The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-10

(COnCnueQ rage OfS-y
congressman at Washington will get to-
gether and push this and all other pro-
posals of the Progressive party. 1 hope,
moreover that each group of Progress
sive members-elect of the legislatures
of the several states will meet and plan
united action upon the organiza ton of
their respective assemblies, upon the
candidates for the United States senate
and upon proposed legislation. The di-
rect primary plan should be universally
applied. We should support legislation
that will carry out our principles re-
gardless of what party may introduce il
in the several states.
Farm financing should now receive
the consideration it deserves. The
greatest field for farmers cooperation
will be in marketing their products.
consumer so dearly. The promptest
and largest measure of financial aid
would come from mortgage banks char
tered, regulated and carefully super
vised by the government.
Our people and especially our Pro-
gressive members must ever keep in
mind that the Progressive party is by
it's platform committed to the doctrine
that these measures We advocate are
to become part of the law of the land,
provided We can get the people to stand
for them. We intend to see that the
will of the people is carried out and
that judge, legislator and executive
officer alike do their full part.
"AN other measures are useless if we
permit body which is not responsible
to the people to have the final say as
to whether the people shall or shall not
in their laws do complete social and in
dustrial justice. The doctrine of the
divine right of judges to rule the people
is every bit as ignoble as the doctrine
Of ho diXvir oh M Iii &c
doctrine is now chiefly and powerfully
upheld by the legal and financial repre-
sentatives of privilege.
People Above the Constitution.
1--WE also hold with Abraham Lincoln
and we, and We only are the heirs OF
Lincoln's principles-that the people are
the masters of the constitution.
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 so years ago, the
men who opposed the thirteenth
amendment on the ground that the
old constitution was good enough for
them. Fifty years ago the fconserva-
tives' championed a view of the con-
stitution which perpetuated chattel
slavery for black men; the correspond
ing conservatives of today champion
an Interpretation of the constitution
y
for white women and children.
81 believe that the Progressive party
and all good citizens and all believ-
ers in genuine popular rule should
heartily support the proposed consti-
tutiOnal amendments recently intro
duced by Senator Bristow to secure
the people of the United States proper
control of their own government. The
adoption of the Bristow amNndments,
including that providing for the direct
81 of States w
make it comparatively easy to secure
the passage of desirable laws and to
keep them in efficient shape on the
statute book.
local and national, we may trust the
events of the next year or two to de-
velop the ablest and most resourceful
men and for every position the leader
reference to his own desires, but solely
with regard to the needs of the peo-
pie, for the Progressive party is the
servant of the people No man should
come into this party with the idea that
he can establish a claim on it, he must
be content with the opportunity it Of
fers for service and for sacrifice"
Attacks Idaho Court.
Colonel Roosevelt emphasized his
criticism for the supreme court of
Idaho in ruling Progressive electors
from the ballot in the November cleo
ton. Not to have criticised the deci-
sion, for which several Boise editors
who quoted the co1oneIs structures
have been cited for contempt would
have been cowardly, the Bull Moose
leader asserted.
1.-THE Boise Capital-News," said
Colonel Roosevelt, was the only paper
that had the courage to criticise the
decision. I hold that the decision was
cry honest citizen to protest against