The Washington times., 1932-10-06

Theodore Roosevelt chief of the Progressives When
Roosevelt let the ProgresSives down and ckered with the
old line Republicans, he did not kill the progressive in
Beverdge but set him free to write the lives of Marshall
and Lincoln the latter unfinished at his death.
The Great Revolt
The chief interest," Mr. Bowers and to his readers in
the of Beverdge lies years instruction
against sandpatism. Mr. Bowers has good memory and
a noble Indignation he recall for the cynical
attitude of dull bought-and paidfor Senators when Bever-
idge to demand change in the tariff
warmly amendment to the Constitution forbddng child
labor at least forbddng interstate in goods
produced by child labor. 1t hardly possible that
within our generation Beverdge had told stories of
hardship and cruelty such matched in the coal
pits of England century ago 1t seems just as impossible
that great railroads had obbed against the bill because
they thought they would lose profits if they for
bden to carry goods made by children of s and 9.
ProgressiVe-P -Protectionist
Mr. Bowers makes it clear that could be Progress
in those days and still believe in protective tariff
Beverdge of those strange people who in poll
tics but insisted that politics could be righteous and de-
Nothing his party did to him could make him give up
this illusion The people won stand Injustice wrote
and sincerely believed itfor one he would stand nus-
tice He not what would call radical today; he
he said himself great defender of honestly acquired wealth.
he did not look for reconstruction of the framework of
American Government But he ardeny believed that within
present form Of Government you could deal justly be-
tween and generously For brief year it seemed that
he right With La Toilette and others he had fought
good fight in the Senate with Roosevelt and others he had
fought another fight in the Progressive campaign Then Will
elected put through most Of Beverdge favorte
bills and I. K. deserted the party he had founded
Fun in Fighting
Those rather grand days in America. When Wilson
proclaimed New Freedom he merely being good Pro-
grssve and he had party of Joe Cannon and Panes and
Grundys to fight The fun standing Armageddon and
doing battle for the Lord the reform of tariffs and banking
and trust laws important smashing the G. O. p
There hundreds of thousands of young and
young in America in 1912 who became passionatey in
teresed politics and who thought that being State
tor might giving and accepting brbes but actual
service humanity With the election Of Harding that belief
dina Coo hayp ho 6Onp
to revive it,
Sidelight
It interesting to find that late 1922 Beverdge
still being attacked because he had been fair the Germans
in book published before into the (Mr
Bowers book is full of such sideghts-incudng
tanning Beverdge defense of Reed Smoo which
twisted into defense of poygamy. There also passing
note Lloyd George dsinnaton Beveridgc during
the and Asquith avoidance of interview by getting
Paderewsk to lunch at the time Bevcrdge) Look
ing back probably feel that gave up the small
hatreds of all record tme but after four years of
peace still possible campaign against notable Scna
because he had tried to be neutral and fair
Mr. Bowers book is Of course, complete biography
ryng Beverdge from birth death; but it is also conrbu
tiOn to the knowledge of times and biography
birth to deahOf political prOgressivsm America And
idea always important than man, it is the lat
phase which does make the book both important
and entertaining