Arizona republican., 1917-01-02

of government and the application of sound business principle to public ar- fairs.
 Our citizens have the right to pro- tection from the incompetency of pub lie employees who receive appoint
 ments and hold their positions through relationship or as a reward of partisan service. Consideration should be given those who worthily seek public elm ployment having merit and ability in- stead of political subservlency and family ties.
 Those who are selected for limited time to manage public affairs are still
 of the people. and may do much by their example to promote integrity and honest respect for those laws having
 to do with the improvement and bet terment of our social, physical and moral welfare
 The coming year bids fair to he the
 most prosperous in the annals of our State wages are good. employment abundant. production from fields, the ranges, and the ores from the earth has materially increased with good market at splendid prices, bringing to | us unparailed prosperity and increased | lpopulation. The masses of our people are better fed, clothed and housed than ] ever before. The facilities for education
 have been vastly enlarged and more i generally dlffused. The Influence ol religion has been multiplied and
 strengthened The virtue of temperance ] Is held in higher estimation. We have not attained an ideal condition. Not all , our people are happy. virtous and law abiding. but on the whole, the oppor- ! unities offered to the individual to
 secure the comforts of life are better than are found elsewhere. look hope fully to a continuance of and material 1 increase in our prosperity and the con sequcnt development If our manutac- turing and mining enterprises. linking them with rail transportation to our
 agricultural districts giving t1 the whole
 potent influence in the perfect uniG-
 cation of our people. Those who have invested their capital in these various
 enterprises. the farmers who have felt
 their benefit and those who wor, in the
 mine. the shop or field, will not fail
 to find and to defend a community of
 interest Business and social inter- course Is revealing the necessary unity of all our communities and prompting our people to mutual respect and CO., loperation.
 X due regard for the interests and future prosperity of all the people and a Illl ugkNlOpiutnL bk our llNuSkIlIl
 and natural resources demand the es- i tablishment of correct principles in our economic laws and better uu-
 derstanding between Labor and Capi-
 tai This great problem Is charged with great difficulties and one which
 is of highest importance to solve on l lines Of common sense and a devotion to the right. We are livlng today ir
 ar age cf federation and con,blnation.
 Business men find they must work
 through cOrpOI ations, lahOring men
 find it necessary to work in federa tion and both have become factors 1 of modern industrial life. Both kinds Of federation. capitalistic and labor.
 can do much good; likewise they can
 do much evil. Each must refrain from arbitrary CT dNtatoriai interference
 with the rights Af others Organized
 capital and organized labor must
 know that in the erd must be brought
 into harmony with the other and the interest of the general public; anl II Q conduct Of each must conform to tho funcamental rules of c)edience
 % tie law. of individual freedom. an of justice end fair dealing to all. Every employer. every wage worker, must be guaranteed Lis liberty and his right to do as he likes with his property or his labor, so long as he does not infringe upon the rights of