Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-12-10
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paign cannot be expected from any
party which is partly reactionary,
and at their best both of the old par
ties are partly, and they are usually
dominantly, reactionary.
"Our function Is to bring about the
needed realignment of political par
ties along national and rational lines.
Substantially the old parties are but
wings of the same party of reaction
and privilege. There is now no nat
ural definite difference between
them. Ultimately all the Progressives
who still cling to the two old parties
will have to come with us in order
to effect the needed improvements in
political conditions, in the efficiency
of government and in financial and
industrial standards.
Mr.. Roosevelt renewed his proposal
to create a commission like the In
terstate Commerce Commission to
supervise the big industrial concerns
doing interstate business. He com
tinued: "I trust that the Progressive
senators and congressman at Wash
ington will get together and push
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Progressive party. I hope, moreover,
that each group Of Progressive MEM
bers-elect of the legislatures Of the
several States will meet and plan
united action upon the organization
of their respective assemblies, upon
the candidates for the United States
Senate, and upon proposed legisla-
ton. The direct primary plan should
be universally applied. We should
support legislation that will carry out
our principles regardless of what
party may introduce it in the several
States.
Farm financing should now receive
the consideration it deserves. The
greatest field for farmers CO.
operation will be in marketing their
product, which process now costs
them and the consume so dearly.
The promptest and largest measure of
financial aid would come from mort
gage banks chartered, regulated and
carefully supervised by the sorern-
ment, operating on the method OF the
Credit Foncier, of France.
"Our people, and especially Our
Progressive members, must ever keep
in mind that the Progressive .arty is
by its platform committed to tile doc
trine that these measures we adv :
cate are to become part OF the law of
the land, provided we can get the peo-
pie to stand for them. If Legislature,
executive or court stands in tho way,
then in lawful and orderly fashion
and along the lines laid dowa in the
National Progressive PLATFORM we
intend to see that the will of the peo-
pie is carried out; aad that judge,
legislator and executise officer alike
do their full part in thus carrying out
the will of the people.
mo party which denies to the leo-
pie the right to secure justice, as we
Progressives propose, when the courts
interpret the Constitution s. as 70
enthrone injustice, has the right 10
claim credit for sincerity IN any
effort to work for Industrial and So
cial justice. All other measures are
useless, If we permit a body unich IS
not responsible to the people to have
the final say as to whether tho people
shall or snail not in their laws do
complete social and industrial justice.
The doctrine of the divine r.gnt (
judges to rule the people as every
whit as ignoble as the uoctIi inc Of tht
divine right of kings; and this doe
trine is now chiefly anu pow erfuliy
upheld by the legal an: financial ret
resentatives of privilege.
I'VE also hold with Abraham Lin
coln-and we and we only are the
heirs of Lincoln's principles-that the
people are the masters of the Constl-
tuition. We believe in the Constitu-
ton, and for that very reason we
contemporary thrust aside the eff
forts of the r~eactionaries to turn it
into a fetish for the obstruction of
justice. The Constitution was Gre
ated to secur justice, and we refuse
to allow 1t to be so perverted as to
become a barrier between the people
and justice. Every proposal we have
made for applying and adapting the
Constitution to our present needs is
a proposal to saw the Constitution
by making it a more efficient instru-
ment for securing justice for all the
people.
1.-THE ~so-called conservatives who
object to our methods of applying
the Constitution stand on an exact
level with their predecessors. the So
called Conservatives OF fifty years
ago. the men who opposed the .hir-
tenth amendment on the ground
that the old Constitution was good
enough for them. Fifty years ago
the conservatives ehampicned a view
of the Constitution which perpetu-
ated chattel slavery for. black men;
the corresponding conservatives of
today champion an Interpretation OF
the Constitution which perpetuates
slavery for white women
and children,
"The men who fight such proposals
as we have made to secure justice.
when the courts do injustice are as
emphatically the apostles of reaction
as were the men who fifty years ago
defended the bred Scott decision by
the Supreme Court and sought to
prevent the prohibition of slavery by
the Constitution. 1 believe hat the
Progressive party and all good citi-
zens and all believers In genuine pop
ular rule should heartily support the
proposed constitutional amendment
recently introduced by Senator Bris-
tow to secure the people of the United
States proper control Of their own
government.
"These amendments embody the
fundamentals of the Progressive po-