Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-11-02

State That eliminates the Democrat
ic party as a constructive agency in
the new order, 1t will persist as a
critical conservative party; but as a
force in the actual doings Of things
the Democracy is useless.
The Republican party in the hands
Of the bosses, the jobbers of prosper,
ity who believe that the rich should
be permitted to thrive because they
are big, so that the little poor may not
have the crumbs from the feast.
Decay Of Republican Party.
The Republican party represents an
idea as outworn as the doctrine of
States rights. The Republican party
even under Roosevelt who as its
leader tried to be honest and fair with
the people--was named by reaction
ry organization that levied tribute on
the great industrial combinations and
promised them immunity from legal
restriction that Roosevelt had TO re-
pudiate as president.
The basic idea Of the Republican
party is prosperity. Its face is turned
back to the days OF the plutocracy of
the nineties The Republican believes
in the fun dinner pail as an incident
to the fun automobile
But the fundamental idea of the new
party is not prosperity; il is Justice
The Progressiyes believe in the full
dinner pail but not as an incident to
anything. Their solution of the labor
problem is not dependent upon good
times or bad times, but upon justice
worlds work
The Progressives do not believe the
States can regulate commerce The
ProEressives believe commerce must
not be destroyed or promoted because
some corporations in commerce are
big; the Progressives hold chat com
merce must be promoted by making
all corporations honest thar I'LL the
trade channels of America
The Republicans have made the
trusts profitable to those who control
the trusts and manipulate their capt
tai and their products. The Democrats
would make the trusts profitable tor
the lawyers who hecde the trusts
with useless litigation.
The Progressives believe the trust
may he profitable for those who con-
troll the trusts, and that when the peo-
pie control the national banks, the
trusts may be made profitable for the
people. The Progressives feel that We
have come 10 the place where the pco-
Pile must either control the trusts or
the trusts under the Republican heads
Of the late nineties viii control the peo-
pie To make prosperity a fetch
leads 10 a plutocracy; to make justice
an ideal leads 90 a democracy.
Progressives or Socialists.
To reject the Progressive ideals of
government control leaves open just
one other alternatiye-tha of govern
ment ownership. N viii be either the
Progrosstves or the Socialists who viii
solve the problem OF creating a just
commerce which shall eradicate Choir
lie poverty
Poverty in a word OF surplus is q so
cial crime There IS enough food and
clothes and housing and heat for all.
The trouble with the world is not thar
we do not all work hard enough, The
trouble lies I'm the machinery of dis.
tributiou. Two few people get what
they really earn, while TOO many PEG
Pile get what they do moi earn Com
merce s damned MP and clogged hy
iuiustces that laws will clear our.
The Progressive party has offered a
definite proposal IL believes that POS
erty as national disease may be cur
ed By national control Of commerce.
That is the i8w and the prophets of
the Progressive party in the land With
Sighting chance Tor first place
The growth oil the neW party has
been marvellous But it is NOT mush.
room growth. 10 is based upon a ma,
tiouai need for national party, with
national remedy for a national evil
So 10 is highly mmaterial whether
This election shall De like that oil So
or 90 The idea is in he hearts of
the people The idea viii md its way
into law books and administration ina
due and proper time,