The Washington times., 1912-07-21

Both the employer and the employe
benefit financially In the end, while the
system makes u possible more accur-
ately and scientifically to pass on the
cost Of this kind Of insurance 20 the
products or the service that the indus
Colonel roosevelt believes that the
ated, Win be demanded so powerfuily
that there will be no preventing its
The platform will declare strongly for
the most effective regulation OF all cor
probably will indorse the nationaliza-
ton of the telegraphs and express serv-
ice throughout; will demand an imme-
diate physical valuation of all the rail-
made an important part Of the basis for
judgment as to what shall be reason
able rates Of transportation.
One of the most important planks Will
relate to ,se snds 90
This will be worked out, tentatively at
least, by Herbert Knox Smith, the late
Commissioner of Corporations, and 9TH
er experts, and win be based on a
ton. or, more probably, Federal licenses
for concerns doing interstate business.
For Conservation.
Conservation Of natural resources will
will probably include a fat declaration
for Government construction, ownership
and operation of the necessary railroad
system for opening Alaska's resources
Of mineral and timber wealth. At the
same time, and coupled with this, there
will be pronouncement In favor OF the
subjugstlon Of the Mississippi and its
great tributaries, construction Of food.
water reservoirs, and the conversion OF
the streams into useful highways OF
commerce, free from their present
reason Of the vast improvements. floor
water reservoirs, etc, insured against
the tremendous disasters incident to
annual floods. 1t will be promised that
the equipment and the engineering or
ganization that have built the Panama
canal shall be used In carrying on this
great project.
Closely related to this question Of
conservation will be the discussion Of
rural life. rural education, and rural
economics. 1t will be pointed out that
the congestion Of great populations in
cities has ever been menace to great
civilizations, and that even this country,
with its boundless resources, Is already
be ginning to feel the effect of increasing
disparity between its urban and rural
populations, resulting on one side In a
dangerous stimulation Of artificial needs
on the part Of the city dwellers. and in
a reduction of the production of those
farm staples that must constitute the
guarantee of the nations livelihood.
To better these conditions, to prevent
the disturbance of the balance between
production and consumption. measures
will be demanded for increasing the at
fractions of country life. This is one
of the favorite projects OF Colonel
oRosevelt, and he expects to make It a
very important feature OF his educa-
tional campaign.
1t Is almost certain that the national
platform VIII fonow eo-ti that OF Michigan
declaration in favor of equal suffrage
for men and women.
The tariff will be dealt with clearly
and without hesitation. The new party
will be a protection party. but 1t will
be for a reasonable protection that
shall provide no shelter to monopolies,
and that will adjust schedules to such
basis that the ever present possibility
Of foreign competition, in every line,
may prevent unjust exactions.
Income and inheritance taxes of such