Bisbee daily review., 1914-03-24
R REDFIELD SAYS
 NATION IS WORKING
 OUT A REVOLUTION

BERKELEY, Cal, March 23.-This country has not known that 1t is work ing out revolution, Secretary Wm. c. RedAeld, of the department of com merce. told the Undergraduates of the University of California, in an ad- dress here today.
 "The truth is," said the Secretary "that a new social bill of rights IS being practically worked out in our land: here a little. there a little; line upon line in this place; precept upon precept in another.
 Men do not know that they are working out revolution. Many who have had part in the movement have not thought of what they did. or what others were doing as aught but an in- dlyidual thing. Many are not con. scious how far the current has run ih | other places. If, however. we were tG | attempt to set back the car of social progress to the point where 1t stood even ten years ago. we would speedily become cognizance how far it had run fin the interval. Indeed, the pro gram of one of our political parties | takes shrewd advantage of this social | consciousness and bases its plea for power on the working out by law Of social reform.
 "The impulse of this mighty force is felt in our political debates and IS reflected in party platforms. One may scarcely take up the morning paper or read his monthly magazine without seeing. if he has vision. the daily strides this movement makes.
 "It is the power that condemns monopoly. It, and no other is the force that. demands the removal of privi lege. II is that which says the creat ure of the state may and shall be reg ulated by the state. Crudely often powerful always. this new force speak it's will. He that has ears to heal let him hear"
 Let US briefly consider how w deal with human life. We value It. o course. That is. we say we do Blu Collectively, do we care very mucl about it?'
 There have died in the United
 States in the last six months iron 5 preyentable causes more than were slain fin the Civil War and more, man!
 times more, than all that have die'
 in the Mexican troubles. specia I student of this problem, connecse' , with one of our great life insurance
 companies, using the conclusions O President Irving Fisher who investi g gated this subject for the governmen
 in 1908 as a member of the nationa conservation commission tells us tha : every years in the '. s. 650.000 peopl 1 die from preventable diseases and a' Y cidents. Observe that word prevent
 able We know how to prevent thes people from dying but still they die. h Here and there efficient societie s in one form or another do sporadi
 work. but the problem remains genel ally unattached in any aggressive viz e orous in this sacred cause. We ma F issue bonds for the slaughter of wal | We do not issue them to save th V killing in peace.
 what We neeu to nave aiouscu
 a sense of proportionate value. Ther
 are men who worry over battleshi
 or two; but every month by saving
 those in ways that are well know
 who needlessly die we could nor Is than pay the cost of four battleshiI n and save lot of human agony b
 sides. But the battleships will be a '' lively discussed and the money wi st probably be voted for them, whi h. few as yet would follow him who SUI
 gested a like expenditure for the pu h' lie health.