El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-05

US, the living of the people IS the uro
lem OF the hour. Hundreds of thou
sands of hardwOrking Americans FIND
II difficult TO get enough to live on
The average income of an American
laborer IS less than $500 a year Witt
this he must furnish food shelter and
clothing for a family.
Women Forced to Work
Women. whose nOurishing and pro-
lection should be the first care Of the
state, not only are driven into the
mighty army of WageaTners, but are
forced to work under unfair and de-
grading conditions. The right of a
child TO grow into a normal human
being is sacred; and yet, while small
and poor countries, packed with peo-
pie, have abolished child labor. Ameri-
can mills. mines, factories and sweat
shops are destroying hundreds of thou
sands OF American children in body,
mind and soul
AT the same time men have grasped
fortunes in this country so great that
the human mind cannot comprehend
their magnitude. These mountains OF
wealth are far larger than even that
lavish reward which no one would de-
ny to business risk or genius.
Would Remedy Conditions.
We mean TO remedy these condi-
tons We mean not only to make
prosperity steady, but to give to the
many who earn il a Just share of that
prosperity instead of helping the few
who do not earn it to take an unjust
share The progressive motto is pass
prosperity around" To make human
living easier, to free the hands of hon
est business. TO make trade and COM
merce sound and steady, to protect
Womanhood- save childhood and restore
the dignity Of manhood-these are the
tasks we must do
other Nations Ahead Of Us.
with our vast advantages, con-
trasted with the vast disadvantages Of
other nations, American business all
the time should be the best and steadi-
fz n0
many, with shallow soil, no mines, only
a window on the seas and a population
more than 10 times as dense as ours
Yet has sOunder business, steadier
prosperity, a more cOntented because
better cared for people.
To Overthrow Conspiracy.
Behind rotten laws and preventing
sound laws, stands the corrupt boss;
behind the corrupt boss stands the rob-
Der interest and commanding these
powers Of p1llage stands blOated hu-
man greed 1t is this conspiracy of
evil we must overthrow if we would
get the honest laws We need It is
stroy II we would save American in
stitutiOns.
"Other nations have ended the very
same business evils from which we SUI ,
fer by clearly defining business wrong
doing and then making it a criminal I
Offense, punishable by imprisonment /
Yet these foreign nations encourage |
big business itself and foster all hon 4
est business. But they do not tolerate /
dishonest business. little or big
w hat then, shall we Americans do? /
Common sense and the experience of I
the world says that we ought to keep 3
the good big business does for US and {
stop the wrongs that big business does
to US Yet we have done just the
other thing We have struck at big
business itself and have not even
aimed to strike at the evils Of big
business Nearly 25 years ago con-
gress passed a law to govern Ameri-
can business in the present time which
parliament passed in the reign of king I
James to govern English business in /
that time.
Evils Grow Faster Than Trusts.
For quarter of a century the
courts have tried to make this law
work. Yet during this very time trusts
grew greater in number and power
than IN the whole history of the world
before; and their evils flourished I'M
lindered and unchecked. These great
business concerns grew because nat
lral laws made them grow and arti-
iclaI law at war with natural war
;ould not stop their growth. But their
wills grew faster than the trusts them
selves because avarice nOurished those
wills and no law of any kind stopped
-Varice from nourishing them.
The people are tired Of this mock
lot want to hurt business: but they
10 want to get something done about
he trust question that amounts to I
omethlng- What good does it do any (
nan 10 read IN his morning paper that
ne courts have dissolved the oil trust
nd then read in his evening paper