Arizona republican., 1921-09-17
SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER r, 1921.
There are three things that ought to be considered before some things are spoken-the manner, the pIace and the time. -Southey.
"The Committee of 48"


 We see by Associated Press dispatch of yes- terday that the Committee of AS" is about to a new party and come into the water next year in the congressional campaign. Announcement is made three issues: the solution of the railroad problem reduction of national expenditures relief from taxation.
 These not really issues since these questions not regarded having two sides. Both the great parties trying to what the Committee of 4S" wants done business of solution has been put hands the Republican party. 1t may be stunned that that party will do it's best to discharge its trust It has not had time to do much It has put out lines in all three directions and must await with proper patience the result.
 There great many practical in the Republican and Democratic parties who may be pected to approach these questions with practical plans. We say quite much for the Com mittee of 4s" which was formed in New York two years ago. It may comprise some practical men and women but its direction far is in the hands of 'intelectuals" and know what they are. including dreamers parlor boshevists and socialists.
 The immediate avowed incentive for the organ ization high of living" which though not having been entirely reduced is being reduced. But "the high cost of living" seized upon only the chief of popular dissatisfaction at that time and held out by the committee to be sufficient proof incapabiity of the old parties to the 
 no relief through the old parties since both controlled by economic forces. constituting an invisible government, not representative of the people and that the present twoparty system leaves the country with adequate political opposition"
 The committee. consisting have said large 1y of "intellectuals" lawyers. students and writers Greenwich Village being well represented, discovered a deadlock of democracy" which it proposed to break by the opening of channels
  ular will might find expression in political action.
 Since then it may be observed the popular will expressed itself loudly and enthusiastically than ever before when nearly year ago 1t com- mitted the disposition of the things of which 1t plained to the Republican party.
 A birds eye view of what the Committee of AS" proposed is had the following program adopted at the New York organization meeting.
 CD Public ownership of transportation, includ- ing stockyards lrage abatoirs grain elevators ter minal warehouses, pipe lines and tanks. Public own ership of other public utilities and of the principal natural such coal. oi natural min- eral deposits large water powers and large commer- cial lumber tracts.
 CD No land, Cncluding natural resources) and patents to be held of for speculation to aid monopoly.
 C3) Equal economic. political and legal rights for all irrespective of sex color. The immediate and absolute restoration of free speech, peaceabe assem- by and all civil rights guaranteed by the constitution We demand the abolition of the injunction in labor
  the management of industry and abors right to or ganize bargain collectively through representa- tives of its own choosing
 There is much here which any good citizen may endorse. A majority of citizens and very large majority do not favor government ownership. As to the restoration free speech good citizens had not felt themselves hampered by restrictions put upon them either to speech peaceable assembly but certain members of the Committee" had been tioned against license which they had been exercts- ing under the guise of freedom. This demand was only a reiteraton of which radical socialists, German syrnpathizers and boshevists had been mak ing during the
 The Committee of 4S" at that time did some thing else. action looking to union with the spreading but discredited and disintegrat- ing Non-Partisan League and the so-called Labor Party at which the great body of labor was then looking askance and which it repudiated at the polls last November.
 third party with such foundation the "Committee 4S" would hardly commend itself to any considerable part of the American people who would not elect to be led of their troubles by dreamers-especially that the troubles rapidly