The Prescott daily news., 1912-08-05

can business men, and know that be- hind you, supporting you, encouraging you, is the power and approval of the greatest people under the sun Go forward, American business men, and feed full the fires beneath American furnaces and give employment to every American laborer who asks for work. Go forward, American business men. and capture the markets of the world for Tmerican trade; and know that on the wings of your commerce you carry liberty throughout the world for Amreican trade; and know Go forward, American business men, and realize that in the time to come 1t shall be said of you, as 1t is said of the hand that rounded Peters Dome, he builded better than he knew"
 The next great business reform we must have to steadily increase Ameri- can prosperity is to change the meth cd of building our tariffs. The tariff must be taken out of politics and treate 1 as a business question instead of as a political question. Hereto fore, we have just done the other thing. That Is why American busi- ness is upset every few years by un- necessary tariff upheavals and Is weakened by uncertainty in the peri ods between. The greatest need of business is certainty; but the only thing certain about our tariff Is un- certainty.
 What, then, shall we do to make our tariff changes strengthen business instead of weakening business? Rival protective tariff nations have an- swered that question. Common sense has answered it. Next to our need to make the Sherman law modern, un- derstandable and just, our greatest fiscal need is a genuine, permanent. non-partisan tariff commission.
 Spoilers Threatened.
 The tariff in politics is the excuse for those sham political battles which give the spoilers their opportunity. The tariff in politics is one of the in- visible governments methods of wringing tribute from the people. Through the tariff in politics the bene. flciaries of tariff excesses are cared for, no matter which party is "revis- ing"
 A tariff high enough to give Ameri- can producers the American market when they make honest goods and sell them at honest prices but low enough that when they sell dishonest goods at dishonest prices, foreign competition can correct both evils; a can producers to pay our workingmen American wages and so arranged than the workingmen will get such wages; business tariff whose changes will be so made as to reas- sure business instead of disturbing it this Is the tariff and the method of its making in which the Progressive party believes, for which it does bat tie and which 1t proposes to write in- to the laws of the land.
 The Payne .Aldrich tariff laws must be revised immediately in accordance to these principles. At the same time a genuine, permanent non-partisan tariff commission must be fl q in the law as firmly as the interstate commerce commission. Neither of the old parties can do this work. For neither of the old parties believes in fo hot tc ous, special privilege is too thoroughly woven into the fiber of both old par ties to allow them to make such a tariff. The Progressive party only Is free from these influences. The Pro gressive party only believes in the sincere enactment of a sound tariff policy. The Progressive party only can change the tariff as 1t must be changed
 The Progressive party believes that the Constitution Is a living thing, growing with the peoples growth, strengthening with the peoples strength. aiding the people in their struggle for life. liberty and the pur- suit of happiness, permitting the peo- pie to meet all their needs as condi- tions change. The opposition believes that the Constitution Is a dead form, holding back the peoples growth, shackling the peoples strength but giving a free hand to malign powers that prey upon the people. The first words of the Constitution are We are the people" and they declare that the Constitutions purpose is "to form a perfect Union and to promote the general welfare" To do just that is the very heart of the progressive