Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1912 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

GRAND MILLINERY OPENING Friday 3 *' l October Saturday | ** & • * A fine display of Trimmed Fall Hats, and competent milliners to make up your hats to suit you. Remember the dates for the Opening and come in early and see my line. Mrs. Mary Meyer-Healy

PROGRESSIVE PARTY NEWS, (Continued From First Page.) 5. The adoption of the proposed amendment to the federal constitution providing for the election of United States senators by the direct vote of the people, and in the meantime the adoption of a law similar to the Oregon law, by which the legislators elected by all parties shall be bound by direct preferential vote for senator. 6. A preferential vote for candidates for President and Vice President. 7. The adoption of a more effective and economical registration act and a corrupt practices act which shall comply to all elections and primaries, including the election of officials of party organizations and of delegates to all conventions. 8. Equal sufferage for women on all questions. 9. A minimum wage for wopien wage earners. 10. Efficient child labor laws, national and state, and the rigid enforcement thereof. 11. A decided change in state education which shall prepare youth to engage in life work through trade schools and widespread industrial and agricultural education and free school books for children in common schools. 12. A public utilities commission with the power to regulate rates, service, capitalization and issuance of securities! of public service corporations and to make physical valuation of the property of such corporations, and compel the production of books and records. 13. An act prohibiting corporations from the issuance or sale of watered stock. 14. A workman's compensation act for industrial accidents under settled upon a scale fixed by which establishment losses shal) be statute, the worker to have his alternative to pursue his remedy in court.

15. Home rule for cities, with Power to adopt their own charters. Uinttil this can be accomplished by constitutional changes we favor the passage of an act granting to cities and towns the option of adopting commission government in lieu of remaining under the present cities and towns act. 16. The application of competitive merit system to the civil service of the state and of the citie® and counties thereof, and the adoption of the federal registration rules for the labor service. 17. A reform' in court procedqre whereby technicalities in pleadings, in trials and on appeals shall be eliminated, so that justice shall not be delayed or denied. 18. The creation of a state conservation commission embracing the work of the state geologist, the state etomologist, the bureau of statistics and the state board of forestry. 19. The erection of a state libray and archive memorial building in celebration of the centenials of state in 1916, thet state having now no adequate place for its priceless historical documents and library. 20. A national income tax, and a state inheritance tax; and in connection with these an expert investigation, followed by a complete reformation of the tax laws of the state whereby such outrages as are now committed in working out the corporation highway tax shall be rendered impossible; and we hereby small properties shall cease to bear more than their proportion of taxes; hnd whereby as new taxes are added present direct taxes shall be di-‘ minished. 21. A revision? of the road laws, along the line of state aid and state control of main roads. 22. Liberal pensions ito soldiers. , 23. Federal regulations of cor