Arizona republican., 1916-01-24
Mind is the only diadem of power
 -Gerald Massey.
An All-Powerful State

There two dispatches in The Republican yesterday which ought to be instructive to those who believe that the government should into those lines of business which seem within fields of pri- sate endeavor-among them the manufacture of am muution plate and munitions of war generally. We do not believe. may explain, that the gover- should refrain undertaking such enterprises benefit of private citizens who happen have engaged in them, but because they of nature that enables private citizens conduct them the better advantage
 one of the dispatches relates to the effort of the British government to fix the maximum prices of metals entering into the manufacture of munitions. The other dispatch describes further step by the German government to suppress speculation during the war and control the market stand point of the country's bushes snterests."
 The step Germany along the line of fixed policy of the government entered upon long before the war and part of the general policy of the government where the interests of the state-of all the people paramount the interests of the individual a group of individuals The step in Britain innovation, born of necessity, d necessary meet the evil of private speculation expense of the state. is of all the people
 In Germany, this is thing to do; in Great Britain. necessary it is, it is revolutionary and is apt be regarded invasion of the rights of the individual it would be regarded in this country But the United States. well Great Britain must il time, though necessarily through Economic conditions will ultimately force it. We have. in fact partially recognized the right of such invasion, in laws for the regulation of porations and private service companies.
 Great fortunes have already been made out of the by English manufacturers and merchants. The foundations of many of the great fortunes of this country laid during the civil war by the sale of shoddy clothing and shoes and unfit good for the sold extravagant prices. So open and general such frauds against the government that certain attached the army contractor, whether hon dishonest. In little Spanish American there extensive frauds in furnishing suppnes ,o the army Our soldiers fed "embalmed beef" and nobody punished for it. The government regarded the legitimate prey of every who could secure army contract
 Napoleon used to have French army contractors shot doing the things that rather expected army contractors do in the civil and the Span isl American war We could expect the same things be done if to break out now, and such things are being done by English contractors the present war. But German contractors, afraid go to hell, do not do them.
 We should carry work of supervision and regulation further. It should be rigidly extended over every enterprise by which the government is served. Citizens of course. should not be made to serve the government without just and proper oration. but they should not be allowed to rob the government. get inordinately rich in their of the government In Germany, the government does the great intuition factories but il controls them, it controls everything else, absolutely. It treats them generously, but in time of it calls uuon them to it first, and if need be- excu- sGty
 This government, and government, afford to great plants for the manufacture of guns, tIulog plate, and ammunition. The machinery used them is of the costest kind It out rapidly and is apt become obsolete even more rapidly. i We were engaged in perpetual warfare were con t.nually engaged in preparation for warfare then, of coarse. it would pay the government these plants
 The best thing for the government to do is to pat ronize the private when it needs their pro ducts and to pass such laws and make such changes
 f need be, in constitution to command the vice of the private plants and fix a just and sonable price The government should also be able to place those who make money of national misfortunes where they would again need money.