The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-11-04
PLEDGES HIS
SUPPORT TO
PR0CRESS|VES
Gierluf Jensen, Bull Moose
Candidate for Congress,
Reiterates His Belief in
This Party.
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was allowed to go home at Christmas
time. l was obliged to get up and start
to work at or 5 o'clock in the morn
ing and work until the sun set-and
the sun didn't set SO very early in the
country where l was born. My heart is
with the toiler. He is the real man. 1t
il he that / want to see looked after.
He has not been considered in the de-
gree in which he should have been.
That's why the Progressive party
has placed the minimum wage scale
in. it's platform; that's why the work
ingman's compensation plank is in 1t.
Organization in business is neces-
sary We don't want to break business
up but we want to control 1t, under a
sane business administration. We need
some changes in the Sherman anti
trust law and the Progressive party
will change that law.
Attacks Gov. Wilson.
In a social, industrial and moral
sense, the state can never rise above
the home. Spain, and Rome went down
because the homes went to rot Wilson
a short time ago wrote letter to An
drew Carnegie to set aside a fund to
care for the wives and daughters OF
WORKOUT college professors. Now Mr..
Wilson, why didn't your heart expand
a little more? Wilson Is opposed to
the minimum wage scale for women.
Why didn't Wilson think of others in a
worse condition than he when he
lott tn Tarna0in9
We'll see that the woman and the
girl will get good wages. We still say
that the American child is an asset.
The child should be protected by the
state, as he is an asset of the state.
Those things which are sapping the
life from the child should be abolished.
AS a party We declare that abolition
and prohibition shall become a fact
under the Progressive party admins
tration. We are for free school books
and we intend to get them, because AL
bert Beveridge is to be the next Gov
ernor of Indiana.
Want Free School Books.
"The laboring people will pluck from
their own hearts, every luxury to pro-
vide for their children. Yet the Demo
Gratis and Republicans object to the
proposal of the Progressives for free
school books. The cost to the state
of Michigan was forty-nine cents per
child for school books. Prior to that
where did the balance of the money
so? 1t went to the trusts and you
know it.
"The Progressive movement is the
disqualification Of ideas which have
grown in the hearts of the rank and
file of the people the country over. We
have felt that heretofore we were CIV
en- class legislation which We should
have had Women and men have raj
lied to the standard of the Progressive
movement. We have not destroyed one
single principle necessary to good gov
eminent, but we are advocating nu-
merous other principles which will
serve to represent the people rather
than the vested interests.
THE movement we represent is alb
solutely unprecedented. It's marvellous.
Some how it grips you. Fits into your
ideas. I'd almost rather meet a Bull
Mooser these days than a brother Ma
son. I'm sorry that my friend and OPP
ponent Gray has not been able to go
over the entire district. I've been over
the district and am responsible for ev-
erything have said. The Progressives
pledge you that you shall receive that
debt that we owe you; that it shall be
paid. To the old soldiers the Progress
sives say that We will see that your
last days are your brightest. The COM
pensation law, which we propose for
working men shall protect them
against involuntary unemployment,
unsanitary conditions, accidents. l be-
lieve in all of the other planks of the
movement, and pledge myself to you
voters in the Sixth district to carry
them through and to support them to
the best of my ability if elected, as l
believe I will be-