The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-09-16
PLATFORM
To RADICAL.
Roosevelt Writes One Reg
ularS Will Refuse.
Balance Of Trade Against Us In
Brazil Because Of Coffee
Purchases.

not Col. Roosevelt has constructed ;
platform which is so radical, If moi
revolutionary, that the regulars will re
fuse to stand on it and whether this
means that besides the two old
parties there will be in the field fol-
the next Presidential election a new
liberal or progressive party made VI
from the progressives gathered up ev-
erywhere is a question which just now
is giving the political prophets much
concern.
1t is one thing to attract the APP
plause Of the multitude. and it is
another thing to garner in the votes
of those same men who did the
shouting. Col. Bryan found that TO
be true. And yet
Without doubt there are a lot Of
progressive senator's and representa-
tives who will come out from under
cover next Decemberr. In fact they
are coming out right along. They
have felt that the party was not
keeping up with the development OF
advanced thought among the people,
ing themselves, as the recognized in
Surgents' and "pogressives" have
done. Some OF them philandered for
a time, flirting with the liberal ele-
ment only to be warned back into
the ranks of conservatism by the
demands of the regulars where the
latter were in undisputed control of
the party machinery. But the whole
country seems to be- in the mad rush
toward a more radically representa-
tive system of government, and the
former President is leading the move
ment. He is excelled by no one in
making an accurate shreewd estimate
of the state of public opinion.
Col. Roosevelt has Dissolved what
the people want. The acclaim which
met his recent utterances apparently
proved that, and he is the man to
cast his fortunes with the powerful
public, whose applause makes or
mars the fortunes of those who appeal
to IT. The movement is bound TO
grow. II will gather strength daily,
and there is little probability that
anything can stop it. II the move
ment is one calculated to bring pros
perity to the country, it will endure;
If it be the lure OF false prophets. it
will pass away. But in any event, a
large and perhaps controlling element
of the people is determined to have
a change. Perhaps it would be as
well to recognize that this Is their
temper now as at some later time
Senator Robert l.. Owen, of Okla
homa, has issued what he is pleas
ed to call THE Code of the Peoples
Rule This was printed as Senate
Document 603 (6lst Congress, End ses-
:slon). 1t consists of an introduction
by Senator Owen with a compilation
of various statues, etc, relating to
the peoples rule system of govern
ment, and for terminating abuses of
machine politics, viz: An adequate
registration system; secret ballot; di- |
rect primaries; publicity of campaign
corrupt practices act;
publicity pamphlets; initiative and re-
ferendom; recall; Desmoines plan of
city government; short ballot, etc" !
Accompanying the code was a copy |
Of Senator Bourne's speech on Ore
CONS system of popular government
'the best system in the world to-
day."
Senator Owen declares that "the
peoples rule is not, or should not
be, a partisan question. In Republic
An Oregon, South Dakota, Montana,
and Maine. and in Democratic Mis-
souri,, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Neva-
la, the people have become already
comparatively free from machine con-
.rol or are about to achieve that dis
.inction."
Anyone who expects to get rich out
" practical forestry, by planting trees
md waiting for them to grow, will
probably be disappointed unless he !
iappens to be growing eucalyptus in !
'alifornia. The Forest Service has
ecently put out leaflets showing the /
ost, methods and profits OF growing c
oblolly and shortleaf pine. II claims
hat loblolly will make a tree so l
set high and containing 20 board C
set of lumber at the age of 40 years t
he wood is "course-grained, knotty I
nd largely sapwood." Shortleaf pine A
axes better lumber but 1t is OF slow s
growth. In crowded, unthinned s
ands, the pine will yield about 49, o
n t.<...a foak ~ lumbar "a tha more IL