Arizona republican., 1913-03-14
Says Only Through Study
 and Hard Work Can Ideals Be Secured Upon
 Which Are Based Plat form of Progressive Party
TALKS AT FIRST
 BIG CONFERENCE
Ltvs Particular Stress on Educational Side of the Work to Be Accomplished in Acquiring Social and Industrial Facts
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPArCH1

ASSOCIATED PRESS pTsrArcH1
 PHILADELPHIA, March 13.-Charg-
 ing the need of thorough organization for studying and securing the ideals on which the platform of the progressive party is based, Former President Theo- dore Roosevelt addressed an audience tonight which crowded the Metropoli- tan Opero House. The meeting marked the close of the first day of two days session of the first annual progressive conference in the state of Pennsyl vania.
 The members of the electoral college of this state who voted for Roosevelt for president and the leaders of the Washington party who conducted the Washington campaign for him were leaders of the conference which has as
 it's aim the perpetuation of the party. Col Roosevelt. Dean Draper w. Lewis. of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Rev. George L Perrin of Massachusetts in addresses tonight laid stress on the educational side of the work to be accomplished in acquiring social and industrial facts on which to base the necessity of the proposed re- forms. -
 In introducing Col Roosevelt, Dean Lewis said:
 We have met here tonight to lis
 ten to man who is the leader Of the most wonderful awakening of modern times. There are few who doubt he has done more than any one man to arouse the conscience of the people. He grew a personau force making for better things Col. Roosevelt said in part: The progressive party has been founded primarily to render social and industrial service This means of course that there must be clean politics. The first requisite of any movement for any species of better ment in this country must be homes ty.
 The most characteristic, the most essential and most original form Of | the work we are undertaking is the work of progressive service. We in i tend to realize the new freedom for which this nation strives, by social 1 research of which information is the | keynote; then by an immediate 1 transference of the knowledge thus | acquired into action by a political l organization of which service will be the watchWord. The progressive service branch of our party activities devoted to social reserch is in an 1 organized and efficient shape. and
 We are endeavoring to correlate it i with acts and law-making bodies , and the need of the public. We re ] member always we are not engaged { to1o i,, .ft; ,;.,,, l without action.
 1 our party is not in power: but il 1 is our duty to formulate public op- 1 nion so that it shall insist upon ac- tion along the lines we indicate We I recognize the urgent need oi strengthening our party by means of organization and the extension of
 our machinery: but we recognize
 with equal emphasis that the ma ] chinery while imperatively necessary l is of use only if treated as a practi- l cal means of securing applied real | ism.
 1 The progressive service was organ
 iZed because our party for the first time in the history of any great par l ty in this country recognizes that party organization can best be
 strengthened by continuous and or organized party work for definite 1 aims and ideals
 1 Our headquarters. national @nd 1 state, are open all the year round
 so that men and women (for men and
 women are on absolute equality in our party) can meet to discuss political issues and social and economic is
 sues and plan for putting d little l farther in advance the outpos,s cf proSressivism.
 T congratulate you men of Penn ! sylvana on the fight the prog~e sSirc ! party is making to the legislature to achieve that purpose and thereby ll's- tify its existence. All your pronoscd laws are good: the primary law toi' 1 instance, and the corrupt practices act, tut peculiar importance attaches
 10 the three acts proposed for reSu- lating child labor, employmen, oi l women and creating minimum wage. Underpaid wage earners is one worst evil itself but is at the hntto'n Ic: the sweatshop problem.
 What I have said applies no 'ess Ii, the women's labor act f is wic:ud not to regulate the Ap, king jhours and factory conditions If w,'ns on who are compelled to earn, their Town living. The present employer | who cares for the health and com l