Evening star., 1932-03-15

will eventually supply these necessitie,
to every home, farm and factory IN
this State.
"(2) That careful economic and So
cial planning are as essential for q
community as they are for successful
business or agricultural enterprise
Wisconsin has created such an agency
In spite of the warmth Of our politics
leaders in business, industry, agricul-
ture, labor and commerce have patri-
| otically laid aside their prejudices, and
| sit together around a table 10 discuss
and plan for the welfare OF the entire
State.
"(3) That machinery must be Gre
ated to enable business-and use
business in its widest sense-to govern
itself. We do not favor the Govern
ment trying to run business. We dc
favor the Government providing the
machinery to enable business intel
ligently to govern itself The Progress
Sives off Wisconsin have a definite and
carefully considered program to pro-
vide this machinery and at the same
time afford adequate protection to the
general public, through cooperative
associations and boards of trade.
80 That the taxing power can be
used to carry us through the present
emergency with as little suffering as
possible by providing the necessary
relief and necessary public works and
by removing unjust tax burdens from
farms, homes and places of business.
Wisconsin has this year provided all
of the localities with funds equal to
one-half of their 1881 expenditures for
unemployment relief, and has likewise
decreased the total tax for all purposes
ON farms, homes and places OF business
by IL per cent less than In 1880.
Comparison welcomed.
During the past rs years the coun-
try as a whole has been dominated
by the reactionary elements in the Re
publican and Democratic parties. In
Wisconsin the Progressives have had
an opportunity to put their policies
into partial application.
Throughout this period you have
been told that Wisconsin was radical
and destructive AS we all confront
the emergencies of this depression,
Wisconsin welcomes a comparison OF
her public housekeeping with that OF
the other States and the National Gov
ernment. Wisconsin has followed the
policy of paying as we go. We have
no State indebtedness. We have bet
ter than a balanced budget, and have
been able to provide substantial tax
reduction to the farmer, home owner
and business man in this emergency.
Not a single county or municipality
has failed to pay the interest and prin-
cipal upon its obligations. Wisconsin
is suffering in this depression like every
other community, but the general con-
dition in the State of wisconsin is
better than in any place in America,
and no one can today deny that the
State of Wisconsin is one OF the sound
est and most secure in the United
States.
"Six years ago member Of the Pres
ident's cabinet gave an address on she
occasion Of the birth Of the Republican
party. In that address he pointed
with pride to the achievements OF tne
past quarter century, to the things that
had been done that had improved life
for the great mass of people. Every
achievement that this conservative
pointed to as improving the life Of
America had originated with the pro-
gressive movement in Wisconsin and
had been enacted into our national
law by the ProgressiveS over the bitter
opposition of the conservatives in both
the Republican and Democratic parties.
I'm the face of this constructive rec
ord of achievements and SOUND pubic
housekeeping, the reactionaries will
still continue to call the Progressives
of Wisconsin radical and destructive.
In the true meaning Of the word con-
servative-to conserve and preserve
the only real conservatives in America
today are the Progressives. We say
with Lincoln that every political idea
that we have came from Thomas
Jefferson and the Declaration Of In
dependence. The reason Is this: One
hundred years ago our ancestors,
through individual zeal, courage and
endurance, were solving the problems
of their day by founding new settle
mentS in the vast lands Of the con-
tinent. We of today can no longer
attack our problems in such a way.
But the Progressives are seeking to
find some modern equivalent for the
free land of the frontier as a means
of supplying the humblest citizen and
his family with equal access to the op-
portunities of life. That is why, IN our
effort to find some means for encour-
aging industrial and business states
nanship, in our effort to broaden and
deepen the consuming power Of the