Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-12-29
The Progressive Movement.

The Progressive Movement.
Editor News-Budget--I will endea
vor to express my views as to the
progressive movement, even though
the attempt may be considered crude.
We could go back to the dawn of
history and note progress step by
step, but to do so would be plagiariz
ing and of little interest to the his
torical student, therefore we will con-
fine ourselves to present progress and
some of the men who are making pro-
greSs mean something.
In the first place let me say | am
a Progressive with big p There
is not move on the Progressive
chess board which | do not fully en-
dorse, and many other moves that
have not yet been made, which we
will mention in another article.
AS to those who are working tooth
and nail to block the wheels of prog
ress, we are sorry for their short
sightedness and feel that they can
not help but soon see the errcr OF
their ways.
President Taft is already seeing
some of his errors, but unfortunately
for him, he did not see soon enough
to avoid the blunders he has made
But it is ever thus. The man, Or
men, who attempt to thWart the will
of the people are bound, sooner OF
later, to reap their reward, and Taft
will realize the truth of this next No
vember if not sooner.
You ask what errors Taft has
made? Well, he has made many But
to begin with there was an error made
by Ex-President Roosevelt in making
him President. Then Taft erred
when he did not take into considera
ton that it required something more
than avoirdupois to be at the head OF
more than ninety million of the mos
intelligent people on earth. Roose
welt is sorry for his part in Taft's Gre
alton. Taft is sorry that he did MOI
fulfill his promises and thereby have
less hill to climb in order to succeed
himself His promise to have the tai
if revised downward is-familiar tC
ALL 1t is also Well known that the
tariff was revised the other way, and
Taft blessed the revisers and said it
was the best ever.
At another time he denounced the
tariff on wool as scandalous. At the
extra session he had an opportunity
to remove the scandalous wool tax
as proposed by the Democrats and
Progressive Republicans, but pre-
fhrred to wait for advice from his Tar
if Board This act alone should in
fluence all voters to favor the Pro
gressive measures; viz, the recall
The stand-patters will boot at this,
but let me say that the sooner we
have the recall enacted into the laws,
not only of the state but of the
United States, the sooner we will
have real representative government:
aye and even tor the President of the
United States Stand-paters may
jeer at this as treason, that is, those
who believe the King can do no
wrong Then take into consideration
the fact that the President comes out
openly and confesses that he attemp
ted to bride our representatives by
Withholding patronage from them III
order to have them do as he wished.
We are told that the law applies
equally to all Billy Lorimer is be-
ing Investigated for bribery also
'Uncle Ike" Why not take a fall
out of Taft? But we forget-'The
king can do no wrong
But with all his attempted bribery,
he did not have foresight enough to
see that he might as we'll have at
tempted to bride the Almighty as to
attempt it on that Prince of Progress
siyes, R. NJ LaFollette, and his fol
lowers. Men who have principle and
stand by it. LaFollette is not tell
ing us what he will do but instead
he is doing He is the man who,
when first elected to the United
States senate, was slurred at and
treated with all the contempt which
a corporation senator was capable of
bestowing, Where are the corpora
ton senators today? Well they are
something that has been And where
is the man for whom they showed
their contempt? The stand-patteIs,
including Taft, may have recovered
from their surprise by this time; sur
prise that a man who ever and al
ways has been true to his fellow men
could be returned to his seat in the
United States senate.
Nevertheless he is there and al
though a man Of slight stature he