El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-05
BEVERIDGE SOUNDS KEYNOTE Of
PROGRESSIVE CAMPAIGN IN SPEECH



= that he must thereafter pay a higher
price for his oil than ever before
| What good does il do the laborer who
| courts has dissolved the tobacco trust
I and yet find that he must pay the same
{ or higher price for the same short
/ weight package of tobacco2 Yet all
l this Is the practical result of the suits
! the world
No Parallel In World.
Such business chaos and legal par
f. adoEes as American business suffers
from can be found nowhere else in the
! world RIVAL nations do not fasten
legal ball and chain upon their bust
} neSs-no, they put wings on its flying
! feet Rival nations do not tell their
/ business men that if they 90 forward
/ with legitimate enterprise the peniten-
I nations tell their business men that
/ so long as they do honest business
! their governments viii not hinder but
VIII help them.
But these rival nations do tell their
business men that if they do any evil
that our business men do, prison bars
await tnenl These rival naeions do
ten their business men that if they
issue Watered stock, or cheat the peo-
pie IN any way, prison cells will be
their homes.
Just this Is what all honest Amerf-
can business wants; just this is what
dishonest American business does nor
want; just this is what the American
people propose TO have Just this the
national Republican platform of 1905
pledged the people that we would give
them; and just this important pledge
the administration, elected on that
platform, repudiated as it repudiated
the more immediate tariff pledge.
Both these reforms so vital to hon.
est American business, the Progressive
party Will accomplish. Neither evil in
tereSts or reckless dema goges can ,
sWeTEe US from our purpose; for we
are Tree from both ana fear neither.
VIII Change Fariff.
The next great business reform we
must nave to steadily increase Ameri- /
can prosperity is to change the meth
Cd of building our tariffs The Tariff /
must be taken out of politics and
treated as a business question instead \
OF as a political question. Heretofore. /
We nave Just done the other thing
mat IS why American business is up ]
set every 1eW years by unnecessary
IarlIf upheavals and is weakened bv 4
uncertainty in the periods between. |
me greatest need of business is GER /
talnty; but the only thing certain
about our tariff is uncertainty
w hat. then, shall we do to make
our taFlff changes strengthen business
instead OF weakening business2 Rival !
protective tariff nations have an
sWered that question. Common sense
mas answered il. Next to our need 10 I
maze me sherman law modern, under
sldnuaoie ana Just, our greatest fiscal (
need Is genuine, permanent nonpar-
tlSan tariff commission
rive years ago, when the fight for
TINS great business measure was be-
gun IN the senate the bosses of both
parIes were against it So, when the
last revision OF the tariff was on and
d lariIL commission might have been
written into the tariff law. the admin
lSlratlon would not aid this reform
W hen Two years later the administra-
tion supported it weakly. the biparti-
san boss system killed it There has
rot been and Will not be any sincere
and honest effort by the old parties to
get tariff commission. There has |
not been and will not be any sincere |
ana honest purpose by those parties to |
lahe the tariff out OF politics
For the tariff in politics is the ex-
use Tor those sham political battles
which give the spoilers their oppor-
unity Inc tariff in politics is one Of
me invisible governments methods of /
a-ringing tribute from the neon1e
through the tariff in politics the bene-
Iclarles OF tariff excuses are cared
Or no matter which party is 'revis-
Tariff Scandals.
Who has forgotten the tariff scan {
ials that made president Cleveland de-
ounce ounce the Wilson-Gorman bill as a
'erIldy and dIShonor% Who ever I
an forget the braZen rObberies forced I
nto the Payne-Aldrich bill which MT / ,
art defended as the best ever made2' r
ne interests that profited by them
ever viii forget them. The bosses
M lobbyists that grew rich BY nut
ing them through never will forget
heIn- That is why the invisible gov
rnmenU and its agents want to keen :
he old method of tariff building. For. n
hough such tariff reforms may make is
9an years Tor the people, they make I
II years for the powers of pillage and is
neir agents.
so neither of the old parties can a
oneStly carry out any tariff policies
-nlch they pledge the people to carry
Ut But even if they could and even I A
tney were sincere, the old party
iatIorms are IN error on tariff policy Z =
he Democratic platform declares for =;
rec trade; but free trade is wrong =
nd rulnous. The Republican platform -
eFmltS eNtortion; but tariff extortfon ~
robbery by law. The Progressive
arty Is for honest protection: am a.
5neSt protection is right and con "
Ion OF American prosperity
Opposes Child Labor. "
nese are samples of the reforms in ! III
lie laws OF business that we intend W
put on the nations statute books st
ut there are other questions as i'm
1rtant and pressing that we mean I g
answer by sound and humane laws [ n
mia labor in factories. mills. mines / n,
10 sWeatshOps must be ended through -
II the republic. Such labor is fl
lme against childhood because if -.
events the growth of normal man "
'od and WomanhOOd It is a crime ~
.alnst the nation because it prevents ,le
e growth of a host of children into
rong' patriotic and intelligent citi- Ia
Only the nation can stop this indus. in