Arizona republican., 1921-04-18

the tomahawk and the bludgeon. In a civilized community men appeal to the law. The degree of civilization to which any community, or state, may have attained is accurately measured by the obedience it yields to law. The test is very simple and is easily applied.
 that fills the land? Why is it cur
 rently designated 'Warfare"? Be- cause it is warfare. War prosecutes it's aims, not by law under the rule of reason, but by force under the rule of passion. The numberless strikes, lock outs, picketings, accompanied by all degreeS of violence, accounts Of which fill the columns of the daily papers, are evidence of the fact that law is either ignored or over-ridden, and that the instincts of the savage prevail over the intelligence and vir- tue of the patriot.
 And yet there are multitudes of well meaning persons who, failing to perceive the inevitable result of this appeal to force and the proper remedy for it, excuse it. Realizing that the laboring classes often suffer from injustice and oppression, they sym | pathize with them in their attempts | to secure their rights by force and 
 disorders, with their monstrous evils. l The distressful condition of multi l tudes, thus striving to better them l selves by force, appeals to the best 1 impulses of human nature. so that the | clergy, our leading educators and | philantrophists, the best classes of 1 society generally, not clearly appre- hending the essentially vicious nature | of all resorts to force instead of law, often sympathize with and justify ! them.
 The whole argument by which it is attempted to justify industrial war | fare is fallacious. It proceeds upon | the assumption that men, feeling l themselves aggrieved, or unjustly | treated, are justified in taking the matter into their own hands, determ- | ming the equity of the case them 1 selves. and administering rewards and penalties according to their own 1 will This is directly opposed to the l fundamental principles ot the gov ernment of the United States or oi l any free government When there is | a clash of interests between man and
 man, or between groups of men ir l a civilized community, 1t is not per
 missible that one of the interested parties should assume the right tc | dictate what the settlement must bt
 and to proceed accordingly. To fol l low such a course would be to ignor, utterly the judicial function of gov l ernment without which government
 whether in the family, the communit, or the state, cannot exist. It would
 be a reversion to barbarian wherein | physical force settles all disputes. The sympathy, above referred to
 for the laborer in justification fo
 his acts rests upon the assumption
 that he is helpless. He is poor ant
 alone and weak. The company fo
 which he labors is rich and strong
 What can he doe His only means 0
 defense and relief is to conspire witt
 his fellows to force his employer t. -reat him justly.
 Here is the fallacy which lies a
 the root of the evil of the industria l unrest and the strikes and disorder
 resulting therefrom which disturb
 our nation today. This fallacy is fun
 damental. It relates, as above ex
 plained, to one of the chief bases upol
 which our government rests-the ad
 ministration of justice. If it be tru
 that industrial peace is impossible, i
 state of war must continue, ant
 intensity as it will. in the very sub structure of our national life, tn
 doom of our republic Is already set. Let uS see if we are thus doomed