Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-07-09

IN mines and factories, providing for
vorkmen's compensation and the ike
Our effort Is to secure equality OF op-
portunity, 10 democratize Industry
and TO better the living and working
conditions OF all who are not Vicious
shiftless and idle. Our e1ort Is 70 bet
ter the standard Of living and work
ing, making it worthy OF free PEG
ple; and gradually TO introduce the
beginnings OF representative govern
ment into business. This efort Is
bound to come to naught, H. In us &C
tual working, the forces OF govern
ment are administered by men whose
whole theory Of action is based on
the alliance OF crooked politics with
crooked wealth.
Much OF our effort is to help the
men who live on farms to help them
solves by working In cooperation, SO
that they may better the conditions OF
living. so that they may produce more
and at the same time make their farms
moro attractive to their children, SO
that they may market their products
themselves and apply the best ousl-
ness methods for the benefit OF those
who tiu the soil; and this effort will
fail If the government OF state and ma
ton Is controlled by men who treat
with derision the very idea Of seri-
ously studying the conditions in the
omen country that need remedying.
Much of our effort is to help indus
try. We propose to help business by
enabling honest business men TO CO.
operate for their own common good
and for the general public good. We
propose to make the conditions such
that these honest men can earn fair
living for themselves and their fam
lilies without the haunting fear OF be-
ing prosecuted for violations OF law
which they did not and could not
know were such and which were not
violations of sound public policy
Much of cur effort is to help men
and women workers. Just as we be-
lieye in cooperation among the farm
ers and the business men so we be-
lieye in cooperation among the wage
workers, in order that they may better
their conditions of living and have
a larger share in the prosperity or
industry. And we further believe that
the wage workers and the business
men must cooperate together and
work closer together for their mutual
advantage. 1t has been the cut-throat
competition of the past-the competi-
ton that Mr.. Wilson Is determined to
preserve by law-which has not only
hurt business and prevented the bust
ness man from working most erect
iyely for the common good but which
has forced the working man to work
for ruinously small wages. We pro-
pose to substitute the era of cooper
alton for the era of competition
among the business men and farmers
and wage-workers; and as a neces-
sary corollary we believe that the
government must in thorough going
fashion supervise and regulate this
movement toward cooperation.
But this effort will come to nought
il honest business men support SIN
lister politicians whose interested en-.
deavor is chiefly to help the crooked
business man whose success 10
achieved by swindling his fellows. In
their resentment at the national ad-
ministration because OF its part in
bringing them to sore need, many
business men and working men and
farmers threaten to vote even for such
politicians as Mr.. Penrose in hope of
securing relief. Those who do will
invite a worse disaster than that from
which they now suffer. 1t was the
politicians like Mr.. Penrese who ere
responsible for the existence OF the
present national administration. TO
put them in power would merely en-
sure in a short time another violent
swing OF the pendulum against them,
and a continuation Of government by
convu sion, of governmental see
CIV between two sets OF policies,
both inimical to the general welfare,
and two sets OF politicians, neither OF
them responsive to lie public needs.
For the honor and interest OF your
state and of the nation all the gooa
citizens OF Pennsylvania should 1oln
against Mr.. Penrose and his nominees
and followers. For the honor and In.
terest OF the nation and the interes'
of your state the good citizens OK
Pennsylvania should oppose the sup
porters of the present national admin
istration. For the high honor and VT
al interest of both nation and state,
the citizens OF Pennsylvania should
put into office those staunch, fearless
and able public servants. Clifford Pin
chot, Dean Lewis. and their associ
ates.
We ask that you consider specih'
cally the performances OF the Prog
ressive Party. here in Pennsylvania
and in the nation.
The Progressive Party is party OF
performance. Two years ago, in our
national and state platforms, which
we designated contracts with the
people," we pledged ourselves to GER
tain definite reforms. Even before
the Presidential campaign of 1912
was over In this and other states,
our committees were at work prepar-
ing bills to carry out the pledges OF
our state platforms. In this respect,