New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
PARTY Needed Now as in
1912, He Says-Tariff
the Big Issue.
SEES LABOR PERIL
WHEN WAR is OVER
Low Wages for Soldiers, He
Fears, viii Enable Europe
to Regain Gold.

"If the Progressive party was )usti-
fed in coming into existence In TINS
state in 1912, every single event that
has taken place within the Republican
organization Of this state since 1912 re-
afirms and Endorses the existence OF
the Progressives."
This statement, made last night by
George W. Perkins in the crowded
Headquarters Of the Clsremont Pro-
rressive Club, $50 West 18th Street,
was greeted with cheers, and thereafter
the resolution, pledging the party to
Stick" passed recently at the Albany
state conference, was unanimously rati-
fed.
1t was the beginning Of fight that
Mr.. Perkins and William Hamlin
Childs are to make to prevent the slip
ping back into the Republican ranks,
which has been started by Frederick
NJ Davenport and Douglas Robinson.
Addressed TO "The Progressive and In.
dependent Voters of New York State
the speech of Mr. Perkins last night
will be widely distributed.
Tariff Big Issue.
Mr.. Perkins treated as jokes the
arguments that the Progressives should
co back into the Republican party 10
assist in ousting William Barnes, and
that the tariff would be the big issue
in the next campaign and united OPP
position to the Democrats was neces-
Sary. -.
1--WE have been turning the Republic
can rascals out or the Democratic
rascals out for years" he said, and
the Republicans have been devoting
themselves to a distribution OF JOBS
while other nations, Germany IN par
ticular. have been seriously trying TO
solve economic problems"
Then Mr. Perkins told a story of a
German who declared that this coun-
try was in no way fitted 10 wage war
for commercial supremacy.
Why" Mr. Perkins quoted this Ger
man as saying in conversation with an
American, you boast about the I'M
mense amount Of wheat you raise. We
are content 20 let you raise all our
wheat for us and 10 sell beet sugar 10
YOU. For we know, as you do not. that
every bushel Of wheat comes out OF the
soil. while the beets take their sub
stance out of the air
Under our present tariff law an in
dustrial cataclysm would visit this
country after the end of the European
war, Mr.. Perkins said. He explained
that the soldiers returning from the
battlefield would work for almost any
wage necessary TO enable their coun-
tries to get back the gold sent here
during the war
"Of course, none of us knows now
what is going TO happen year from
now" added the speaker. we may
all be fighting under the banner OF
President Wilson, or the war may be
over and we will be seeing how last
we can change our tariff law TO avert
calamity. But when ! sang in a choir
as a young man my Iavorlte piece was
Lead. Kindly Light; One Steps Enough
for Me- | believe we should follow
tina. motto now and stick to the Pro-
gressive party, which has done so mucn
that is good"
Praises Party's Big -Four.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, former
United States Senator Albert J. Bever-
idge, Governor Hiram Johnson and
William Hamlin Childs, of Brooklyn.
These men Mr.. Perkins named as the
big four OF the progressive party
and challenged any other party to show
four men who had done so much for
the cause OF good government and hu-
manity.
Mr.. Perkins read from accounts of
the Constitutional Convention. He
quoted Mr.. Wickersham as thanking
Mr.. Barnes for that magnificent fight
conducted three years ago, which laid
the American people under everlasting
obligation to him"
"Do not forget" continued the
speaker with infinite scorn, that this
same Mr.. Wickersham is to-day the
majority floor leader of the Republican
organization in the present Constitu-
tional Convention. The above declara-
tion is, therefore, an official one, and
rs the Republican party's method OF
acknowledging, complimenting and
thanking Mr.. Barnes for his leadership
m stealing the Republican nomination
for Mr. Taft in Chicago, in 1912. And,
mark you, not Republican voice has
been raised in protest against Mr..
Wickersham's tribute.
AS matters stand to-day, the man
who will lead the Republican delega-