The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-08-12
PROGRESSIVE REPUBLCANISM
What it Stands For In the State of Wash
ington-Declaration of Principles
and Policy

Washington, declare our support Of
the policies for the common good de-
veloped under Theodore Roosevelt,
and we demand that they be given eff
feet in legislation and administration,
so that ours shall be a government
based upon Lincoln's words, An un-
fetered start and fair chance for every
man in the race of life"
We endorse the administration Of
President Taft and promise him support
in any efforts to secure the legislation
pledged in the last national Republican
platform.
We demand an amendment to the
constitution providing for the election
of senators by direct vote of the people
and a reorganization Of the House of
Representatives that will free it from
control by the patronage and power OF
the speaker. We are unalterably op-
posed to the domination of Congress
by the representatives Of special inter
ests, and we call upon all republicans
to join in a campaign to eliminate
them from national affairs.
We demand such regulation of the
railways as will assure equal oppor-
tunity to all competitors. The Inter
state Commerce commission should be
given power to fix rates and to put its
orders into effect. Those other great
corporations, whose business tends
inevitably to make them monopolies,
should be restrained from exerting
undue influence in industry and gov
eminent, and no change should be
made in the Sherman Antitrust law
until the Supreme court has passed
upon its meaning and scope.
We believe in a protective tariff,
measured by the difference between
the cost of production here and abroad.
That difference should be promptly as
certained and then enatcted into eff
fective Legislation. We demand the
creation of a. permanent, non-partisan
tariff commission endowed with ample
powers and definite duties. We
heartily favor a policy of reciprocity,
especially with Canada.
We demand comprehensive laws for
the conservation of our natural resour-
ces. We oppose the surrender to the
states OF the control of water power
sites and the national forests, and we
demand that the coal deposits of Alaska
shall be developed only under lease
from the government.
We favor an issue of bonds for such
amount as will enable the Reclamation
Service to complete without delay the
government irrigation projects now in
process of construction. Any other
course would work injustice to thou
sands who have settled under these
projects relying upon the government
for their early completion. We also
demand liberal and practical policy
of internal waterway improvement, es-
pecially OF tn, rivers of the Northwest,
and, if necessary, the issue Of bonds
for that work.
The power of injunction should be
so limited as not to imperil the liberty
of any man without notice.
We demand legislation which will
end child slavery in the factories,
mines and sweatshops of the land, and
we favor the eight-hour day in all
public works.
VIC dpPlONS hAS PA~PSSSN N'~N
ment to the Constitution giving Con-
gress the power to tax incomes.
We favor liberal pensions to all de-
serving soldiers and to the widows
and orphans of those who are dead.
We favor the parcels post and an ad-
equate postal savings bank system.
We demand that all postal employees
including postmasters of every grade,
be placed under the civil service, and
the postoffice department divorced
from party politics.
We favor liberal appropriations by
the legislature for state wide system
OF good roads.
The voter should be unrestricted in
his choice Of candidates and the law
so changed as to assure to him secrecy