The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-10
PROCRESSIVES HERE TO STAY IS PREDICTION
 0F ROOSEVELT
Forecasts Party's Future in Ringing Speech to Party
 Leaders Today
Raps the Bosses and is Willing as Ever For Contributions
 of Trust Magnates

l Ol EIUSL NAdSHdtOS l Chicago, Dec. 10.-Only by infer ence did Col. Theodore Roosevelt eli I minate himself as the real leader of the Progressive party in his speech here, today, the chief event in today's conference of the party leaders. The former President covered much of the ground touched on in his final speech l es of the recent campaign. Roosevelt insisted that the Progress sive party has come to stay and he pleaded with its representatives in ] both Congress and the state 1egis1a- lures to try to carry into effect the Progressive legislative program, espe- l cial1y that which would provide for federal supervision of the trusts In- dustriaI justice for women and chill -dren and for all wage workers was also one of the great problems that must be immediately met according g to the colonel. There was little in what the colonel said that could be construed setting his views and he Progressive party is here to stay and ! that every member of 1t stands fully by all of It's platform declarations. Ws fha nave co1o1 Iougne na great ngh more in 80 days than ever any party in our history accomplished in such a length of times We have forced all parties and. candidate to give at least lip service to Progressive prin- cipies. Tn this brief campaign we have overthrown the powerful and strang1ed the Republican party Roosevelt then reviewed again for mer denunciations of the party boss es. He next reiterated the declara- ton that the Progressive party stands by every item in it's platform. Roosevelt declared for popular con- | tributions for campaign funds and said:,
 tI am willing that the party should take the large contributions if hon estly offered and soRz exactly the same small contributor. The real test of such gifts to a political party is the motive, not the size.''
 The irnm ediate work of the party, he said, is to establish the party prin- ciples as outlined in the platform by appropriate legislation. He referred | tions and insisted that this was what the old parties wanted to do. He then repeated his speech of Nov. 2, in which he discussed the trust ques ton, and claimed that his remedy as suggested was the only one which would aid all classes in this country.
 Direct primaries everywhere were urged by the colonel and he made special plea for an educational cam paign to begin everywhere to post the people on the merits of the progres-
 
 Everything proposed in the social and industrial plank of our plat form,'' said Roosevelt, 'tshould be passed and other cognate laws such as the endowment of widowed moth CTS. Our people should propound our policies in the schoolhouses and be- fore the grange"
 The various problems of rural life were enumerated by Roosevelt as the great problem requiring Immediate
 s.Esaro f;ra,c;r1. ha ia .s17s now receive the consideration it de- serves. It is interesting to note with what success our farmer will take up or adopt the European co-operative financing system of the raiffeisen type. The greatest fad for farmers co-oper- ation will be in marketing their pro and the consumer dearly. The promptest and largest measure of financing aid would come from mort gage. The plan gives the farmers long time loans of 30 to 50 years with the arrangement that a Gnan annual payment amounting to seven or eight per cent. would automatically amor tize or wipe out the entire debt at the end of the term. The borrowed money would be used largely for creative purposes and the easy payments would used for the genaral advantage of the farm, removing the pressure of the large and burdensome payments of short time mortgages and the fear of foreclosure. Our whole financial sys- tems needs thorough rearrange- ment.
 Our people, and especially our pro- gressive members, must ever keep in mind that the Progressive rarty is by it's platform committed to the doc Urine that these measures we advocate are to become the law of the land If the legislature, executive or court stands in the way then in lawful and orderly fashion and along the lines laid down in the National Progressive platform we intend to see that the will of the people is carried out and that l Judfe, legislature and executive alike do Aheir full part in carrying out the 1 will of the people. The doctrine of the divine right of Congress to rule | the people Is every whit as ignoble as Kings.
 '"The constitution was created to se- cure justice and we refuse to allow l it to be so perverted as to kecome a | tice. Fifty years ago the tConserva- tives' championed a view Of the con stitution which perpetuated chattel 1 slavery for black men, the correspond | ing Conservatives of today champion an interpretation Of the constitution which perpetuates indus trial slavery for white women and children. All prOgressives should support the pro gently introduced by Senator Bristow to secure to the people of the United | States the proper control of their gov 
 '"The adoption of the Bristow amend ments, including that providing for the popular election of United States Senators will make it comparatively easy to secure the passaee of des1r- shape on the statute book.
 ftIn the matter of leadership, both local and national, we trust the events of the next year or two to develop