Arizona republican., 1916-04-01
The Progressive Convention

The progressive meeting for which call has been issued to be held in this city next Monday to select delegates the Bsbe convention, should be well at tended for at that convention delegates the tionaI progressive convention at Chicago June will be chosen It has been decided various ns of progressives that progressves they should not put up state ticket but should operate progressive republicans and independent democrats effort substitute in this efficient nomca progressive government for the present lack of such government
 But the prosressives. neither in Arizona nor any where else in the country have abandoned the prn- ciples for which they fought four years Those principles will be re-affrmed in the Chicago tion and it is hoped that the republican national vention which will in Chicago at the same time will take them up and will nominate candidate worthy stand on such platform.
 To those principles another has since been added -Amercanism. Four years ago it occurred to neither the progressive any other party make any declaration in favor of the principle of Amer clnism It assumed that all Americans pa trotic and courageous and that every contingency would find them so; and any test. though then foreseen all Americans would be for Amer ica.
 Since then, however the test has been applied and we have found Americanism sadly lacking. In the
 
 izens with one or another of the beigerents, the United States has been pushed into the background Friends of Germany hand and friends of the allies the other, have shown themselves be pro- German broadly and not pro-American9 Both have demanded that the rights of American citizens should be suspended for the advantage of other of the belgerents
 The position taken by the progressive party is shown the following from the statement issued by the progressive national committee it's meeting in Chicago last January:
 International is humanity's final safeguard and cvilization's last bulwark It's recognition and observance by the nations is the measure of the worlds progress. It is our high duty to do ut- most to uphold it for the advancement of higher civ iliZation. It is likewise supreme duty protect American institutions and American standards of justice. This momentous hour therefore demands a complete preparedness that will mobilize economic resources, agricultural industrial and financial paredness that will unify American citizenship and create loyalty to our institutions such peoples of other nations have periodically terrible of the preparedness of defense that preparedness which creates spirit. unaeraby opposed to mtarism, and the ultimate object of which is universal peace, but national spirit and soul which views the doctrine of peace any price futile, cowardly and unrghteous and which will un hesitatingly make any needed sacrifice to uphold American standards of humanity and justice. Only that spirit will put this nation where it ef- fectively for the world peace which desire.
 The Wilson administration has repudated the Wn1Cn American the sufficient protection of American citizen around the world. It has suffered American men, women and children be slaughtered in Mexico and the high American property to be destroyed and American liberty to travel and trade be subject rary and lawless coercion of foreign belligerents has stood by, while the law of nations disappeared from the earth with adequate protest effective resistance. It first among American administrations has shown the supine spirit whose sure consequence is the contempt of the world
 Our people are becoming impatient of leaders who
 
 above honor, self sacrifice and patriotism We need reawakenng of elder Americanism of our be- lief in those things that country and flag stand for. Our people are seeking leadershp-leadership of the highest order and courageous character leadership that will draft to itself the benefit the unselfish and patriotic services of it's ablest citizens They demanding that principles and policies shall be proclaimed carried by man who has the wisdom to formulate them and the manhood to fight for them.
 In this government there has been weakness which has been construed .cowardice Rights of Americans have been unprotected Wordy protests against invasons of them have produced no results except other and more fragrant invasons and have in no case been succeeded by action. Now the name American has become offensive by-word among the nations.
 American citizens travelling in Mexico have been compelled to conceal their nationality have been obliged to seek refuge beneath foreign flags while their flouted and trampled in the dust In these circumstances it has deemed by progress sives well by patriotic citizens of other parties to be their duty first restore American citizenship to it's former high estate.
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