Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-06-25

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one fs the most distinguished oppons
ents " social and indnetrisa 3usstsice
that ouf generation has produced. u,
fn nv opinion, handicap the
party. and fraud on the pulls. II
is also highly and destructiyely rldic'
ulolsss,
Before the progressive party can
command general popular supports.s
declares Nh. Pinchot, who III brother
of the e~xsforester, this situation must
be terminated:
~ An element Ia our party lend.
ership, headed by Mrssseorge Wts Per
kinss the present chairman OF the ma
tional executive committee, favors the
protection Of private monopoly Id Am.
erica1 industry. and. since the partysa
formation, has been taking active
steps to commit the party to that poll
ey. The chairman ofRour execu-
tive committee is actively opposed to
1.-The recognition OF 1abor's right To Or
ganize and deal with capital through
Iiabor-unions. and has frequently gone
on record TO this effect. Our party is
therefore subject to the charge that
it II lukeWarm, OH even antagonistic.
To the interests III organized wage
learners
.0n both these subjects the pro-
gressive party has placed Itself posi-
lively and definitely In opposition to
Mr., Perkins. But the fact that the
executive leader and recognized
Spokesman Of the party is an active
member OF the governing committees
Of the steel corporation and the Inter
national Harvester Company, the two
great ~monopoliss which have succeed
ed most completely III exploiting the
public and crushing organized labor.
has led to a natural and unfortunate
confusion Iii the public mind.
Mr, Perkins Is a~ceusedat great
length and in great detail4-of having
first tried to- keep 4 n endorsements OF
the Sherman law out of the progress.
lsive national platform and, failing in
this OF keeping the clause I'M question
out Of the campaign literature. He
As charged with using party publi-
cation al his personal organ. to de-
fend the trusts, to attack the Sherman
law, and to glorify the two great mo-
%nopolies' OF which Mr.. Perkins is an
official. MI. Pinchot also quotes d
number of pamphlets and articles sent
out from the party headquarters cons
tanning ~laudations Of Perkins.
While the progressive papers say
little or nothing. other editors seem
to be enjoying the situation. They
wonder what the Colonel. will do
about 1T when he returns from Spain.
They also fail to see how these act.
~ivities OF "rother Amos are going
to help the senatorial campaign ol
Brother Clifford in Pennsylvania
None Of them thinks that Colonel
Roosevelt will hear OF any movement
to depose Perkins. For the progress
sives to throw Perkins to- the wolves
says the New York Times, would bt
unjust, for not only has he given 81
his money to the cause, but he Is, WI
believe, thoroughly sincere id his ad
cocacy Of their principles and earnes1
In his desire to bring about what hi
considers reforms. TO drop him a
the cy OF the wild and restless spirits
in the movement would be to serve
notice. that devotion to the cause Ii
Of no value unless it is leavened witt
insanity.
What Mr.. pinchot and those Wit
think with him have against MI. Per
kins, observes the New York Eveninf
Post, Is not 80 much his opinions a
the fact that Perkins Is primarily !,
1 Wall street man; right or wrongly, BIZ
has q bad name with the masses, ant
the progressive party needs th,
masses more than 1t needs Perkins
IIf Mr.. Perkins has sought to force
q pro-trust policy on the progressive
party continues the Evening Post
for both as president and as politica
leader since his term of office Mr.
Roosevelt has stood as plainly as has
Mr., Perkins for a national policy thai
would strengthen the big trusts, sub
ject only TO the condition that they
were. IN the eyes Of the government
good trusts And the New York
World lDem.l agree that Amos Pin.
chot can not read George W. Perkins
out Of the progressive party without
READING Theodore Roosevelt out, too
What naturally occurs to the New
York Herald ii that the progressive
party most needs ia Measure not for
the expulsion Of its members. but for
preventing members from expelling
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