Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-28


conduct and corruption But there is no
need .of auy other party raising the cry
Of turn the rascals out for we have
turned our own rascals out; and wherever
rascality Is found to exist in the future, we
will be even more prompt to punish anyone
Of our own. party adherents than an adher-
ent of another party, because we feel
peculiar responsibility in dealing with the
man who not only degrades himself and
the public service, but discredits our own
party by belonging to It.
Believes In Republican Party.
II believe In the party to which we be
long because l believe in the principles for
which the republican party stood in the
DAYS Of Abraham lincoln; and furthermore.
and especially, because ] believe in treating
these principles, not dead. but as living.
Empty gIorification of our past amounts
to less than nothing IL we put it forward.
and an excuse for not doing our duty in the
living present. We can deserve the con-
fidence of the people by proving in deed
as we'll as in word thar we face the prob
lem Of dealing with political and business
corruption and of working for social and
economic Justice. and for the betterment
OF THE conditions Of nfe and the uplifting
of our people with the same fervor and
sincerity that lincoln. and his followers
brought 20 the great tasks allotted to
them in their day.
corruption in every form is the arch
enemy OF this republic, the arch-enemy
of free institutions and of government by
the people. an even more dangerous enemy
than the open lawlessness of violence, be-
cause it works in hidden and furitive
fashion. We are against corruption in poll
tics; we are against corruption in business,
and above all, and with all our strength,
we are against the degrading alliance OF
crooked business and crooked politics. the
alliance which adds strength to the al
ready powerful corrupt boss and to the al
ready powerful corrupt head of big BUSH
ness and which makes them in their dual
capacity enemies against whom every pat
riotic man should stand with unwavering
firmness. Let no man say that this is an
assault upon the honest business man.
Service VS.. SwindIing.
That is as foolish as to say that IL is
an assault on the upright political leader
The high regard in which we uphold the
upright and honest business man who
ireaps a great reward by rendering a great
/ service to the community is the measure
of our contempt and adherence for that
business man, big or little, who wins sue
cess by corruption and fraud, who swindles
the public instead of Serving the public
I'm short. our attitude is merely that we
! stand for honesty well as for progress
siveness and for efficiency; the we believe
! both business men and politicians should be
just and upright and honest as we'll as wise,
courageous and fair sighted. We are against
crookedness in the small men, but we are
against it just as strongly in the big men,
! I,,1s ach NV "a
by his wealth or his social station; and we
hold 1t to be our bounden duty to strive
| steadily to make and to keep this great
| American commonwealth as a true 'democ-
racy and steadily to endeavor to shape our
| legislation and our social conditions so that
| there shall be far nearer approach than
at present towards equality of opportunity
1 among men.
1.-THE corporation must be protected must
| be given it's rights, but II must be pre-
vented from doing wrong, and its managers
naus be hold jim strict accountability when
| III does wrong. and it must be deprived of
| all secret influence in our public life. We
must strive to do away with the social and
economic injustice that have come from
dkiIipg 70 mest, by ps3Ps9rl lsgislstiop the
cHanged Conditions brought about by the
sigantic growtlh.4 9f P!pri ,iindustrialisms ,.y
| n Justice for. Rural Com muafttes.
| 1--WE Of this state must make IL our BUSH
ness to help in efficient fashion the country
! districts to shape matters so as to en-
courage the growth of the farming COM
mhnites and to help give the people in
| those communities the advantages which
have come in disproportlonate measure to
the city rather than to the country dur
ing the Industrial growth of the last fifty
years. We must guard the interests of the
wage worker, the man who works with his
! hands; we must safeguard the woman who
tolls and see that the young children do not
! toll
I'VE must see that, by far-reaChinE leg
isation the workman who is crippled and
the family of the workman who is killed
| in industry are compensated, SO that the
loss necessarily incident to industries shall
be equitable and fairly distributed instead
of being placed on the shoulders of those
not able to bear them. We must make Il
a matter of obligs ton by, the state TO see
that the conditions under which working
men and women do their work shall be
safe and healthfuL So far as by legislation
is possible we must strive to give to the
working man the power to achieve and
maintain high standard of living. Finally
as matter of course. we must do every
thing possible to promote and conserve the
| business prosperity of the whole country.
Boss is NeGatipn of Democracy.
| We who come together to set the stan
dard of our party have a grave RESPONSE
bility to that party and to the public.
Democracy means nothing unless the
people rule. The rule of the boss is the
negation Of Democracy 1t is absolutely
essential that the people should exercise
self-control and selt-msstery and he is
| a foe to popular government who in any
way causes them TO lose such. self-control
and self-mastery whether from, without or
| within. But 1t must be literally self-con-
troll and not contEol by outsiders. We
should at once introduce in this state the
SYSTEM of direct communications in the
primaries SO that the people shall be able
themselves to decide who the candidat e
shall be. instead Of being limited, merely
to choosing betwsen candidates with whose
denomination they have nothing 70 do.
"Our country offers the most wonderful
example of democratic government on q
giant scale the world. has ever seen, anC
the peoples Iot sthe WORLD are watching t
see whether we succeed or fan we. be-
'.aiieve with ali our hearts in aenroerasy. ii
the capacity OF the people TO govern them
selves, and we are bound to succeed. To-
our success means not onl! our owl
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