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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-06

normal, and should be prohibited. We
hold that The seven-day working week Is
abnormal, and we hold that one day of
rest in seven should be provided by law.
1--WE hold that the continuous in
dustries, operating twenty-four hours
out of twenty-four. are abnormal.
and where because of public necessity
or OF technical reasons lsuch as
molten metal) the twepty-four hours
must be divided into two shifts of
twelve hours or three shifts of eight
they should by law be divided into
three of eight.
Home life Is abnormal when tenement
manufacture is carried on in the house
hold. 1T Is a serious menace to health.
education and childhood, and should
therefore be entirely prohibited. Tempo
rary construction camps are abnormal
homes and should be subjected to gov
ernmentaI sanitary regulation.
"The premature employment of chill
dren is abnormal and should be pro-
hibited; so also the employment of wom-
en- in manufacturing. commerce or other
trades where work comDels standing con-
stanfly; and also any employment Of
women In such trades for a period Of at
least eight weeks at a time Of child
birth.
1T is abnormal for any industry to
throw back upon the community the
human wreckage due to its wear and
tear, and the hazards of sickness,
accident, invaIidism, involuntary un-
employment and old g should be
provided for through insurance. This
should be made a charge in whole or
in part upon the industries, the em-
ployer. the employee, and perhaps the
people at large, to contribute sever
ally in some degree.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-06
Responsible for Positive
and Downright Evils

las construed by the Democratic
platform, the antitrust law would, II
1t could be enforced, abolish all bust
ness of any size or any efficiency. The
promise thus to apply and construe
the law would undoubtedly be broken.
but the mere fitful effort thus to ap-
ply 1t would do 40 good whatever,
would accomplish widespread harm.
and would bring all trust legislation
into contempt.
Contrast what has actually been
accomplished under the interstate
commerce law with what has actual
iy been accomplished under the anti
trust law. The fist has, on the
whole, worked in a highly efficient
name and achieved real and great
results; and it promises to achieve
even greater results (although l firm
ly believe that IL the power of the
commissioners grows greater 1t will
be necessary to make them and their
superior, the President, even more
completely responsible to the people
for their acts). The second has oc-
OCCASIONALLY done good, has usually
accomplished nothing, has generally
left the worst conditions wholly un-
changed, and has been responsible
for a considerable amount of down
right and positive evil.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-06
Tells Why He FavOrs
Suffrage for Women.

"WorkingwOmen have the same need
to combine for protection that work.
inemen have; the. ballot Is as
necessary for one class as for the
other, we do not believe that with the
two sexes there II identity of func-
ton; but we do believe that there
should be equality of right, and here
fore we favor women suffrage.
There is no body of our people
whose interests are more inextricably
interviewer with the interests Of all
the people than is the case with the
farmers. The country life commits
sion should be revived with greatly
increased powers; its abandonment
was a severe blow to the interests
of u people. The welfare of the
farmer Is a basic need Of this ma
tion.
THE government must cooperate
with the farmer to make the farm
more productive.
"There must be me slximming of the
soil. TIL farm should be left to the
farmers son in better, and not worse,
condition because Of its cultivation.
1T is entirely possible by improve
AftANo ~ PAcodSt'Oh, III tiiC afOiQdiiCc
of waste, and in business methods on
the part of the farmer to give him
an increased income from his farm
while at the same time reducing to
the consumer the price of the articles
raised on the farm.
Our aim is to control business,
not to strangle it, and, above all. not
to continue a policy Of make-believe
strangle toward big that do
evil and constant n toward
both big and little concerns that do
well.
w wish to control big business SO ~
to secure among other things good wages
for the wageworkers and reasonable
prices for the
Wherever in n business the
prosperity of the business man is OBJ
tair,d by lowering the wages OF his
workmen and charging IN excessive
price to the we wish to in
terfere and stop such p~ractlses.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-06
preserve Competition
Wherever Practicable.

But every honest business man,
big or little, should support the Pro-
gressfye program, and IL is the one
and only program which offers real
hope to all our people.
I'VE favor cooperation in business,
and ask only that it be carried on
in a spirit of honesty and fairness.
We T against crooked business, big
or little; we are in favor of honest
business, big or little. We propose
to penalize conduct and not size.
1T is imperative to the welfare of
our people that we enlarge and ex-
tend our foreign commerce.. In every
way possible u Federal government
should cooperate in this important
matter. Anyone who has had oppor
tunity to study and observe first
hand Germany's course in this re-
spect must realize that their policy
of cooperation between government
and business has in comparatively
few years made them a leading COM
petitor for the commerce of the
world. 1t should be remembered that
they are doing this on a national
scale and with large units of bust
ness, while the Democrats would have
us believe that we should do it with
small units of business, which would
be controlled not by the national
government, but by forty-nine con
ficting State sovereignties.
"sach a policy is utterly out of keep
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-06
Industry Must Submit
to Public Regulation

with England striving to make
good the human wreckage to which
a scrap-heap scheme of ndustrialism
has relegated her, with Germany put
ting the painstaking of an
empire at the work of developing
her crafts and industrial sciences,
with the Far East placing in the
hands of its millions the tools in
vented and fashioned by Western
civilization it behooves Americans to
keep abreast Of the great industrial
changes and to show that the people
themselves, through popular self
government, can meet an age of crisis
with wisdom and strength.
Industry, therefore, must submit to
such public regulation as win make It
q means of life and health, not Of death
or ineficicncy. We must protect the
crusha0le elements at the base of our
present industrial structure,
THE first charge on the industrial
craftsmanship of the day is to pre-
vent human waste. The dead weight
o. orphanage and depleted craftsman
chip, of crippled workers and workers
suffering from trade diseases, of
casual labor. OF insecure old age and
of household depletion due to indus
trial conditions are. like our depleted
soils, our gashed mountain sides and
Hooded river bottoms, so many strains
upon the national structure, draining
the reserye strength of all Industries
and showing beyond all p~eradventure
the public element and public concern
In Industrial health.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-06
Believes in Protective
Tariff as a Principle.

II believe in a protective tariff, but
l believe in 1t as a principle, APP
preached from the standpoint of the
interests of the whole people, and
not as a bundle of preferences to
be given to favored individuals. In
my opinion the American people
favor the principle of a protective
tariff, but they desire such a tariff
to be established primarily In the
interests of the wage-worker and the
consumer.
Wherever nowadays an Industry
is to be protected 1t should be on the
theory that such protection will serve
to keep up the wages and the stand
ard of living Of the wsge-worker in
that industry with full regard for
the interest of the To ac-
complish this the tariff to be levied
should rs nearly as is scientifically
possible approximate the differential
between the cost of production at
home and abroad This differential
is chiefly, If not wholly, in labor cost.
No duty should be permitted to stand
as regards any industry unless the
workers receive their full share of
the benefits Of that duty.
I'm other words, there Is no warrant
for protection unless q legitimate share
of the benefits get into the pay envelope
of the wage-uorker.
THE practise of undertaking a gen
eral revision of all the schedules at
one time and of securing information
as to conditions in the different in
dustries and as to rates of duty de-
sired chiefly from those engaged in
the industries, who themselves bene-
fit directly from the rates they pro-
pose, has been demonstrated to be
not only ininuitous but futile.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-06
Calls Oil and Tobacco
Prosecutions Scandals.

ANY corporation not coming under
the commission should be exposed to
prosecution under the antitrust law,
and any corporation violating tile or
ders of the commission should also
at once become exposed to such
prosecution; and when such a prose
cution is successful 1t should be the
duty of the commission to see that
the decree of the court is put into
effect completely and In good faith.
SO that the combination is absolutely
broken up, and is not allowed to
come together again, nor the constit-
uent parts thereof permitted to do
business save under the conditions
laid down by the commission.
This last provision would pre-
vent the repetition of such gross
scandals as those attendant upon the
present administrations prosecution
of the Standard Oil and the tobacco
trusts. The Supreme Court Of the
United States in c~ondemning these
two trusts to dissolution used lari-
guage of unsparing severity concern
ing their actions. But the deckee
was carried out in such a manner as
to turn into a farce this bitter con-
domination of the criminals by the
highest court in the country.
"Not one particle of benefit to the
community Mt large was gained; ON the
contrary, the prices went M to censum-
ers, independent competitors were placed
in greater Jeopardy than ever before,
and the possessions OF the wrongdoers
greatly appreciated in value.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-06
Right of People to Rule
Called First Essential.

1T seems to me, therefore, that the
time is ripe, and overitpe, for a gen
nine Progressive movement. Nation
uine Progressive movement.
"The arst essential In the Pro-
rressive program V the right Of tho
people TO rule.
we. should provide by National law
for Presidential primaries. We should
provide for the election of United
States Senators by popular vote. We
should provide for q short ballot;
nothing makes II harder for the peo-
pie to control their public servants
than to force them to vote for so
many officials that they cannot really
keep track of any one of them, so that
each becomes indistinguishable In the
crowd around him. There must be
stringent and efficient corrupt prac-
tises acts, applying to the primaries
as well as the elections; and there
should be publicity of campaign con-
tributions during the campaign.
wherever representative govern
ment has in actual fact become non
representative the people should Sc
cure to themselves the initiative. the
referendum and the recall, doing 1t
in such a fashion as to make it evil
dent that they do not intend to use
these instrumentalities wantonly or
frequently. but to hold them ready
for use in order to correct the mis-
deeds OK failures of the public SER
wants when it has become evident
thai these misdeeds and failures can
not be corrected in ordinary and nor
NAL fashion. sAss
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-06
Government Only Can
Regulate the Trusts

Interstate m can be eff
fectively controlled only by the ma
ton. The State cannot control II
under the constitution, and to amend
the constitution by giving them the
control of it would amount to a dis
solution of the government.
1.-The worst of the big trusts have
always endeavored to keep alive the
feeling in favor of having the States
themselves. and not the nation, at
tempt to do this work, because they
know that in the long run such effort
would be ineffective.
"Thcre Is no surer way to prevent all
successful effort 10 deal with the trusts
thai to insist that they be dealt with by
the States rather than by the nation. or
to create a conflict between the States
and the nation upon the subject.
The only effective way in which
TO regulate the trusts is through the
exercise of the collective power Of
our people as a whole through the
governmental agencies established by
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-06
Would Not Submit to
Prosperity So Won.

I'VE will not submit to that kind
of prosperity any more than we will
submit to prosperity obtained by
swindling investors or getting unfair
advantages over business rivals.
unfortunately, those dealing with
the subject have tended to divide into
two camps, each as unwise as the
other. One camp has fixed its eyes
only on the need of prosperity, loudly
announcing hat our attention must
be confined to securing 1t In bulk, and
that the division must be left to take
care of itself. This is merely the
plan, already tested and found want
men on top, and trusting to their
mercy to let something leak through
to the mass of their countrymen be-
low-which, in effect, means that
there shall be no attempt to regulate
the ferocious scramble in which greed
and cunning reap the largest re-
wards.
The other set has fixed its eyes
purely on the injustice of distribution,
emitting all consideration of the need
of having something to distribute.
and advocates action which, 1t is
true, would abolish most of the in
equalities of the distribution of pros
perity, but only by the unfortunately
simple process of abolishing the pros
perity itself. This means merely that
conditions are to be evened, not up.
but down. so that all shall stand ON a
common level. where nobody has any
prosperity at all.
1.-THE antitrust law, If interpreted
as the Baltimore platform demands it
shall be interpreted. would apply to
every agency by which not merely
Industrial but agricultural business
is carried on In this country. Under
such an Interpretation 1t ought in
theory to be applied universally, In
which Ease practically all industries
would stop.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-06

unremedied. / believe in a larger OPP
portunity for the people themselves
directly to participate in government
and to control their governmental
agents, because long experience has
taught me thai without such control
many of their agents will represent
them badly.
st am not under the slightest de-
fusion as to any power that during
my political career I have at any
time possessed. Whatever of power
l at n time had. ! obtained from
the people. / could exercise It only
so long as, and TO the extent that
the people not merely believed in me.
but heartily backed me up. What
ever / did as President I was able TO
do only because / had the backing OF
the people. When Pm any point ! did
not have that backing, when on any
point I differed from the people, il
mattered not whether I was right or
whether / WAS wrong, my power
vanished. / tried my best TO lead the
people, to advise them. to tell them
what I thought was right; if neces-
sary, ] never hesitated 10 tell them
what ttuOuBui tHef ouShl 70 ur11t
even though I thought 1t would be
unpleasant for them to hear It.
but ] recognize that my task WAS to try
to lead them and not to drive them, to
take them into my confidence. TO try 70
shew them that 1 was right. and then
loyalty and In good faith 10 accept their
decision. i win do anything for fhe
people except what my censcienns tells
me 10 wrong, and thet I can do Tor ne
man and ne set Of men.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-06
Declares Anti Trust
Law Needs Strengthening,

THE antitrust law should be kept
on the statute books and strengthened
so az to make it genuinely and thor
oughly effective against every big
concern tending to monopoly or guilty
of anti-social practises. At the same
time, a national Industrial commits
sion should be created which should
have complete power to regulate and
control all the great Industrial con-
Germs engaged in interstate business
which practically means all of them
in this country.
This commission should exercise
over these industrial GER like
powers to those exercised over the
railways by the Interstate Com
merce Commission, and over the ma
tional banks by the comptroller of
the currency, and additional powers
IL found necessary.
1.-THE establishment of such q commits
sion would enable US TO punish the indi-
viduaI rather than merely the corpora
tion, just as we now do with banks,
where the aim of the government is,
not to close the bank, but to bring to
Justice personally any bank official who
has rome wrong.
This commission should lea with
all the abuses of the trusts-all the
abuses such as those deceloped by
the government suit against the
Standard Oil and tobacco t~rusts-as
the Interstate Commerce Commission
now deals with rebates. 1t should
have complete power TO make the
capitalization absolutely honest and
put a stop to all stock watering.
Such supervision. over the issuance
of corporate securities would put a
stop to exploitation of the people by
dishonest capitalists desiring to de-
clare dividends on watered securities,
and would open this kind of industrial
property to ownership by the people
at large. 1t should have free access
to the books of each corporation and
power to find out exactly how 1t
treats it's employees, its rivals, and
the general public. 1t should have
power to compel the unsparing pub
licity of all the acts of any
ton, which goes wrong.
THE regulation should be primarily
under the administrative branch of
the government and not by lawsuit.
1t should prohibit and effectually
punish monopoly achieved through
wrong, and also actual wrongs done
by industrial corporations which are
not n~lonopolies, such as the artificial
raising of prices, the artificial restric-
L.. ---I.-As4&-~ Al 49,
of competition by unfair or predatory
practises, and the like; leaving indus
trial organizations free within the
limits of fair and honest dealing to
promote through the inherent
efficiency of organization the power
of the United States as a competitive
nation among nations, and the
greater abundance at home that will
come to our people from that power
wisely exercised.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-06
Wars on Calamity of
High Cost of Living.

There can be NO more important
question than the high cost of living
Necessities. The main purpose of b
progressive movement Is to place the
American people In possession of their
birthrigh hit, to secure for all the Amerf-
eaD people unobsfructed access TO the
fountains of measureless prosperity
which their Creator offers them.
THE cost of living in this country
has risen during the last few years
out of all proportion to the increase
in the rate Of most salaries and
wages; the same situation confronts
alike the majority of the wage
professional men. the clerks, the doc
tors, clergymen.
"Our opponents, Republicans and
Democrats alike, propose to deal with
it in this way. The Republicans
in their platform promise an inquiry
into the facts. Most certainly there
should be such inquiry. But the
way the present administration has
failed to keep its promises in the
past, and the rank dishonesty Of ac-
ton On the part of the Penrose-Gug-
genheim national convention. makes
their every promise worthless.
1.-THE Democratic platform affects
to find the entire cause of living in
the tariff, and promises to remedy it
by free trade, especially free trade
In the necessaries of life. In the
first place, this attitude ignores the
patent fact that the problem is
worldwide. that everywhere in Eng
land and France, as in Germany and
Japan, it appears with greater OF less
severity: that in England, for in
stance, it has become a very severe
problem, although neither the tariff
nor, say to a small degree, the trusts
can there have any possible effect
upon the situation.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-06

have brought about severe punish
ment Of less wealthy wrongdoers.
The Progressive proposal is def
Mite. It is practicable. We promise
nothing that we cannot carry out.
We promise nothing which will jcop-
ardize honest business.
1--WE promise adequate control OF all
big business and the stern suppression
of the evils connected with big bust
ness. and this promise we can absolutely
keep.
We propose 10 make it worth
while for our business men to devotion
the most efficient business agencies
for use in International trade; for it
is to the interest of our whole people
that we should do well in i~nterna-
tional business. But we propose to
make those business agencies do
complete justice to our own people.
Every dishonest business man will
unquestionably prefer either the pro-
gram of the Republican convention
or the program Of tb> Democratic
convention to our proposal, because
neither of these programs means or
can mean what 1t purports to mean.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-06
MIRRORS TO 60; FLIRTING
IN ELEVATORS Is O M

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. e.-Nirrors
in Philadelphia elevators are doomed
The order for their removal from
elevators at City Hall went out yes
terday, and viii be followed by sim-
liar orders IN the leading hotels and
office buildings, notably the Bellevue
Stratford and the Land Title.
Conductors in the City Hall eles
yators assert that nearly every girl
who rides becomes SO engrossed in
"primping' before the ~silvered glasses
in the elevators that she forsets
what floor she wants and causes de-
lay.
In the hotels and office buildings
the conductors of the elevators, who
are instructed not to speak to the
occupants, utilize the mirrors to firt
with fair passengers. with the result
that they pass the floors while
ogling the girls.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-06
Panama Canal Must Be
Fortified, He Declares.

THE navy should be steadily built
Up. and the process Of upbuilding
must not be stopped until-and not
before-it proves possible to secure
by International agreement a gen.
eral reduction of ornaments.
ssFne Panama Canal must be fortf-
fed. 1t would have been criminal to
build 1T n we were not prepared to
fortffy IL and TO keep our navy nj
IL Bnsafe for any f0reign power to at
tack as and get control of II.
But at all times the canal should
be opened on equal terms to the
ships Of all nations. including our
own, engaged IN international COM
merce.
THE question that has arisen over
the right of this nation to charge
tolls on the canal vividly illustrates
the folly and iniquity OF making
treaties which cannot and ought moi
to be kept
Nov, friends, this is my confession
Of faith. I have made it rather long
because / wish you to know just
what my deepest convictions are on
the great questions of today. so that
If you choose to make me your stand
ard-bearer in the fight you shall make
your choice understanding exactly
how ] iceland If, after hearing me,
you think you ought to choose some
one else, I shall loyalty abide by your
choice.
81 believe in a larger use of the
governmental power to help remedy
industrial wrongs, because II has been
borne in on me by actual experience
that without the exercise of such
power many of the wrongs will &c