The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-08-05
.BEVERIDGE MADE
SPEECH AS CHAIRMAN
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that which is wrong and out OF date;
and where we tear down we mean to
build what is right and fitted to the
time. We harken to the call of the
present. we mean to make laws to mt
conditions as they are and meet the
code Of the people who are on earth
today. That we may do this we
found a 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. 1t has
the vitality OF the peoples strong con-
victions. The people have work to
be done and our party is here to do
that work"
The speaker discussed the republic
can and democratic parties, the boss
system and special interests" say
ing among other things:
"At the present moment notorious
bosses are in the saddle Of both old
parties in various important states
which must be carried to elect a pres
ident. Neither of the old parties
nominees for president car escape OBJ
legation to these old party bosses nor
shake their practical hold on many
and powerful members Of h national
legislature.
'Under this boss system NJ matter
which party wins, the people seldom
win; but the bosses almost always
win"
Continuing his discussion OF the
parties Mr.. Beverage said:
1.-THE south has men n women as
genuinely progressive and others as
genuinely reactionary as those in 9TH
er parts of the country. Yet, for we'll
known reasons, those sincere and hon.
est southern progressives n reac-
tionaries vote together in a single
party, which is neither progressive
nor reactionary. The vote a dead
tradition and a local fear, not a living
conviction and a national faith. They
vote not for the democratic party, but
against the republican party. They
want to be free from this condition;
they can be free from it 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-
pie. The rule of the people means
that the people shall nominate as we'll
as elect candidates for office, includ-
ing senator's and presidents of the
United States"
Mr. Beveridge said American busi-
ness is uncertain and unsteady COM
pared with the business of other ma
tions.
what then" he asked, must we
do to make American business bet
ter? We must do what poorer ma
tons 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 and all business
honest instead of striving to make big
business little and yet letting 1t re-
main dishonest. AS the Sherman law
now stands, no two business men can
arrange their mutual affairs n be
sure that they are not law breakers.
This is the main hindrance to h i'm
mediate and permanent revival or
American business. Under the decree
Of the courts the oil and tobacco
trusts still can raise prices ~unjustiy
and already have done so. Such bust
ness chaos and legal paradoxies as
American business suffers from IAN De
| found nowhere else in h world"
The speaker declared the progressive
party will accomplish reforms vital to
American business.
1--WE mean to put new business laws
4 Oh our Statute DOOhS which win NSAi
| American business men what they can
do and what they cannot do. The
next great business reform we mus
have to steadily increase American
prosperity is to change the method OF
building our tariffs. The tariff must
be taken out of politics and treated
as a business question instead or g
political question. The greatest need
Of business is certainty; but the only
l 1Isu- a1~Aa4-. ahnY,f nITr foTff "a nm
certainty. Next to our need to make
the Sherman law modern, our great
est fiscal need is a genuine, perma-
nent, bipartisan tariff commission
The speaker said there has not beer
and will not be any sincere and hon
est effort by the old parties to get
a tariff commission, nor to take the
tariff out Of politics.
"A tariff high enough to give Ameri.
can producers the American markel
when they make honest goods and sci
them at honest prices but ow enough
that when they sell dishonest goods
at dishonest prices, foreign competi,
ton can correct both evils; a tariff
high enough to enable American pro
ducers to pay our working men Amer
lean wages and sc arranged that thu
working men will get such wages; {
business tariff whose changes will b'
so made as to reassure business in
stead OF disturbing it-this is thu
tariff and the method Of its making
In which the progressive party be.
lieves, for which it does battle am
which it proposes to write into thu
laws of the land.
THE Payne-Aldrich tariff law
must be revised Immediately in ac,
cordance 10 these principles
Abolition Of child labor in factories
mills, mines and sweat shops and I
plan for old age pensions were in
cluded In the progressive platform b!
the speaker who incidentally favored
woman suffrage.
Never doubt that we will solve ii
righteousness and wisdom eve prob
lem" said Mr.. Beveridge, toward thu