Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-12-17
PRESENT PRoeREssivENEss.

end will not be e for years.
PRESENT INCONSISTENCIES.
In speaking of the recent progress
sive convention at Chicago the Wash
ington Star has the following CON-
ment:
The progressive conference at Chi
cago has adjourned, and the program
for the future is announced. Let US
note the difference between the pro.
gressiveness of last winter and early
spring and the present progressive
ness. ~
The earlier progressiveless was de-
Iscribed as a spontaneous uprising Of
the people, laboring under the con-
viction that the times we're out OF
joint and should be set right. Every.
thing was on the way to the bow.
vows. Trust trails were over all.
State legislatures and congress had
ceased to consider the peoples inter-
ests, and were now the tools Of pre-
datory wealth. Even the courts had
lost their character, and we're decid-
ing questions against the public vel.
fare. ~"
A new order was on the way, and
needed only directing. North, south.
east and west were alive to the con.
ditions. and resolved to end them.
Doodle, bosses, machine politics and
Ia campaign of so.called education
would have no part of lot in the
movement. The voters were already
educated, and determined to redress
their grievances. Get aboard the band
wagon early, and avoid the rush.
We all know now how hollow those
pretensions were. The angels, and
their Doodle, the bosses and their ca.
pers, the machine politics played in
Kansas, California and elsewhere,
and the tom-tomiag all over the coun-
try revealed the true nature Of the
business, and election day showed how
very far the business was from sue.
cess.
The present progressiveness is a
horse of another color. Some of the
past pretensions have been frankly
abandoned. Need of Doodle is con
fessed, and Angel Perkins, with botn
wings outstretched, is loudly adver.
tised. Boss Finn, as a boss, is hail.
ed as a brother. AS the people do MOI
sufficiently realize their unhappy
state, machines are to be constructed
for their aid, and publicity bureaus
organized for their instruction. A
Kentuckian of the name of Vance pro
poses night schools, in order that mcu
who are so busy and so prosperous
they cannot spare daylight for the
purpose may be taught by gaslight
under competent leaders to insurge.
So we see that at present there il
no uprising. A great host Is not seek.
ing a captain and certain to be ire.
sistible as soon as he. is found. The
question is as to whether such a
host a be appraised by old.fashioned.
human methods, and piloted to VIC.
tory. F~limflamming the moth with
reports about the south, and the south
with reports about the north canno.
again be attempted. Denunciation Of
Doodle and Of bosses, with Mr.. Finn
in plain view at the head Of the pr,-
cession will be inadvisable. And
where night schools are necessary
for teaching busy men that they are
"downtrod" and suffering we shall
see a broad smile overspread the face
Of the community. The average Ken.
tuckian has a keen sense of humof.
and that Mr.. Vance ought to be In
vestigated by the pr%ogressives. Was
he q ravening republican or democrat
nnasQuerading In progressive clothinsy