Arizona republican., 1912-08-06

1 ueInoCTtlc party Dul dSdlii9I 'iC IopuD-
 lican party They want to be free from
 this condition: they can be free from | it through the national progressive
 party"
 The root of the grongs." continued the speaker, which hurt the people is
 the fact that the peoples government 1 government must be given back to the | people, and so the first purpose of the progressive party is 10 make sure the | rule of the people The rule Of 1the people means that the people them selves shall nominate as well as elect all candidates for office, including sen- ators and presidents of the Unite d States"
 MT. BeN eridge said American bust ness is uncertain and unsteady com pared with the business of other ma =
 tiOnS
 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 70 make big business little and
 yet letting it remain dishonest AS the
 Sherman law now stands, no true
 buSin asS men can arrange their mutual
 affails and be sure that they are not
 law breakers Under the decrees of
 the courts. the oil and tobacco trusts
 still can raise prices unjustly and al-
 ready nave done so.
 The speaker declared the progressive
 party will accomplish reforms vital to
 American business. He continued:
 We mean to put new business laws
 on the statute books. which will tell
 American business men what they can
 do and what they cannot do. The next
 great business reforms we must have
 to steadily increase American prosper
 ity is to change the method of build
 ing our tariffs. The tariff must be
 taken out of politics and treated as a
 business question instead of a political
 question. The greatest need of busi-
 ness is certain; but the only thing cer- tain about our tariff is uncertainty. Next to UT need to make the Sherman law modern understandable ad just our greatest fiscal need is a genuine, permanent. non partisan tariff com mission.
 "A tariff high enough to give Ameri- can producerS the American market when they can make honest goods and sell them at honest prices, but low enough that when they sell dishonest
 goods at Jlisonest prices, foreign com
 petition can correct both evils; a tar
 if high enough to enable American
 producers to pay our working men
 American wages and so arranged that
 the working men will get such wages;
 a business tariff whose changes will be
 so made as to reassure business in-
 stead of disturbing it-this is the tar
 if and the methods of it's making in
 which rhe progressive party believes.
 "The Payne Aldrich laws must be
 revised immediately in accordance
 with these principles
 Abolition of child labor in factories,
 mines and sweat shops and plan for
 old age pensions were included in the
 progressive platform by the speaker who, incidentally favored woman suff- rage
 Never doubt that we will solve in righteousness and wisdom every vex- ing problem" said Beveridge, toward
 the conclusion of his address. The temporary chairman was given
 the closes. attention throughout. Once he mentioned Taft in connec- tion with the approval of the Payne l tariff law and instantly there came jeers and groans in the crowd. Every few minutes Beveridge was interrupted by applause and cheering. The form l. CT senator from Indiana was most courteous presiding officer and when a premature motion to adjourn was made, he begged the pardon of the del- egate for not recognizing him at ths time, promising him recognition later in the session. The standing commit tees were appointed in the usual way
 and just before the first days proceed ings were brought to a close. James R. Garfield of Ohio, moved the appoint ment of committee of fifteen to in- vite Roosevelt to appear before the convention tomorrow at noon. The mo- ton was carried with a whoop and to- night with due ceremony the colonel formally accepted it. Roosevelt not l being a delegate did not attend the | opening session.
 A decided eature was the large number of women delegates. This 1 brought forth cheering when the tenn | porary chairman reached that part Of | is speech advocating suffrage. A big yellow banner inscribed votes for Wo- ] men hung from a balcony rail Mas sachusetts gave one of her women del- l egates a place on the resolutions com | mittee.
 Tomorrow's session of the conven- i tion promises to be one largely of speech making with Rooseveit's "con- | fessiOn of faith" as the center of in 1 terest. The adopting of a platform and the nomination of presidential and vice ! presidential candidates will come up on Wednesday followed by an adjourn ment that evening. Tonight the var ious committees of the convention heEi sessions at the Coliseum and at the headquarters hotel.
 One form of demOnstrative approYal adopted today by the delegates was an imitation of the call of the bull moose, o long Moo" The head of a bull