The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1922-03-17
BEvERIDGE ASKS
HOOSIER VOTERS
To STUDY RECORD
DOES INDIANA WANT MAKER OF
RECORDS TO SERVE AS
v. S. SENATOR7

idge. candidate for the Republican
nomination for United States Senator
before the May 2 Indiana primary. in
a speech here. placed his senate
record-1S99 TO 19ll-before the yot-
ers and asked for a primary verdict
based upon the record and upon the
vital needs OF the time. In part Sena.
tor Beveridge said:
Just as | stood by William McKin-
ley. and not only voted but fouSht for
all party measures while he was in
the White house: just as stood by
Theodore Roosevelt, and not only
voted, but fought for all palty meas
Gres while he was President: just as
! stood by William II. TAFT, and not
only voted. but fought for all party
measures. with only a single eXcep-
ton. while he was chief executive
so. if am nominated and elected !
shall stand by Warren G. Harding.
and not only vote. but hRht for all
party measures so. long as that pat-i-
otto. wise and kindly man is Presi-
dent, which hope and expect will be
for seven years longer.
Constructive Cooperation
''On all matters of mere policy.
when | differ with my colleagues. |
shall strive to convince them that my
views should be adopted; but il they
decide otherwise. | shall accept their
Judgment precisely as | steadily did
for twelve long years. No sensible
. man or woman who believes in party
government could do otherwise, since
only by sane and intelligent co-opera-
ton can anything constructive be &C
complished.
When our Philippine policy was
undetermined. the public mind con-
fused. and the leaders of our party un-
decided, was it wrong for me to go 10
those islands; study. conditions at first
hand, and then state the facts and
suggest a course OF action TO the
senate and the country? Or ought 1
10 have done nothing. and merely
voted when | was told to vote, and as
j was told to vote?
Was il better TO let hundreds of
thousands OF little children be ruined
In body. intellect and soul by practi-
cal slavery at tender ages in cotton
mills, mines and sweatshOps. because
party leaders dared not interfere with
that brutal system. and were deaf TO
the cries of the innecents, or 10 take
up their cause drafts law To end the
evil, begin thef fight for that genuine
~ humane and sound business reform
and keep up the battle until the sense
and conscience of the voters of the
party compelled the se-called leaders
to yield. and the constructive proposal
became one OF the party's noblest is
sues?
Meat Inspection Law
WAS it better 70 play politics and
make no inquiry as to the well-being
of the people or 10 dig into condi-
tions, learn the terrible and revolving
fact that. although careful inspection
was made of all meat and meat prod
ucts exported to pther countries. no
inspection whatever was made OF the
same sort OF fo0tl when marketed
here at home. so THAT diseased and in
furious meat PREPARATIONS were sold
to our own people,
Would il have done his party more
| good had such a senator yielded TO
| persuasion. submitted to intimidation
or accepted rewards and let matters
alone, on the one. hand: or, on the
other hand had he worked and fought
and braved abuse land ostracism I'M
til the meat inspection law was on the
statute books. and his party, at the
ravt and succeeding elections. asked
| the peoples support on that very
ststute as one of. the party's finest
achievements?
Which course would have benefited
his party most: To have spent his
time disciplining his par;y's local or
CARNATIONS like a Prussian drill ser
geant for personal ends, OF to have
delyed into the sources OF public
revenue and thus discovered that the
tobacco trust was collecting and keep
ing millions or the. peoples taxes. in
stead OF paying that vast sum into the
nations treasury?
For 4 Scientific Tariff
And. having found this shocking
state of things. would II have been bet
ter party policy to have said nothing
and done nothing about it, or to have
drawn and introduced legislation t
stop that piracy cover such malap
propriations of the public money into
the public treasury. and fought fOl
that legislation until the hostile lead
ers came over. the bill passed. anC
his party acclaimed il as one OF III
triumphs?
Or, take the tariff: Would 1t hav,
been wiser party policy to have &C
cepted the unscientific and business
disturbing 'log-rolling' way Of max
ing tariffs, or to have studied, on th'
spot. the operation Of tariff method
by which poorer nations. less favored
than ourselves. were beating us a
our own game-and. having learne,
their secret. tried to employ it for on
own advantage. formulated a bill 70
an adequate. practical and permanent
tariff commission. fought for |
against bitter resistance. and. a
last. beheld his party adopt il as
basic party policy?
Choice Up to Voters
Would il have been sounder part
tactics to have done this. even thougl
particular interests denatured il 10
a time: or to have let strictly alon
the out-of-date tariff ideas by which
moreover periodical business paraly
sis was made inevitable
These are only some concrete e,
amples that actually happened, illu:
trative OF the comparative usefulness
in The party OF the constructive part
'individualist.' and the complacen
marty teamworker.
In short. what. do Indiana Reput