Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-07-25
THE NEW PARTY.


pies. To forsake organization when
it goes wrong and advocate another
with intent to forward justice is not
desertion from, but adherence to
principle. Or to raise new organ
ization, over the ashes of the old,
for the purpose of keeping alive and
enforcing long-established policies,
when the instrument before used
ceases to fulfill its proper ends, is
not to abandon, but to vindicate,
principle.
Roosevelt and his followers are
not subject to just censure for aban-
doning the republican party when it
became apparent that it had departed
from its original tenets, or when it's
doctrines, or management, stood in
the way of healthful social develop
ment.
Good government is the thing
greatest to be desired. Self-govern-
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Every organization or person, bid
ding for popular support lays claims
to that intent. 1t would not exist
as public factor unless it did. But
to lay claim to a thing is different
from applying it in practice. 1t is
altogether possible for an organiza
ton to advocate justice, but in prac-
tice to subvert it. Exactly that, Mr..
Roosevelt contends, has happened in
the republican organization. Privi-
lege has come to supercede equal op-
portunity. Protective tariff, in many
instances, is diverted from fostering
home industry and is turned to pri-
vate gain, at the expense of the ma
ton. The rule of the people has
been inverted, through party manip-
ulation, so that now it is boss rule.
Those bound to substance rather
than form are justified in forsaking
it. Nay, it is the paramount duty
of a good citizen to abandon an or
ganization the purposes of which
have been thus subverted.
Mr.. Roosevelt and his followers
are perfectly justified in organizing
new party.
A call has been issued for a con-
Yention to meet in Chicago on Au-
gust to organize a new party. Fol-
lows a-full text of the call:
TO the people of the United
States without regard to past politi-
cal differences, who through repeat
ed betrayals realize that today the
power of the crooked political bosses
and of the privileged classes behind
them is so strong in the two old party
organizations that no helpful move
ment in the real interest of our coun-
try can come out of either;
who believe that the time has
come for national progressive
movementz-a nationwide movement
on nonsectional lines, so that the
people may be served in sincerity
and truth by an organization unfet-
tered by obligation to conflicting in
terests;
who believe in the right and ca
pacity .of the people TO rule them
selves, and effectively to control all
the agencies of their government,
and who hold that only through So
cial and industrial justice, thus Sc
cured, can honest property find per-
manent projections
! "Who believe that government by
the few tends to become, and has In
! fact become, government by the sor-
did influences that control the few;
who believe that only through
the movement proposed can we OBJ
states the legislation demanded by
the modern industrial evolution; !;
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business and yet control the great
agencies of modern business so as to
insure their being In the interest of
the whole people; legislation which
shall promote prosperity and at the
same time secure the better and
more equitable diffusion of prosper
ity; legislation which shall promote
the economic wellbeing of the hon
est farmer, wage worker, profession
al man and business man alike, but
which shall at the same time strike
in efficient fashion-and not merely
pretend to strike-at the roots of
privilege in the world of industry no
less than in the world of politics; ,
who believe that only this type
of wise industrial evolution will
avert industrial revolutions
who believe that wholesome
party government can come only il
there is wholesome party manage
ment in a spirit of service to the
whole country, and who hold that the
commandment delivered at Sinai
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