Arizona republican., 1920-03-05
? PUBL|C OPINION .0NLY MONARCH| IN U.S., SAYSPA PALMER
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 WASHINGTON, March = In his first speech since formally announcing his candidacy for the democratic nomination for president. Attorney General Palmer told the National Press Club tonight that the urgent need of the hour to stabilize industrial condi- tions, was machinery to adjust differ ences before they got to the point of a strike.
 MT. Palmer declared there need be no compulsory arbitration or restric- tion of the right to strike, if provision were made for the public to be in formed of disputes affecting them.
 Public opinion is the only monarchy in this country" he said, "and informed public opinion will always secure jus tice to both sides in industrial con- troversies.
 "All the government sought to do in the coal strike situation for instance, was to insist that both sides should be heard before an impartial tribunal, without the country being made to suffer from the strong methods adopted by each side to accomplish it's purpose in the controversy. While the govern ment may properly exercise its right to protect the vast body of the Ameri- can people from the suffering, loss, and death which would ensue from the general tie-up in the production or transportation of the necessaries of life, it ought never to be necessary to exercise that right. Suitable machin- cry should promptly be built to adjust such controversies before they reach the stage which compels the govern ment to take action in the defense of itself or the people whom it is designed to serve.
 By slow, but decisive processes, the arrogance of capital in this country has been broken. But now we see in many lines labor grown so strong, so power full that it some times threatens to become arrogant and during the last year capital has had to plead upon it's knees to labor for a chance to be heard and the right to have its difficulties with labor arbitrated. l think the shame of it all is that in all these years of progress along all lines in America, we have not yet reached the point where neither capital nor labor can or dare become autocratic, or deny each other hearing.
 Tt is a shame that labor was ever forced to the necessity of taking the strong stand which it has been com pelled to take for its own advancement Labor conditions in the United States are better than in any other nation of the earth, and it is due to labor that this is true. r has been the unremit- ting demand of organized labor for higher wages and better living condi- tions that has brought the working man to his high estate in America
 And now that both capital and la Dor understand each other, recognize each others power and grant each others right to be, and to be heard, which after all is exactly what the government tried to impress upon both sides in the coal strike the thing to do in ehe pubic interest is build the ma chinery which will make it possible for both sides to have their claims pre- sented to the public.''
 After brief reference to the treaty deadlock, Mir. Palmer said international 1 peace was not more important than peace within the country which could 1 be obtained only by impartial enforce ment of the laws and adherence to the ideals on which the republic was founded.