The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-07-01

hum, policies boo national affairs.
ahI have seriously Impaired the
sch being uf .Hf people, primarily
because OF to-. action of senator Pen
r.so BOB HssuDIutrr with men of the
'nmo typ, lIt, Mr. BARNES M'rsfs
psIrUsr. Hnrues aud their associates
.ut chi. so. taking advantage uf tho
ftpt thIt national nominating couvcn-
tI.us Htr mot protected by law. fol-
lowed "a course off conduct morally
every whit ts bad as that which 90
pl,. tiuus results lu wruuFd"cts OF
humble raIt being put bob stripe.
Thev stole from the RAM ana Ole OF
the Republican party the rish To
govern t~h~ntfslYos To- nominate their
own candidates and promulgatc thcii
own Platform. They took this a,-
tiou with the deliberate purpns' ui
clprung "a Democratic president. h'
rnuse they infinitely preferred th"
triumph ct their nominal party foes
TO seeing thc control ut Their own
organization vrDstod from their
hands by tho 3 OBS and hlD of their
own party Thcy arc foes % decent
citizenship THEIR political lives de
pend upon th'ir keeping politics 80
such condition that decent men can
not succeed them ANA that the crdi-
NARY citizens cannot get control of
heir W. government.
"Eathor than see th.s control
broken, N,--I- prurusc, Barnes ana
their a~ssu,ilte- deliberately put the
Democrat. organization and Mr.
Wilson into power ut Warrington
cor course. our contest must al
ways be primarily one for principle
u must always be % yontvst to mae
into law and reduce Co the domain
of executive action those principles.
Hut b is impossible To- DO this ef-
fectively until We dri,- from po-
utical leadership the bots whose
very existence In politics is tho ne
cation Of those principle There
Is no use In cndcaNoring 60 put into
effect our platform Tor social and
Industrial Justice if the legislative
and executive officers OF government
are mere sub-ufhcers of 20 boss,
whether this boss be Mr. Pcnroae.
Mir Barnes ur Mr. Murphy
Much Of our effort is 60 secure
laws protecting the labor OF women
aud prohibiting the labor Of chill
dren In mines and factories. pruvid-
ing for We .mcu's compensation and
the like This ennrt De- hound
g. come @. naught if In its actual
working the forces OF government
are administered by men whose
whole theory Of action Is based on
the alliance OF crooked politics with
crooked wealth.
" cannot control our great ma
fiona business without power-na-
iional power. But tho Democrats
dare not use power themselves. nor
let anyone else have it. Their trust
program, az 10 stands today, is made
futile hy this lear. Their official ad-
ministratiou bills propose a weak
FEDERAL trade commission with no
power except to investigate and re-
port.
They have to give the government
the strength 10 cope with corporate
a. SEES. They fear 10 give the com
mission power Co prevent unfair
trade practices. Indeed. their meas
IRE would hardly give the commits
sion power really To- investigate.
much less 10 destroy by proper ud-
ministrutive order monopolics based
ON the exclusive possession OF "a fac
tor essential 90 production. To the
powcrs of Investigation aud rocum-
meudution which the bin opnso
10 give 10 she commission. so far az
they go, We have no objection. u b.
the i-nHdcquacy OF the COMMISSIONS
power 10 destroy monopoly which We
condemn. Progressive congrcssmon
voted for the pill, not because il rep
rcscnts an adequate attempt To deal
with "a great problem but in the hope
that % day viii arrive wheu the SOC
called trade commission Will bee given
sufficient power tp make 10 "a real
trade commission. such as our ma
tioual platform promises. and such
as the bills We have introduced
would provide.
The house Of representatives has
also passed a bill supplemental Ga
the sherman antitrust act. Many
OF the provisions of this bin deserve
commentator especially those which
prohibit certain forms of unfair
trade compel % which the courts
have not as yet clearly condemned.
nut which upright business men
everywhere recognize as wrong and
tending To monopoly. Similar proyl-
sious will be found in the Progress
i've antitrust bills.
We Progressive "a, scu the
immediate creation Of a non-partisnu
commission, ne said, with power
"a propose revision ~ the tariff
rates. schedule by schedule. treating
each case IN au Intelligent consider
alton of liz rtcrit, divorced from Ia
Npritism and he fostering 81 special
interests The program would not
De attended by the reckless haste.
the Improper Influences. the section
al party politics which characterize
our present methods 81 tariff legisln .
ton hy general law. and remember
That exactly tho same methods were
pursued In making the present turifi
la~ as In making the ptyne-AlGrich
law. which h superseded our pro-
posed methods would never disof-
ganize business hy "a complete change
In all the tariff schedules at ono
time. This Is the Progressive tariff
program.
- ask an honest believers in
protective tarin, unG |ospeclallv all
working men, 10 consider tho fact
that this ID the only program offer
ing hope of permanent well being.
whereni the alternative program 4.
/ nHn 90 H.|.NLHH r..aHH.a.-.