The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-08-05
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business men should never know an
hour OF uncertainty, disbursement
or fear; Americans workingmen never
a day of low wages. idleness or want.
Hunger should eve walk in these
thinly peopled gardens of plenty.
And yet in spite Of all these favors
which Providence has showered upon
us. the living of the people is the
thousands of Woodworking Ameri-
cans find it difficult to get enough to
live on. The average income Of an
American laborer is less than $500 a
year. With this he must furnish food,
shelter and clothing for a family.
Poverty and Opnlcncy.
Women. whose nourishine and pro-
lection should be the first care of the
state. not only are driven into the
mighty army of w~age-earners. but
are forced to work under unfair and
degrading conditions. The right of a
child to grow into a normal human
being is sacred: and yet. while small
and poor countries. packed with peo-
pie. have abolished child labor. Amer
lean mills. mines, factories and sweat
shops are destroying hundreds Of
thousands of American children in
'vuS. HlIIO ana SOUL.
AT the same time men have grasp
ed fortunes in this country so great
that the human mind can not COM
prehend their magnitude. These
mountains of wealth are far larger
than even hat lavish reward which
no one would deny to business risk or
genius.
The Remedy.
we mean to remedy these condi-
tions. We mean not only to make
prosperity steady. but to give to the
many who earn 1T a just share Of that
prosperity instead of helping the few
who do not earn it to take an unjust
share. The progressive motto is
pass prosperity around" To make
human living easier. to free the hands
OF honest business. to make trade and
commerce sound and steady. 10 pro.
tect womanhood. save childhood and
restore the dignity of MANHOOD
these are the tasks We must do.
What. then, is the progressive an.
swer to these questions? We are able
to give it specifically and concretely.
The first work before us is the revival
of honest business. For business is
nothing but the industrial and trade
ACTIVITIES OF all the people. Men
grow the products Of the field. cut
~ ANY to ItllS loISSl, DIX lleIdI
from the mine. fashion all for human
use, carry them to the market place
exchange them according to their
mutual ~needs-and this is business.
we must do what poorer nations
nave done. We must end the abuses
OF business by striking down those
buses instead OF striking down bust
ness itself. We must try to make nj
Tie business big and all business hon
est instead nf ctNiS;~-
business little and yet letting it re-.
main dishonest.
Present-day business is as unlike
old time business as the old time OK
cart Is unlike the present-day loco
motive. Invention has made the
whole world over again. The rail.
ROAD telegraph, telephone have bound
me people of modern nations into
1amiiles: To DO the business of these
closely knit millions in every modern
country great business ~concerns came
INTO being. What we call big bust
ness is the child of the economic PRO.
gress OF mankind. So warfare to de-.
stro3' big business is foolish because
II can not succeed and wicked be-
fare TO destroy big business does not
hurt big business. which always
comes on top, so much "a ~
hurts all other business which. IN
such a warfare. never comes out on
top. ""
Tobacco Trust.
An example Of such laws lie the in.
famous tobacco legislation OF 1902
which authorized the tobacco trust
TO continue to collect from the peonle
the Spanish war tax. amounting n a
score Of millions Of dollars. but -
keep that tax instead Of turning -
over to the government, as n had
been doing. Another example is the
shameful meat legislation, by which
the beef trust had the meat n sent
abroad inspected by the government
so that foreign countries would tale
Its product and yet was permitted r.
sell diseased e to our own neonlc
IT is Incredible hat laws like the.e
could ever get on the nations statute
books. The invisible government nut
them there: and only the universe
wrath Of an enraged people CORRECTED
them when, after years, the peonIe
discovered the outrages.
1t is to get just such laws as thesa
and to prevent the passage Of lawi
to correct them. az we'll as to keen
off the statute books general law,
which will enc the general abuses al
big business that these few criminal