Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-01

concerned he was made to suffer.
"As for the w~age-earner. the resul
of the tariff was that he suffered even
more than his employer, for he was
thrown out of employment and lost
the means to earn his livelihood.
Fate of the Employer
A for the employer, sometimes he
has been able to struggle on with the
loss of profits, sometimes he has had
to close his shop. In businesses in
which any of the big trusts were con-
cerned, ii was the small competitors of
the trusts who were injured, and in
many cases ruined.
Tariff reduction as put into prac-
tice by the present administration has
chiefly benefited foreign rivals and
competitors. 1t has done grave injury
to the business community and the
farming community, and has caused
suffering to the wage-workers and the
whole policy of the administration has
been n to cause our people in busl-
ness. u people on the farms, u peo-
pie with dinner pals, to look toward
the future with grave concern and APP
| prehension.
ut is of course essential to rebuke
those leaders who by their action
helped to put the present administra-
ton in power, and moreover, it is of
vital consequence to the future we'll
being of our people, to drive from pub
lie life all men whose political activi-
ties in State and nation alike, have
been such as those of Senator Pen
rose.
This is not only a political but a
moral issue. | mention the name or
Senator Penrose, merely because he
typifies a class. l am not concerned
with him as an Individual; / am con-
| cnrnn6 with him nC a tVna Mr. PEN
rose stands in Pennsylvania as Mr..
Barnes stands in New York. When we
fight these men and their activities,
we are fighting the battle of all decent
men, n in particular, we are fight
ing the battle of the honest Repub-
lican rank and file, whom these men
have misrepresented and betrayed.
Wretched Foreign Policy
ut Is well to keep in mind that we
now have Mr.. Wilson's administration
that we now suffer from a wretched
foreign policy and from home policies,
International affairs which have ser
iously impaired the well-being of ouT
people, primarily because of the ac-
ton of senator Penrose in a~ssociatine
with men of the same type like Mr.,
Barnes. MesSrs. Penrose, Barnes and
their associates at Chicago taking adj
vantage of the fact that national NOM
mating conventions are not protected
by law, followed a course of conduct
morally every whit as bad as that
which at elections result in wrong
doors of humbled rank being put In
stripes.
They stole from the rank and file
of the Republican party the right tC
govern themselves; to nominate theiI
own candidates and p~romulgate theil
own platform. They took this action
with the deliberate purpose of elect
ing a Democratic President, because
they infinitely preferred the triumph
of their nominal party foes to seeing
the contol of their own organization
wrested from their hands by the rank
and file of their own party. They are
foes of decent citizenship. Their po-
litical. lives depend upon their keeping
politics in such conuition that decent
men cannot succeed them, and thai
the ordinary citizens cannot get con
troll of their own government.
Rather han see this contro
broken, Messrs. Penrose, Barnes anC
their associates deliberately put the
Democratic organization n Mr.. Viii
son into power at Washington.
OF course, our contest must Away!
be primarily one Tor principles. L
must always be d contest to enact int,
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ecutlve action those principles. Bu
II is Impossible to do this ~etrectlvel.
untll we arrive from political leader
snip the boss whose very existence IL
pontlCS Is the negdtlon of these prin
clples. There is no use in endeavor
ing to put into effect our platform TO.
social ana industrial justice II the leg
islaIIve ana oIncers OF gov
eminent are mere SuboIncers OF d boss
whether this boss be Mr.. Penrose, MI
Barnes or Mr.. Murphy.
Efforts Oh rrOgressiveS
Mucn OIL our effort is to secure law
protecting the labor of women an,
prohibiting the labor of chiluren II
mines anu factories, provluIng fC
workmen $ compensation and the like
This eIIor Is bounu 10 CON
to naughL II, IN It's actual working
; the forces OF government are admin
lsIereu by men whose whole tneor.
OF QUO is based on the alliance o
crooked politics with crooked wealth
Much of our effort is to help tn
men who live on farms. ThI
effort Will fail if the government o
State and nation is controlled by mel
who treat with derision the very Ide
of seriously studying the condition
III the open country that need rem
edyIng.
Much of our effort is to help in
dustry. We propose to make the con
ditionS such hat honest men CA
, earn a fair living for themselves AM
their families without the haunting
fear of being prosecuted. for violation
of law, which they did not and coul
not know We're such and which wer
not violations of sound public policy
Much of our effort is to help me-
and women workers. Just as we be
lieve in cooperation among the farm
ers and the business men so we beliey
in cooperation among the wage-work
ers. And we further believe hat tn
wage-workers and the business me.
must cooperate together and worI
, closer together for their mutual ad
; vantage.
ut has been the ~cut-throat competi
, ton of the past-the competition tina
Mr.. Wilson is determined to preserv
, by law-which has not only hurt bust
. ness and prevented the business ma
|, from working most effectively for tn
/, commongood, but which has force,
: the workingman to work for %ruinousl
? small wages.
I'VE propose to substitute the er
of cooperation for the era of compe
tition among the business men an
, farmers and wage-workers; and as
, necessary corollary we believe that tn
,.a naonf nnnGt in fhnrn10h- oafn