Arizona republican., 1912-12-30
Serving Two Masters
Q1rom Albert J. Beverdge In Saturday Evening
 

machines in both old parties the craft of the federated special interests behind those machines has been and is to make both old parties all things to ad men-and anything to win. So old party politicians have framed up platforms prevent progresSiVeS from leaving the party yet keep actionares in the party Have we not seen cam paign after campaign, appeals to both progressive and reactionary republicans line up party merely because both had called themselves repub- Hcans-and exactly the appeal made to both progressive and reactionary democrats?
 This has resulted in a confusion in the public mind that has given the politicians in both old part ies the opportunity to get just about what their masters, the special interests, wanted.
 Everybody will see that this could not go on forever There had to be the beginning of a frankly liberal or progressive party in America, d frankly reactonary or conservative party. The political unrest of the last years was the be- ginning of this party alignment and the progressive party is it's realization.
 These the deep forces that brought the pro- grcssive party being and gave it the second place in the very first election it's life-and they must soon give it first place among American po- itical parties. It meets the needs of the times that is all It answers those questions that have grown out Of modern social conditions by the social idea instead of insisting upon the ma- -deveIoped in- dividualistic idea which denies their existence.
 It makes country q genune nation. its peo- pie divided only by natural thought living ques- uonS. It does this by asking AmericanS-nOrth south east and West-to as they really think these questions, and the tradition of the spot where they were born the political opinion of their fathers inclines them $ plain is it not that men and women will do just that and speedily? If so, the progressive party will soon triumph and keep it's governing place long as it meets living questions ill the spirit of the times and solves them in the terms of humanity
 Applying all this O the instant need of things to the solution of problems right upon Us. we pro- srcssives ask every man and woman to study our progressive platform. It is it's owp best argument
 We would broaden liberty include men. We reason why human beings should vote because they happen to be and
 
 happen to be women Both must solve lfe's prob lens in common In America both are equally well educated and both have common interest in the right answers tQ public questions.
 With liberty thus bestowed upon men and No- alike, progreSsves will give to the people themselves the last word over their laws and public servants, instead of giving both the first and last word to our political bosses We will do this by the initiative referendum and recall which wherever tried, all agree. have prevented corrupt legislation absolutely. destroyed the boss system root and branch. and ovcrtnrovn the invisible government of special privilege which has employed that boss system.
 We progressivcs would give the voters of every political party the power to nominate their party candidates instead of leaving that power in the hands of political bosses. where abdes.
 If the voters of party wise enough to elect candidates why they not wise enough to nominate those candidates.
 The progressive party would handle the tariff problem by the rule the general welfare. We would take the tariff out of politics and treat it business question. To do this. we would establish genuine. permanent partisan tariff commission, with ample powers. We would fix this commission firmly in governmental scheme as We have already fixed the Interstate Commerce Commission And, like it. We would make this tariff commission impartial body.
 We would treat the question in the same spirit What call trusts only organizations of capital engaged in industry they exist in all modern countries. They are big only because such great organizations alone do the work that must be done to speedily and conveniently the needs of closely knit millions people
 We progressives follow the views of all modern authorities on this great question. We would not try to destroy business merely because it is big but instead We would control trusts sternly by the general government railroads and banks are already controlled. And in addition we pro- gressives would carefully define by is wrong in the doings of big business; and would make those criminal offenses. punishable by Imprisonment and by. fines.
 The progressive party thinks that what are called the human questions equal to, if not more inn portant than. the trust or tariff questions. We would abolish by d national law child labor in health destroying and growth retarding industries Common sense and experience show that nothing but national law end this evi-thi> disgrace; for it is d disgrace. Even the most poverty stricken and densely peopled modern coun tries have stopped this inhuman practice long
 The condition of women wage -earners, of whom We have more than four millions in this country far more in proportion to population than any other modern cOuntry-Inust bc relieved by imum law; and the very least that should be done for men laborers who have been disabled while at work, for the families of those breadwinner: who have been killed during the course of their em- ployment. is social insurance workngmens compensation law.
 These examples of the problems the pro gressiVe program deals with and the method of tht progressive treatment of those problems.
 However, the preSenl day problems with which platform deals in a practical fash ion, not important the spirit that prcr2pu them The Hfe-giving thing in the prpSrcss1V party is it's ideal. That ideal is human happiness.
 Our theory is that government shputl promote human welfare To us progressives the common go"' of the masses of human beings is he real goa toward which human government shou!G strive, an' not merely the building and sd guarding O mountains of money in private hands.
 Ours is country rich beyo ld the ifcal'5 a>arice, beautiful beyond the dreams ot poets yet thiny peopled though it is many millions find it land of poverty and never t; ray of its ioVct What, then, do r. lna<e these mil lions share their countrys wealth What can WI bring their eyes tho glory e land What do to mako good the promise ( .Alnerca? To answer these iiIeStions is the tisl