Arizona republican., 1918-12-20

ton became social contract thing of fact
 Changes may be stimulated hurried and, in deed may be prescribed by laws but until they have come about in an orderly by evolution, the laws are ineffective.
 There may be a need in European countries, says Mr. Abbott for the programme at least a part of it. outlined in the foregoing proposals but as to our system he says:
 The task in such a nation as ours is difficult With all it's faults the class with capital achieved it's lead ership in the main by it's courage and its skill, and there is vet no reason to believe it has lost those qualities Unlike the mob it depends, not on mere of numbers but intelligence and organization Moreover unlike monarchy and aristocracy It IS an open order admission it's ranks is not conditioned by privilege but by ability. It is a shifting group continually depleted the natural law which steri- izes arstocracy and continually recruited from the lower ranks a it is no class at all in such a society as ours It is opportunity and we a actually or potentially share it's rewards For we are what we may become It is not immutable either in it's personnel or in its beliefs and practices The device representative is typical of the society which created it, it's feXbillty its eXperlmenta spirit it's capacity institutions and practices, and even principles without resort to revolution For the nation of which we a part whatever it's capital stic bourgeois elements, is not confined to them It stands between autocraey and anarchy a compromise yet on whole sound and workable solution of the problem before the world-a democratic society, under the laws of its making, humane, ln- teigent practical not unworthy product of the so- called middle class, which, Eaher than to autoc- racy anarchy, it owes it's origin and principles.
 In the same issue of the Yale Review William Allen White under the head of 1.-TWO Theories Ex ploded" outlines the life of the world
 The decisive end of this will bring in a epoch and it will the rise of that portion of the population all over civilization, in Germany as well among the allies which, during the last and pass ing epoch been discontened because of the mani fold iniustices that have bound it. We shall a attempt to abolish grinding class poverty in the world. And that does not of that shall have socialism. That does not mean that everybody shall get ticket from the city hall that the world shall be leveed downward that the talent of will not count in the world that the strong man will faster and go further than the weak It does not mean that the fool and the wise will share and share alike in this worlds goods. It does not mean that Marxian socialism anything like Marxian socialism will be the order of the day. Two things have been everastngly blown up by the big shells bursting on the battle front is Marxan socialism and the other is unrestrained capitalism.
 When We went into the war we adopted many measures which showed the easy ability of the government to control capitalism, to make it the servant of the state We predicted then that these measures would be retained peace measures, that of inordnate greed would be restrained and that we would never quite return to the old der. We have since seen that those measures were measures and nothing more but their opera ton have learned that it is possible curtail profits without strangng initiative and to op- portunity That believe will be done in peace measures We think it will come about not in revo- luton but quietly and perhaps swiftly.
 We are the more inclined to think so because of the patriotism shown in the war, or men whom we formerly regarded with a suspicion, in some cases well founded. The war has changed their views of life and has given them new outlook