Arizona republican., 1912-08-08
THIRD PARTY'S
 DECLARATION
It Is Nothing More Than the Colonel's Confession of Faith" Somewh a t Boiled Down, With Negro Question Eliminated
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATCHI |

lASSCOJIAI ED fESESS D1StAICdl
 CHICAGO, Aug. 7.-The following is a summary of the platform adopt ed by the Progressive parey:
 The conscience of the people att the time of a grave national problem has called into being a new party, born of the nations awakened sense of justice. We of the progressive party dedicate ourselves to the full fillment of the duty laid upon us by our fathers to maintain that govern ment of the people by the people and for the people whose fOunda tons they laid We hold with Thos. Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln that the people are the masters of their constitution, to fulfill it's purposes, safeguard it from those who, by perversion of it's intent. would con- vert it into an instrument of injus tice This country belongs to the people who inhabit it
 The platform further declares that the old parties have become tools of corrupt interests which use them impartially to serve their selfish pur- poses and that the new party of fers itself as an instrument to the people to sweep away the old abuses and build a new and nobler common wealth"
 It declares under the heading the
 rule Of the people" for direct pri- maries for the nomination of state and national officers and candidates for president, for the popular election of United States senators, and urges states 70 use the short ballot. with responsibility to the people secured by the initiative, referendum and re call" It pledges the party to pro vide more easy and expeditions method of amending the federal con- 1 stitution."
 1 It pledges the enactment of a pat 1 ent law that will prevent monop- l olies Favors legislation giving the 1 interstate commerce commission pow | CT to value the physical property Of 1 railroads, and demands the abolition cf the commerce court. It condemns l the methods of issuing currency and
 notes through private agencies, and i urges the control therefor by the l government alone. It opposes the Aldrich currency bill,
 It favors government cooperation with manufacturers, and producers in extending foreign commerce. It de ! CIares for the prompt development of all natural resources, condemnine their exploitation, waste, and monop clization It urges reasonable com pensation for public water power rights and declares for good roads and national highways and extension of the rural free delivery, and inn mediate development of the natura resources of Alaska. It promises thai territory local self government. Ii
 pledges the party to the immediate
 preparation of plan to develop the
 rivers of the country. especially tht Mississippi and its tribuearies.
 It advocates the national jurisdic tion of problems which have expand , ed beyond the reach of the indiVldua states. It pledges the party to secur' equal suffrage. It pledges the enact ment of legislation limiting campalgl
 contributions and expenditures pro
 viding for the publicity thereof l opposes the participation of fedora l appointees in state and national con ? veptions. It demands such restriction t of the power of the courts as sha
 leave to the people the ultimate au !, thority to determine fundamenta . questions of social welfare and DUO : lie policy" It pledges judicial re Q form. believing that the issuance c n ln1unctions in labor disputes shoul
 be prohibited when such injunction
 would not apply where no labor dis n putes existed" It declares againS
 child labor and for a minimum wage tc
 women, and for the prevention ol IT dustriaI accident, safeguards tor tf
 health of employees and publicity d
 to wages. an eight hour work da
 and the establishment of feder;
 department of labor. It urges the es e tablishment of a country life con
 mission for the promotion of u I. welfare of farmers. Pledges an Tn n mediate inquiry and immediate a( tt tion as to the high cost of hVln e It favors a single national heal' le service It demands the national ret l" uIation of interstate corporations ar fl 7,rf-as the establishment of a fe e- eral commission to superVlse lnte
 state and industrial corporations. T. favors the strengthening of the She es man law to insure competition
 business and prevent unfair tra
 practices.
 It demands that the Panama can
 shall be operated as to insure s ne ccmpetition with the transcontinent re railroads and urges that railroa