The Calumet news., 1912-08-05
KEYNOTE BY
BEvER|DCE
Ex-Indiana Senator Addresses the
Progressive Convention
Continued from Page FIVE.
founded.

founded.
For this party comes from the
grass roots. 1t has grown from the
soil of the peoples hard necessities. It
has the vitality of the peoples strong
convictions The people have work to
be done and our party is here to do
that work"
The speaker discussed the Republi-
system and special interests" say
ing among other things:
"At the present moment notorious
bosses are I'm the saddle of both ole
parties i'm various important states
which must be carried to elect a pres
ident. Neither of the old parties nom
inees for president can escape obliga-
tion to these old-party bosses nor
shake their practical hold on many
and powerful members of the national
legislature.
Under this boss system. no matter
what party wins. the people seldom
win; but the bosses almost always
win"
An Appeal to the South.
1.-The south has men and women as
genuinely progressive and others as
genuinely reactionary as those I'm 9TH
er parts of our country, Yet. for we'll
known reasons, these sincere and hon
est southern progressives and reac-
tionaries vote together ina single par
". which is neither progressive nor
reactionary. They vote a dead tradi-
ton and a local fear mot living
conviction and national faith. They
vote not for the Democratic party,
but against the Republican party.
They want to be free from this condi-
ton; they can be free from 1t through
the national progressive party"
"The root of the wrongs which hurt
the people is the fact that the peoples
government has been taken away from
them. Their government must be Civ
en- back to the people. And so the
first purpose of the progressive party
is To make sure the rule of the peo-
Pile The rule of the people means
that the people themselves shall nom
mate, as WELL ass elect, canddatei
for office including senator's and pres
idents of the United States"
Mr. Beveeridge said American busi-
ness is uncertain and unsteady COM
pared with the business of other ma
tions
Make Business Better.
What. then" he asked, F"must we
DO to make American business bet
ter? we rnust do what poorer ma
tions have done We must end the
abuses of business, by striking down
those abuses instead Of Striking down
business itself. We must try to make
little business big andt all business
honest instead of striving to make
big business little and yet letting II
remain dishonest. AS the Sherman
law now stands. no two business men
can arrange their. mutual affairs and
be sure that they are not law break
ers. rhis is the main hindrance TO
the immediate and permanent revival
of American business. Under the de-
crees of the courts the oil and tobac-
co trusts still can raise prices unjust
ly and already have done so. Sucn
business chaos and legal paradoxes as
American business suffers from can be
found nowhere else i'm the world"
The speaker declared the progress
i've party will accomplish reforms Vi
tai to American business.
we mean TO put new business laws
on our statute books which will tell
American business men what they can
do and what they cannot do The next
great business reform we must have
to steadily increase American pros
perity is to change the method Of
building our tariffs. The tariff must
he taken out of politics and treated as
business question instead of as q
political question. The greatest need
of business is certainty; but the only
thing certain about our tariff Is un-
certainty. Next To our need To make
the sherman law modern understand
able and just, our greatest fiscal need
is a genuine. permanent, non-partisan
tariff commission
Kind Of Tariff Favored.
The speaker said there has not
been and will not be any sincere ef-
fort by the old parties to get a tariff
commission, nor to take the tariff out
of politics
"A tariff high enough To give Am
erican producers the American
market when they make honest
goods and sell them at honest prices
hut low enough that when they sell
dishonest goods at dishonest prices.
foreign competition can correct both
evils: a tariff high enough to enable
American producers to pay our work
ingmen American wages and so ar
ranged that the workingmen will get
such wages; business tariff whose
changes will he so made as to reas-
sure business instead of disturbing II
this is the tariff and the method of
its making in which the progressive
party believes. for which II does bat
tie and which it proposes To write in
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