Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-10-24
A PLATFORM SOL|LOQUY
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 piled profits for the farmer. That pro
 tective principle has made Chicago and
 New York and Kokomo. We do not
 want to draw the fires of our prosper ity. We do not want to throw that
 principle out hastily.
 But, the tariff is TOO HIGH! Then
 reduce it. Obviously tariff built on
 a protective principle must be in need
 of continual readjustment. When that
 readjustment is delayed, the protect
 i've principle is departed from and in justice is done. Much tariff injustice
 IS being done now. The tariff cries
 aloud for equilibrium, but to expect
 the protective principle to be sacredly
 conserved by a party which declares
 the protective principle is unconstitu-
 uional is to expect grapes from grass. And when the tariff is adjusted let us not suppose that will cure all the other ills which our commercial and industrial flesh is heir to. To recon struct the tariff will not reconstruct
 restraining the man who restraints the soul of the greedy monopolist. IL will not remake the natures nor re-
 move the opportunities of the men
 ShO have built our great monopolies. We must have some direct method o. trade.
 Neither should it be supposed that tariff readjustment will check a world-movement of the masses toward better living, which means, and in a ligh part explains, expensive living.
 The masses will not be denied. They are going to live better. That econo- mist, that political leader and thal economic programme is wisest, safest, ;anest, which recognizes this and di- rects it's energy toward a fairer dis tribution of the profits of labor, com
 nerce and manufacture.
 The tariff is wrong, but when it is
 ighted the trust problem, the over capitalization problem, the maritime problem, the professionalism prob
 em-the direct legislation problem will still remain; and many others like hem.
 Now, while I sat debating thus with myself over the Democratic platform n which I could not believe, and oi Woodrow Wilson in whom do believe -slightly-there came into my hands the platform of the National Progress sive party. The difference became in. stantly apparent. This was not patchwork. It was not inconsistent with itself. Neither was it inconsist- ent with the times in which it was written. It had no past to justify. It declared itself simply and in straight | forward way. It declared for a pro- tective tariff policy, but it also de clared for an effective and thorough going reduction of our present tariff | duties. But it did not anticipate that | these reductions, this treatment for | humps, would cure measles and also whooping cough and those other | .heums and levers which affect the body polite.
 And so I went on through the docu- ment. The thing was practical; there fore it was American. Here was par ty platform in it's shirt-sleeves. For the tariff, direct action; for the big trusts, direct action; for the laborer, direct action; yes, and for the voter, if representative instruments failed, DIRECT ACTION-a shirt-sleeve plat form! Yet, it is not a collection of Dalliatives. It deals with principles. It is statesmanly in conception and immediate in it's proposals. 1 believe heartily in the integrity and ability Of Woodrow Wilson, and 1 believe unre servedly in the integrity and ability )f Theodore Roosevelt; but I believe nore in the platform of the National party than I do in the per of either of the principal can lidates.
 Here, now, was the final test ,ut up in my own mind. I cannot upport Woodrow Wilson on the Dem ;ratic platform, but I could support 6 Jim on the Progressive platform. IlN ould support Theodore Roosevelt on h Progressive platform, but I could l lot support him on the Democratic ,latform Therefore, it is not 2 uestion of men, but of platforms. l ope Theodore Roosevelt will be elect V d; because he stands upon a platform a hat is better than he is or than any c nan is