The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-10-27
Offers Progressive Plank for
Commission to Adjust
Rates Without Reference
to Politics. ..,,
GOES EVEN FURTHER
Candidate for Joint Repre-
sentative Suggests Federal
Control of Firms With In
terstate Trade.
PROGRESSIVE DATES.

PROGRESSIVE DATES.
Tuesday Night-G. H. HoelScher, BOs-
ton.
Wednesday Noon-Elbert Russell at
Wayne Works.
Wednesday Night-Hoelscher Chester
and Webster.
Thursday Noon Russell, at North
Twelfth and E streets; Hoelscher at
Starr Piano company.
Thursday Night-Earl Crawford and
Hoelscher, Centerville.
Friday N sn Russell. North Four
teenth and E streets.
Saturday Night-Crawford and Hoel-
scher Cambridge City.
1t was an interested audience, COM
posed of the employees of the Dille-Mc-
Guire company, which heard Gus Hoel-
scher. Progressive candidate for joint
representative from Wayne and Fay
ette counties, speak on campaign is
sues at noon today.
Hoelscher referred to the fact that
P. ]. Lynch, Republican candidate for
congress, was advocating another high
protective tariff manufactured by Re-
publican politicians, such tariff as
the Payne-Aldrich variety, the injus-
tees of which caused the crushing of
the Republican party two years ago;
and he mentioned the fact that Finly
H. Gray, the Democratic congressional
nominee, was giving a clean bill of
health to the existing low tariff for
revenue only, a tariff which has Grip
pied American industries and thrown
four million men out of employment.
Offers Tariff Solution.
Hoelscher asked how long the
American people intended to permit
the two old party leaders to use the
tariff a matter which directly affects
their prosperity. to be used as a politi-
cal football.
There is solution for the tariff
question, as simple as it is effective"
Hoelscher said. place it in the hands
Of a commission of experts and let
them regulate it. This is what the
Progressive party stands for and until
this is done we will never have perma-
nent prosperity in this, the richest
country Of the world"
Mr.. Hoelscher also explained that
the Progressive party stood for an
even further advance in the esta ablish-
ment of the commission system for the
regulation Of business and the promo
tion of steady and universal Drosperi-
ty. He said the Progressive party
would place all corporations doing an
interstate business under the control
of a federal commission.
The plan is simple as 1t is effective,
Hoelscher said, and has been tested in
this country and found entirely salts
factory. American railroads are under
the jurisdiction of a commission which
even has the authority to fix their
rates. In Indiana and the majority Of
the other states, public service cor
poratiOns are now under the jurisdic-
tion of commissions, who protect both
them and their patrons and regulate
rates so that they will be fair to both
corporations and the public.
Hoelscher said that if it was pos
sible to regulate railroads and public
utilities by commissions it was equal
ly possible to regulate all other cor
o1ations. The great advantage OBJ
tanned from such procedure, he point
ed out, was the protection of the pub
lie from exorbitant prices for COM
modities and the protection of the cor
porat tions from unjust interference by
politicians.
He said the Progressive party was
the only one which advocated this
sane and practical solution of business
regulation.