Arizona republican., 1920-07-23

THE ARIZONA REPUBLlt citizen of the republic to hold fast to that which made us what We are. ana we will have orderly government safe guard the onward march to all we ought to be.
 Rishts for AlI-Privileges for None
 The menacing tendency of the pres ent day is not Chargeable wholly to the unsettled and fevered conditions caused by the war. The manifest weakness in popular government lies in the temptation to appeal to grouped citizenship for political advantage There is no greater peril The con stitution contemplates no class ana recognizes no group. It broadly in cludes all the people, with specific rec ognition for none. and the highest con secratiOn we can make today IS q committal of the Republican party to that saving cOnStitutionalism which contemplates all America as one peo- pie, and holds just government free from influence on the one hand and unmoved by intimidation on the other.
 It would be the blindness of folly to ignore the activities in our own country which are aimed to destroy our economic system and to commit us to the colossal tragedy which has both destroyed all freedom and made Russia impotent This movement is not to be halted in throttled liberties. We must not abridge the freedom of speech, the freedom of press or the freedom of assembly, because there is no promise in repression. These liber- ties are as sacred as the freedom of religious belief, as inviolable as the rights of life and the pursuit of hap piness. We do hold to the right to crush sedition, to stifle a menacing contempt for law, to stamp out a peril %@ SI1 F,4-- ~f &La nj people, when emergency calls, because security and the majesty of the law are the first essentials of liberty. He who threatens destruction of the gov ernment by force or flaunts his con- tempt for lawful authority ceases to be a loyal citizen and forfeitS his rights to the freedom of the republic.
 Let it be said to all of America that our plan of popular government con- templates such orderly changes as the crystallized intelligence of the major ity of our people think best. There can be no modification of this under lying rule, but no majority shall abridge the rights of a minority. Men have a right to question our system in fullest freedom, but they must always remember that the rights of freedom impose the obligations which maintain it Our policy is not of repression, but we make appeal today to Aneri- can intelligence and patriotism when the republic is menaced from within, just we trusted American patriotism when our rights were threatened from without.
 Approve Collective Bargaining
 We call on all America for steadi- ness, so that we may proceed delib- erately to the readjustment which concerns all the people. Our party platform fairly expresses the con- science of Republicans on industrial relations. No party is indifferent to the welfare of the wage earner. To us his good fortune is of deepest con fortune permanent. We do not oppose but approve, collective bargaining, be- cause that is an outstanding right, but we are unalterably insistent that its exercise must not destroy the equally sacred right of the individual. in his necessary pursuit of livelihood. Any American has the right to quit his employment, so has every American the right to seek employment. The group must not endanger the indi- vidual and we must encourage groups preying upon one another, and none shall be allowed to forget that gov ernnent's obligations are alike to all
 I hope we may do more than merely discourage the losses and sufferings attending industrial conflict. The strike against the government is properly de- nied, for government service involves none of the elements of profit whicf relate to comparative enterprise. There is progress in the establishment of off cial revealment of issues and conditions which lead to conflict, so that unerrins public sentiment may speed the ad journment, but I hope for that concord of purpose, not forced but inspired bJ the common veal, which will give 2 regulated public service the fulles guaranty of continuity. I am thinking of the railroads. In modern life they are the very base of all our activitie: and interchanges. For public protec tion we have enacted laws providing for a regulation of the charge for serv- ice, a limitation on the capital invested and a, limitation on capitals earnings There remains only competition of serv ice on which to base our hopes for al efficiency and expansion which mee our modern requirements. The rail way worlSmen ought to be the bes paid and know the best working con | ditions in the world. Theirs is an ex | ceptional responsibility. They are no | only essential to the life and health an, l all productive activities of the people
 but are directly responsible for tn l safety of travelling millions The gov l ernment which has assumed so mucl
 authority for the public good migh
 well stamp railway employment wit
 the sanctity of public service and guar
 antee to the railway employees that jus
 tice which voice the American concep
 ton of righteousness on the one hand
 and assured continuity of service o
 the other.
 BIames Inefficiency On Government
 The importance of the railway re
 mobilization is so obvious that refereno
 seems uncalled for. We are SO conf
 dent that much of the present day in
 sufficiency and inefficiency of trans
 portation are due to the whitening han
 of government operation that empha
 size anew our opposition to g@vernmer | ownership, we want to expedite tn