The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1914-04-16
ABLE ADDRESSES BY ABLE
PROGRESSIVE PARTY
LEADERS.

CHAIRMAN OF the ITOkieSsiNc W
tional Committee, spoke at the M.
w. A. hall in Bellingham Monday
night. Bainbridge Colby. who had
been announced to speak AT the
same time, through some misunder-
standing in the schedule. failed to
reach Bellingham.
Mr.. Mccormick made stirring
and forceful address which was list
ened to with the closest attention,
and his remarks were interrupted by
frequent applause. The speaker de-
clared that the Progressive party is
better organized and stronger than
ever before; that while the stand
patters gleefully gloat over the one
weakened Progressive who re-
turns to the Repu blican fold, and
whom the Progressive party can we'll
spare, they carefully refrain from
mentioning the ninety and nine
who remain staunch and true TO Pro
gressive principles, sincerely deter
mined to do their utmost to solve
the problems of injustice and un-
fair discrimination that confront the
masses of the people. For every
Progressive who deserts the peoples
cause asserts Mr.. Mccormick, and
returns to the out-worn paths of
the older parties, there is a recruit
from the ranks of either the Repub-
lican or the Democratic party.
I'm state after state, said Mr..
Mccormick, men and women are
meeting as you here are met to-
night, 10 counsel together. TO draw
closer the bonds of union that We
may the better carry to others the
messag ge which inspired the four
millions which We're Joined with us
in the last campaign. For the first
time in generations We have i'll The
land a party of men and women
processing common principles, sub
scribing to a single political code,
and actuated by the same purposes
from ocean TO ocean. in Washing
ton or in Ohio, in Maine or Massa-
chusetts. BY this code and by these
principles our leaders are bound to
one another.
LAS for the Republican party, /
believe that it faces another split.
The Democrats, TOO, give signs of
a split, judging from the attitude
of Clark and Underwood in oppos-
ing President Wilson,"
Mr.. Mccormick believes that The
time has come when the tariff Gues-
ton should cease TO be foet ball
to be kicked about by both the
Repu blican and Democratic parties
while the people are deceived into
they are getting relief
Il
tariff is not matter Tor politicians
TO settle, and should not be i'll the
of political party. That
the tariff should be regulated by =
commission composed of experts
with power TO act as conditions re-
Guire. is the belief of the Pro-
pressive party" said Mr. Mccormick.
AS an instance of the utter fail
ure of the older parties TO cope
with economic problems which the
people of this country are facing,
The speaker said:
Millions of children who ought
ing their minds and bodies for the
good of the present generation and
the generations to come, are slav-
ing their souls away in noisy facto-
ries owned by the over-rich. Mill
ions of women labor for long hours
for a few paltry dollars in order to
swell the already full Golfers of
their wealthy employers. Mill
ions of men are walking the streets
of our big cities, without food, and
many of them the heads of hungry
DO these things show that We
are successfully meeting the great
questions of government? l do not
think SO"
Hon Ole Hanson, of Seattle, can
didate for the nomination for Unit
ed States Senator ON the Progress
i've ticket, followed Mr.. Mccormick
In a half-hour talk, touching chief
ly the question of the Panama Ca
nal tolls, and III which he vigorous
ly opposed the repeal of the free
tolls bill. Mr.. Hanson reviewed brief
Iy the history of the canal, and told
now il had remained for the United
States TO achieve this marvellous
thing after other nations had dream
ed dreams about connecting the two
oceans but had failed utterly in its
Mr.. Hanson grilled President Will
son and what he termed his spine
less administration" for their pusil--
luminous position on the repeal of
the free tolls bill The speaker de-
clared he was for peace, but that
he believed the Peace at any
price" cry might be carried to SER
ious lengths, and the United States
find itself in the position of being
dictated to by other nations in mat
tiers that We're strictly its own bus
mess. Mr. Hanson clearly pointed
out the gravity of the situation and
i'll the single instance of the lumber
industry showed the immense advan-
tage Canadian vessels would have
over our own in case of the repeal
carrying.
Referring TO President Wilson's
determination TO force the repeal
of the free tolls bill regardless of
the fact that the democratic plat