Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-02

for semrmonthly pay for railroad en-
ployes, full crews on railroad trains.
employers liability and compensation
for workmen.
Il. Colonel Roosevelt proposes to
legalize monopolies, validate their bill
lions of watered securities and give
them government protection and au-
thority
IS. Wilson believes in the protec-
ton of labor from injustice instead of
the protection of labors monopolistic
oppressors for purposes of plumber.
10. Mr.. Taft vetoed the farmers
free list bill. the wooden bill, the steel
bill and other bills reducing excessive
tariff duties.
80. II is necessary to check the Gen.
Trailing of power in the national gov
! eminent which republican rule has
fostered and Roosevelt proposes as a
definite policy.
| 81. The policies of the republican
party have widened the gulf between
the rich and the poor and both wings
of the party are supporting proposals
| tending to increase class and wealth
distinctions and differences; whereas
the recognized great need of this and
other nations is their elimination.
50. Roosevelt favors the recall of
judges. thus attacking one of the pill
lars of constitutional government-an
independent judiciary.
IS. Both Taft and Roosevelt stand
for the existing tariff, which, in the
words of Charles w. Eliot, president
of Harvard, prevents the expansion
of American commerce and trade. pro-
tects manufacturing industries from
foreign competition, which would be
wholesome for them, supports artifi-
cial monopolies, raises the price of
many necessaries of life and keeps
the country, as whole, exporting the
richness of its soil rather than the pro-
ducts of its skilled labor"
81 The record. pledges and candi-
dates of the democratic party prove it
to be more progressive than the re-
publican party and more trustworthy
than the progressive party.
50. Wilson is not striving to make
= the American people stronger and
more prosperous at the top, where the
plutocrats are. but stronger and more
prosperous throughout the whole body
sc. He refused to be subsidized or
let his party be subsidized by the
Ryan Morgan Belmont political syndi
cate.
81. Taft ascribes to the excessive
political taxes of the Payne-Aldrich law
all the prosperity we are now enjoy
ing, which is due TO record breaking
crops and the energy and capacity Of
the American people, despite monopo
| ly oppression, thus committing himself
| and his party to the perpetuation Of
{ the Ubiquitous system by which the
people are plundered for the benefi
| of wealthy protected interests.
IS. Wilson's principles and policie!
| applied to government will make goo(
times better for plain people. :
r 80. He has, in spite of years devot
E. ed to teaching, retained a naturalnes
a of mind which rejects as distastefu
e ard absurd the poses of pretendin,
. statesmen; and has a sense of hume
- that indicates sanity such as made Liz
= coin master of events in the most try
S ing period of the country's history.
t 80. Opportunity for all waits upol
the freeing of government, commerc
+ and industry from the control of tn
entrenched few
9 81. Wilson lacks the mean vanit
of self-g lorification
80. He believes in the preservatio
II of the principle of competition as tn
g only safeguard of opportunity. indt
= pendence and generol prosperity fc
business men.
r 50. Wilson would substitute econC
e mic democracy for the artificial cond
It tons created and maintained by priv
Y legged plutocracy.
"a. Wilson stands for impartial an
Al disinterested government as necessar
e to establish industrial and social ju
tice.
x, 80. He believes monopoly shacklt
IS both labor and capital and restricts O
V. portunity for their profitable emplo
ment.
,e 9G, Wilson stands for democracy ;
~ opposed to the plutocracy of Taft al
the autocracy of Roosevelt.
= 81. Taft would leave things as tbs
are, with control in the hands of
few masters taking a heavy toll
prosperity. Roosevelt would lea
things as they are, with the addition
Il legal protection for monopoly and
II promise of aims for needy workme
/ Wilson would have justice-justi
!. which destroys monopoly. uproots pri
II llege' establishes equality and inc
II pendence, and makes government
IL charity unnecessary.
Il IS. Wilson purposes to overthrc
the system by which the people a
/ subject to the evil of masters. cover
II ing through political agents and co
missions, and to substitute therefore
government every branch of viii
shall be subject to the will of +
II people
49, He favors government NOV
by common understanding and co
mon counsel TO protect and nrom,