Arizona republican., 1918-05-30

d remarkable analySlS or the neeu oi better cooperation between business and labor based on increased mutual understanding and fair dealing. This analysis is so thoroughgoing, so just and so based on common sense that we are glad to publish this portion of the speech in full:
 "The question of business and labor cannot be considered wholly apart from one apother. Unless business is pros- porous it is out of the question that the country can prosper and, therefore, out of the question that 1aDor can prosper On the other hand, 1t is no less true that the prosperity may come in alto gether improper proportions 10 busi- ness men at the expense of those whom they serve and those who work for them. We have to avoid equally the foolish creature who fails to see that unless business prospers there cannot | be general prosperity, and the equally | foolish creature who fails to see that it is our duty collectively to take such steps as are necessary in order that the prosperity may be passed around with reasonable equity.
 Must Help, Not Hamper
 Our aim must be to help business, not to hamper business. The Sher- man law at first did good for it stop ped the uncontrolled riot of the big business men who wished to be law unto themselves and to absorb all busi- ness, and it definitely established the 1 supremacy of the national government l over them. But for the last 10 years ! 1t has done serious mischief, far more mischief than it has done good. It is foolish to object to large scale busi- | ness. The telegraph and telephone, steam and electricity have rendered 1 large scale business an absolute neces- ] slty, If this country is to be kept abreast of the progressive countries of | the world. And in international rela- tions it is only large scale business that can secure for America it's proper share of world business. In internal relations on the whole there should be less difficulty in securing a higt. | wage and proper treatment for labor 1 from large scale business than from 1 other kinds of business which has the 1 prosperity to share with it's employe. 1 This seems a sufficiently obvious truth. But in practice there are plenty of 1 demagogues and plenty of timid or self seeking politicians who forget it. In business, as in farming and in the labor world, our aim should be to se- cure cooperation and control; co-op- eration among business men, subject to | control by the government We should accept tHe fact that big business de. serves fair treatment and should not be penalized; but that it should not be left unregulated, uncontrolled. The {nation must be the master of the cor poration; not in the least to destroy the corporations; on the contrary, to help it and to see that an ample re- ward comes to those who invest in it and who manage it; but to see also that no injustice is done competitors, that the public is served, and that the labor men, the working men, are treated as in effect partners who must have their full share of the prosperity. In this war no profiteering should be allowed. It should not be stopped however, by hampering production. Production should be encouraged in fevery way. But the excess profits should be taxed on a heavily increas- ing scale (which incidentally, cannot be done to fully satisfactory degree so long as production is kept down by the kind of price-fiX that has been attempted). All corporations doing ar interstate or foreign business, which means all big corporations, should, bs a system of license or of incorporation come under national control, being made subject to some national board al Washington and required to comply with the regulations established by thi, administrative board in compliance with congressional action: and so long as the corporations thus comply they should be left free from the operation: of the Sherman law The law ant regulations should be designed tt carry out the purpose above expressed
 Make Working Man Partner
 Business cannot be permanent, successful nor can the commonwealth Itself permanently stand on saf, basis in a political democracy like our. unless we conscientiously strive tt make the working man in some req sense partner in the business ir which he works that is, to make thi: an industrial as we'll as a politica democracy. Democracy can succeed neither in peace nor in war say, through leadership. The effort t level down instead of leveling up rep resents that Odious envy of success which is but another manifestation o the same evil spirit which in certain 1 very successful men shows itself al an odious arrogance toward the les successful. The arrogance and tn envy are merely different sides of tn same evil shield. In striving to SC cure a square deal for the worlin, man, to secure for him an increase il his share of tre profits, of, and gradu ally share along certain lines in tn control of. the business we must keel steadily in mind these truths or " shall cause more harm than we remedy
 'The government at Washington ha wholly failed to do its duty in con nection with labor. and it is to thi failure that a large part of the calam itous breakdown in the shipping pro gram is due. To say that we are be hind in the ship program is to de scribe disaster in the terms of an ac cident. It is now apparent that tn promise made a year ago as to tn shipbuilding program will not be nor than Q third fulfilled; and this wi
 immeasureabiy cramp our effor abroad; and for the last few month trouble has primarily lain with the Ia bor situation, and this in turn has bee
 largely and probably mainly. due t the governments haphazard lack of
 settled and well thought-out plan. Tn government failed efficiently to regu late profiteering by our own capital
 ists, or to discriminate between thos of our own capitalists who did we
 and those who did i'll, Ga situatio
 which is. of course, mereIy aggra
 yated by an abandonment of the taril
 or other action in the interest (
 profiteering by foreign capitalists an
 manufacturers who can use the under
 paid labor of overseas against our ow
 industrial workers). This invited la
 bor troubles; and the governmer
 then feared to deal efficiently with il
 evil conditions which it's own previol
 inefficiency had invited England 0