Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1912 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

whatever. Any more than it has words- to say on the child labor, eight hour day for wage earning "omt| initiative, referendum, recall, tariff commission. What has the Progressive platform to say on this problem? The following: "Through the establishment of industrial standards we propose to secure to the able-bodied immigrants and to his native fellow-workers a larger sharb of American opportunity. “We denounce the fatal policy of indifference and neglect which has left our enormous immigrant population to become the prey of chance and cupidity. We favor governmental action to encourage the distribution of immigrants away from the congested cities, rigidly to supervise all private agencies dealing .with them, and to promote their as»similatidn, education and advancement.” It is a statement and a purpose, wise, prophetic, human.—Chicago Tribune.

Root’s Conscience. Senator Root of New York, presided at the convention which renominated Taft for President and controlled and directed the forces accomplishing the theft. It was he who was dominant in the fight against Roosevelt. What sincerity is hi?? What must be in the man’s heart of hearts? Here is his declaration as made in 1904 in an ad--dress before the Union League chub of New York: “I count it, my friends, as one of the greatest privileges of my life to have been able in that day of our great sorrow, when our lamented President McKinley was carried away, to have been able to stand by and, hold up the hands Pf his true and loyal successor, Theodore Roosevelt. Men say he is not safe. He is not safe for the men who wish to prosecute seifish schemes for the public detriment, but I say to you that he has been,»these years since (McKinley’s death, the greatest conservative force for the protection of property and our institutions in the city of Washington. I would rather have my boys taught to admire as the finest thing in our life the honesty and frankness, she truth and loyalty, the honor and devotion of Theodore (Roosevelt than to have (the wealth of this great metropolis. The work of President Roosevelt has more weight for good in this land than that of any ©core or all of his deraetors put together.”—jCarrolton (M 0. Republican Record.

The New Party Then and Now. Fifty or sixty years ago men of I demonstrated business acumen and leaders in social and scholastic thought looked with aversion on the new party that seceders from the Whig party were trying to form. Why was not the Whig paTty good enough for men Hke Lincoln, Seward, Fessenden, Thad Stevens, and Corwin, who had been honored by the Whig party and who a little before had been praising its principles and -leaders as the incarnation of righteousness and truth? The answer is that the Whig party came to a point, after fifty years, of active usefulness, where it was unable to respond to its environment—the newer issues of a newer time. Its members pointed with pride to the prosperity the party had brought the nation. But they had tempted fortune too far. As Woodrow Wilson tells us in his history, the great men of both old parties looked with misgiving and aversion upon the new party, but among the common people it was received gladly. In the election of 1856 the Wthig nominee ran a bad third in the popular vote, the republican candidate standing | well up toward the victorious demojerat, while in 1860 the republican nominee gained 180 electoral votes to the democratic nominee’s 12, while the Whig party had dissappeared from politics forever.—lndianapolis Star. __L ' For Sale—Single barrel Hopkins & Allen shotgun in good condition. Set of reloading tools go with it.--GEORGE MAUOK, phone 142-J, Rensselaer. -