Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1912 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Progressive Party News. ** [Advertisment]

“I used to meet men who shrugged their shoulders and said: ‘What difference does it make how we vote, nothing ever results from our votes.’ I suppose you know the force that is behind the new party that has recently been formed, the so-called ‘Progressive Party.’ It is a force of discontent with the regular parties of the United States. It is the feeling that men have gone into blind alleys and come out often enough, and that they propose to find an open road for themselves. ’ —Woodrow Wilson’s speech at Sea Girt, August 17, 1912. With The People Behind Him. •-Vy own experience was that I could do nothing as President except when the people were heartily with me. The minute I ceased to have them with me, whether it was my fault or theirs, I ceased to have power. Under such conditions I would prefer to-leave the Presidency, unless in fair, open fighting on the stump I could bring the people round to my way of thinking; such a course I think would be to my advantage and to theirs.”—Colonel Roosewelt at Denver.

“A great many men and women of noble character, of most elevated purpose, have joined themselves to the new party because the platform adopted by the new party promised reforms that should have been carried out years ago. These highspirited men and women believed that the new party would eventually bring them out on a plane where they might eventually accomplish what they have long desired.” "I take off my hat to these people. I sympathize with their impulse. I have not a word of criticism for them for allying themselves with any honorable force which they think can accomplish the ends they desire.”— Woodrow W’ilson speech before the New York Press Club, bept. S, 1912. What We Pledge Ourselves To Start: 1— Destroy the invisible government and dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics, 2 Effect legislation that will limit the hours of labor and fix the liability of the employer in cases of accident to the worker. 3 Establish a system of social insurance. 4 Reconstruct the anti-trust laws so that they will become effective in controlling illegitimate combinations in restraint of trade. 5 Revise the tariff and the method of tariff making. 6 Extend the commerce of the United States to the four corners of the world. 7 Remedy the high cost of living.

8— Give women the right to vote. 9 Establish a parcels post. 10— Utilize the Panama Canal for the extension of the American merchant marine. What We Pledge Ourselves to Stop: 1— Child labor and the abuses of our factory system. 2 Night work for women. 3 The unbridled flotation of wildcat securities and the abuse of State corporation laws. 4 The shameful waste of our natural resources and the transfer of these resources to private combinations without proper compensation for their owners, the people. 5 The misuse of money in elections. Isn’t It Funny To See The Tories of 1912 Pointing With Pride to the Insurgents of 1776 and 1860? It is diverting to see how the reactionaries of every age invite the world to contemplate as their patron saints the insurgents and reformers of past time. Nothing could more grossly misinterpret the truth of history and the spirit of human progress than to look upon the great pioneers in humanity’s onward march as discouragers of agitation and advocates of “let well enough alone.” “Every crooked machine politician in the country is strong for Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln and in- 1 vokes their names as the bulwarks of wrong things that are, 'in resistance to better things that ought to be. Yet each one of these great men in his tjme was looked upon by ■property and culture as a pestiferous agitator. Each one of them was denounced for trying to break up the established order and sow among the people the pernicous seeds of discontent. All the great revolutionary heroes were insurgents. ' The men that stirred up the American masses to revolt against a standpat King and Parliament were nothing more than a bunch of excited pamphleteers and boy orators. From Jefferson and