The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-25
Dainty Neckwear

OF the working strength and yet could
not bring themselves to 60 to the poor
house. Nothing is more pitiful than
this premature old age which comes SO
swiftly to the man who has gone to
work too young and has worked too
hard throughout his life. More than
case whom We have sent to the
hospital has been diagnosed as pre-
mature senility although the man was
still in the forties and once or twice
in the thirties. But no private philan-
thropy. not even with the fine help Of
can. begin to care for these old people
In their homes as they should be CARED
for; only some system of old age PEN
sions, such as the Germans have, can
make an impression on the situation.
For all these reasons, and many
more I was gradually driven from
philanthropic efforts to political ac-
ton: ! was glad to appear before one
session OF the legislature after another
to urge improvements of child la
Dor law. and I was grateful for every
bit of remedial legislation which H.
linots placed upon it's statute books;
the improved factory code which pro-
tected men from unguarded machinery
and the more obvious Industrial dis
eases; the ten-hour Law secured large
~ through the efforts Of the working
~ AoA
by the supreme court Of the state ana
for much else. OF course. we all re.
totced in the splendid legislation. Of
Wisconsin,, but. after all. taking the
country as a whole, 1t was pretty dis.
couraging and n constantly felt the
utility Of detached and partial effort.
Felt Position.
I found myself a member Of one
national body and another, which raj
organized to secure concerted action
such as the national child labor COM
mittee and the league for labor legis-
latton. Many times I felt that what
was needed was a great cause which
should pull together the detached
groups in the various states that they
might not only work simultaneously
for the same things in many states.
backing Of the federal government IT.
self.
I should say therefore that the Sec
ond step, the discovery that partial eff
fort is of necessity ineffective, led to
the third: the conviction that groups
Of people who were filled with the
same social computations. and who
America was falling behind the rest
Of the world. needed the help and en-
ergy Of all other intelligent and con-
scientious people in the nation. It was
a necessity Of the situation t place
these questions before the. entire
country, and make them into a Co
herent political program.
1t is not surprising. therefore. that
many Of the people who have long
been working for social legislation. at
once identified themselves with the
progressive party. Born Of the peo-
pies hard necessities" 1t was: organ
lied to consider great human needs.
and to recommend Well-tried legisla-
ton for their relief. Its founders in
sisted upon those implements Of direct
goyernment-the initiative and refer:
referendum. through which alone all
the people may participate in legisla-
tive discussion; and they furthermore
urged the extension Of the franchise
to women. that women may bear q full
share in the solution Of those grave,
social problems which America has
been SO slow to connect with govern
mental action.
The candidates Of the progressive
party are not only committed to these
measures of social justice. but n of
them, through long experience, has
learned the value Of federal action and
has come to stand to the nation as a
representative Of its WI nationalism:
the other. having demonstrated the
power Of Righteousness inherent In the
state. has come to represent the po-
tency Of state action. Certainly only
through nation and state. reaching up
on each other. can we eve attain a
code of legislation fitted to control
the abuses Of III national system and
to maintain a standard Of living which
we shall be proud to call American.
WILL RE QUIET ELECTION.
Washington. Oct. 26.-Nicaragun's