New Britain herald., 1916-01-12


 MANN SCHMARR committee would meet in New York within two weeks to complete the ar engagements and issued the formal call.
 Declaration of Principles
 The full text of the declaration of principles follows:-
 ''The progressive party began it's existence as did the republican party as a party of moral conviction and national purposes. The progressive platform of 1911 was a composite of nation and state issues, for the party was new organization and had to speak at once for both nation and state. Since then state issues, such as the short ballot, initiative, refer endum and recall, have been taken up in various state platforms.
 '"The national issues presented by our platform of 1912 and those for which we now stand, represent the vital needs of our national life. They are in substances
 "A broader nationalism to make possible an effective program of so- cial and industrial justice at home, and the protection of American citi- zens and rights abroad
 '"The constructive federal regula- tions rather than the destructive dis ruption of efficient business organiza- tion-behavior and not size being the test.
 "The introduction of business eff ficiency into government by the bud get system and the coordination of departments.
 Non-Partisan Commission.
 "A pe~2anent, non-partisan tariff commission to make possible the sci entific revision of tariff schedules on protective lines. Also a pledge for the immediate revision of such sched- ules as the condition of world war have made unjust or as are necessary for the preservation, after the war, of industries newly established here, whose necessity the war has demon strated.
 "A provision for equal suffrage.
 "The dethronement of the invisible government.
 "A provision for an adequate mer- chant marine.
 gro the progressive platform of 1912, as above summarized and ann plified, we pledge our continued ale glance. Both of the old parties have failed to make serious efforts to en- act these national principles into law
 "Because of the failure of the Will son administration to deal adequately with national honor and industrial welfare. this county faces problems of a graver and more far-reaching consequence than any since the civil war.
 Humanity's Final Safeguard
 "International law is humanity's s final safeguard, and civilizations last bulwark. It's recognition and observ- ance by the nations is the true meas ure of the worlds progress; it is our high duty to do our utmost to uphold it for the advancement of higher civil ization. It is likewise our supreme duty to protect American institutions and American standards of justice This momentous hour, therefore, de- mands a complete preperdness, not merely in military armament, but pre- paredness that will mobilize our eco- homie resources, agricultural lndus- trial and financial, and preparedness that will unify American citizenship and create a loyalty IO our IIoIlIo- tions such as peoples of other nations have so patriotically shown since the terrible test of war; the preparedness of self-defense, that preparedness which creates a spirit unalterably op- posed to militarism, and the ultimate object of which is universal peace but a national spirit and soul which views the doctrine of peace-at-any price as futile, cowardly and upright eous and which will unhesitatingly make any needed sacrifice to uphold American standards of humanity and justice. Only that spirit will put this nation where it can move effectively for the world peace which we desire.
 Wilson Policy Attacked.
 "The Wilson administration has re- pudiated the faith of our forefath CTS, which made the American flag the sufficient protection of an Amer ican citizen around the world. It has suffered American. men, women and children to be slaughtered in Mex ico and on the high seas, American property to be destroyed and Ameri- can liberty to travel and trade to be subject to the arbitrary and law less coercion of foreign belligerents. It has stood by while the law of