The Sentinel=record., 1914-07-01

| concerned, 1t was the small competi-
 tors of the trusts who were injured, and in many cases ruined, tariff re- l auction as put into practice by the present administration having chiefly | benefited foreign rivals and competi- tors. It has done grave injury to the | business community and the farming community and has caused suffering
 to the wageWorkers, and the whole l policy of the administration has | been one to cause our people to look toward the future with grave concern and apprehension. It is, Of course, essential to rebuke those leaders present administration in power, and, moreover, it is of vital consequence to the future wellbeing of our people to drive from public life all men whose political activities in state and nation, alike, have been such as those of Senator Penrose. This is not only | a political but moral issue. l men, tion Senator PenroSe, merely because | he typifies a class. MT. Penrose stands in Pennsylvania as Mir. Barnes stands in New York. When we fight these men and their activities, we are fighting the battle of all decent men, and in particular we are fight ing the battle of the people of the rank and file. whom these men have misr5presented and betrayed.
 Tt is well to keep in mind that we now have Mr. Wilson's administra- tion; that we now suffer from q wretched foreign policy and from home policies, international affairs which have seriously impaired the wellbeing of our people, primarily be- cause of the action of Senator Pen rose in associating with men of the same type like Mir. Barnes. Messrs. Penrose. Barnes and their associates at Chicago, taking advantage of the fact that national nominating conven- tions are not protected by law, fol- lowed a course of conduct morally every with as bad as that which at elections result in wrongdoers of humber rank being put in stripes. They stole from the rank and file of the republican party the right to gov ern themselves, to nominate their own candidates, and promulgate their own platform. They took this action with the deliberate purpose of elect ing a democratic president because they preferred the triumph of their national party foes to seeing the con- trol of their own organization wrested from their hands by the rank and file of their own party.
 They are foes of decent citizen ship. Their political lives depend upon their keeping politics in such condition that decent men cannot succeed them.
 There is no use endeavoring to put into effect our platform for social and industrial justice if the legisla- tive and executive offices of the gov ernment are mere sub-offices of boss, whether this boss be Mr. Pen. rose, MT. Barnes or Mir. Murphy.
 Much of our effort is to secure laws protecting the labor of women and prohibiting the labor of children in mines and factories, providing for workmen's compensation and the like. This effort is bound to come to naught. if in its actual working, the forces of government are admin istered 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 in- dustry. We propose to make the con ditions such that honest men can earn a fair living for themselves and their families without the haunting fear of being prosecuted for viola tions of law which they could not know were such and which were not violations of sound public policy.
 Much of our effort is to help men and women workers. Just as we be- lieye in cooperation among the farm CTS and the business men so we be- lieve in cooperation among the wage workers. And we further believe that the wageworkers and the busi- ness men must cooperate together and work closer together for their mutual advantage
 Returning to the tariff question, he said:
 We progressives advocate the i'm mediate creation of a non-partisau commission with power to propose re- vision of tariff rates, schedule by schedule, treating each case on an intelligent consideration of it's merits, divorced from favoritism and the fos- tering of splints."
 On the progressive antitrust pro- gram he said in part:
 We believe in cooperation among business men, among farmers and among wage earners. The progfes- sives advocate the creation of a strong interstate trade commission and would give such commission, pri- marily three powers: