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The Washington times., 1912-08-06

about severe punishment of less wealthy
wronR-doers.
The Progressive proposal II definite.
IL II practicable. We promise moth
ing that we cannot carry out. We
promise nothing which will jeOpardise
honest business.
We promise adequate control of all
big business and the stern suppress
sion of the evils connected with big
business. and this promise we can alb
asf oac to help
tensive. and to see that 1t is reward
ed with fair returns so that there
may be no oppression either of bGsi-
ness men or of the common people.
We propose to make 1t worth while
for our business men to develop the
most efficient business agencies for
use In international trade: for IT IL to
the interest OF our whole people that
we should do well in international
business. But we propose to make
those business agencies do complete
justice to our own people.
Every dishonest business man will
unquestionnbly prefer either the pro-
gram Of the Republican convention
or the program of the Democratic
convention to our proposal. because
reither OF these programs means or
But every honest business man, big
or little. should support the Progress
sive program, and It is the one and
only program which offers real hope
to all our people; for II is the one
program under which the Government
can be used with real efficiency to
see Justice done by the big corpora
ton alike to the wage-earners II en-
ploys. to the small rivals with whom
1t completes, to the investors who
purchase its securities, and to the
consumers who purchase its products,
or to the general public which II
ought to serve, as we'll as to the bust
ness man himself
The Washington times., 1912-08-06
Regulation Should Not
Be By Lawsuit.

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 monopolies.
such as the artificial raising Of prices.
the artificial restriction on productive
ity. the elimination OF competition by
unfair or predatory practices, and the
like; leaving industrial organizations
est dealing to promote through the In
herent efficiency of organization the
power of the United States as COM
petitive nation among nations, and the
greater abundance at home that Will
come to our people from that power
wisely exercised.
Any eorpoFatiOn voluntarily coming
under the commission should not he
prosecuted under the antitrust law
as lonm as 1t Obeys In good faith the
orders Of the commission.
The commission would be able to in
terpret in advance, to any honest man
asking the Interpretation, what he may
do and what he may not do In carrying
on a legitimate business, Any corpora
ton not coming under the commission
should be exposed to prosecution under
the antitrust law, and any corpora ton
violating the orders OF the commission
should also at once become exposed to
such prosecution; and when such, a
prosecution 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 II not allowed to come together
again. nor the constituent parts thereof
permitted to do business save under the
conditions laid down by the commission.
This last provision would prevent the
repetition of such gross scandals as
those attendant upon the present Ad-
ministrations prosecution of the Stand
ard OIL and Tobacco trusts. ...sr
The Supreme Court OF the United
States in condemning these two trusts
to dissolution used language of unspar-
ing severity concerning their actions,
But the decree was carried out In such
q manner as to turn into a farce this
bitter condemnation of the criminals by
! the highest court in the country.
The Washington times., 1912-08-06

Contrast what has actually been accom-
plished under the interstate commerce
law with what has actually been &C
The first has, on the whole, worked In
q highly efficient manner and achieved
real and greater results. and II prom
ises to achieve even greater results
(although I firmly believe that II 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 occasionally done
good, has usually accomplished nothing
has generally left the worst conditions
wholly unchanged, and has been re.
sponsibie for a considerable amount OF
downright and positive evil
The Washington times., 1912-08-06
High Living Cost
Given Attention.

There can he no more important ques-
tion than the high cost of living nec-
essities. The main purpose of the Pro-
gressfve movement Is to place the
American people in possession OF their
birthright. to secure for all the Ameri-
can people unobstrcted access to the
fountains Of measurelcss prosperity
which their Creator offers them. We
In this country are blessed with great
natural resources, and our men and
women have high standard of intel
Surely such being the case. We cannot
permanently support conditions under
which each family finds II increasingly
dinicult to secure the necessaries OF
life and, a fair share of its comforts
through the earnings OF its members.
The cost of living in this country
has risen during the last few years
out OF all proportion to the inerease
I'm the rate of most salaries and
wagesi the same situation confronts
alike the majority Of wage-workers,
small business men, small profession
al men, the clerks. the doctors, clergy
men.
Now, grave though the problem is
there Is one way to make II graver
and that Is to deal with 1t insincerely,
to advance false remedies. to promise
VIC bhppSSioiG- cui opPoHChto, INcpuo'
licans and Democrats alike, propose tc
deal with 1t in this way. The Re.
publicans in their platform promise ar
inquiry into the facts. Most certainly
there should be such inquiry.
But the way the present Admins.
tration has failed to keep its promises
in the past, and the rank dishonesty
of action on the part of the Penrose'
Barnes-Guggenheim national conven
| ton makes their every promise worth
less. The Democratic platform af
fects to find the entire cause of the
high cost Of living In the tariff, ant
promises to remedy II by free trade
especially free trade in the necessarfes
Of life.
In the first place. this attitude ig.
nores the patent fact that the prob.
lem is world wide. that everywhere. ir
England and France, as In Germany
and Japan. 1t appears with greater o'
less severity; that in England, for In
stance, 1t has become very severe
problem, although neither the tarin
nor save to a small degree. the trusts
can there have any possible effect upon
| the situation.
In the second place, the Democratic
platform. II 1T is sincere. must NEAR
| that all duties will be taken OF the
products of the farmer. Yet most Ger
| tainly we cannot AFFORD to have tn'
| farmer struck down.
The Washington times., 1912-08-06
Cannot Control Trusts
Merely by Antitrust Law
And by Bringing of Suits
Should Be Under Administrative Branch of Government
to Prohibit and Effectively Punish Monopoly
Achieved Through Wrong ~

into the most Widespread industrial de-
preston we have yet seen, and this de-
preston would continue for an indefinite
period.
There is NO hope from the stand
point OF our people from action such
ss the Democrats propose.
The one and only chance to secure
stable and favorable business conditions
In this country, while at the same time
guaranteeing fair play to farmer, con-
sumer, business man, and wage worker,
lies In the creation of such a COM
| mission as herein advocate.
Only by such commission and only
by such activities of the commission will
II be possible for US to get q reasonably
quick revision Of the tariff schedule by
schedule-a revision which shall be
downward and not upward. and at the
same time secure square deal not
merely to the manufacturer, but to the
wage worker and to the general con-
suu1er
The Washington times., 1912-08-06
Not One Particle
Of Benefit Gained.

Not one particle of benefit to the
community at large was gained; on the
contrary. the prices went UP to con-
sumers. independent competitors were
placed, in greater jeopardy than ever
before and the possessions of the
wrong -doers greatly appreciated in
value.
There never was more fagrant
travesty OF justice, never an instance in
which wealthy wrong-doers benefited
more conspicuously by law which was
supposed to be aimed at them, and
which undoubtedly would have brought
The Washington times., 1912-08-06
Log Rolling Tariff
Days Must End.

The day Of the log-rolling tariff must
end. The progressive thought of the
country has recognized this fact for
several years, and the time has come
when all genuine Progressives should
insist upon a thorough and radical
change in the method Of tariff making.
The. first step should be the creation
of a permanent commission of non- -parti-
san experts whose business shall be to
study scientifically all phases Of tariff
making and Of tarif effects. This COM
mission should be large enough to cover
all the different and widely varying
branches of American industry. 1t
should have ample powers to enable 1t
to secure exact and reliable informa-
ton. 1t should have authority to ex-
anime closely all correlated subjects.
such as the effect of any given duty on
the duty is levied: that Is. 1t should
directly consider the question as to
what any duty costs the people in the
price Of living.
1t should examine into the wages and
conditions of labor and life Of the work.
men in any industry, so as to insure
our refusing protection to anv industry
labor receives therefrom is satisfactory.
This commission would be wholly diff
ferent from the present unsatisfactory
Tariff Board. which was created under
provision OF law which failed to give
1t the powers indispensa BILE IL 1t was to
do the work II should do.
1t will be well for US to study the ex-
question. The German tariff commits
sion has proved conclusively the effic-
iency and wisdom Of this method of
handling tariff questions.
The Washington times., 1912-08-06
Welfare of Tiller
Is All Important.

The welfare of the tiller OF the soil
Is as important as the welfare OF the
wage-worRer himself, and we must
sedulously guard both. The farmer,
the producer Of the necessities of life.
can himself live only il he raises these
necessities for profit.
On tho other hand, the consumer
who must have that farmers product
In order to live. must be allowed to
purchase 1t at the lowest cost that can
give the farmer his profit, and every
thing possible must be done to elimin-
ate any middleman whose function
does not tend to increase the cheapness
Of distribution Of the product: ana.
moreover. everything must be done 70
the bread-basket which has even the
slightest deleterious effect upon the
producer and consumer.
There must be Legislation which will
bring about q closer business reia-
tionship between the farmer and the
consumer.
Recently experts in the Agricultural
Department have figured that nearly
80 per cent of the price Tor agricui,
goes into the pockets. not OF the farm
er, but of various middlemen; and II is
probable that over half OF what Is thts
paid to middlemen is needless, can b.
saved by wise business methods dn-
troduced through both law and Gus
tom), and can therefore be returned "a
the farmer and the consumer.
Through the proposed Interstate In
dustrial Commission we can effectively
do away with, any arbitrary control
by combinations of the necessities oi
life.. Furthermore, the governments OF
the nation and of the several States
must combine in doing everything they
can to make the farmers business
profitable, so that he shall get more
out of the soil, and enjoy petter buSi-
ness facilities for marketing what he
thus gets. In this manner his return
will be increased while the price to The
consumer is diminished.
The Washington times., 1912-08-06
Must Keep Anti Trust
Laws on the Books.

Again and again while 1 was Presi-
dent, from 1902 to 1908. pointed out that
under the Antitrust law alone it was
neither possible to put stop to busi-
ness abuses nor possible to secure the
highest efficiency in the service rem
dered by business to the general public.
The antitrust law must be kept on
our statute books, and, as hereafter
shown. must be rendered more effective
in the cases where 1t is applied.
But to treat the antitrust law as
an adequate, or as by itself a wise,
measure Of relief and betterment Is a
sign not of progress, but of toryism
and reaction. 1t has been Of benefit SO
far as 1t has implied the recognition
OF real and great evil, and the at
least sporadic application of the prin-
ciple that all men alike must obey the
law. s.. .....r
But ~ q sole remedy. universally
applicable, 1T has in actual practice
completely broken down; ms now ap-
piled 1t works more mischief than
benefit.
1t represents the waste of effort-al-
way damaging to a community-which
arises from the attempt to meet new
conditions by the application of out
worn remedies instead Of fearlessly and
in comm0n-Sense fashion facing the new
conditions and devising the new RENE
dies which alone can work effectively
for good.
The antitrust law, If interpreted as
the Baltimore platform demands II
shall be Interpreted, would apply to
every agency by which not merely In
dustIial but agricultural business is
carried on in this country; under such
an Interpretation 1t ought in theory to
be applied universally. in which case
practically all industries would stop
as a matter Of fact. 1t IL utterly out oi
the question to enforce 1t universally
and, when enforced sporadically, II
causes continual unrest, puts the coun'
try at disadvantage with Its trade
competitors in international commerce
hopelessly puzzles honest business mer
and honest farmers as to what then
rights are, and yet as has just beer
shown In the cases of the STANDARD
Oil and the Tobacco trust. 1t Is nc
real check on the great trusts at whicf
1t was in theory aimed, and indeed
operates to their benefit. ,.,
Moreover II we are to compete witn
other nations in the markets OF the
world as we'll as to develop our OWE
material civilization at home, we mus
utilize those forms of Industrial or
ganization that are indispensable to the
highest Industrial productivity and ef'
Aciency.
The Washington times., 1912-08-06
Democrats Offer
No Way of Remedy.

In his main thesis President Van
Hise Is unquestionebly right. The
Democratic platform offers nothing In
the way Of remedy for present in
dustrial conditions except, first, the
enforcement of the antitrust law In
fashion which, IL words mean any
thing. means bringing business to q
standstill; and, second, the insistence
upon an archaic construction Of the
States rights doctrine in thus dealing
with interstate commerce-an insist
most Ghrh poss,e tsS rsf yioaan a The
Constitution to which the members Of
the Baltimore convention assert their
devotion, and which, in the next place,
ntuiIihes t and mskes an empty pre-
proposals of the platform are so con-
flicting and so absurd that 1t Is hard
TO Imagine how any attempt could be
made in good faith to carry them
out, but, II such attempt were sin
cerely made. 1t could only produce
industrial chaos.
Were such an attempt made. every
man who acts honestly would have
adroit criminal able to command the
advice Of the best corporation lawyers
would have much to fear. .,i,r..l
: What Is needed is action. directly the
Gated. We Progressives stand FOR the
rights of the people. When these rights
can best be secured by insistence upon
States rights, then we are for States
rights: when they can best be secured
We are for national rights. Interstate
commerce can be effectively controlled
| only by the nation. The States cannot
control It upder the Constitution. and
| them control of It would amount to q
( dissolution of the Government.
The Washington times., 1912-08-06
Would Plunge Country
Into Wide Depression.

The Democratic platform declares for
a tariff for revenue only. asserting that
protective tariff Is unconstitutional
To say that protective tarifr is uncon-
stitutional. as the Democratic platform
of the Constit Ition which would make
II unconstitutional to legislate In any
shape or way for the betterment of
social and Industrial conditions. The
abolition Of the protective tariff or the
substitution for II of taritf for revenue
only. as proposed by the Democratic
platform, wor I'd plunge this country
The Washington times., 1912-08-06
Honesty and Fairness
Asked In Business.

We favor cooperation in business,
and ask only that 1T be carried on in
spirit of honesty and fairness. We
are against crooked business, big or
little; we are in favor OF honest bust
ness, big or little. We propose to
penalize conduct and not size: -
though honestly conducted. is fraught
with such potentiality Of menace that
there SHOULD be thoroughgoing gov
ernmental control over 1t. SO that its
efficiency in promoting prosperity at
home and Increasing the power of the
nation In INTERNATIONAL commerce may
be maintained. and at the same time
fair play insured to the wage work.
ers. the small business competitors,
the investors. and the general pub
lie. Wherever 1t Is practicable we
propose to preserve competition; but
where under modern conditions COM
petition has been eliminated and can
not be successfully restored, then the
Government must step In and itself
supply the needed control on behalf
CT the people as a whole.
1t is imperative to the welfare OF our
people that We enlarge and extend our
foreign commerce. We are pre-emi-
nently fitted to do this because as a
people we have developed high skill in
the art Of manufacturing; our business
ganizers. In every way possible our
Federal Government should cooperate
In this important matter.
Any one who has had opportunity to
study and observe first-hand Germany 6
course In this respect must realize that
their policy of cooperation between
government and business has in COM
paratively few years made them a lead
Ing competitor for the commerce OF
the world. 1t should be remembered
that they are doing this on a national
scale and with large units Of business,
while the Democrats would have us be-
lieve that we should do 1t with small
units of business. which would be con-
trolled not by the National Government
but by forty-nine conflicting State SOW
eretpntiea
The Washington times., 1912-08-06
Rank and File of Party
Defrauded of Their Rights
By Convention at Chicago
Says Bosses and Their Agents Treated Political Theft AS
Legitimate Political Weapon Resorting to
y Trckery to Win Points.

shall prosper; but 1t should be so
supervised as to make prosperity also
take the shape of good wages to the
wage-worker and reasonable prices to
the consumer while investors and
business rivals are insured just treat
ment, and the farmer, the man who
tills the toll. is protected as sedulous-
ly as the wage-worker himself.
Unfortunately, those dealing with
the subject have tended to divide in
to two camps, each as unwise as the
other. One camp has fixed its eyes
only on the need of prosperity. loud
~ announcing that our attention must
De confined to securing 1t in bulk,
fa and that the division ,Is1s must be left
This is merely the plan, already
tested and found wanting, of giving
prosperity to the big men on top, and
snE s sa thsr mercy to the to s1 mass
their countrymen below-which, in ef-
fect, means that there shall be no
attempt to regulate the ferocious
reap the largest rewards.
The other set has fixed its eyes
purely on the injustices Of distribu-
tion, emitting all consideration of the
ute, and advocates action which. 1t is
the INEQUALITIES of the. distrib-
ution of prosperity, but only by the
unfortunately simple process of abol-
fishing the prosperity 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 pros
perity at all. The task OF the wise
radical must be to refuse to be mis-
Jed by either set of false advisers; {;
he must both favor and promote the
agencies that make for prosperity,
and at the same time see to 1t that
these agencies are so used as to be
primarily Of service to the average
man
The Washington times., 1912-08-06
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The Washington times., 1912-08-06

cost of living.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-05-04
Graduates Much in psmand.

Practically all of the graduates from
the four-year and two-year courses
given in the university school of edu-
cation have been placed in good teach
Ing positions for next year, a number
of them in executive positions as prin-
,cipals. The needs of the high schools
of the state call for more graduates
with college degrees than the univer-
sity is able to supply, and excellent
grade positions await all of those who
finish the two yea course. The recon-
mendation committee, headed by Prof.
c. G.. Schmidt looks after this work of
placing the graduates in positions. So
we'll is it done that last year seventy
nine graduates of the school of educa-
ton were located by the time that they
left the institution. Following is a list
of the members of this years class who
have already been placed: Anna Mes
tos, principal of the Berthold high
school; Clara Hyslop, principal of the
Valley City high school; Ella Murphy,
assistant in the Bathgate high school;
Donna Forkner. assistant in Wahpeton
high school; Clara Pennington, do
mesttc science at Beach; Bernice Grit
fin, domestic science at Walhalla;
Marion Dickinson; assistant in the Es-
mond high school; Stella Hodgins, do
nestle science at Rugby; John Bald
win, assistant in Hatton high school;
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-05-04
University of North Dakota

Early in September, North Dakota
will be host for a day OF more to a
most distinguished group of European
and American men of science who will
make UP the excursion that the Amer
lean Geographical society will conduct,
beginning at New York and extending
to the Pacific coast over the northern
route and back over the southern route.
The personnel of the party will include
some forty of the most noted geograph-
ers OF Europe and many of the men
from this country who are most inter-
ested in that line Of work. Their aim
will be to take jim the features that in
terest them most as students of geo.
graphy. The direction of the trip is in
the hands of Prof. w. M Davis of Har-
ward university and he is relying for
assistance on a number of men Who are
most familiar with the features of the
various regions where stops are to be
made. Prof. Howard Simpson is to
serve as guide for the party while they
are in North Dakota. They will travel
in a special train over the Northern
Pacific and one stop is to be made at
Medora to view the bad lands. 1t Is
possible that another stop will be made
somewhere in the Red river valley to
study the formations left by old glacial
Lake Agassiz.