The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-10-26

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sublets this contract. After much vex-
alton of spirit we finally get about one
third of the amount of tax that we
tshould obtain from the railroad"
Taking up the subject of road build
ling, Mr. Lands asserted that the
roads which are being built in the
state are worth very little. He said
that fourteen months after a road is
built it needs repairing: Zone mile of
good road built in a year is better
than 100 miles built in a month"
Mr. Lands then spoke on the free
school book plank in the Progressive
platform. 1.-The Indianapolis News"
he said, that fountain of purity,
sweetness and fairness says we have
free school books in Indiana now. All
we have to do is to go to the town
ship trustee and get them. But do you
think that the girl, whose mother
washes for living, could go to the
trustee and ask for school books with
out feeling a sense of shame? The
word 'pauper' burns on her cheeks
place the poor mans children upon the
plane with the rich mans children in
this respect.
The court rooms should be temples
of justice, the speaker declared. in
stead of check rooms for big interests.
Lands asserts that it requires too long
to obtain justice in the courts. "In
that statement l am constitutional for
the state constitution says that JUS
itice shall be speedy and without de-
LAY. Any court where a rig-picker can
not secure justice in one year is moth
ing but a sham.
Demands Reforms.
I'VE are against child labor We are
for the minimum wage scale for wom-
en-. We want the governor to investi-
gate and peacefully settle labor trou-
bles and disputes. We want a working
mans compensation act. These re-
forms are many but they are not ex-
periments.
I'VE want the women to vote. Some
say they should not, but we know that
they should be given the right to use
churches, hospitals, orphans homes
and art galleries were it not for wom-
en-. One hundred and fifty years ago
the old fellows went to war with King
George because they were taxed with
out representation. Then after they
licked George they gave the women
the same thing that George gave them
taxation without representation.
Were for honest protection. We're
in favor of looking the trust question
squarely in the face, because this has
been played crouquet with long en-
ough
Taft Not In 1t.
"The only man who has a chance to
win is Theodore Roosevelt. Taft is not
in 1t. He has not been in it for a sim
gle second since the descendants of
Jesse James held their family reunion
at the Chicago Coliseum. Taft won't
carry Ohio, he's lost Cincinnati, he
won't carry his own ward or his own
precinct. These gentlemen who are ad-
vising you to vote for Taft are asking
you to put in half-vote for Wilson.
"The only place Taft is putting up
a good race is on the billboards. He
is running second to Hoods Sarsapa-
Grilla and third to Lydia Pinkham on
the billboards of the United States
and between him and Lydia, I'm for
Lydia.
Roosevelt has made mistakes but
those who talk about the mistakes he
has made are trying to prolong the
biggest mistake ever-Taft
Wilson has spent his life on a col
lege campus. That is with the excep.
ton of two years as governor He had
the chance to stop the trusts but did
not do so. He did nothing to the trusts
in New Jersey-where they keep the
incubator. AS president then he would
do even less-about one forty-eighth
of nothing, according to simple arith
metic.