The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-05

is THESE interests tnat are the real
victors in the end.
The special interests which suck
the peoples substance are bipartisan.
They use both parties. They are the
invisible government behind our visi-
BILE government. Democratic and Re
publican bosses alike are brother off,
GERS of this hidden power. No matter
how fiercely they pretend to fight one
another before election. they work to-
gether after election. And, acting so,
this political conspiracy is able to de-
lay. mutilate or defeat sound and need
ed laws for the peoples welfare and
the prosperity of honest business and
even TO enact bad laws. hurtful 10 the
peoples welfare and oppressive 10
honest business.
1t is this invisible government
which is the real danger 10 American
institutions. Its crude work at Chi
cago in June. which the people We're
able to see, was no more wicked than
its skilful work everywhere and al
ways which the people are not able to
see.
But an even more serious condition
results from the unnatural alignment
of the old parties. Today We Ameri-
cans are politically shattered by sec
tionalism Through the two old par
ties the tragedy of our history is con-
tinued; and one great geographical
part of the Republic is separated from
other parts of the Republic by an IL
logical partisan solidarity
/ The South has men and women as
genuinely progressive and others as
genuinely reactionary as those in 9TH
er parts of our country. Yet, for we'll
known reasons, these sincere and hon
! est southern progressives and reaction
aries vote together in a single party,
which is neither progressive nor reac-
tionary. They vote a dead tradition
! and a local fear, not living convic-
ton and a national faith. They vote
not for the Democratic party, but
against the Republican party. They
want to be free from this condition
they can be free from it through the
National Progressive party.
For the problems which America
faces today are economic and national
They have to do with a more just dis
tribution of prosperity. They concern
the living of the people; and therefore
people by themselves.
I'VE mean to put new business laws
on our statute books which will tell
American business men what they can
do and what they can not do We mean
to make our business laws clear in
stead of foggy-to make them plainly
state just what things are criminal
and what are lawful And we mean
that the penalty for things criminal
shall be prison sentences that actually
punish the real offender. instead OF
money fines that hurt nobody but the
people. who must pay them in the end
And then We mean to send the mes
sage forth to hundreds of thousands
of brilliant minds and brave hearts en-
gagged in honest business, that they
are not criminals but honorable men
in their work to make good business
in this Republic. Sure of victory. we
business men, and know that behind
you, supporting you, encouraging you
is the power and approval of the great
est people under the sun. Go forward
American business men, and feed full
the fires beneath American furnaces
and give employment to every Ameri
can laborer who asks for work. &C
forward, American business men, and
capture the markets of the world fol
the wings of your commerce you carry
liberty throughout the world and tc
every inhabitant thereof. Go forward
American business men, and realize
that in the tine to come 1t shall be said
of you, as 1t is said of the hand that