Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-08-01
CANDIDATE IN HIS
ACCEPTANCE ASSAILS
THE ADMINISTRATION


movement, no endeavor to promote
social Justice which in the last analysis
does not rest upon the condition that
there shall be a stable basis for honest
enterprise. This subject has several
important phases to which, at this time
can allude only briefly. We should
place our transportation system on
sure footing.
We should be able to adjust our
regulative powers so that the funda-
mental object Of protecting the public
interest can be fully secured without
uncertainties or conflicts and without
hampering the development and ex-
pansiOn of transportation facilities.
This national end may be accomplished
without the sacrifice of any interest
that is essentially local, or without
weakening public control. Our pres
ent system is crude and inadequate.
Moreover, in the severe economic
struggle that is before us, and in
seeking, as we should, to promote our
| productive industries and to expand
our commerce-notaly our foreign
commerce, we shall require the most
| efficient organization, quite as efficient
as that found in any nation abroad.
! There must be no unnecessary wastes
| and Their must be no arbitrary OBJ
| structions. We have determined to
cut out, root and branch, monopolstic
practices, but we can do this without
! hobbling enterprise or narrowing the
scope of legitimate achievement. Again.
we must build up our merchant marine.
1t will not aid to put the government
into competition with private owners.
That, it seems to me, is a counsel of
folly. A surer way of destroying the
| promise of our foreign trade could
hardly be devised. 1t has well been
asked, does the government intend to
operate at a profit or at a loss? We
| need the encouragement and prOtec-
ton Of a government for our shipping
industry but it cannot afford to have
the government as competitor.
Labor
I'VE stand for the conservation of
the just interests of labor. We do not
desire production, or trade, or eff
cheney in either, for its own sake, but
for the beterment of the lives of hu-
man beings. We shall not have any
lasting industrial prosperity, unless we
buttress our Industrial endeavors by
adequate means for the protection OF
health, for the elimination of unneces-
sary perils of life and limb; for the
safeguarding of our future through
proper laws for protection Of womeT
and children in industry; for increas-
ing opportunities for education anC
training We should be solicitious tC
inquire carefully into every grievance
remembering that there are few dis
putcs which cannot easily be adjusted
if there be an impartial examination
Of the facts. We make comman caus,
. in this country, not for a few but 70
all; and our watchword must be co
operation not exploitation. No plan
will be adequate save as they are in
stinct with genuine democratic sym
pathy.
Il stand for adequate federal work
mems compensation laws. dealing no
only with the employees of government
I but with those employees who are en-
I gagged in interstate commerce, and ar
I subject to the hazard of injury, so tina
those activities which are within tn
r sphere of the constitutional authorit
of congress may be dealt with undo
n a suitable law.
Agricultural, Conservation
. 1--WE propose to promote by ever
practicable means our agricultural in
r tercsts and we include in this pro
II gram an effective system of rur;
: credits. We favor the wise conserva
It ton of our natural resources. We dc
n sire not only that they shall be safe
q guarded but that they shall be ade
# quately developed and used to the u
most public advantage.
: National Truoteeship, the Philippine
o We turn to other considerations
II important policy. One of these is OF
IS attitude towards the Philippines. TIL
h. | may say, is not a question of sc
Ii interest We have assumed interni
% tional obligation which we permit on
le selves to evade. A breach of tru
lie is not an admissible American polio
/ though our opponents have seemed
er consider it such. We should admir-
n lister government in the Philippin
* with full recognition of our intern;
er tional duty with the aim of maintan
L ing the highest standards of expe
H. administration and in the interest
~ the Filipinos. This is a matter of III
10 tional honor.