The Bull Moose (Oklahoma City, Okla.), No. 19, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 10, 1913 Page: 3 of 4
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Senator Eavendgds
KEY-NOTE SPEECH AT CHICAGO
We stand for a nobler America We
stand for an undivided Nation We
stand for a broader liberty a fuller
Justice We stand for social brother-
hood as against savage individualism
We stand for an intelligent co-operation
instead of a reckless competition
We stand for mutual helpfulness In-
stead of mutual hatred We stand'for
equal rights as a fact of life instead
of a catchword of politics We stand
for the rule of the people as a prac-
tical truth instead of a meaningless
pretense We stand for a representa-
tive government that represents the
people We battle for the actual
rights of man
To carry out our principles we have
a plain program of constructive re-
form We mean to tear down only
that which is wrong and out of date
and where we tear down we mean to
build what is right and fitted to the
times We harken to the call of the
present We mean to make laws fit
conditions as they are and meet the
needs of the people who are on earth
today That we may do this we found
a party through which all who believe
with us can work with us or rather
we declare our allegiance to the party
which the people themselves have
founded
For this party has come from the
grass roots It has grown from the
soil of the people's hard necessities
It has the vitality of the people's
strong convitclons The people have
work to be done and our party is here
to do that work Abuse Will only
strengthen it ridicule only hasten Its
growth falsehood only speed its vic-
tory For years this party has been form-
ing Parties exist for the people
not the people for the parties Yet
' for years the politicians have made
the people do the work of the parties
Instead of the parties doing the work
of the people The people vote for
one party and find their hopes turned
to ashes on their lips and then to
punish that party they N'ote for the
other party So it is that partisan
victories have come to be merely the
people's vengeance and always the
secret powers have played their
game
Progreesive or Remitionary
Like other free people most of us
Americans are progressive or reaction-
ary liberal or conservative The neu-
trals do not count Yet today neither
of the old parties are either wholly
progressive or wholly reactionary
Democratic politicians and office seek-
ers say to reectionary Democratic
voters that the Democratic party is re-
atairmary enough to exprpess reac-
tionary views and they say to pro-
gressive Democrats that the Detno-
cratic party is progressive enough to
express progressive views At the same
time Republican poutieiens and efface
seekers say the same thing about the
Republican party to progressive and
reactionary Republiean voters
Somethnes in both Democratio and
Republican states the progressives get
contrail of the party locally and then
the reactionaries recapture the same
party in the same state or this pro-
cess is reversed So there is no nation-wide
enity Of principle in either
party no stebility of purpose no clear
cut and sincere program of one party
at frank and open war with an equally
clear cut and sincere program of an
opposing party
This unintelligent tangle is seen in
congress Republiean and Democratic
senators and representatives believing
alike on broad measures affecting the
whola Republica find it hard to vote to-
getler because of the nominal differ-
('flee of their party membership When
sometimes under resistless conviction
they do vote together we have this
foolish spectacle: Legislators (-ailing
themselves RepublDans nnd Demo-
crats support the same policy the
Democratic legislators declaring that
that policy is Democratic and Repub-
lican legislators declaring that it is
Republican and at the same time
other Democratic rind Republican leg-
islators oppose that same policyeach D
of them declaring that it is not Demo-
cratic or not Republican
This condition makes it impossible
most of the time and hard at nnv
time for the people's legislators who
believe in the same broad policies to
enatt them into logical comprehen-
sive laws It confuses the public mind
It breeds sespicion and distrust It
enables such special interests as seek
unjust gain at the public expense to
get what they want
The Hoes Syetem
It creates and fosters the degrading
boss system in American polities
through which these special interests
work
This boss system Is unknown and
impossible under any other free gov-
ernment in the world In its nature it
is hostile to the general welfare Yet !
It has grown until it now is a con-
trolling influence in American public
affairs At the present moment no- 1
torious bosses are in the saddle of both
old parties in various important states
which must be carried to elect a presi-
dent This black horse cavalry is the
most important force in the praet heal
work of the Democratic and Repub-
lican parties in the present campaign
Neither of the old parties' nominees
for presiaent can escape obligation to
these old party bosses nor shake their
practical hold on many and powerful
members of the national legislature
Tinder this boss system no matter
which party wins the people seldom
win but tile bosses almost always win
And they never work for the people
They dr not even work for the party
to whieh they belong They work only
for those nnti-public interests whose
political employees they are It is
these interests that zre the real vic-
tors in the end
These special interests which suck
the people's substance are bipartisan
They use both parties They are the
Invisible government behind our xis-
Rae government Democratic-and Re-
publican bosses alike are brother of-
ficers of this hidden power No mat-
ter how fiercely they pretend to fight
one n not her bef nee election they
work together after election And
noting so this politieal conspiracy is
nble to delay mutilate or defeat sound
and needed laws for the people's wel-
fare and the prosperity of honest busi-
ness and even to enact bad laws hurt-
ful to the people's welfare and oppres-
sive to honest bosiness
It is this invisible government which
is the real danger to American institu-
tions Its crude work at Chicago in
June which the people were rade to
see was no more wicked than its skill-
ful work everywhere and alweys
which the people are not able to see
Urges Sind of Sectionallem
But an even more serious condition
results from the unentural alignment
of the old parties Today we Ameri-
Caine are politically shattered by sec-
tionalism Through the two old par-
ties the tragedy of our history is con
tinued and one great geographical part
of the republic is separated from other
parts of the republic by an illogical
partisan solidarity
The South has men and women as
genuinely pregressive and others as
genuinely reactionary as those in
other parts of our country Yet for
well known reasons these sincere and
honest Southern progressives and re
netionariee vote together in a single
party which is neither progressive
nor reactionary They vote a dead tra-
dition and a !nenl fear not a living'
cenvietion and a national faith They
vote not for the Democratic party but
against the Republican party They
' want to he free from this condition
they eon he free from it through the
National Progreesive perty
For the problems which America
faces today are economic and national
j
They have to do with a more Just dis-
tribution of prosperity They concern
the living of the peopre and therefore
the more direct government of the peo-
ple by themselves
They affect the South exactly as they
affect the North the East or the
West It is an artificial and danger-
ous condition that prevents the South-
ern man and woman from acting with
the Northern man and womhn who be-
hove the same thing Yet just that is
what the old narties do prevent
Not only does this out of date par-
tisanship cut our Nation into two geo-
graphical sections it also robs the Na-
tion Of a priceless asset of thought in
working out our national destiny The
South once was famous for brilliant
and constructive thinking on national
problems and today the South has
minds as brilliant and constructive as
of old But Southern intellect cannot
freely and fully aid in terms of poli-
ties the solving of the Nation's prob-
lems This is so because of a partisan
sectionalism which has nothlng to do
with those problems Yet these prob
loins can be solved only in terms of
politics
tqleek to the People"
The root of the wrongs which hurt
the people Is the fact that the people's
government has been taken away from
them Their government must be given
purpose if the Progressive party is to
make sure the rule of the people The
rule of tne people means that the peo-
Ple themselves shall nominate as well
as elect all candidates for office in-
cluding Senators and presidents of the
Pnited States What profiteth it the
people if they do onli the electing
while the Invisible government does
the nominating?
The rule of the peop'te means that
when the people's leglitlators make a
law which hurts the people the peo-
ple themselves may reject it The rule
of the people means that when the peo-
ple's legislators refuse to pass a law
which the people need the people
themselves may pass It The rule of
the people TneanS that when the peo-
ple's employees do not do the people's
work well and honestly the people may
discharge them exactly as a business
on diseharges employees who do not
do their work well and honestly The
people's officials are the people's serv-
ants not the people's masters
We progressives believe in this rule
of the people that the people them-
selves may deal with their ewn des-
tiny 'Who knows the people's needs
so well es the people themselves? 'Who
so patient its the people? Wbo so
long suffering who so just? Who so
vise to solve their own problems?
Prob lemn Should Not Exint
Today teese problems concern the
living ot the people In the present
stage of American developemnt these
problems should not exist In this coun-
try For in all the world there is no
land so rich as ours Our fields can
feed It of millions We have
more minerals than the whole of
Europe Invention has made easy the
turning ot this vast natural wealth
into supplies for all the needs of man
One worker today eau produce more
than twenty workers could produce a
century ago
The people living in this land of gold
are the most daring and resoureeful on
the globe Coming from the hardiest
Stork of every nation of the Old World
their very history in the New World
has made Amerieans a peculiar people
in courage initiative love of justice
and ell the elements of indepepdent
C haracter
And compared with other peoples
we are VPry feW in numbers There
are ()lily ninety millions of us scat-
tered ever a ciontinent Germany has
sixty-five millions packed in a country
very muoh smeller than Texas The
population of Great Britain and Ireland
could be set (10V11 in California and
still have more than enough room
for the population of Holland If this
country was as thickly inundated as
Pelgium there would be more than
twelve hundred million instead of only
ninety million persons within cur
I) orders
Si we have more than enough to sup-
ply every human being beneath the
flag
There ought not to be in this re-
nubile a single day of had business a
single unemployed workingman a sin-
gle unfed child Amerienn liusiness
men should never know an hour of un-
certainty d iseourn gement or fear:
American workingmen never a day of
low wages idleness or want Ituneer
should never walk in these thinly peo-
pled gardens of plenty
And vet in spite of these favcrs
which Providenee has showicel
US the living of the people is the prcb-
tern of the hour Hundreds f thoosands
of hard working Americans find it dif-
fieult to got enough to live on The
everitge income of an American la-
borer is less than $500 a var With
this he must furnish food sheVer and
clothing for a family
Women Enforced Wage-Enrocrm
Women V'hose nourishing and pro-
teetion should he the first eare of the
state not only are driven into the
mighty artny of wage-earners but are
forced to work under infrir and de-
grading conditions The right of a
child to grow into a norm ii haman
log is sacred: and yet wtaile small arid
poor countries packed with people
have ale-dished child labor American
mills mines factories and sweatshops
are destroying hundreds of thousands
of American children in body mind
ivel soul
At the same time men have grasped
fortunes in this country so great that
the human mind cannot comprehend
their magnitude These mountains of
wealth are far larger than even that
lavish reward which no one would deny
to business risk or genius
On the other hand Ameriean busi-
TIOSS is uncertain and unsteady com-
pared with the business ef other na-
tions American business men are the
best and brrtvest in the world and yet
our business conditions hamper their
energies and ('hill their courage We
have no permamency in business af-
fairs no sure outlook upon the busi-
ness future This unsettled state of
American business prevents it from
realizing for the people that great and
continuous prosperity which our conn-
try's location vast wealth and small
population justify
To ttEnntt Promperity Aroomd"
We mean to remedy these conditions
We mean not only to make liras-
perity steady but to give to the many
who earn it a just share of that pros-
perity instead of helping the few who
to not earn it to take an unjust share
The Progressive motto is "Pass pros-
perity around"
To make human living easier to free
the hands of honest business to make
trade and commerce sound and steady
to protect womanhood save childhood
and restore the dignity of manhood—
these are the tasks we must do
What then is the Progressive answer
to these questions? We are able to give
It specifically and concretely The first
work before us is the revival of honest
business For business is nothing but
the industrial and trade activities of all
the peonle Men grow the products of
the field cut ripe timber from the
forest rig metal from the mine fash-
ion all for human use carry them to
the market place and exchange them
aecording to their mutual needs—and
this is business
With our vast nrivantage! contrasted
with the vast disadvantages of other
natirrns American business all the time
shred lie the best and stendiest In the
etorld Tt is not Germany with shal-
low soli no mines only a window on
the Pens and R population more than
ten times es dense as ours yet has a
armnder business a steadier prosperity
mere enntented because better cared
for peoplo
Must End Business Abuses
What then must we do to make
American business better? We must do
what poorer nations have done We
must end the abuses of business by
striking down those abuses instead of
striking down business itself We
must try to make little business big
and all business honest inetead of
striving to make big business little
and yet letting it remain dishonest
Present day business is as unlike
old thee business as the old time ox-
cart is unlike the present day locomo-
tive Invention has made the whole
world over again The railroad tele-
grapn telephone have bound the people
of modern nations into families To do
the business of these closely knit mil-
lions in every modern coentry great
business concerns came into being
What we cell big business is the child
of the economic progress of mankind
So warfare to destroy big business is
foolish because it cannot succeed and
wicked beeause it ought net to succeed
Warfere to destroy big business does
not hurt big business Which always
comes out on top so much as it I:iirtS
all other business which in such a
varfare never comes out on top
With the growth of big business
came business evils Just as great It is
these evils of big business that hurt
the people and injure all other busi-
ness One of these wrongs is over-
capitalization which taxes the people's
very living Another is the manipu-
!Minn of prices to the unsettlement of
all normal business and the people's
damage Another is interference In the
making of the people's laws and the
running of the people's government in
the unjust interest of evil business
Getting laws that enable particular in-
terests to rob the people and even
to gather criminal riches from human
health and life is still another
An example of such laws is the In-
famous tobacco legislation of 1902
whieh nuthorized the tobacco trust to
continue to collect from the people the
Spanish war tax amounting to a seore
of millions of dollars but to keep that
tax instead of turning it over to the
government as it had been doing An-
other example is the shameful meat
legislation by which the btef trust had
the Meat sent abroad inspected by
the governmtnt Sc) that foreign coun-
tries would take its product and yet
was permitted to sell diseased meat to
ten own people It is incredible that
laws like these could ever get on the
Nations statute books The invisible
government put them there and only
the universal wrath of an enraged pen-
ele corrected them when after years
the people discavered the outrages
End "Inthilble Government"
It Is to get just such laws as these
and to prevent the passage of laws to
correct them as well as to keep off the
statute hooks general laws which will
end the general abuses of big business
that these few criminal interests cor-
rupt eur politiee invest in public of-
ficials and keep in power in both par-
ties that type of politicians and peso'
managers AN'ho debase American poll
ties
Behind rotten laws and preventing
sound laws stands the come-a boss
behind the corrupt boss stands the rob-
bet interests and commamling these
powtrs of pillage stands bloated human
greed It is this conspiracy of evil we
must overthrow if WC 'WOnbt got tlie
honest laws we Deed It is this 11‘1S-
tide government we MUSA deStN)Nr 11 We
WOkild save Anwriettn institituons
Other nations have ender? tnP Sante
business evils from Avideli we suffer by
clettrly defining business wieingdoing
and then making it it criminal offense
punisheble by imprisonment Yet these
foreign untiens eneourage big business
itself and foster all henest bunsiness
But they do hOt tolerate dishonest bits-
Ines little or big
Wh:i t then vhall we Americans do?
Common sense and the experienee
ef the world says tlmt see ought to
keep Avhat the good big business does
for us and stop the NVrorigS that big
ituelness does to es Yet we have done
just the other thing We have struck
at big business itself end have 1114
4sVPIi littlett to strike at the evils of
big businese
Courts unit lug itumtneniii
Nearly twenty-five years ago con-
gress passed a law to govern American
business in the present time whieh par-
liament passed in the reign of King
James to govern English business in
I hat time
Per a quarter of a century the eourts
haVe tried to nnike this LEW WOrk Yet
tiering this very thee trusts grew
greater in number and power than in
the wohle history of the world before
anti their evils flourished UnlittniOred
ond uncheeked These great business
concerns grew because natural laws
made them grow and artifleal law at
war 1-i th tlint I law eould not stop
their growth But their evils grew
foster than the trusts themselves be-
couse avarice nourished those evils and
Ill law of any kind stepped avarice
from nourishing them
Nor is this the worst Ender the
shifting interprelatien of the Sherman
law uncertninty and fear is chilling
the Pmgips of the great body of holi-
est Ameriean businsss men As the
Sherman low new St:ItirtS 110 two busi-
ness men cnn nrrnitge their mutual at-
fairs and be sure that they are nut
low bieakers This is the main bin-
dranee to the immediate i:Ind perma-
nent revival of Amerienn business If
Ilerman or English business men with
ill their disadvantages compared with
our advantages were manaeled by our
Shermnn law as it stnnds thee soon
would be bankrupt Indeed foreign
IOISiTIPSS men declare that if their
emit-oleos had such a low so atitetnis
Ittred they could not do toOSIHOSS at elt
TrumiN Lieenmed to Do Vrting
Even this is not a te
liy the decrees of our courts under
the Sherman law the two mightiest
I rusts on earth have actually been
literised in the practical outcome to
TA t en doing every wrong they ever
committee Cntier the deerees Of the
courts the oil and tebactio trusts still
ean raise prices unjustly and ittreility
hove done Sfi They still call issue
wattatett stock and snrely iv i I I de So
ThPY suihl earl throttle (thir business
flu and the Cnited States Cigio Steres
company new is ding so Thee still
4nrupt our pieties anti this mornenl
are indulging in that prActiee
The people are tird if this meek
Itiotle with criminal capitol They tie
lit Avant to hurt business but they
do want to get Sottitt !ling dun' 11It
the trust questien thst anmunts to
setnething Whitt gemi does it do tiny
mon te read in his morning Filter the!
the reorts have disselytd" tee ed
trust told thee read in his evening pa-
per that he must thereafter pity
higher prep for his Oil thee ever be-
fere? Whitt good delis it do the M
borer Wit° StilOkeS his pipe to be told
!het the i'Olirt8 have "dissolVeir the io-
bneco trust and yet finds that be tees !
pay the sitme or a higher mete for the
stilne Short WPight loNoktige of tol):1?
Vol ell this is tee practieal result of
the setts agninst thsse two greatest
trusts in the werld
Snell business chaos and heed liii-
lxi's is Amerieen business suffers
frem can be found nowhere else in the
‘verld Rival milieus do not fasten le-
gal ball and chain upon their business
--no they put wings on its flying feet
Rival nations di' not tell their tOISI-
tWSS 111P11 that if they go forward with
legitimete enterprise the penitentlare
may be their goal No! Rival nations
tell their loneliest men thet so long as
they do honest blueness their govern-
ments will not hinder bet will help
them
lett these rival nations do tell their
business men that if they do any evil
that our besinese men do prison bare
ftv:ujt them These rival nntlens
tell their business men that if they is-
sue watered stnek or chent the pennle
In any way prison cells will he their
homes
Just this is what all norest Aemri-
snn business wants: jest this is what
lishnnest American besinees does not
ynnt: Int4t this Is what the Aenericote
leople nrettose to have: NO this tile
stienet teseeedteen elatterm of lens
'ledge(' tbe people that we would
ertm: nod 'Met this Imnertnnt
the administration elected on the
nintform repudiated ex It repudiated
the more Immediate tariff riedge
Both these reforms so vital to hon
et American busiaess the Progressive of men and women workers in Massa-
party will accomplish Neither evil In- chusetts who strike for living wages
terests nor reckless demagogues can Let the states do what they can and
swerve us from our purpose for we more power to their arm but let the
are free from both and fear neither Nation do what it should and cleanse
our flag from this stain
Objecte of PrOgrtgligIVelk
Lane for Wonern Workers'
We mean to put new business laws
Nladern industrialism has chabged
on our statute books which will tell
the status of women Women now are
American business men what they can
wage earners in factories stores and
do and what they cannot do We mean outer places of toil In hours of labor
to make our business laws clear in-
and all the physical conditions of in-
stead of foggy—to make them plainly
dostrial effort they must compete with
state dust what things are criminal
men And they must do It at lower
and what are lawful wages than men receive—wages which
And we mean that the penalty for in most cases are nut enough for these
things criminal shall be prison sen- Womun to live on
tenees that actually punish the real
e odnliined e c tn L is Itinils
offender instead of monay fines that moral and unpatriotic Toward WOMen
hurt nobody but the people who the Progressive party proclain t the
must ay thvm in the end
chivalry or the state ‘ve propose to
p
And then me mean to send the mes-
sage forth to hundreds of thousands
ot brilliant minds and brave hearts
:engaged in honest business that they
are not criminals but honorable men
in their work to make good business
in this Republic sure of victory we
riven 110W say: "Go forward Ameri-
can business men anti know that be-
you supporting you encourag-
ing you Is the power and approval ef
the greatest people under the Mtn GO
forward American business men &Ind
feed full OW tires be American
furnaces and give employment to
every Aemrican laborer who asks for
work Go forward American business
Men and capture the markets of the
world for American trade and know
that On the wings of your commerce
you carre liberty throughout the world
and to every inhabitant thereof Go
forward Anteriean business men and
realize that in the time to come it
shall be s:id of you as it is said
of the hand that rounded Peter's deme
he builded better than he knew'"
Tariff Out of Poll I tem
The next great business reform we
must have to steadily increase Ameri-
can prosperity is to change the method
of building our tariffs The tariff
must be taken out of polities and
treated as a business question instead
of as a political question Heretofore
we have done just the Other thing
That is Ivity American business is up-
set every few years by unnecessary
tariff upheavals and is NVCakentld by
uneertainty in the periods between
The greatest need of business is cer-
tainty but the only thing certain
about our tariff is uncertainty
What then shall we do to melte lr
tariff elediges strengthen business in-
stead ot weakening- business? Rival
protective tariff mittens haye answered
that question Cemmen sense has ktn-
SWered it Next to our need ill Millie
the 4her111111 law modern understawl-
able and just our greatest fiscal need
is a genuine permanent
tariff commission
rive years ago when the fight for
Ills great business measure was begun
in the senate the bosses of mot par-
ties were ag:iinst it So When the
last revision of the tariff was en and
it tariff commission nag It have been
written into the tariff law the ad-
ministration would hit it this reform
When two y elirS Liter the M11101081
I1011 8111)10)104i it weakly the biparti-
san hoss system if There hal4
net been and will not be any sincere
ilil honest effort by the eld parties to
get it tariff cemmissem There has
not been and XVIII hot I i fly sincere
and honest purpese by this parties
I o take the tariff nut td
Per the tariff in pelities is the ex-
euse tm those shaln tilt le:il till Its
which give the spoilers their oppor-
tunity The tariff in politics is one
of the invisible galvernments methods
of wringing tribute freni the people
Through tho tariff in 'eddies the
Malefic:tries of tariff eXoeSSes are
cared for no matter which party is
"revising"
Itetialls f
NV 110 111 s fergetaen tile tariff scan-
dals I hat made l'reeident Cleveland
demeince the -Wilson-Gorman bill as "a
perfidy and IL diS110110r?" Who ever
can forget the brazen rebberies forced
tilt the Payne-Aldrich bill Melt Mr
Taft defeaded tis "the best ever
Ina'1"? I r evelYelle vise forgets these
!tidies the interests that profited by
111(111 tieVer Will forget thorn 'rhe
the lobbyists that grew
rich by putting them through never
will forget their' That is why the in-
visible government and its agents
W:int to keep the old method of tariff
IlhuiiJluug For thouga such tariff -revisions-
may make le en years for the
people they make fat yettes for the
'ewers Of pillage and their agents
So neither of tile old parties ean
honestly carry out any tariff policies
whieh they pledge the people to carry
(mt Put even if they could and even
if they Were sincere the mid party
platferms :ire in error on tariff pulley
'rhe I 11111 i iti platferm declares fur
I ree trail: but free traoto fs wrung :Ind
ruinous The itepablican platferni
permits extertion but tariff extertion
is rebledy by law The Progressive
rmrty is fer honest protection end
honest protection is right and a condi-
tion of Ameritian prosperity
A tariff high enough to give Aineri-
cell 'reducers the American market
when they make honest geeds :Ind sell
them at honest prices bet low enteigh
that when they sell dishonest gels it
dishonest prices fereign commit Hien
can correct Muth evils it tariff bigh
enough to enable Americett trill ins
le pity our workingmen American
wages and ii aranged that the work-
ingmen wilt get such Nvettes: a busi-
ness tariff NIhoIi! ellanges
Millie 115 ti psSill'e blISItIvSS IliStead of
tlisttiriiing it—this is the tariff and
the mrthod it its making in which the
progreseive party bvIleces fer ‘vhich it
does battle and will' it it proposes to
write into the liCIA'S '
'rim' l'ayne-Ahlrieh tariff law must
he revised immediately in neeerdance
to these prinalpies At the seine time
a Weddle permanent notipartisan
ri f f eolniniSsiOlt IluhisI bp fixed in
I he la‘v t irmiv as the interestate
commerce conitniSSIon
Neither f thy tilit patti con this
vrirk For mAther if
hoileVeS ii il a tritf lhi
"")" privilege is too
thoroughly xroven into the fiber of
both old pi r 5 to lli I IA 1 Ii tirlIce
Sill a IA 1!' II l'tollreIVI party
enly is free front thesh iutThehres rhi
Progressivh trirty only F lO yes in the
sineere thwttto-lit of a swim) tiriff
policy The Preeressiee parte et
can chamhe the tariff es it meet he
eleingeti Thorp are samples of the re-
forms in the thft
intend to pill on the Nation's statute
honks
loppress Child Labor
Tut re are oilitr que:-tions as int-
portNnt pres:ing that we 111'11) If)
inswer hv sound and laws
child labor in factor
mines aid sweatshop" be ended
throng:L0i the republic Soti labor IS
a crime Iga ItiSt childhood because
Prevcill the growth of normal man-
hood aid womanhood it is a crime
against !h Nation lioeausa it prevents
the growth or r childr
strong' patriotic and intelligent vitt
zens
folly the Nation can stop this indus-
trial rie Htat s eintoit stop it
Tho nevor stoppi any national
wrong—hed child labor a national
‘vrolig loave it to the state alone
ig tinillSt 1111SITIPSS ro if some seat
stop It 11“1 WIWI Statr di) MA' loisi-
ness TTWI "r the former are at a 41104-
41vantriv with the bus111S trivn or
th Iittr hccause thov ni–Tst sell in
the gfirne market goods tnado by man-
hood labor at manhood Ivages In porn-etition
with goods made by childhood
1hor at childhood wages To loavo
t if) ttic t is linhist to manhood
tabor tor chiblimod labor In any state
towers MA nbood labor In every Pt:Ite
hoe:lose the product or childhood labor
In Any stat f eompetem with the nrodoct
If manhood labor In every stato Chit
” workerg 14 tho looms in Snth
Carolina means bayonet a at the breasts
Laws for Women Worker's
Modern industrialism has chabged
the status of women Women now are
wage earners in factories stores and
other places of toil In hours of labor
and all the physical conditions of in-
dustrial effort they must compete with
men And they must do it at lower
vages than men receive—wages which
In most cases are not enough for these
women to live on
This is inhuman and indecent It is
unsocial and uneconomic it is im-
moral and unpatriotic Toward wOriten
the Progressive party procialmi the
chivalry or the state $4ve propose to
proteet women wage earners by suit-
able laws an example of which is the
nuitimum wage for women workers—
a wage which shall be high enough to
at least buy clothing food and shelter
for the ‘voinan toiler
Core of Aged unit Maimed
' Tho vitro of the aged is one of the
most preplexing problems of modern
life IloW is the workingman with loss
than $4'00 a year and with earning
power waning as his own years ad-
vance to provide for aged it or
other relatives in addition to furnish-
ing food elititer and clothing for bis
wife and children? Vitat is to become
of the family of the laboring man
whose strength has been sapped by ex-
cessive toil and who has been thrown
upon the industrial serapheap? It is
questions like these xve must answer If
we are to Justify free institutions
They are questions of which the
(if people are enabled as to a
body of death thd they are questions
other anti poorer nations are
answering
k'e PrOgreSSIVeS Mean that A1110E101
shall aliSiVer theM The Progressive
party is the helping hand to those
whom a vicious industrialism has
maimed anti crippled We are for the
conservation of oar natural resources:
but even more we are for the con-
servation el human life Our fore5t51
water power and minerals are valttable
and must be saved from the spollers1
but men women and children are
Ill' valuable and they too must be
saved from the spoilers
1
Vote Vor Women
ttecatis women IIS lunch as men ore
a part of our economic and social life
wiontth as mach as lltll should have
the voting Power to solve all econonde
and social problems Votes for venten
are theirs as a matter of natural right
alone votes for ‘vonten should be
theirs as a matter of political wisdom
als't As Cage earners they sbauld
heIII to selve the labor preblem as
property owners they should help to
solve the tax problem as wives and
III hers they should help to solve the
pridileinsi that convert-I the homm Anti
I hat theatiS all national problems for
I he "ttjII ahils at the fireside
If it is said that coition cannot help
14441141001e Nation in tittle or War and
I herefore that they should not help tO
detcrtiliiiii the Niition'fi de'slitile8 III
tillie la peace the 11118WM is that
find as notch IS inert who carry mos-
hos Alit' 144 104111' nswer IS tht
vowel' stiffer and serve in lime of yen-
those Avito bear the Nation's soldiers
are as much the Nation's delaliders as
I heir sons
Constitution II 11xing
Public spokesmen for the invisible
government say that many of our re-
forms are uneenstittitienal The same
Mild of men said the same thing ef
every effort the Natien has made to
(1141 natienal abuses Put in every ease
whether in I he eourts at tho ballot
hr on the battle Held the vitality
of the constitution was vindicated
The Itrogressive party belieVOS that
the eloistiituten is it living thing
growing with the people'S groWth
strengthening with the people's
strength aiding the people III their
Strliggle ler lIto liebrty and the plir-
silit 1 haPpilless 'militating the peo-
ple to nivel all their needs its condi-
tions change The opposition believes
that the coustittition is a dead form
holding back the mottles growth
shackling the people's strength but
giving- a free hand to malign powers
that prey upon the people
The first werds of the constitution
are "We are the people" and they de-
clare that the conetitution's purpose is
"to form a perfect union and to cre-
nate the general welfare:1' :1'40 (111
Just that is the very heart of the Proareal-live
cause
The Progressive party asserts anew
the vitality or the rolisti tut ion we
believe in the trite doctrine of states'
rights xvhich rorbids the Notion front
Interfering xvith states' affairs and also
forbids the states from interfering
with national affairS The combined
ti el I igenve and compos?!4 eonseienee
It the American people is its irresist-
alt as it is righteous and tile censti-
teflon does not prevent that force front
working out the general welfare
Danger to linntiltutionsf
rroin certain sources we !war
preachments about the danger of oar
Ill orms to American Pistitutems
What is the plitimso Antr1Itt
‘Vily was this repoldic es-
tablished? What does the flag stand
for? What do Hase tAdnes noan?
They mean that the shall be
Ill le eorreet human zibuses
They mean I hat limit II oitien
children shill! not the im-
portunity to groiv iii lI)tLui uiiul 1101114 r
They meat' that the 14114 shall
have the power to make oar land II ii
day i better place to III in
They Mean the real t ii s iii liberr:
II nd nt the aeadendes I I thew x
They mean the :lethal Negress of the
race in tangible items ii b:i ily living
and tint the theoreties 4 barren di:i-
mitations r I !ivy do not meiu n I hese thine-
they lull aS 1 siitilidilig Ii usa on) link
A milieu of strong elrn!ht 111111 ii
W ittieli it tII1iutl II W bona's
reiliZdig the best II o
ce-te
inil II ilistiee is tiir it it
sceres it tailions of ing
III thAt b the
and w:Ito Awl that I I ralaa trey
l lu i I I have
1or nevr doubt I Ii t
will 1000 volo1 th
lull (1st kiitS Never 1 II it that we
will solve in rigliteteenis
4- Very vexing pteb!crii Never
doliht that In the end th 'land from
above that lemIS IIS unwald
vilti oVer the hand rfsiti iietow
t
w re indeed a 11(iio
It 1"rd
TICIr 4101114 brilVeri
1 ie:111er Ameri Y Ii iii V Wiii
tht II alter Lrighter
f”r iii tomcat!! the fI ii ely will be
aehi ved Those chi seorr selm
td- Those r‘k
hedeve
:11 the night wit( ca-st rind when
II the sem idle! MI the t acarts of lib
eta y the iii(lotts ui "watchwin
what if the night" t I uri iwor will be
the morn a pireth"
Knowinir the pritq 'At- roust pny the
sacrifice we the burden we
MuSt earry the assauas Wii mist endure-
kiiu' lii ftlll ee!! the cost—a et
we enlist and we crla-t for the war
por we know the Icliaet of our riattse
(trot we 'taw too it aurtain
Not reluettintly then bet eagerly not
with faint hearts lint strung do wc
now advance tipon the cnemies or the
puf-11o For the call Lit eomes to us
Is the call that Caine to onr fathers
As they responded $o shall we
ItO hath sounded forth a trumpet that
shall never call retreat
ile Is sifting out the hearts of men be-
fore Ills judgment seat
n ill! swift our souls tn answer him
be Jubilant our feet
Our God la marching
on the :vtral count s the a:
ALVA L McDONALT)
State Chairman
FRED E SUITS
State Secretary
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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Chairman: Alva L McDonald El Reno
Seer'y: Fred E Suits Oklahcima City
Dan Norton Chandler
E I Leach Oklahoma City
J A Veasey Bartlesville
Dr E N 'Wright Olney
Albert Rennie Paula Valley
Advisory Committee
Chairman: Alva L Ale Donald El Reno
W H Morgan Anadarko
A A Small Tulsa
J 0 1a1l Atoka
State Committeemen
Adair—Pat Dore Westville
Alfalfa—Ira Hill Cherokee
Atoka—E L McLaughlin Atoka
Beaver-11 N Lawson Beaver
Beckham—A I I liarris Elk City
Illiane—C IV Dyer Geary
Itryan—Robert Crockett Durant
Caddo—C E Pl VIII Apache
Carter—Walter Colbert Ardmore
Canadian—A F Newell El Reno
Choctaw—G R Lucas Hugo
Cimarron—
Creek—A R Morgan Sapulpa
cleveland-11 F Morris Norman
Comanche--M A Tucker Lawton
Coal—Dr E N Wright Olney
Cotton—F C Maxwell Walters
Craig—Thos T Witner Vinita
Cherokee—M C Revi Ile Tahlequah
Custer—Geo I Storm Clinton
Dewey—C K Cary Taloga
Delaware—Earl Forbes Grove
Ellis-7-J F Sturdivant Arnett
Garvin—Albert Rennie Paula Val-
ley Garlield—Chalmers It Wilson Enid
Grant—A j Batchelor Jefferson-
Grady—J E Schow Chickasha
Greer—F itt leLay Granite
Ilarmon-11 L Baxter
Harper—Ora Black Gate
Haskell-14 O Clark Stigler
ilughes—Dr E K Mabry Holden-
vine Jackson—Horace Sheppard Altus
Jefferson—Jim Echols ‘Vaurika
Johnson—Ben Colbert Tishomingo
Kay—I C Hutchinson Ponca City
Kiowa—Dan A Scott Hobart
K Hobbs Hennessey
Leflore--W I 1 !la rrison Paean
Latimer—P S Coleman Wilburton
Loga n—F P Wainer Guthrie
Lincoht—Dan Norton Chandler
Love—W I 1 I 1 Kellner Leon
Mayes—
Marshall—L F Beard Madill
Nlitior-1 Cunningham Fairview
NieCortain—C P Baker Idabel
McLain—M S Roberts Purcell
McIntosh—R D liofftnan Checolah
Mushogee—Dr L D Bruton Musk°
gee
Ahirray—Jas T Brink Sulphur
Noble—W II Kirshner Perry
NowataJ W Glass Nowata
Oklahoina—E I Leach Okla City
Osage—S M Perkins Pawhuska
011awa--G O Gibson Miami
Okinulgee—W Weimer Oktnidgee
Okfuskee—W C McIntosh Okemah
Oldnakee—W I 1 Dill Okeinah
Pawnee—J II Sterling Pawnee
1 ayne-0 IL Lilly Cushing
Pittsburg—J C Davis McAlester
Pontotoc—M 14' Mamlile Ada
Pottowatomie—Frank S Roodhouse
Shawnee
Pushma taha—
Roger G Smith Moore-
WOW Rogers—A A Dennison Claremore
Seminole—N M Tate Wewoka
Stephens—
Sequoyah—J A Pet erg Sallisaw
Tulsa—Frank Newkirk Tulsa
Texas—
Tillman—J A Nlathis Frederick
Wagoner—J T Ilan Wagoner
Washington—J A Veasey Bartles-
ville Washila-J W Cordell Cordell
Woodward—P Mellinger Wooward
Woods—G E Nickel Iva
GOOD WORK REQUIRES MONEY
Progressive State Headquarters
2ittl Patterson Building
Oklahoma City
To the State Committeemen
are approximately 2500 vot-
ing precincts in the state and in each
of these the Progressive party has at
least one committeeman In Oklahoma
City however there is a city central
committee composed of five In each
precinct If each committeeman will
do his duty the Progressive party
can present a solid front to Its ene-
mie in Etil and redeem the state
from Democratic rule
The first work of the Progsessivei
is hi create a party fund for the
States committee Contributions by
a few individuals is Nv ro n g In prin-
tilde Every indivithial Progressive
contributes to the party fund be
conms identified with the party work
and iil feel more interested
At the conference of Progressive3
held it Tulsa on Nlarch 21 and 22 am
folloviing resolution was adopted:
-heiolved That it sum of fiv
thousand doilitrs a ttir payable quar
terly shall lie rmell hy assessment
merit to he proportioned to tht
Itoooell vote east ill oath eoonty
last November"
'rho 11CCOSS Of the party Is in the-
hands of the state comtnittw? and tho
rank and filo of the Prorressives aro
looking to this committoe to do it
till duty
Please take charge of this nuttter
at once in your county and try and
send in a substanCal remittance at
the earliest possible date Ycurs very
truly
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