Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-06
HEvERiDeE's SPEECH.
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| government that represents the peo-
| pie We LATHE for the actual rights OF
man.
| 'eTo carry out our principles we have
a plain program of constructive re-
/ forra We mean to tear down only that
/ which is wrong and out of date, and
| where we tear down we mean to build
/ what is right and fitted to the times.
! We harken to the call of the present,
| We mean to make laws fit conditions
| as they are and meet the needs of the
i people who are on earth, today. That
| we may do this we found . party
/ through which all who believe with us
/ can work with us, or rather, we de-
clare our allegiance to the party which
| the people themselves have founded.
For this party comes from the grass
roots. 1t has grown from the soil of the
/ peoples hard necessities. It has the
| vitality of the peoples strong conyic
| tione. The people have Work to be done
| and our party is here to do that work.
| The speaker discussed the Republic
| can and Democratic parties the boss
| system" and special interests saying
among other things:
| "At the present monlent notorious
| bosses are in the saddle of both old
| parties in various important states
which must be carried to elect Il Presi-
| dent. Neither of the cid parties NOM
| inee for President can escape obliga
| ton to these old party bosses nor shake
| their practical hold on many and pow
erful members of the national Legisla-
ture.
| Under this boss system, no matter
which party wins, the people seldom
win, but the bosses almost always
/ win"
| Confirming his discussion of parties.
Mr.. Beveridge said:
''The South has men and women as
| genuinely progressive and others as
| genuinely reactionary as those in other
parts of our country. Yet. for we'll
/ known reasons. these sincere and hon
est Southern Progressives and reac-
ticnaries vote together in a single par
| ty, which is neither progressive nor re-
| dictionary. They vote a dead tradition
and local fear, not a living convic-
ton and a national faith. They vote
not FOR the Democratic party, but
against the Republican party They
| want to be free from this condition
they can be free from it through the
National Progressive party"
| The root of the wrongs, which hurt
the people, is the fact that the peoples
| government has been taken away from
them. Their government must be
given back to the people. And so the
hrst purpose of the Progressive party
| is TO make sure the rule of the people
The rule of the people means that the
people themselves shall nominate, as
wen as elect. all candidates for office
including senators and Presidents of
the United States"
Mr. Beveridge said American busi-
ness is uncertain and unsteady com
| pared with the business of other ma
| lions What, then" he asked, must
we do to make American business bet
ter? We must do what poorer ma
| tons have done. We must end the
abuses OF business by striking down
those abuses instead of striking down
business itself. We must try to make
little business big, and all business
honest, instead of striving to make big
business little and yet letting it re-
| main dishonest. AS the Sherman law
now stands. no two business men can
arrange their mutual affairs and be
sure that they are not law breakers
This is the main hindrance to the i'm :
mediate and permanent revival OF
| American business. Under the DEGREES
OF the court, the oil and tobacco trusts
stili can raise prices unjustly and al
ready have done so.
Such business chaos and legal par
adoxes as American business suffers
from can be found nowhere else in the
world
The speaker declared the Progress
1--WE party will accomplish reforms
vital TO American business.
We mean to put new business laws
on our statute books which will tell
American business men what they can
do and what they cannot do. The
next great business reform we must
have to steadily increase American
prosperity is to change the method of
building our tariffs. The tariff must
be taken out of politics and treated
as business question instead of q
political question. The greatest need
OF business is certainty, but the only
thing certain about our tariff is I'M
certainty. Next to our need to make
the Sherman law modern, understand
able and Just. our greatest fiscal need
IL a genuine, permanent, non partisan
tariff commission" the speaker said.
There has not been and will not be
any sincere and honest effort by the
old parties to get a tariff commission.
nor to take the tariff out of politics.
"A tariff high enough to give Amer
lean producers the American market
when they make honest goods and sell
them at honest prices, but low enough
that when they sell dishonest goods at
dishonest prices, foreign competition
can correct both evils. tariff high
enough to enable American producers
TO pay our workingmen American
wages and so arranged that the work
ingmen will get such wage: bust