Arizona republican., 1915-12-25
The Next Worlds Conflict

We devise methods by which under democratic government shall the social zation Of industry which autocratic Germany has secured, that business may be encouraged and yet controlled in the general interest, and the workers guaranteed full justice and their share of the reward of industry. and yet required to show corresponding efficiency and public spirit that jus tifies their right o the increased reward"
 In the foregoing words, Theodore Roosevelt pressed that country must sometime realize earlier the realization the less of loss, suffering and humiliation the country will We abandon the idea that has been instilled the minds of American youth from the beginning O the republic that somehow, al superior people We are yet to see that that lag behind in things and that in the world competition which must inevitably grow fiercer we shall fall farther behind educa- tion, in commerce in agriculture and industry less mend methods.
 MT. Roosevelt calls upon the nation do some thing that a democracy has never done. Some doubt whether it be by a democracy. task approached by France, but the democracy France less free pure and boastfuI than There must be such consolidation of effort, such q specialization Of industry and purpose as has been accomplished only under autocratc elsewhere If we fail we shall have failed O prove that democratic government has accomplished purpose.
 Paraphrasing and rearranging Lincoln's Gettys- burg address, We are now engaged in a world struggle testing whether this nation any nation so conceived and dedicated the proposition that all created equal, long endure And of that struggle will be determined thoroughly it was to determined burg in those early July days of 1864, whether ernment of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth
 This great conflict will begin the the in Europe. It will be fercer than the armed conflict shaking the world We will be drawn into the of the struggle and must be prepared for We can escape entangling political alliances but escape commercial and industrial entanglement and occupy place in the commercial and industrial world.
 Some tell that position has been strength ened by the war; that chief competitors have SO weakened that time at least. we shall have the world field ourselves. Nothing can be farther from the truth, Though the nations en- gagged in have millions of worIlmen and producers, end o the war will still leave mil lions mobized. ready be transferred O fields of industry and in them they will be as fiercely driven to lost ground the commercial and industrial world.
 These millions riskina their lives under autocratic rule for few a day. For small wage they will spend years, if necessary in the recovery of what their nations have temporarily lost. Not after previous great wars will the soldiers be turned loose in idleness a to their countries. A new condition has been presented to the world and of this country have meet. We cannot meet it merely by legislation. A pro- tective tariff though necessary means of de- fense against it, will be inadequate. It must be supplemented ivy q wholly changed attitude of the people, determination for greater efficiency, a national abhorrence of time and energy and contentment with moderate profits. and. as MT. Roosevelt says. just sharing of the rewards of industry between employer and wage worker, to which each must contribute his utmost. Herein appears the real specialization of industry Without it We shall 0e distanced and competition.