The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-05
BEVER|DGE SOUNDS KEY NOTE TODAY

rounded Peters Dome, he builded bet
ter than he knew
The next great business reform We
must have TO steadily increase Ameri-
can prosperity is TO change the method
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 have
just done the other thing That is why
American business is upset every few
years by unnecessary tariff upheavals
and is weakened by uncertainty in the
periods between. The greatest need
OF business is certainty; but the only
thing certain about the tariff is uncer-
tainty.
What. then. shall we do TO make
our tariff changes strengthen business
instead OF weakening business? Rival
protective tariff nations have answer
ed that question. Common sense has
answered IL. Next 10 our need 70 make
the sherman law modern. understand
able and Just. our greatest sscal need
is genuine. permanent. non-partisan
| tariff commission.
Modern industrialism has changed
the status of women Women now are
wage-earners in factories. stores and
other places of toll In hours of labor
and all the physical conditions of in
dustrial effort they must compete with
men. And they must do il at lower
wages than men receive-wages which
in most cases. are not enough for these
women workers TO live on.
This is inhuman and indecent II
is unsocial and uneconomic. II is i'm
moral and unpatriotic. Toward women
the Progressive party proclaims the
chivalry of the State. We propose to
protect women wage-earners by suita-
BILE laws, an example of which is the
minimum wage for women workers.
wage which shall be high enough TO at
least buy clothing. food and shelter
for the woman toiler
The care of the aged is one of the
most perplexing problems of modern
/ life. How is the workingman with less
than five hundred dollars a year, and
with earning power waning as his own
years advance, to provide for aged par
ents or other relatives in addition to
furnishing food shelter and clothing
for his wife and children? What is to
become of the family OF the laboring
man whose strength has been sapped
by excessive toll and who has been
thrown upon the industrial scrap heap.
1t Is questions like these We must ans
wer IL We are to Justify free institu-
tions. They are questions to which
the masses of people are chained as to
a body of death. And they are ques-
are answering.
We progressives mean that Ameri-
ca shall answer them. The Progressive
party is the helping hand to those
whom a vicious industrialism has
MANNED and crippled. We are for the
conservation of our natural resources;
but even more we are for the conser-
walton of human life. Our forests, wa
ter power and minerals are valuable
and must be saved from the spoilers:
but men, women and children are more
valuable and they, too. must be saved
from the spoilers.
Because women. as much as men,
are a part of our economic and social
life, women, as much as men. should
have the voting power to solve all
economic and social problems. Votes
for women are theirs as a matter of
natural right alone; votes for women
should be theirs as a matter of polti-
cal wisdom. AS wage-earners. they
should help to solve the labor prob
lem; as property owners they should
-
wives and mothers they should help
to solve all the problems that concern
the home. And that means all national
problems; for the Nation abides at the
fireside."