The Washington times., 1912-08-17
News Channels Choked.

to hard-shelled prejudice, and the other
half of the remainder to craven fear
OF what Is new.
News Channels Choked.
"One Of the great troubles here in
New England as elsewhere is that the
representatives of special privilege and
politics control most Of the newspapers,
so that the ordinary man finds the
channels of Information choked. 1 do
not so much mind the editorial columns
being closed against Us; but it is a mat nat
ter for real regret that the news COL
umns are closed to us.
There Is good reason why many men
should bitterly oppose the Progressive
party. Every political toboer. every
crooked business man; every benefici-
ary of privilege and every paid employe
of such beneficiary-all these are natur-
ally against us. But hold that every
self-respecting ordinary citizen should
be for us.
THE men for whom we are making
the fight are not politicians and are not
men of great wealth. They are busily
engaged In. their daily toll; they do not
appear as speakers at public meetings,
they do not take prominent parts IN
political canvasses. and they cannot con-
tribute large sums of money for the
furtherance of the campaign In their
behalf. But believe that their feelings
are all the more intense and their sym
pathy the more keen just because of the
fact that hitherto they have never been
stirred as now they are stirred.
Sit On the Bleachers.
Hitherto, as a standpatter. a reac-
tionary Congressman from Kansas with
involuntary truthfnlness put 1t, these
plain people have been regarded by poll
ticians as only entitled to pay the price
of admission and sit on the bleachers
for their own benefit. Under this Con-
gressman's views, the plain people have
nothing to do except to pay the ex-
wage for their own benefit. The Pro-
gressive doctrine, on the contrary, Is
that the plain people of America are not
after this to sit on the bleachers and
look on at the politicians play the game
but that the plain people are to be their
own masters and masters over all their
public servants.
1--WE stand for a protective tariff.
the protective tariff get into the pay
envelope of the wage worker. instead
Of decreasing, we wish to increase the
amount of the prize money that Is right
dustry; but we stand for a more equit-
able division of the prize money. More
over. our movement is not only Tor
economic, but for ethical betterment
We do not accept the view that greed
and selfishness are the only factors to
be considered in government. We insist
that in mans nature there is some
thing noble. something lofty, to WHICH
It Is possible to appeal, and we make
our appeal. therefore, not only TO his
self-interest but also to what Is highest
and best In him.
1T is not Fright that he should neg. .
lect his aelf-interest. No man can do his
duty bY the State as whole unless
he pulls his own weight; he must take
care Of His wife, his children. and him
self before he can help his fellow-citl-
I1l- AfH a
work for the common good. We In
tend to work for the economic better:
ment Of the average citizen. we lnten1
to insist upon the average man haVing
greater share than now OF the good
thirgs which by his labor are produced
But we intend also to work for broad
er and kindlier charity of relationship
as between man and man.
Faces Real Issue of Day.
"The progressive platform has really
faced the real issues of today. 1t has
done this as regards the trusts, as re-
CARDS the rights Of labor, Is regards
the tariff. do not see how PEOPLE ci
port either the Republican or the Denl-
ocratic, tariff platform. Remember
that when I use the word Republican
now l 90 not refer to the rank ami
bosses who have usurped the control
of the machinery of the party.
"The Republican proposal is q tarih
for privilege in Industry. The Demo-
cratic proposal Ii q tariff for the de-
structiOn of industry. The Progress
sive proposal Ii a tariff In the interest
of labor In Industry.
AT the time when tho Payne-Aldricn
bill was put through Congress 1t was
currently reported not only In the news
papers, but By private men who ought
to know that the cotton schedule. TO,
instance, was written by then private
citizen of Rhode Island, now Senate,
from YOUR State, Mr.. Lippitt, and Mr..
I.ippitt was credited with making thc
statement that Mr.. Aldrich had been
is TO have future tariffs written by the
Mr.. Lippitts of the party, OF else by
the party leaders who are good tc
the Mr.. Lippitts.
THE Democratic proposal Is to thwari
the Mr.. Lippitts by hurting everybody
dustries which have built up States lik:
the New England States. Our proposa
is not merely to reform schedules oI
the tariff, but to reform the methods
and purposes of tariff making.
1--WE propose to reduce the various
doubtedly too high. We propose tc
deal with the tariff schedule by sched-
ule in accordance with the reports OF
non-partisan commission of experts
who shall make their reports, not or
the theory of being good" to anybody
primarily to the American wage worker
and the American consumer.
Acting after getting full information
from such a commission We will give
the Mr.. Lippitts their rights, we will
do them full Justice; but instead oi
permitting them to make the taTiff tc
suit themselves, we shall carefully in,
VeRtiRata how thalr business iS carried