The daily morning oasis., 1917-12-27

nat DfOugnC ABOUT those conditions With Governor
lun in the executive chair there will be at the head of
fairs in Arizona who will insist upon the big
orporatons recognizing their moral responsibility to
state to preserve order by making disorder impossible
he miners and other employees of those corporations
air minded, and they will respond to fair treatment.
he problem that Governor Hunt has to solve is to bring
% their senses the arbitrary corporations and bring
about their acceptance and discharge of their moral
obligations to their men, and to the state
In insisting upon such procedure there is nothing
sked of the big Arizona mining companies that has not
adopted already by the big lumber companies in
Oregon and Washington.
l. w. w. propaganda had brought about consitions
the lumber camps grave almost those at Bisbee
July last Production of lumber had declined to SO
cent of the normal output The entire state to
great extent in frame Of mind that would have back
I'd the lumber companies in wholesale deportations just
did public sentiment at Bisbee back the deportation
here But the lumber barons were wiser than the cop
per barons They set about discovery of the of
he unrest among their workmen, and renedied them.
The governor of the state, and professor of
sociology in the University of Washington who has be-
:ome recognized far and wide as authority upon
ocologc questions called into conference with the
unber barons and course of policy evolved which cut
rom under the l. W. w. their opportunity to make
trouble The eighthour day das granted in the logging
camps and at the mills. Wages raised conditions
1t both changed in such way that the men, instead
IF herdng together in sitting bunk houses under cond
lion unclean and unsantary and fed like drove of pigs
or herds of cattle housed like human beings and fed
Ut restaurants and boarding houses that have been made
models OF cleanliness and cuisine Exactons for hospital
ees and other mpostions upon the abrogated
he entire effort to make conditions under which the
men are content and satisfied They are treated like
human beings.
Under the changes described the men have returned
work. the lumber output approaching normal and all
| causes for friction and turmoil removed Is not
hat better condition than what has prevailed in Ariz
Iona
The mining companies of Arizona, are no better
than the lumber companies Of Washington. Their
responsibilities to the state great and the de-
na'd OF the hour is that they shall recognize their
responsibilities and govern themselves accordingly And
chat is the demand of the time in all the states If free
institutions to exist the peopethe laborers
Ind workers must be made conented and satisfied And
is up to their employers bring about that satisfaction
and content That is all there is to it. They follow
10 other except that of continuing their grinding
xactlons driving to desperation the proetaria then
employing "the man horseback" to force an unwilling
opuatlon to work under terms prescribed at the point
IF the bayonet.
close student of sociological questions Governor
HINT had addressed himself to an effort to induce
apaistc classes in Arizona to follow the only alterna
i've except resort to the force Of military despotism
Because he insisted the capitastic influences tried to
force into the executive chamber one who would let them
play the game their way and for the greater part of
year they were successful.
Now the disturbing element has been circumvented
RE executive of Arizona is their creature no longer In
stead there in the chair of state once more socologs
L. philosopher of broad vision and high intelligence
who has just appreciation of the fair balance in
sociological matters; and up those who have become
enriched by the argess of Arizona to read the hand
writing upon the wall and adjust their affairs according
y. They cannot drive the working people into rebellion
and then expect the state to maeat them into subeco