The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-10-10
COLONEL ASKS
FOR SUPPORT
Continued from Page one.)

| TAKE the lead ana stand lor the social
and Industrial conditions so necessary
for men and women less able to shift
for themselves. You i'm this northern
peninsula, In this, city and neighbor-
hood are able TO new out your own
fates Individually and collectively,
YOU can more than hold your own.
That il why | ask you to help your
| brothers and sisters of cities and less
| favored localities, whose struggle in
| life Is hard.
II want every man to realize that in
| fact he is his brothers keeper | want
SO far as / am able and L wish ] had
he ability thousand fold to drive
| into the soul of each the proper spirit.
which Will not rest content while other
men and women everywhere are
pressed by the hand of starvation in
| modern industrial life. | wish To shape
matters in our political and industrial
life, not only by laws demanding JUS
ticc, but by such body of public opin-
ion that 1t will not tolerate injustice
and wrong. / come to ask you TO give
the help YOU don't need, to others who
can't stand on their own efforts, to
raise the conditions of life and labor of
men and women of the country as a
whole.
THE first plank of the Progressive
platform is the right of the people to
rule themselves You men of the
mines and great woods--you and each
of us asks the right to rule our own
individual lives. You wish to do It.
do.
Il know | make a mistake now and
then, but | want to make that mistake
myself. Just so collectively is our po-
litical life. The Progi essive move
ment is a movement for the over
throw of the boss and conditions that
lead to bossism in our political life.
when we get control of this gov
eminent of ours | know we will make
mistakes. but they will he ours. We
won't have any boss make them. II
lie makes them. We don't know how
many of them he will make. If we
make them, we won't make the same
one twice.
1T is of no use To have "A popular
government If you don't have the fact.
1t is of no use to vote, if others mis-
count our votes.
I'm the primaries last spring, ] said
if the people decided against me,
would have nothing more to say but If
The people decided Tor me and the pol
ticians beat me. l would have a great
deal to say. | am going to teach them
who they hold up. Thou shalt not
steal" is to apply to political life just
as much as to industrial life. No
community is really civilized which
tolerates the theft of an office any
more than the theft of a private purse.
OF the two. the theft of the office is
worse, because it is a theft of prop
erty that is owned by everyone here.
I'VE intend to work so as TO secure
real and not nominal responsibility of
public servants to the people. our OPP
ponents say we are working to de-
stroy representative government. Non
sense. We are working to make our
government really representative in
stead of misrepresentation, and only
so can we secure legislation necessary
to give us social and industrial JUS
tice. We can't gee it from the bosses.
We cant when special interests con-
troll politics.
II am not academic. | have gained
my experience from actual contact
with men. rye tried TO get good legis-
lation from the bosses and I've only
got it with club-4witb the big stick.
In every case where l have fought for
some measure for social or industrial
Justice, | have found the first require
ment is to get an expression from the
people If | couldn't get ii, | didn't get
the legislation. If ! could. we always
have had to beat down the bosses be-
fore we got the measure for right, for
which We are striving.
"In political life as in religious life
or industrial life. what is needed is
not eeniuses, but ordinary working
men possessed of the same qualities
we demand in Industrial life or from
our friends. We want good live men.
but even more we need the best type
of character that is found in the aver
age man. Character is the sum of
various qualities of many virtues, but
of three especially.
"Thc first of these Is honesty. Hon
esty applies even more in public life
Than in private. If citizen, whether
a private or public servant, is dishon-
est, the ADLER he is the more danger
Gus he is. My opponents have said J
have preached class hatred But never
in my life have l attacked any class
except the class of crooKs-big and lit
tie. | don't like either, but IL | mad
To choose. ] would prefer the little
crooks. Its the crook who Is power
full that is a menace.
Secondly. / don't care how honest a
man is, If he's afraid he's no good. ]
have no use fer the timid good man.
want straight man and n dead
game man. Courage as well as hon
esty is necessary.
"And don't care how honest man
Is or how brave. If he is a born fool,
you can't do anything with him. He
must have common sense
Il appeal to you on behalf Of the