Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-30

m~aehinist. AS an economist he has
written half a dozen books.
There are some people, he said
today. ''who are saying that a preach
er has no business in politics. They
have no objection to his studying
about the social and econmic life OF
the Jebusites, the Hittites, the HiV-
ties, and preaching about, but when
he studies into the social life of the
Chicagoites, the P~ittsburghites and
the Newarkites, and breaches about
it-in precisely the same way that he
would preach about the social life
of the Amalekites. for example-some
brother will calmly remind him that
he might better preach the simple
gospel. 1t is very much easier to Sc
cure the facts with regard to the
Newarkites than il is to get them
with regard to the Amalekites and
the Newarkites need our practical
preaching and social service measures
very much more than the Amalekites.
for the Amalekites have been a long
time dead.
II am q candidate for the New
Jersey Assembly because | believe
that | shall have an opportunity TO
represent a very large constituency
of working people In whose behalf
| have been contending ever since |
left the machine shop on the plat
form and through the press.
For ten years | have been dis
eussing, without any apology. the So
cial problems OF the people In every
part of the United States. This has
been done without any restrictions
Whatsoever. The fine thing about
campaigning for the Progressive
party is that I, have the same meas
ure of freedom In discussing these
problems. for. there is no fear of
the boss in this campaign. There
is no particular committee to please.
1t is a straight-out, straightforward
proposition with regard to the human
problems of the common people.
u have always beer a Democrat. |
have consistently voted for William
Jennings Bryan for the presidency,
but have a profound conviction that
there is more virtue in having been
three times elected to the presidency
of the United States than in having
been three times defeated. This is
one of the reasons why | can heartily
support Mr.. Roosevelt. II 1t were a
question of foisting a candidate upon
the people against their wish 1t would
be an a~bsurdity to select a mar for
this purpose who has been victorious
by an overwhelming majority every
time he has been put up before the
people.
The platform of the Progressive
party appeals to me because 1t is a
great human document. 1t does not
deal with worn-out' political issues,
but is vital and living In the sub
jects 1t discusses. l believe In the
Progressive party because IL Is con-
tending for the very things for which
| have been fighting nationally-in
my own particular field-.for the past
ten years. My experience as a ma
chinest for eight years in the bigges,
shop in New York city, and a twenty
1--we years residence in the tenement
houses in that city, gave me a clear
conception of what the people need
1.-The Progressive party is giving
intelligent expression to the social
unrest of the masses. 1t Is doing
more than that: Ii Is presenting a
practical program to meet this UNI
rest. This platform Is fundamentally
moral and religious, but not neces-
sarily in u seetarian sense. II in
cludes such men as Mr.. Straus, who
is a jew; John Mitchell, who is n
Roman Catholic; Raymond Robins,
who Is a Protestant. 1t also includes
women of tho type of Jane Adams,
who has been giving her life for tho
past twenty-five years to the people
in Chicago's tenement-house district.
Any party that can enlist people of
such different affiliations and of the
fine Type that these people are known
to be will make a large appeal to the
country.'