The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-07-08
Commandment Delivered at Sinai Be-
lieved to Apply to Politics as
- Well as Business. l.
NUMBER OF DELEGATES CUT
Progressives Will Name One for Each
State Elector, Territories Not
to Be Represented. ..

! New York, July S.-A call to the
people Of the United States who are
in sympathy with the national Pro-
gressive movement to send dele,
gates to a national convention to >op-
EN- in Chicago August 5, was given
out Sunday afternoon by United
States Senator Joseph H. Dixon of
Montana, Theodore Roosevelt's cam
paign manager. The call is signed
by members of the committee chosen
at meeting held in Chicago and al
so bore the signatures of the Roose-
welt followers of forty states. .a
Text of Call.
The text of call is: s'To the people
of the United States, without regard
to past differences, who through re-
peated betrayals realize today the
power of the crooked political bosses
and of the privileged classes behind
them are SO strong in the two party
organizations no helpful movement
in the real interests of our country
can come out of either. -.
| "Who believe that the time has
come for a nation wide movement
on non-sectional lines, so people may
be served in sincerity and truth by
an organipation unfettered by the OBJ
legation to the conflicting interests.
Rule of People.
| "Who believe in the right and ca
pacity of the people to rule them
selves and effectively control all the
agencies of their government and
who hold that only through the social
and industrial justice thus secured
can honest property find permanent,
protection.
"Who believe the government by a
few tends to become, and has become,
government by sordid influences
under control of the few.
Honest Legislation.
"Who believe only through the
movement proposed can we obtain in
the nation and the several states leg
islation demanded by the modern in
dustrial evolution; legislation which
snail favor honest business and yet
control the great agencies of modern
business so as to insure being used
in the interest of the whole people:
legislation which shall promote pros
perlty and at the same time secure
better and more equitable diffusion of
prosperity; legislation which shall
promote the economic we'll being of
the honest farmer, wage worker, pro-
fessiona1 men and business man
alike, which, shall at the same time
strike for efficiency and not pretend
to strike at the roots of privilege in
the world of industry no less than in
the world of politics.
"'Who believe only this type of
wise industrial evolution will avert
Industrial revolution.
Thou Shalt Not Steal"
Who believe wholesome party
government can come only if there is
wholesome party management in the
spirit to serve the whole country and
who hold that the commandment de-
llVered at Sinai-EThou Shalt Not
Steal applies to politics as we'll as
to business. .....- .-...-.a
'seTo all in accord with these views
call is hereby issued by the pro-.
Vlslonal committee under the resolu-
tons of the mass meeting held in
Chicago, June %, last, to send from
feach state number of delegates
whose votes shall count for as many
votes as the state shall have, senators
and representatives: in congress to
meet in convention at Chicago on the
9TH day of August, 1912, for the
purpose of nominating candidates to
be supported for positions of presi-
dentsand vice-president of the United
States .
Judge NJ. D. Purdy, of Minneapo-
lis, signed the call for Minnesota.