The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-07-21

frail to pump the blood of mighty deeds.
"This chiefest enemy of America, dem
ocrats and republicans feared to face.
And remember, they were petitioned.
ITO the eloquent appeals of the Meth
odst Episcopal church, the four million
Christian Endeavors, the 10000 pledged
petitioners of the flying squadron of AM
latter assembled by Dr. Irving Fisher of
Yale, and representing the great educa
tional, economic, and social service or
ganizations of the country, appeals
which called for unequivocal platform
declaration in favor of National Prohi-
bition, the Democratic, Republican, and
Progressive conventions answered No
What then shall the word of Amer
lea be to political parties remaining 81
lent on the liquor problem? A problem
which Russia has settled by National
prohibition, which Germany recognizes
by sending orders into the trenches call
ing upon her soldiers to refrain from
drinking Intoxicating liquors, which
France moves against by banishing alb
sinth I'll and of which Lloyd George of Eng
many, Austria and drink, and SO far as
can see, the greatest of these three dead
~ foes, is drink. l have a growing con-
that nothing but rooth-and branch meth
DDS will be of the slightest avail in deal
ing with the evil. L believe that it is
the general feeling that, if we are to
first of all settle with liquor What shall
our word be to political parties remain
ing silent on this question? There is only
one word, that word is defeat
The challenge of the prohibition par
~ to the citizens of the United states
is the challenge of the highest patriot
ism. Judged in all of it's phases, industri-
any physically; economically. politically,
ana morally, the liquor problem consti-
tutes the most vast and immediate issue
peiore the American people.
'~ 'Wnen we count our revenue will we
excuse political parties that call us to
new ana greater financial sacrifices but
nave no word for the criminal maker who
mis- our prisons, our almshouses and asy-
lumS-who fastens upon us the burden
or the physical and moral INCOMPETENT? %
In conclusion Mr.. Polling said this trib-
ute to the men who supported the pro-
gressive party movement in 1912:
tor tne men OF the progressive con-
vention who fought brave fight and
glorlously lost, who lifted their voices i'm
protest against secret high chambers,
NY no tho te re f. us SD ed to sit quietly
who battled without compromise and who
SUN Datue for the reaffirmation of the
principles that called the progressive
gressive 'n nartv i enStenGe have
only words of commentator And as
their blood brothers, their own house
having been Quilted by it's master build
er, we invite them to rest under our roof
WnlIe We together raise q structure that
shaH shelter hundred million people
greed.
mo flood of words can wipe out the
fact that every reason existing for the
organization of the progressive party
TOUR years ago, exists today for the con-
tinuation of the fight against the evils
the progressive party was created to de-
stroy.
IF the gentlemen who followed Theo-
dore Roosevelt in the last campaign fol-
Cfi fh<a
then proclaimed, they cannot follow
Theodore Roosevelt now The terms de-
manded in 1912 have not been granted;
the conflict begun then has not been
hnlShed, and he is not a safe guide who
makes a new VOW in lieu of an old prom
Use unkept.
"The republican and democratic par.
ties are 'one party Save only where
each INDUCED in personalities and where
one affirmed what the other denied with
regard to Mexico, their platforms sub
stantially agree.
The Plank Of cowardice.
The supreme cowardice of the lead
ership of the dominant political organi-
cations came to a climax in their equal
I'VE declare that man, who wrote HIM
self into the constitution, shall write in
women too. In every state campaign
suffrage by the action of congress, we
pledge the whole hearted and complete
support of the prohibition party. This
poitlcdl organization, which was the first
to speak for the ballot in the hands of
the women, remains today, the uncom-
promising political champions of her
equal rights.
1.-THE United States needs a business
manager, a manager who will depart
mentize the government and cut the red
tape of political bureaus.
Il have seen a picture inexpressively
sad, of Dead Mans Hill in France, with
it's three hundred thousand graves and
as many wooden crosses. Far as eye
can reach, are the figures of black
shrouded women. But they have their
pitful compensation-there are the trim
kets of the legion of honor, and the MEM
cries of heroism that will never die.
Powder blackened and dSembowelled,
their sons were dumped into longetrench-
es. but the flag of the Fatherland and
the tr-cOlor of France float proudly
above them and they live forever. There
| is compensation.
! "But today I see another Dead Mans
HILL and this hill is infinitely sad Wom-.
en- crowd it with their forms and cover
| 1T with their lamentations and for them
there is no compensation. no flag to drape
above a picture. no cross of honor to
press into . paby's hand, no memory but
one of infamy and shame. They mourn
their daad and fhrOr1CI their foarc No