Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-04
BY SENATOR JOSEPH M. DIXON,
Chairman of the Progressive National
Committee

Committee.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3-The Progressive
party is determined to have visible and
not an invisible government in this coun-
try. 1t is determined that the man who
pays the taxes shall get value received
Tor his taxes. It is determined that pub
Tic men shall work Cor the voters who
put them in office, and not for interests
whose object is to raise the already ire
mendous cost of living that they may
personally profit
The Progressive party believes in the
Suffrage for women because it believes
that women are just as intelligent, Just
as honest and just as interested in the
"efare of the nation as men are
mother who has a son who must
make his living as an American citizen
can be trusted to vote to surround him
win the right conditions and to give
him honest opportunity woman who
is supporting herself can be trusted to
vote to make conditions of labor better.
1t is unthinkable that any woman would
vote for man who defended child la
Dor, or who sought to give any employer
the right to work his employees, men or
women, twelve or fifteen hours a day
Better Labor Laws Urged.
Better labor laws are insisted on by the
Progressive party. We do not attack
property, but we hold that human life is
more precious than property And while
we intend to do no man an injustice, we
DO not propose to permit any man to do
other men Injustice.
Go into any city slum and you will
see the need for a government that takes
an interest in the welfare of the people.
What this country needs is intelligent
! effort to conserve human life: to place a
decent living within the reach of every
man or every woman who works; to pro-
tect the aged and the weak; to guarantee
TO every human being the right to hap
piness.
We know that the laws now on the
statute books are not all suited to pres
ent conditions. Some of them have been
put there dishonesty, for dishonest pur-
poses. Some of them were put there
years ago by men who could no more
foresee our national. social and industrial
development than they could foresee the
acroplane or the telephone, or the eigh-
teen-hour train between New York and
Chicago
1t will not be a light task to write
our program into the statute books, but
| 1t can he done, and we mean to do it.
Dishonest laws must be repealed.
Statutes written in bygone age and I'M
suited to the times must be repealed and
new statutes must take their place.
| 1t is the people who will do this. The
new laws will come from the people and
the legislators who try to stand in their
! way will surely be brushed aside
Courts Power Tool Great"
AS for the judges who attempt to say
/ that they and not the law making bodies
! of the states and of the United States
shall make the laws, we have provided
| a remedy for them-the recall No hon
est, upright judge has any reason to fear
| the recall No dishonest judge has any
| reason not to fear it. Judicial terms
are often long, In some cases for life; and
until the people have the power to re-
call those officials either too stupid or
| too dishonest to discern the difference be
! tween right and wrong, the power of the
courts is greater than is good for the
country.
! No one knows that some Judges are cor
rupt better than the lawyers themselves.
| No one suffers from corruption on the
! bench more than the lawyers who prac-