Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
BY SENATOR JOSEPH M. DIXON.
Chairman Of the Progressive National
Committee.

NEW YORK, Sept 3.-The Progressive
party is determined to have a visible and
not an invisible government in this coun-
Try IL is determined that the man who
pays the taxes shall get value received
ior ms taxes. It is determined that pub
tic men shall work FOR the voters who
put them In office, and not for interests
whose object is to raise the already ire
mendous cost of living that they NAV
personally profit.
Inc Progressive party believes in the
suffrage for women because It believes
mat women are just as intelligent, Just
as honest and just as interested in the
"eiare or the nation as men are.
a nother who has a son who must
make his living as an American citizen
can be trusted to vote to surround him
with the right conditions, and to give
MN honest opportunity. A woman who
Is supporting herself can be trusted to
vote to make conditions of labor better
IL IS unthinkable that any woman would
vote for a man who defended child la
Dor or who sought to give any employer
tne right to work his employees, men or
women, twelve or fifteen hours a day.
Better Labor Laws Urqed.
Better labor laws are insisted on by the
property, but we hold that human life is
more precious than property. And while
we intend to do no man an Injustice we
DO not propose to permit any man to do
other men injustice
Go into any city Stun and Won will
see the need for a government that takes
an interest In the welfare of the peopIe
what this country needs is intelligent
effort to conserve human life; to place a
decent living within the reach of every
man or every woman who works: to nro-
tect the aged and the weak; to guarantee
TO every human being the right to han
piness.
We know that the laws now on the
statute books are not all suited to pres
ent conditions. Some of tlrem have been
put there dishonesty, for dishonest pur-
poses. Some of them were put there
years ago by men who could no more
foresee our national, social and Industrial
development than they could foresee the
aeroplane. or the telephone or the eigh-
teen-hour train between New York and
Chicago.
1t will not be a light task to write
our program into the statute books, but
1t can be done, and we. mean to do IT,
Dishonest laws must be repealed.
statutes written in bygone age and I'M
suited to the times must be repealed and
new statutes must take their place.
1t is the people who will do this. The
new laws will come from the people, and
the legislators who try to stand in their
way will surely be brushed aside
Courts Power Too Great"
AS for the judges who attempt to say
that they and not the law making bodies
OF the states and of the United States
shall make the laws. we have provided
a remedy for them-the recall. No hon
est, upright judge has any reason to fear
the recall No dishonest judge has any
reason not to fear 1t. Judicial terms
are often long, In some cases for life; and
until the people have the power to re-
call those officials either too stupid or
too dishonest to discern the difference be
tween right and wrong, the power of the
courts is greater than is good for the
country.
No one knows that some Judges are cor
rupt better than the lawyers themselves
No one suffers from corruption on the
bench more than the lawyers who prac-