The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-05

justice We stand for social brother
hood as against savage individualism
We stand for an intelligent co-opera-
tion instead of a reckless competition.
We stand for mutual helpfulness in
stead of mutual hatred. We stand for
equal rights as fact of life instead OF
a catchword of politics. We stand for
the rule of the people a practical
truth instead of d meaningless pre-
tense. We stand for a representative
government that represents the people.
We battle for the actual rights of man.
Aims of the Movement.
''To carry cut the principles, we
have a plain program of constructive
reform. We mean to tear down only
that which is wrong and out of date;
and where We tear down we mean 10
build up what is right and fitted to the
times We hearken to the call of the
present. We, mean to make laws fit
conditions as they are and meet the
needs of the people who are on earth
today. That we may do this, we
found party through which all who
believe with US can work with us; or
rather, we declare our allegiance to
the party which the people themselves
have 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-
can and Democratic parties, the boss
system and special interests.
Continuing his discussion of parties.
Mr.. Beveridge said:
ffThe south has men and women as
genuinely progressive and others as
genuinelysreactio as those in other
parts of our country. Yet for we'll
known reasons, these sincere and hon
est southern progreSsives and reac-
tionaries vote together in slng'e
party which, is neither progressive nor
reactionary They vote a dead ira
dition and local fear, not a living
conviction and national faith They
vote not fort Democratic party, but
against the Republican party. Ihey
want to be free from this condition;
they can be free from it through the
National Progressive party.
Mr. Beveridge said American busl-
ness is uncertain and unsteady com
nared with the business of other ma
tionS.'
ssWhat, them he asked, must we
do to make American business better:
We must do what poorer nations nave
done. We must end the abuses of BUS
iness by striking down those abusT.s
instead of striking down business II
self We try to make little business
big and all business honest instead Oh
striving to make business little and yet
letting it remain dishonest. AS the
Sherman
mess men can arrange their mutual
affairs and be sure that they are not
law breakers. This is the main hind
rance to the immediate and permanent
revival of American business Under
the DEGREES of the courts the oil ana
tobacco trusts still can raise prices G1l-
Justly and already have done so. Such
business chaos and legal paradoxes as
American business suffers from can pe
found nowhere else in the world
The speaker declared the Progressive
party will accomplish reforms vital to
American business
I'VE mean to put new business laws
on our statute books which VIII tell
American business men what they can
do and what they cannot do. The
next great business reform we must
have to steadily increases American
prosperity is to change the method of
building our tariff. The tariff must
be taken out of politics and treated
as a business question instead of as n
Of business is certainty, but the onS
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 neec
Is a genuine permanent, nonpartisan
.ariff commission
The speaker said there has not been
and will not be any sincere and honest |
effort by the old parties to get a tariff
nor to take the tariff 0ut
If politics.
Abolition of child labor in factories, |
mills, mines and sweatshops and a |!
plan for old age pensions were includ- |
I'd in the progressive platform by TIE |
speaker, who incidentally favored wo-
nan suffrage.
Never doubt that we will solve in |