Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1912-08-14
shall have no cause to regret or to,
feel shame for the action you have
taken this afternoon"
OF, by and For the People.

Following is summary Of the
platform adopted by the Progressive
Party:
Preamble: "The conscience Of the
people, in a time Of grave national
problems, has called into being a new
party, born OF the nations awakened
sense Of justice.
"We, of the Progressive Party
Of the duty laid upon us by our ia
thers to maintain that government
of the people, by the people and for
the people whose foundations they
laid.
1--WE hold with Thomas Jefferson
and Abraham Lincoln that the peo-
pie are the masters of their constitu-
tion, to fulfil its purposes, and to
safeguard it from those who, by per-
version Of its intent, would convert
It into aii instrument OF injustice.
This country belongs to the peo-
pie who inhabit It, 1t Is time to set
the public welfare in the first place"
The platform further declares that
"the old parties have become the
| tools Of corrupt interests which use
them impartally to serve their self
| purposes and that the new party
! offers itself as the instrument Of the
people to sweep away old abuses to
build new and nobler Common
wealth"
Declares under heading "The rule
Of the people, for direct primaries
| for the nomination of State and ma
tional officers and candidates for the
| Presidency; for the popular election
| Of United States Senators and urges
| on the States the use Of the short
ballot, with responsibility to the
people secured by the initiative, ref
erendum and recall" -
Pledges party to provide "a more
, easy and expeditions method Of
, amending the Federal constitution.
Advocates national jurisdiction Of
problems which have expanded be-
yond the reach of individual States.
Pledges party to secure equal suf-
frage.
|, Pledges party 20 enactment Of leg
islation limiting contributions and
expenditures and providing for pub
licity thereof
Opposes participation by Federal
appointces in State or national con-
ventions.
Declares against child labor and a
minimum wage for women, for pre-
vention Of industrial accidents, safe
guards for health Of employees, pub
licity as to wages, eight-hour work
day, and establishment Of Federal
department OF labor.
Urges establishment of country
life commission and promotion Of the
welfare Of farmers.
Pledges party to full and imme-
diate inquiry and to immediate ac-
ton to deal with the high cost Of liv-
ing.
Favors Il single national health
service.
Demands national regulation of in
terstatc corporations and urges the
establishment OF Federal COM
mission to supervise interstate indus
trial corporations, and favors
strengthening Sherman law to insure
competition in business and prevent
unfair trade practices.
Pledges party to enactment Of a
patent law that will prevent monopo-
lies.
Favors legislation giving inter
State Commerce Commission power
to value physical property Of rail
roads, and demands abolition of the
Commerce Court.
Condemns method of issuing cur
rency notes through private agencies
and urges control thereof by the gov
ernmenJ alone, and opposes the Aid
rich currency bill.
Favors government cooperation
with manufacturers and producers in
extending foreign commerce.
Declares for prompt development
Of all natural resources, condemning
exploitation, waste and monopiliza-
ton. Urges reasonable compensa-
ton to the house for water-power
rights hereafter granted.
Declares for good roads, national
highways and extension Of rural free
delivery; in immediate development
OF natural resources Of Alaska and
promises to that Trcritory local self
government as given other Terrific