Arizona republican., 1916-05-31

them just treatment by others. This IS why we must ry to abolish child labor. This is why we must see that women in industry are protected from inhuman treatment of any kind This is why we must try to abolish child merely for women and children. but for men also, conditions Gf life and la Dor. such that the head of the family will not be ground under foot by exces- siVe toil nor kept to a wage that will not permit him to bring up his family in tte way it should be brought up, that will not permit him to save his Wife from pTostrating drudgery. IL does not mean that we shall try to give to the ehi1tlcss the same reward as to the energetic and hard working. It does not mean that we shall permit the vicious to commit wrong with inn punity. IL ooea not mean that we shall excuse any wage worker or any other man for failure to honor the United States flag ard whole heartedly to :erVe the Lation-for the priVile ges of l citizenship shodld be conditioned on the i possession and exercise of patriotism ! Rut 1t does mean that for the sake of our children md chiIdren's children Who are to come after us. we shall strive to bring about conditions in this ! country such as to free every hard working and right thinking man from
 the sense of injustice and oppression. from the feeling that the laws do not
 secure him justice. but do give an ad- vantage over against him to unscrupu-
 lous cunning and interruptions force. In the long run our children's children
 will find that this is not a good coun- try for anyone to live in unless wa and they make it a reasonably good country for everyone to live in
 Performance Net Promise
 What 1 thus say doesenot represent
 anything new in principle. On the con-
 trary, the principles thus set forth have i received the lip loyalty of many men
 before election. who. after election for
 got their prediction promises. What
 we need in our public men IS perform
 anoe. not promise; to treat a platform
 merely as 9 means of getting office
 not IS covenant to be kept in office
 is demoralizing both to the pubBe an(
 to the servants of the public
 Now, friends, the men who wore tn, Blue, and the men who wore the Ora,
 in the Civil War. proved that they haC convictions worth dying for. The,
 thereby made this a land worth Twin, in. They showed that they were will 7 ing to sacrifice everything, includin. fife itself, for certain great ideals The, / thereby ranged themselves among tn 2 great peoples of mankind No natio, = is really great, no race is entitled t. 9 q permanent position of leadership O t of equality OF this earth, unless it ? sons are willing to die at need for grea p ideals. But it is equally important tha . they shall show like power of fealt V 10 ideals ia the way they live thei k ordinary lives. If after the close of tn ' Civil War the soldiers who fought in
 On beth sides had shown themselve
 so demOraliZed by the four years c r. fighting that they could not settle dow Il to civil life, but insisted on continuin
 in arms and plunging the country int O anarchy, the net result of their forme n lloroism would have been destructio : for this nation.
 VI Such result would have proved tha ;t although we eoulG produce soldiers W n could not produce citizers-and til is soldier who is bad citizen, and th n bad citizen who cannot, at need, sery IF as soldier are equally unfit to liy