Bisbee daily review., 1912-08-07

with small units Of business. which would be controlled. not by the ma. tioDal government, but by forty-nine conflicting state soyereignties. Such policy is utterly out of keeping with the progress Of the times and gives our great commercial rivals in Europe-hungry for international markets golden opportunities of which they are rapidly taking ad- vantage.
 Justice to Wage Workers.
 Referring to the opening sentence of his address. namely. that we are now in the midst of a great economic revolution" Mir. Roosevelt presents an advanced and comprehensive plan to insure the rights and better condi. uons for labor. He gives 1t the para mount place in his speech. The first charge upon the industrial statesmen ship of the day" he said. is to pre- vent human waste. The dead weight of orphanage and depleted craftsman. ship of crippled workers and work CTS suffering from trade diseases, of casual labor. ot insecure old age, and Of household depletion due to indus trial conditions are, like our depleted soils, our gashed mountainsides and flooded river bottoms. so many strains upon the national structure. draining the reserve strength of all industries. and showing beyond all peradventure the public element and public concern in industrial health |" He proposed several specific methods for preserving and improving "our human resources, and therefore our labor power. Wage scales and other labor data should be made public: all deaths, injuries and diseases due to industrial operation should be re ported to the authorities; wage com mission should be established in the nation and state to determine the minimum wage scale in different in. dustries: the federal government should investigate all industries with view to establishing standards of sanitation and safety: there shouln be mine and factory inspection ac- cording to standards fixed by the interstate agreement or by the fed eral government: national and state legislation should establish standards of compensation for industrial acci. dents and deaths and for diseases clearly due to industrial conditions i; for the adoption by law of a fair standard of compensation for casual ties resulting fatally which shall clearly fix the minimum compenSa. ton in all cases: the monetary equiv slent of living wage varies according to the local conditions. but should be sufficiently high to make morality pos sible and to provide for education, recreation. proper care Of the chil- dren. maintenance during sickness, and reasonable saving for old age; excessive hours of labor should be prohibited for all waEe-woTkers, and night labor Of women and children should be forbidden; one day of rest in seven should be provided by law {: continuous twenty-four hour lahor should be divided into three shifts Of eight hours by law: tenement house manufacture should be entirely prohibited and labor camps should be subject 10 governmental sanitary regulation: all industries employing women and children should be special. ly subject to government inspection and regulation: insurance funds against sickness, accident, invalidism. and old age should he established by a charge either in whole or in part upon the industries: the suffrage should be granted to women, if for no other reason. to enable wOrkingwcmen to combine for their own protection hy the use of the ballot. "As a peo. pla we cannot afford to let any group of citizens or any individual citizen labor under conditions which are in.
 furious to the common welfare. In dustry, therefore. must submit to such public regulation as will make 1t a
 means of life land health. not oi death or inefiiciency"
 The Farmer
 "The Country Life commission should be revived with greatly in creased power: its abandonment was a severe blow to our people. The wei fare of the farmer is a basic need of this nation" The country school should be brought in touch with coUn try life. For this reason the progress ives approve of government co-opera Jion with the farmer 10 make the farm more productive. Cooperative assoCia. tions of farmers both for the produc
 ion and the selling of agricultural products should be encouraged. "SC long as the farmer leaves cooperative activities with their profit sharing to the city man of business, SO long will the foundations Of wealth be under mined and the comforts of enlight
 ment be impossible in the country communities"
 The Tariff
 On the tariff he says: T believe in a protective tariff. but I believe in it as a principle approached from Standpoint of the interests of the whole people. and not as a bundlt of preferences to be given favorite in dividuals." TIe believes the American | people favor the principle of a pto tsctive tariff, but are in rebellion against the wrong-doing and uniusi | application of that )ol.cy and th' ! abuses in past legislation. Tt Is mol merely the tariff that should be re yised, but the method of tariff- making and of tariff administration" "Th' | first steps should be the creation o J a permanent commission of nOn-par tisan experts" of ample powers" tC { secure exact ard reliable inforna ton" The present tariff board is en tireiy inadequate in point of power 1 reposed in 1t and scope of work un ! dertakeE" The tsriff commis
 sion in Germany affords a splendis