The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-06-22
Editorial PAGE,

i've like sentiment through during which
its meaning is somewhat indefinite The progressive spirit in
American governmental affairs The word
progressive applied politics and that moth
the methods of the administration Of
is absolutely That it is all subject change
ing developing advancing civilization demands IT. 1t means that
that with advances that made
in industrial educational and social institutions Business ins
tutions the methods by they fully
of all Developments Government this
country along the old channels
until nadequ the occasion unable
with propositions daily
the
branch of the must administer the the
deliver The people that the administration Of the law
not harmony keeping with modern conditions The people
therefore FESTIVE dissatisfied with this situation They
be able anayze the proposition They naturally look
immediate namely the and Off
GERS, the law itself whether written
unwtten few agothe coal in this region mined
with hand picks Now is mined with machines that have quad
ruped the of the mines 1t then hauled by mules
the tppe Now hauled by electric then Dump
ed into railroad that held twenty thirty Now
thrown into battleshp that carry sixty Then thirty
forty these cars heavy for the engine they
Now engine fifty of
market This same has been made the product Of
all other quarres factories The
degree of Improvement has taken place in the perform
ance OF oce work with its advanced and improved facilities for
patching business The printing business scarcely
years ago The farming implements
little they thirty years ago.
machinery and methods of would be entirely
inadequate the conduct modern still
and the administration of them
educational
say are very nearly keeping pace with the spirit of the This
schools and school added
work the natural education brought
ments and changes human conditions the broad
button of good literature that all The great
the people being rapidly educated learning think The
people that the
Of these conditions becoming
rights and privileges of humanity and that something
done curb the Of these aggregaons wealth This
new laws along lines of legislation and this
new lawmakers Of different type from the old
far asuffc lent
number of them either in Congress State legislature It all
that elect Office fresh from the people
intelligence than the office holder
means that these officers must be Of the and
stand who business
tends place Level
also that these officers people
and be made directly responsible to the people, being
chosen machine that
chine. who this kind government Progress
i've he opposed to it he Standpatter party
name he may give himself
The boss in all kinds of elections is go the
politics OF this country It that
rapidly and soon they will be
national political affairs The people got their eve the
fessona Office you expect change when it
to the selection of the peoples public
people of this becoming disguised who
set themselves up as dictators and political BOSSES
Congressional Investigations department the steel
trust and the trust full blast
sed It of the inevitable keeping single party
too long control all branches of the
from Independent Republican Springfield
Republican shows the country is changing
rapidly.
The radical utterances Governor Woodrow
Wilson getting the of
yafye democratic but still they that NAV
soften his tone harmonic with
country But we for such forlorn hope.
They claim that with Laoee head of the Repub-
can ticket there is chance
but with Taft will slogan of the La
Toilette followers just at this time.
Out IN Missouri newspaper reporter has
ting an original wedding may been an acct
dent lie wrote Miss Daisy Defoe presided the piano and
beautifully played Mendo Sons wedding march,
Jerome r. Jerome said in London day that women
were out for something than hey we're out
Claim for the first time in history the right the popua