Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1915-01-09

and helpers Don't you think it would
be a pretty good idea for the demo-
cratic party to undertake "a systematic
method of helping the Workingmen of
America
He then explained that federal agen
cies throughout the country would d.
rect workingmen to sections where
there is work.
The labor of this country needs
to be guarded from opportunity to OPP
portunity. We proved it the other
day.
We were told that in two states
of the union thirty thousand men
were needed to gather the crop. We
suggested in cabinet meeting that
the department of labor should have
printed information about this, in
such form that it could be posted in
the postoffices all over the United
States, and that the department Of
/ labor should get in touch with the
. labor departments of states, so that
was the result? Those thirty thou
sand men We're found and We're sent
to the places where they got profit
able employment.
Il do not know any one thing that
has happened in my administration
that made me feel happier than that
that the jobs and the men had
| been brought together. 1t will not
cost a great deal of money, and it
will do great dea! of service if the
United States were to undertake to
do such things Systematically and all
the year round, and /. for my part.
hope that ii will do that If | were
writing an additional plank for a
democratic platform. would put
that in.
And there is another thing that
| needs very much to be done. | am
! not one of those who doubt either
the industry or the learning or the
| integrity of the courts of the United
| States. but | do know that they have
! a very Anticipated way of doing bust
! ness. l do know that the United
States. in its judicial procedure, is
| many decades behind every other civ
iliZed government in the world and
| say that it is an immediate and an
! imperative call upon us to rectify
/ that, because the speediness of jus
! tice, the Responsiveness OF justice,
! the ready access Of justice, is the
greater part of justice itself. If YOU
! have to be rich to get justice be-
| cause of the cost of the very process
| itself. then there is no Justice at all.
So | say there is another direction in
which we ought to be very quick Ia
see the signs of the times and to help
| those who need to be helped
And then. there is something else.
| The democrats have heard the re-
| publicans talking about the scientific
way in which to handle tariff.
! though the republicans have never
| given any exhibition of a knowledge
of how 10 handle it scientifically. If
profits into the hands of those who
are already getting the greater part
of the profits, then they have been
exceedingly scientific 1t has been
| the science of selfishness: it has
been the science Of privilege. That
kind of science do not care to know
| anything about except enough TO
| stop it. But if by scientific treat
ment of the tariff they mean adjust :
ment to the actual trade conditions
| of America and the world, then | am
with them, and | want to call their
attention, for, though they voted for
it, they apparently have not noticed
! it. for the fact that the bill which
creates the new trade commission
does that very thing. We were at
pains to see that it was put there
That commission is authorized and
empowered to inquire into and report
to congress, not only upon all the
| conditions of trade in this country
but upon the conditions of trade, the
cost Of manufacture. the cost OF
transpOrtation-all the things thai
| enter into the question of the tariff
in foreign countries, as well as in the
United States, and into all those
questions of foreign combination.
which affect international trade be
tween Europe and the United States
1t has the full powers which will
| guide congress- in the scientific trpa I