources of the country; body i of agricultural activities never yet 1 given the efficiency of great business i undertakings or served as it should be l through the instrumentality of science 1 taken directly to the farm, or afforded 1 the facilities of credit best suited to ] it's practical needs; water courses un- | developed, waste places unreclaimed 1 forests intended, fast disappearing without plan or prospect of renewal
 unregarded waste heaps at every mine 1 We have studied as perhaps no other | nation has the most effective means 1 of production, but we have not studied ! cost or economy as we should either
 as organizers of industry, as states l men. or as individuals
 Government for Humanity.
 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, l the health of it's men and it's women 1 and it's children. as we'll as their rights | in the struggle for existence. This is no sentimental duty The firm basis l Of government is justice not pity. These are matters of justice. There
 can be no equality or opportunity. the l first essential of justice in the body 1 polite, if men and women and chil-
 dren be not shielded in their lives,
 their very vitality. from the conse-
 Quences Of great industrial and social 1 processes which they cannot alter,
 control or singly cope with. Society
 must see to it that it does not itself i crush or weaken or damage it's own
 constituent parts. The first duty of
 law is to keep sound the society il
 serves. Sanitary laws, pure food laws |
 labor which individuals are powerless
 to determine for themselves are inti.
 mate parts of the very business of jus
 tice and legal efficiency.
 These are some of the things we
 ought 10 do, and not leave the others
 undone, the oldfashioned, never-to-be
 neglected, fundamental safeguarding
 Of property and of individual right
 This is the high enterprise of the new
 day; to lift everything that concerns
 our life as nation to the light that
 shines from the hearthf1re of every
 mans conscience and vision of the
 right. It is inconceivable that we
 should do this as partisans; it is in
 conceivable we should do it in ignor
 ance of the facts as they are or iu
 blind haste. We shall restore not de
 stroy. We shall deal with our econ
 omic system as it is and as it may
 be modified, not as it might be if we had a clean sheet of paper to write
 upon; and step by step we shall make
 it what it should be, in the spirit o those who question their own wisdom , and seek counsel and knowledge, not shallow self-satisfaction or the excite ment of excursions whither they can , not tell. Justice, and only justice shall always be our motto.
 : Nation Deeply Stirred.
 And yet it will be no cool proces, 3 of mere science. The nation has beer deeply stirred, stirred by a solemn passion, stirred by the knowledge o - wrong, of ideals lost, of government l. too often debauched and made an in 3 , strument of evil The feelings witt ] which we face this new age of righ and opportunity sweep across oul 5 heaft-strings like some air out O Gods own presence, where justice anC 3 mercy are reconciled and the judge 1, and the brother are one. We know - our task to be no mere task of polite! 3 but a task which shall search u! : through and through, whether we b. : able to understand our time and thu B need of our people, whether we be in r deed their spokesmen and interpre - ters, whether we have the pure hear 3 to comprehend and the rectified vii 1 t<D aI, | ;~f, of