Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-02-07
WHAT NEW MEXICO NEEDS.

New Mexico needs enlarged group of social
minded people who will take active hand in pub
lie matters. We have plenty Of people, otherwise
good citizens who PERSONAL minded, They
think of me and my wife, my son John and his
wife; we four and more"
eve have many people who party-minded
They are for the good old party, right wrong
They may hope that some day she may be right
but they for her just the same.
There are great numbers of people who are
class minded. They for the protection and dom
nance of the business interests" or the labor
unions They are for their crowd and ipso facto
are against the other crowd. Such alignment
means class conflict and a constant struggle for
supremacy
If "bg business has a right to control political
conditions and elect legislatures and governors to
make and execute laws in their behalf, then the
unions have a right to do the same things. The
whole matter becomes of some class having the
ability to enforce its will the rest of the
munity. Peace, contentment and general prosperity
can be accomplished by such route.
The man woman with the social instinct looks
upon community life in all its phases and attempts
to understand the hopes aspirations and troubles
of all classes of the people Then the socal-mindei
seek to do everything which be done to help
each group to realize those hopes and aspirations
and to overcome the troubles, remembering always
that the balances must be kept even and that the
rights of group and where the rights Of another
group begin.
Every ought to wish to the mining in
terests of the state prosperous 1t to the advan-
tage Of the entire community that this be true if
possible. But 1t is equally important that their
employees be free, happy and prosperous. Therefore,
when the companies enjoy unusual prosperity
through the medium Of employees kept in a state
of quasi-bonda on n great feudal estate a social
wrong is done which must be righted. otherwise
testers, which sooner later will be the undo
ing Of the feudal lords,
Railroads should prosper-but not ahnormally
at the expense of the res of the community. There
is a point where justice to the railroads ends and
the rights of its employees and the public begins
The social-minded citizen looks with unbiased eye
on this situation and seeks even-handed justice.
To live adequately, to educate family reason
ably, to lay by something for emergencies. is the
right of every who works diligently; plans
prudently and lives crcumspectly If he can not
fairly such competency he has not found
his niche in life. If he it fairly but the
business will not afford it, the business ms-man
aged fails to fill public need. If the business
afford 1t, but it is denied him in order to pile
up profits, he is being robbed of his rights.
All this is relative Some workers insist upon
living too extravagantly then spend money tn-ad-
visedly and then their employer for their mis-
fortunes
These struggles have gone on for decades They
may go until the end of time. 1t is not neces-
sary that they shall, When employers regard their
businesses as trust imposed upon them to man
age in the interest Of the labor employed and the
capital invested with fairness to both; when labor
looks upon the business their business out of
which its livelihood must and realizes that
nothing come out of It except what is put into
It, will dawn.
These things cannot come until both employer
and empoye become socal-minded and seek earn
esty to understand and faithfully to solve, the
problem. Each must understand the difficulties of
the other.
The social-mnded sees the government as
a thing instituted for the benefit of all of the
people equally and not for the personal advantage
of the few.
The solution Of the worlds problems can not
be found with shotgun. Strong arm methods
may stay the problem for the moment The remedy |
must come through the development of the social
instinct, until men regard each other as brothers;
understand each others problems; seek only wha: |
is just and by discussion work out the best possible
solution for each.
Is this too ideallstic? We assert that It Is sane
common-sense. The industrial world can not
prosper armed camp. selflshness defeats
itself in the end 1t pays, in dollars to do the right
thing.