Weekly journal-miner., 1912-08-14

National and State legislation should stablish standards of compensation or industrial accidents and deaths md for diseases clearly due to in- Iustrial conditions; for the adoption y law of fair standard of com for casualties resulting atally which shall clearly fix the minimum compensation in all cases; he monetary equivalent of living wage varies according to local con li,ions. but should be sufficiently ,igh to make morality possible and Q provide for education. recreation, proper care of the children. main cnancc during sickness, and req 'onable saving for old age; exces- sive hours of labor should be pro hibited for all wage-workcrs. and night labor of women and children should be forbiddcn one day of rest in seven should be provided by law; continuous twenty-four- hour labor should be divided into three shifts of eight hours by law; tene- ment- house manufacture should be prohibited. and labor camps should be subject to Governmental sanitary regulation: all industries employing women and children should be specially subject to Gov crnmcnt inspection and regulation; insurance funds against sickness. ae- cident, invalidism, and old age should be established by charge either in whole or in part upon the in- d,s,s.,.. Si. ...a..-. .tz.,lJ kc granted to women. if for no other reason. to enable workingwomen to combine for their own protection by the use of the ballot "As a people we cannot afford to let any group of citizens or any individual citizen labor under conditions which arc in. furious ;e the common welfare. Tn. dustry, therefore, must submit tc such public regulation as will make it means of life and health, not o death or inefficicncy."
 The Farmer.
 "The Country Life Commission should be revived with greatly in creased power: it's abandonment wa, severe blow 10 our people. Tn, welfare of the farmer Is a basi, need of this Nation" The countr, school should be brought in toucl with country life. For this reason the Progressives approve of Govern mcnt cooperation with the farmc to make the farm more productive Co operative associations of farmer both for the production and the sell ing of agricultural products shoul' be encouraged. "So long as th farmer leaves cooperative activitie with their profit sharing to the cit. man of business. so long will tn foundations of wealth be under mined and the comforts of cnlight enment be impossible in the countr. communities.
 The Tariff.
 On the tariff he says: "I believ in a protective tariff. but bclicv in it as a principle approached fror standpoint of the interests of th
 whole people. and not as a bundl of preferences to be given favorit individuals" He believes the Am
 crican people favor the principle ( a protective tariff. but arc in rebe
 lion against the wrong-doing an
 unjust application of that policy an
 the abuses in past legislation. "l
 is not merely the tariff that shoul
 be revised, but the method of tariff
 making and of tariff administration
 "The first steps should be the cr'
 ation of a permanent commission {
 non-partisan experts" of amp
 powers" to secure "exact and rel
 able information" "Thc prcsci
 Tariff Board is entirely inadcqua'
 in point of powers reposed in
 and scope of work undertaken
 The Tariff Commission in German
 affords splendid model. Tn
 commission must scientifically d.
 termine 'thc difference in the co
 of production here and abroad" Il
 effect on prices to the consumer
 insure full justice to the pay q
 velope of the wagc-carner IT
 commission must not attempt to c croach on the tariff-making pow of Congress It shall report wi full publicity and promptly. IT tariff shall be revised schedule schedule 10 avoid the "staggeri' DlOWs 70 DusiNcss WCuSut to tot' , CT general rcvisions. The effect " |. be to wipe out the "log-rolling al vote trading" secured by special
 terests in the past. "Only by Il
 means can the tariff be taken out politics." "Thc substitution of tariff for revenue only as propos bv the Democratic platform wou !, plunge this country into the mo z widespread industrial depression have ever seen" The revision sh
 be downward and not upward a
 secure a square deal not merely
 the manufacturer. but tc the wat |. worker and to the general consum C The High Cost of Living. ,- "The cost of living" says \ fl Roosevelt. "has risen during .- last few years out of ali proporti d to the increase of most salaries a e wages" What is first necessary s fearless, intelligent. and searchi