The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-26
PLANkS OF NOTE
Progressive Council Included
Entire Program.
Championed Reform Legisla-
ton of All Varieties.

without the change of a line in the
report OF the resolutions committee,
the Kansas Progressives have adopt
ed a platform that is even more pro-
gressive than the tentative declaration
of principles set forth by the Bull
Moosers in February. They. not only
covered all the ground accepted as
progressive territory by the Republic
cans and Democrats, but went even
further and champfOned reform legisla-
ton that found no place in any Of the
other platforms of state organizations
The planks in the Progressive state
platform declare:
We reanirm the pledges for national
legislation made by the national Pro-
gressive platform of 1912. In addition
tc these we bind Kansas congressmen
and the senators elected at this cleo
ton to vote and work in committee
and in the house and senate for the
following:
For the national prohibition of the
liquor traffic.
For an amendment giving women a
right to vote in all the states
For the prohibition Of the use of the
mails to gamblers in grain and cotton
and securities of every kind.
For a farm credit law that will aid
home building without encouraEing
speculation
Favor Protective Tariff.
For a protective tariff law with re-
vision one schedule at a. time, consider
ing the consumer and the producer,
the laborer and the manufacturer with
rates to equalize conditions of COM
petition in the United States and for
eign countries and based upon data
gained by a non-partisan, scientific
tariff commission.
For TAKING a ~
out of the control of Wall street, there
by preventing great financial institu
tons borrowing the money Of the peo-
pie at a low rate of interest and lend
ing it to the people at a high rate of
interest, as they may do under the
present Democratic currency law.
Trade Commission.
For Strong trade commission with
ample powers 70 regulate and control
our great Industrial corporations for
the purpose of suppressing the evils Of
monopoly and ether unfair trade prac-
tees.
For fundamental reform in con-
gressional and legislative procedure
providing for the open caucus, for
record votes in standing committees.
and particularly in the committee of
the whole; for the right of congress
OF the legislature to discharge any
committee and especially the congress
siOnal committee on rules which has
pigeonholed these two propositions.
For an amendment providing for the
popular election of all federal district
judges for limited terms
For taking postOffices out of politics
and prOmiting to misunderstanding pos
tai experts from the postal service
For giving more liberal pensions to
our war veterans and their widows.
For the strict enforcement of the
merit system of the federal civil serv-
ice, which the Democrats are SO fla
gravity violating. w. -
For a presidential preference pri-
mary.
In Kansas affairs We stand for a
broader participation of the people in
the making and administration of laws,
and we therefore bind our public serv-
ants to vote for constitutional
/, amendment providing for direct legis-
lation under the initiative and refer
endum which shall have the benefit Of
legislative debate and amendment I'M
der proper restrictions; which shall ex-
empt specifically any change or the
repeal of the prohibitory law or it's
enforcing enactments: which shall be
free of multiplying jokers, and shall pro-
vide ample time for statewide discus
sion and publicity and shall not clog
the ballot with matters of merely local
Importance. We denounce the joker
laden recall amendment now before the
people and advise all good citizens to
vote against it, and we pledge our
legislature to work for the submission
of an amendment that shall be a neal
weapon of democracy and not a party
club.
We promise to aid good citizens of
any party in the legislature in taking
, the administration OF the bureau of
labor out of politics and putting it in
the hands of the laboring people them
selves.
Minimum Wage for Women.
We demand the enactment of a law
which shall secure the establishment
of just minimum wages for women in
the various trades and industries, all
ways considering the demands of the
particular trade or calling, where
wages are under revision.
We demand a new medical practice
act which will drive quackery out Of
the state, which shall prohibit the adj
vertisement of its fake nOstrums
| We demand a law which shall pro-
hibit the secret division of fees be-
tween physicians and surgeons.
| A Mothers Pension.
| We bind our legislators to vote for
a mothers pension law.
We demand an eight-hour day for
women, and for children over 16 years
of age, in Kansas industries.
We believe that justice should be
free, and to that end we pledge our
selves to widen the benefits of the
small debtors court SO that it may be
used by a larger section of the COM
munity, and that counties desiring to
remove the power of wealth in their
courts in shielding crime may, upon
majority vote. provide for a public
defender as well as a public prose-
cutor.
Revise Tax System.
We make no demagogic promise to