Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-05

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basis. Who can imagine spontaneous
applause bursting from a Republican
gathering at mention of Taft and
Roosevelt, both elected president by
that party? Or what speaker could
arouse general applause by mention
of the names of Penrose an, Borah, of
the recently bankrupt Lorimer and La
Toilette, of Watson of Mulhall fame
! of Indiana and Cummins of Iowa? Yet
these are all Republicans gathered,
they claim, under the same banner adj
vocating the same policies and making
like appeals to us all for support.
Old Party Embarrassments.
Besides feeling barred from refer
ence to the recent past of their party
speakers in their conventions must
necessarily be h1mpered b. the
knowledge that there is no agreement
among them upon any of the great
questions before the country If they
undertake, in Republican gathering,
to condemn the Democratic tariff bill,
they stand confronted with the fact
that La Toilette, the greatest insurg-
ent of them ALL although still calling
| himself a Republican, voted for the
present law, while Borah and Penrose
and Cummins and Smoot, stood side
by side and voted to retain the old
tariff law which had twice been re-
| pudiated by the people. II a Demo-
cratic orator shall undertake to sing
the praises of the present tariff law.
he will be confronted by Democratic
/ sheep men, Democratic lead men and
I Democratic timber men, who condemn
in the strongest terms that law. If he
should undertake to praise the Demo-
cratic president he would be confront
ed with the knowledge that the Demo-
cratic speaker of the house of repre-
sentatives, the Democratic leader in
that body, and the leading Democratic
members of the United States senate
have refused to follow his advice have
condemned his policies in the most
unmeasured terms and have joined
with their Republican colleagues in
an effort to defeat and discredit him
If a Republican orator should I'M
dertake a condemnation of this Dem
ocratic president, he would do SO
knowing that Root. the greatest Re-
publican the party can boast, and
numerous others highest in the coun-
ellis of the party have been the warm
est supporters of the president and his
staunchest defenders from members
of his own party, and have voted with
him to aid in carrying out the very
principles and laws these orators
would condemn.
Progressive Unity.
On the great national, as we'll as
upon the only important state issues
now pending before the people. the
Progressive party stands as a unit
We do not fear to express our position
, upon the tariff, upon the great trust
question, upon the supreme duty &c
conserve our human resources through
enlightened measures of social end in
dustrial justice, because we all stand
battling for the same great measures
! of relief, protection and advancement
: Although we have but a small cSrC
) labor problem ourselves we are able
/ to realize that the burden Of rel:el
must fall upon those able to conduct
the fight and who can better fight foi
the right than they who are free to 90
; to the battle? We have but small
t problem Of child labor in Idaho, bu
, we want so to act as to keep it al
f ways small problem for M, as wei
as to reduce the problem Cor others
We have a greater problem in thi.
state in the conservation Of our human
resources where sickness and deatl
. may be caused by industrial dceiden
: and injury and trade disease We de
Q mand that laws be enacted which VII
S transfer these risks to the trades IL
which they are engaged instead o
' upon the men themselves and thei
families and in this connection w
I condemn the present administration
: for its effort at formulating measure
/ through a special commission upor
E which the unprotected industrial
laborers of the state were not repre-
/ sented which seeks rather to make th'
! burden as light as possible upon tn
= industry and as heavy as possible up
e on the Individual and his family. W.
e demand a workingmen's compensation
. act that win protect both the EN-
' ployer and the employee but which
= shall not forget that the measure Il
: designed primarily for the protection
] of the laborer.
t After a man and a woman nav
a devoted their lives of usefulness t.
e the rearing Of a family that tn
. human race may be perpetuated ben
: ehtted and improved. and after the!
shall have devoted their years of serv
ice to mankind that IL may lNe pel
a ter than it had lived before, We be
n lleve 1t is blight upon our civilization
S that often such fathers and mothers
f through the hazard Of sickness, irreg
j ular employment or old age, should h
G compelled to pass their declining year
4 in want. suffer the humiliation of com
f mitment TO a public almsh9use or oc
t eept a begrudging charity We there
: fore, demand that a beginning be nad
at once of a system of social .nsurane
i adapted to American use ani idaho
. necessity, so that through eNperienc
s we may be enabled to pa"soc. 7uch
law lest our own children, tnrous.
= misfortune and old age, should be
r come suppliants where they shout
S of right and ought to be independents
e We demand that the tariff shall b
d treated as a sane, business principl
t and not a political football to be kick
= ed about hither or thither to the grea