Arizona republican., 1918-08-19
When the Soldiers Come Back

Elsewhere print this morning an account of Inc prompt suppression by returned. nvaided Cana soldiers of a street railway strike at Vancouver, B. C. The soldiers had concern in the strike an industrial incident, but they had serious interest in the cause of the strike. which to be made sym pathetic demonstration. It punish the public because Dominion policeman had killed draft ryader who happened also to be labor leader and organizer This had stood and died in opposition o the war which the soldiers had lately been fight ing. The strike therefore mark of disapproval of the war
 Before proceeding to the lesson of this incident it IS not irrelevant speak of the folly of spitefuy nricting the strike punishment upon the public. We reminded that not long citizen of Phoenix, uow occupying temporarily federal position pro- posed to halt all industry in this state at time when rhe government deeply interested in keeping industry in notion because there probability hat a going to he hanged sometime in a ncighboring state. The people of Arizona had done nothing toward bringing about that prospective hang ing. Neither had the nation at done anything Yet ideness ordered by this patriotic Phoenician 10 be inflicted upon both the state and nation.
 Returning to the Vancouver affair that gives us hope of q day when the American soldiers some millions of them, return from the war. That will be inc end of the small politician and the demagogue. Both thrive upon the prejudces. the ignorance the sclfishness and the apathy of the multitude They play the little interests of class the little inter of another and when they determine which is the stronger they become the champions of that class.
 When the soldiers back will have such q citizenship in America as we have never had before The millions who have out will out best They constitute such army the world had never seen. Every grade of society highest he lowest is represented in it. The home interests of these were widely divergent. There was little of sympathy of Cass with the aims and aspirations of another. Men from different little worlds which to each of its class was the universe. They have met in ois big world and have ground. The things they left behind became unim- portant and far away. The of the small farmer, the son of tho railway king. the the radesman and the of the professional man; the university graduate and the youth from the eighth grade, all became comrades. with single purpose the great and the only object the whole world worth striving for Beside it the most important economic policies, inc social problems which mon and bored the struggles of the classes at home, all became dis tant and pitfully small.
 When these back they will bring with them views of things with world wide breadth and in many respects and believe, in the most important respect they will think very much alike. They will he the controlling of the nation The demagoguc will be brusquely brushed aside along with the man
 
 gard for him who should have been in the and kept out of it pretext another. They will direct the affairs of the nation for a generation and the nation will be better for their direction
 We shall have a government of the aristocracy in the true sense and such a government is the besta government by the best born" We do mean. by those who were born to wealth. and distinction but those who born again in training camps on the fields of Flanders, Picardy and Lorraine, who had their birth in the trenches, in the md amid the thunder and flash of the battle. They will be the real aristocrats and they will rule.
 The survivors of the civil for nearly genera ton directed the affairs of the republic they were well directed. It only when decimation followed decimaton of their numbers that the quality of our government suffered deterioration. The per sonnel of congress gra dually lowered the in- 'uence of the small politician and the demag gogue as ended.
 The number of survivors of the civil war was small in comparison with the number the victorious soldiers who will return from the that we may believe that the influence of the latter will be felt on government in marked degree lhan was that of the boys in blue who became our presidents. congressman and judges the between the states