Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1912-08-22
HONEST NOMINATIONS
INDUSTRIAL JUSTICE
TEXTS OF COL. ROOSEVELT's
OPENING ADDRESS. FOR So
CIAL AND INDUSTRIAL
JUSTICE.

AS Theodore Roosevelt will soon
swing around this state in his cam
paign for election to the presidency
upon the Progressive party ticket,
the. following extracts from his ad-
dress in Massachusetts will be of
interest.
Honesty in nominations and cleo
tions, and social and industrial JUS
tice, were the text of speech de-
livered in the east by Theodore
Roosevelt. The Progressive candi-
date also contrasted the Progressive
platform with that of the Demo-
Gratis.
Whereas Gov. Wilson, he said,
stated that "the platform is not
program" Col. Roosevelt declared
that the Progressives treated their
platform as program and "con-
tract which we shall scrupulously
fulfill if the people give us the
power"
Col. Roosevelt said in part:
"Men and women of Massachu-
setts-and on the platform on
which l stand-make the same ap-
peal of serious and sober purpose
to the woman as to the man. I come
to this state with it's background of
adherence to lofty ideals, and ask
IN, 1F NJ, TO To
place the Massachusetts, of today on
the side of those who battle for all
that is highest and best in our ma
tional life.
''The first essential in securing
the right of the people to rule is to
secure the unsparing condemnation
Of dishonesty in nominations and
elections. To steal nomination or
to steal an election is even worse
than to steal purse for it is theft
of the peoples rights; it 10 theft
from the people as whole. Every
honest man should set his face like
flint against such dishonesty wheth-
er it takes the form of swindhng at
the polls or debauchlng legislature
or the theft of a nominating conven-
ton.
Hits at Democrats.
.''In his speech Of acceptance Mr.
Wilson, after asking What is the
meaning Of the Baltimore PLATFORM
and answering his own question,
vague, states that he does ask the
people of the United States to adopt
that platform ana that the plat
form is not a program We Pro-
gressives are much more fortunate
in our platform. We do not have
to apologize for it, or speak of it in
language so carefully guarded as to
convey the impression that we are
endeavoring neither to repudiate it
nor support it. We stand on our
platform. We do ask that our plat
form be adopted by the nation. Our
platform is our program, We treat it
as such, and what is more, We treat
it as contract which we shall
scrupulously fulfill If the people give
us the chance. Our plans are def
mite and concrete and our intention
is to enact them into law and to
make them part of the active gov
ernment policy of the nation.
Progressive Proposals.
cat this moment, ask your at
tention only to- the proposals. that
we make to secure social and indus
trial justice. In the first place we
set forth prominently what we want
to try to secure at the present time
in the way of social and Industrial
jrstice-for instance, to secure by
law one days rest in seven for all
wage workers, an eight hour day in
continuous 24-hour Industries, the
prohibition Of child labor, the estab-
lishment of an eight hour day for
women and young persons. the erec-
tion of minimum wage sta a1dards
for working women, workmen's COM
pensation acts, the securing of prop
er conditions Of life and labor for
workingmen and women, and the
prevention of occupation diseases
and the fixing Of accupational health
standards. We propose to secure
these installments Of social and an
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