The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1912-08-15
RULE OF PEOPLE
IS THE KEYNOTE
Progressive Platform Pledges
Many Reforms
IS ROOSEVELT DOCUMENT.

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For q Tariff Commission and Another
Commission to Control Trusts-in.
itiativs and Referendum Laudsd and
Recall Of Judicial Dseisions-Ths
New National Committee.
Chicago. Aug. The Progressive
platform, adopted amid great cheering.
Is about 5000 words long. The follow
ing is the text in part:
The conscience Of the people in a time
OF grave national problems has called into
being new party. born of the nations
awakened sense OF Justice.
We Of the Progressive party here dedi-
cate ourselves to the fuf1liment Of the
duty laid upon US by our fathers to main
tain that government Of the people, by the
people and for the people. whose founda-
tions they laid.
We hold. with Thomas Jefferson and
Abraham Lincoln. that the people are the
masters of their constitution. to fulfill its
purposes and to safeguard It from those
who by perversion of its intent would
convert 1t into an instrument Of injustice.
This country belongs to the people who
inhabit 1t. Political parties exist to Sc
cure responsible government and to exe-
cute the will Of the people. From these
great tasks both the old parties have
turned aside. Behind the ostensible gov
ernment sits enthroned an invisible gov
ernment. owing no allegiance and ac-
knowledging no responsibility to the peo-
pie. To destroy this invisible government,
to dissolve the unholy alliance between
corrupt business and corrupt politics. Is
eha arct pir >f no OF toS n ohin nj the
day.
The deliberate betrayal Of its trust by
the Republican party. the fatal incapacity
Of the Democratic party to deal with the
new issues of the new time. have COM
PEELED the people to forge new instru-
ment Of government through which to
give effect to their will In laws and insti-
tutions.
A Covenant With the People.
This declaration is our covenant with
the people. and we hereby bind the party
and It's candidates In state and nation 10
the pledges made herein.
The Progressive party declares FOR d.
rect primaries for the nomination OF state
and national officers. for nation wide pref
erential primaries for candidates for the
presidency. for the direct election OF Unit
cd States senators by the people, and we
urge on the states the policy Of the short
cured by the initiative. referendum and
recall.
The Progressive party pledges itself to
proyide a more easy and expeditions meth
cd Of amending the federal constitution.
Up to the limit Of the constitution and
later by amendment of the constitution.
II II IL found necessary. we advocate
bringing under effective national juris-
diction those problems which have ex.
banded beyond reach of the individual
states.
The extreme insistence on states rights
by the Democratic party In the Baltimore
platform demonstrates anew its inability
to understand the world into which 1t mas
survived or to administer the AFFAIRS OF
union of states which have in all essential
respects become one people.
Equal Suffrage.
The Progressive party. believing that no
people can justly claim to be true DE-
mocracy which denies political rights on
account Of sex. pledges itself 70 .ne tasS ASK
Of securing equal suffrage to men and
women alike.
We pledge our party to legislation that
will compel strict Limitation OF all cam
paiEn contributions and expenses and de-
tailed publicity of both before as well as
after primaries and elections.
We pledge our party to legislation COM
pelling the registration of lobbyists. pub
iicity Of committee hearings. except on
foreign affairs and recording or all votes
in committee and forbidding federal ap-
pointees from holding office IN state or
national political organizations or taxing
part as officers or delegates In political
conventions
The Progressive party demands such re-
strictions of the power Of the courts as
shall leave to tho people the ultimate
authority to determine fundamental Ques-
tions Of social welfare and public policy
TO secure this end 1t pledges itself TO pro-
vide:
First.-That when an act passed under
the police power of the state Is held un-
constitutional under the state constitution
by the courts the people. after an ample
interval for deliberation. shall nave an
opportunity to vote on the question
whether they desire the act to become
law Notwithstanding such decision.
second.-That every decision OF the high
eat appellate court Of a state declaring an
act Of the legislature unconstitutional on
the ground OF it's violation OF the feoerai
constitution shall be subject to the same
review by the supreme court OF the Cn'eu
States as IL now accorded 10 oecis'ohs
sustaining such legislation.
Administration Of Justice.
Tho Progressive party pledges itself to
work INCREASINGLY for the reform OF ieSa'
procedure and judicial methods.
We believe that the issuance OF inJunc-
tons In cases arising out OF LABOR as
putes should bs prohibited when such IN
functions would not apply when no labor
disputes existed.
We also believe that q person cited Tor
contempt in labor disputes. except when
such contempt was committed In the ac-
tual presence OF the court or 80 near
thereto as to interfere with the proper
administration Of Justice. should have
right to trial By Jury.
The supreme duty Of the nation u the
conseryat tion Of human resources. we
o,asga ourselves to work increasingly for:
Efective legislation looking to the pre-
yeption Of Industrial accidents. occupa-
tional diseases, overwork. involuntary un-
smnIovment and other injurious enects
incident to modern industry.
The nxing Of minimum SAFETY ana
health standards for the various occupa-
.,,ns the prohibition OF child labor. mini
mum wage standards for working wo.
men. the general prohibition OF night