Arizona republican., 1916-09-24

like that which we have just passed through is this, that the main partner is left out of the reckoning. These men were dealing with one another as if the only things to settle was between themselves whereas the real thing to settle was what rights had the hun- dred million people of the United States.
 The business of government is to see that no other organization is as strong as itself, to see that nobody or group of men, no matter what their private interest is. may come into competition with the authority of society; and the problem which congress, because of the lateness of the session has for a few months postponed is this problem: By what means are we going to oblige persons who come to a controversy like this to admit the public into the partnership by which the thing is dis cussed and decided? That is not an | easy problem. A great many diffeernt methods have been proposed and one of the reasons why congress thought l it necessary to postpone the decision for a few months was there were so many honest differences of opinion, not | as to the object, but as to the methods. l T want to suggest to you a means of testing your fellow men as to " l talking about or not It is net neces- sary for man to come and argue | with me an obvious moral principle, l hut l am very much interested when i he comes and argues with me how he l is going to make it work. And when men say We must not permit any | organization to neglect the interests
 of society," I say amen. but what l
 want to sit down and discuss with you is, how are we going to prevent 1 it" The only thing worth talking about in politics or any other sphere | is the constructive idea: How are you
 going to do it? We all know, or at
 any rate we pretend to know, what We ought to do, but we do not all know
 how to do it and the very difficult
 question which the American people
 is now face to face with, and which
 they are going to settle, is this: How
 are We going to organize our partici-
 patton as a partner in the settlement
 of disputes between capital and labor
 which interrupt the life of the nation
 I invite all subscribers to suggest g
 method
 "The question is apt to be obscure(
 in some quarters, as if We were say | ing that it was the right of the gov ernment or of organized society. whicf IS another term for the same thing |, say to man. You must work wha : yon want to or not America is nevel going to say to ary individual: 'Yo, ? must work whether you want to o not hut it is privileged to say to ar organization of persons: You mus not interrupt the national life withou : consulting us
 ? Tt is not a question of obliging al
 individual, it is question of enforc
 ing a partnership and seeing to i
 tha: no organization is stronger thar
 that organization which we all beloni
 to and support and call and love bN
 the name of our own government.
 50 I laid a program before con- gress by which, at any rate a begin
 ming might be made in that direction
 and that program is going to be pro-
 ceeded with.
 Tt is no fun talking unless you car expect to do something. The only , zest that ever comes into affairs for 2 , man with red blood in his veins i!
 the Zest that comes when he is pu
 to think out a difficult thing and dc , it; and I for my part congratulate tho , business men of America that some of their difficulties have been removed by legislation; that they have beer fortified against certain forms Of con-
 trol which must rave been intolere-1lt to them; that they have haG theil 5 real commercial strength put al thei' ! service by such acts as the fedora reserve act. for example. and that now 2 if they think they can conquer tho : world it is up to them to do 1t; ant