The Prescott daily news., 1912-08-05
Speech of Senator Beveridge as Temporary Chairman of Pro-
 greSSive Convention.
NEW POLITICAL ERA IN SIGHT
Wiser Statesmanship and Freer Rule of the People Declared to Be the Object of the Movement-Le- gltmate Business Interests
 Not to Be Disturbed.

tS1npOrdry Cna1rmanSnlp Ot the Fro gressive national convention, deliver ed the speech which is recognized as embodying the aims of the new party. His address, in effect, was as follows;
 We stand for a nObler America. We stand for an undivided nation. We stand for broader liberty, a fuller justice. We stand for social brother hood as against savage indivldualism, We stand for an intelligent co-opera- ton instead of @ reckless competition. We stand for mutual helpfulness in- stead of mutual hatred. We stand for equal rights as fact of life instead of, a catchword of politics. We stand for the rule of the people as a practical. truth instead of meaningless pre- tense. We stand for a representative government that represents the peo-; pie We battle for the actual rights of man.
 The people living in this land of gold are the most daring and resource tul on the globe Coming from the hardest stock of every nation of the. pld world their very history in the new world has made Americans a peculiar people in courage, initiative, love of justice and all the elements of inde- pendent character.
 And, compared with other peoples, we are very few in numbers. There, are only ninety millions of us, scat tered over a continent Germany has. siXty-hye millions packed in a country, very much smaller than Texas. The population of Great Britain and Ire land could be set down in California and still have more than enough room for the population of Holland. If this country was as thickly populated as Belgium there would be more than twelve hundred million instead of only ninety million persons within our bor- ders.
 As Conditions Should Be.
 So We have more than enough to supply every human being beneath the nag. There ought not to be in this republic a single day of bad business, a single unemployed workingman, a single unfed child. American business men should never know an hour of un- certainty, Encouragement or fear; American workingmen never a day of low wages, likeness or want. Hunger should never walk in these thinly peo- pied gardens of plenty.
 And yet in spite of all these favors which providence has showered upon us, the living of the people is the prob lem of the hour Hundreds of thou Sands of hard-working Americans find It difficult to get enough to live on The average income of an American laborer is less than $500 year. With this he must furnish food, shelter and clothing for a family.
 ' Women, whose nourishing and pro- tection should be the first care of the state, not only are driven into the mighty army of wage-earners, but are Forced to work under unfair and de- grading conditions. The right of a child to grow into a normal human be- ing is sacred; and yet while small and poor countries, packed with people, have abolished child labor, American mills, mines, factories and sweatshops are destroying hundreds of thousands of American children in body, mind and soul.
 At the same time men have grasped Fortunes in this country so great that the human mind can not comprehend their magnitude. These mountains of wealth are far larger than even that lavish reward which no one would deny to business risk or genius.
 On the other hand, American busi- ness Is uncertain and unsteady com pared with the business of other na- lions. American business men are the best and bravest in the world, and yet our business conditions hamper their energies and chill their courage. We have no permanency in business af- fairs, no sure outlook upon the busi- ness future. This unsettled state of American business prevents 1t from realizing for the people that great and continuous prosperity which our coun- try's location, vast wealth and small population justifies.
 Reforms Projected.
 We mean to remedy these condi- tions. We mean not only to make prosperity steady, btu to give to the many who earn it just share of that prosperity steady, but to give to the who do not earn 1t to take an unjust share. The progressive motto is Pass prosperity around" To make human living easier, to free the hands of hon. est business, to make trade and con-