The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-08-24

ROADS OF privileges fAttenlng on an era
of gross materialism and in its prac-
teal program of concrete economic
remedies, the Progressives' platform
has become to hundreds of thousands
of aggressive Americans the ark of the
covenant, and there is not township
anywhere without it's group of Hit
tites devoted wholly and solely to it's
preservation.
1.-THE Democratic leadership, after
two and one-half years trial, has sig
nally failed in solving the nations eco
nomic questions q That this is the
judgment of the voter is amply demon
tsrated by the tremendous anti-Demo-
cratic sentiment that has developed at
the polls of virtually every election in
the last two yeads. At many of these
elections the voter cast Republican
ballot because he believed the Repub-
lican leadership has learned it's lesson
and would hereafter take the progress
sive path.
But now the voters know for GER
tainty that when the Republican lead
ership has been restored to power 1t
has shown more, not less, reaction
tendencies, as is notably evidenced by
the actions of the legislatures in New
| York, Ohio and Massachusetts.
"The spectacle of Republican reac
ton in New York and Ohio in con-
trast to Progressive achievement in
California under Governor Johnson,
is dramatic portrayal of the need of
the new strong patriotic party for pub
lie service. Therefore the Progressive
party will go on with it's fight straight
out and flatfooted.'
This statement, says the militantly
Progressive Philadelphia North Ameri-
can, finally disposes of the hopeful,
out preposterous predictions of the
Tory newspapers, that the Progress
sives would flock back to the Republi-
can party and accept the leadership
of Barnes and Root and Smoot and
Penrose." The North American con-
cludes
/ "At this time when the Democracy
has made a record which invites re-
pudiation, and when the Republican
party emphasizes it's subserviency to
corruptionists and to special privilege,
the independent existence and activity
If tho pro0recciva partu GRO inpara
lively demanded by the sentiment of it's
members and the needs of the nation"
Somewhat less optimistic than his
fellow kansan, and somewhat less Bit
ter than the Progressive editor in
Philadelphia, Mr.. William Allen White
has affirmed no less emphatically the
necessity of keeping the party togeth-
err AS the newspapers quoted him, he
said:
"Those of us who hold to the creed
of the Progressive party have no IL
lusions about the strength of the party
that stands pledged to the Progress
sive platform. We realized that those
two million votes cast last Novem-
Der for United States Senators and
Governors represent the maximum
strength of the party for any Presi-
dental candidate until the popular
mind has changed. We do not hesitate
to admit that today the American peo-
pie are not interested in any plan for
| social ipcfjpe
1.-THE whole national situation spells
that confusion of minds which is gem
timely reaction. But an event might
dispel the confusion in day, might
turn the minds of the people from par
tizan considerations to considerations
of Justice
Therefore it seems wise to those
party Progressives who have more de-
sire for justice than for jobs or pros
perity to sit tight, hold the organiza-
ton which is still intact, though large
ly paper organization, and to wait
perhaps a year, perhaps two years,
perhaps four. For we feel that sooner
or later the country must turn from it's
present confusion to some sincere
attempt at adjusting the Obvious So
cial and economic inequities of our
present system. Literary Digest