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Show jg I j 1 Tfe loiifIa:l5?5 fhe Referendum If oid fii By S I DR. MARTIN SCHUTZE 81 ,(U . , ; J Dr. Martin Schutzo is professor of frj ;? German In tne University of Chica- lmk go, the author of many poems and ffiM a'60 iv0 P,ays '"Judith" and "Nero and Lsanasr.'' He was born I In Germany, where he attended the universities. He Is thoroughly conversant con-versant with the Progressive, Republican Re-publican and Democratic platforms from an economic point of view. He took his degree of Ph. D. at the University of Pennsylvania. There Is neither la tho Republican nor In the Democratic platform, a plan emUidji.ig the iniiiatho, referendum and reculi In view of the Importance of theso and other measures In Mr M Roosevelt's pie-convention campaign 1 these omissions are rigniflcant 1 ; It Is natural that the Losses and g 3 : corrupt ionlsts of both old parties I : : should not want theGe measures. Bu" I; it Is more Important that the dom-M dom-M inant honest elements In both those fl.arties are opposed to them Those of tho southern states which arc ruled by the old-style Democracy are united against them. Mr. Underwood, Dera-:f Dera-:f ocratlc floor leader, represents thoii" : attitude in his conviction that .the '( t American people understand men, not .' i measures Historically the opposite "jj is true. The American people have I j frequently mado mistakes In choosing 'j i ' their representatives, but never in the I j long run In the fundamental principles ) t of our government. The very Doc-i Doc-i I ' laratlon of Independence was a dec-: dec-: y laratlon for piinciple3, not for men i j ' Governor Marshall has expressed L t tho prevailing sentiment of the old I j : Democracy in substantially these ;) words" "The people haic all the nec-f nec-f i ; cssary governmental machinery. Tho I f lulo now if they only take the trou-: trou-: ' ble. Precious good care is taken to if give them all tho trouble possible"' I In ancient times man scratched the 7 M soil -with a pointed stick strapped to I If his wife's back. 110 called that plow-' plow-' 1 Ing. But this age calls for every im-' im-' proved machinery possible The meas-l meas-l m ures of popular rulo proposed in the I J Progressive platform are the most Im-i Im-i jK proved and tried machinery of modern ' govenimenU We propose to get thein, ! M and as soon as still better Implements aro devised will have them, too. !, ! . The utterances of Mr Taft and his W political associates prove their posl- itlon as Identical with that of Mr Marshall. Tho modern question is not of what, by a tiemendous effort and waste after years of scandalous obstruction and miscarriage, wo can do in an occasional oc-casional paroxysm of reform which shakes the whole country, hut of creating cre-ating conditions most favorable to a prompt, easy, smooth and continuous improvement. The majority of the Republican and Democratic parties are committed 10 what they call "representative government." gov-ernment." But thoy have in mind, not representative, but misreprescnta-th'e misreprescnta-th'e government: not government of the constitution, but of substitution of the possible substitution of the will of the Barnes, Penroses, Cranes, Rooic and their associates, masters and tools, for tho known will of the perflle' As to social and industrial parties, ' tho Democratic Is pledged solelj to workmen's compensation, "providing adequate Indemnity for injurj' to bod or loss of life, so far as the federal jurisdiction extends " The Democratic Interpretation of the extent of that Jurisdiction Is sufficiently known to compel comprehensive inferences-Governor inferences-Governor "Wilson Is on record as being opposed to a federal law prohibiting pro-hibiting child labor as unconstitutional. unconstitu-tional. It is well known that the most horrible blot on our industrial sys-V sys-V tern, prevalent particularly in the old Democratic states of the "south, which furnish tho backbone of Mr. "Wilson's support, can bo only wiped out b a federal act, because with child labor ; In some states, tho adult workers of ! t the humane states would havo to , ; compete with child labor in the oth-; oth-; l ctb. ; : Governor Wilson and his party are ) also opposed, on constitutional ' ' gcounds, to any federal law fixing a ft minimum wage foi women, by which ; alone, another scarcely less hideous blot can bo removed. With that policy pol-icy many thousands of women are annually driven into exhaustion, death and prostitution Is the universal slow, barbarous corruption, exhaustion and destruction destruc-tion of babies and souls less a vital injury than a violent physical accl-f accl-f dent? ; As to other Important measures of conservation, Mr. Henry of Texas chairman of the powerful committee on rules, of tho house, was bitterly w opposed, again on constitutional grounds, to pure food inspection. Mr. j committee on interstate commerce C), and other leading Democrats in the house and senate took the same '. position, Mr Underwood, fioor leader of the house, is opposed to water-power conservation In Alaska. Many of theso men voted and worked desper- Iately with the Ttepublican Aldrlch-Hale Aldrlch-Hale and Cannon-Wadsworth combines com-bines against some or the most important im-portant conservation bills during Mr. Roosevelt's administration. Whatever their motives, the two old parties inevitably belong and will act together In reactionary obstruction obstruc-tion of far-sighted and constructive and humane measures. Their members mem-bers mav be individually humane, but thoir humanity stands baffled and futllo fcefore the fundamental conditions condi-tions of modern llfo. Such are tho affiliations and convictions con-victions of Mr. Wilson Ho has precisely pre-cisely formulated them in his antiquated antiqu-ated and paraljzlng theory of tho ;f limltatlonst of government which Theodore Roosevelt forcibly and Just- ly analyzed in the best speech made in the campaign bo far. i As to tho position of Mr. Taft and r lest we forget. Mr. Sherman, whoso Isponsoi is Bamc3 It has happily become be-come unnecessary to say more than a word. A man who accepts a state's administration, who has surrounded himself with the worst manipulators of corruption and greed, who has lent himself to many Plots to coerce Ignore Ig-nore and oxploit the people, who ha3 broken almost every pledge upon which ho was elected, who has reestablished re-established the spoils sstcm with hamo. less disregard of public decency de-cency a man that has no bead, nor . hand, nor hearty cannot bo president again. Mr. Wilson has spoken of setting human rights above property rights whllo at tho samo time he has repudiated re-pudiated tho only means by which that can be done. Where do the men and women stand who for yenrs have fought and labored for the social so-cial and industrial welfare, who have faced the conditions a8 they are. who I know? Ask Oscar Straus," Theodore Roosevelt's first commissioner of hu-mnnlty! hu-mnnlty! Ask Jane Addams and Mrs Raymond Robins' Ask the thousands of" men and women who hae labored in the slums and among the victims of tho old social and Industrial system sys-tem of greed and exploitation1 Thoy are not 1 allying around Taft and Sherman, nor around Wilson end Marshall, but around tho two most potont personalities of this age, Theodore The-odore Roosevelt and Hiram Johnson, for justice humanity, brotherhood. nn |