The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-05
READY TO GIVE
COL. ROOSEVELT
WHAT HE WANTS

make sure the rule of the people. The
rule Of the people means that the people
| themselves shall nominate as well as
elect, all candidates for office, including
senators and presidents of the United
| States"
| Mr. Beveridge said American business
| is uncertain and unsteady compared with
| the business of other nations. what,
then he asked, must we do to make
American business better? We must do
what poorer nations 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
it remain dishonest As the Sherman
law now stands. no two business men
can arrange their mutual affairs and be
sure that they are not lawbreakeTs, This
is the main hindrance to the immediate
and permanent revival of American
business. Under the DEGREES of the
court, the oil and tobacco trusts still
can raise prices unjustly and already
have done so.
''Sueh business chaos and legal para
doxes as American business suffers from
can be found nowhere else in the world.
The speaker declared the Progressive
party will accomplish reforms vital to
American business.
"We mean to put new business laws
on our statute books which will tell
American business men what they can do
and what they cannot do. The next
great business reform we must 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 ques
tion, instead of a political question. The
greatest need of business is certainty,
but the only thing certain about our
tariff is uncertainty. Next to our need
to make the Sherman law modern, un-
derstandable and just, our greatest fiscal
need is a genuine, permanent, non par
tsan tariff commission" the speaker
said. There has not beenNand will not
be any sincere and honest 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 market
when they make honest goods and sell
them at honest prices but low enough
that when they sell dishonest goods at
dishonest prices, foreign competition can
correct both evils; tariff high enough
to enable American producers to pay our
workingmen American wages and so ar
ranged that the workingmen viii get
such wage; business tariff where
will be so made as to reassure
business. instead of disturbing it-this |
Is the tariff and the method OF its max
ing in which the progressive party be.
leves, for which it does battle and which
it proposes to write into the laws of the
land
"The Payne Aldrieh tariff laws must
be revised Immediately in accordance to
these principles
Abolition of child labor in factories.
mills. mines and sweatshops and "A plan
Cor old age pensions were included in
the Progressive platform by the speaker,
who incidentally favored woman suf-
frage.
Never doubt that we will solve in
righteousness and wisdom every vexing
problem" said Mr.. Beveridge toward the
conclusion of his address