El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-06-08
ROOSEVELT IS.
MAN OF THE
HOUR, SAYS
ROBINS
Progressives Will Go Ii
Alone If Necessary,
Chairman Warns
PREPAREDNESS
THE REAL ISSUE
Americanism Pure and
UndeHled, Platform
OF Party

(By Leased Wire to New Mexican)
Chicago, June 1.-THE keynote adj
dress of the Progressive party's ma
tional convention here today, de-
liyered by Raymond Robins Of Chi
cago as temporary chairman, asserted
in vigorous terms.
/. That the Progressives will
stand by the announcement made by
the national committee last January
that the party will join the Republi-
cans IL the latter dominates for presi-
dent a mar true to Progressive prin-
ciples.
q That the principle, however, is
greater than the party, and if need be
the Progressiyes will gp on alone
8. That preparedness is the para
mount issue of the campaign; and
4. That Theodore Roosevelt Is the
man of the hour.
what this county needs now is a
man announced Mr.. Robins. In the
course of his speech he said. Now as
We are met again in national conven-
ton there comes to us once more a
common knowledge that in 1912 we
sounded forth a trumpet that shall
never call retreat And we know
that we are here to write a record
that shall witness alike to the faint
hearted and the skeptical and to the
great army still faithful TO the cause,
that our vision is yet undimmed and
that our standards have not been
furled.
"But the noblest common heritage
of America is not her natural wealth
nor are her best traditions found in
the chronicles of her commercial
greatness. We may we'll confess that
under other flags, even under other
national ideals, American ingenuity.
industry and courage might have
achieved greater material welfare for
all her people, and with her vast ma
tural resources she might we'll have
done away with that grinding poverty
that is now unknown in many less
favored lands. We may take just
pride in the lesser achievements Of
our people in developing the physical
resources of a continent, but not
there lies the true greatness of Ann
erica.
: Selfish business and politics never
listed in the assets Of America her
most valuable possession, the priceless
heritage which alone is worth the
sacriiicial cost Of preparedness to
defend against the world-her Demo-
cratic soul. In this time 1t should be
all too plain that we stand alone
among the great nations not domina-
ted by the ideal of Caesar. We have
out ruthless master men, confident of
right and ability to rule their
fellows, but they do not rule us yet.
I'VE gather to determine our pro-
gram to meet the practical needs for
national action in this time of havoc
and horror in other lands. And it is
we'll that we should approach our
task with the vision of a better day.
We may well resolve that no worse
day, with havoc and horror in our
midst, shall be known to us or to the
generation and that we shall
plan to preserve in peace our
Inheritance.
"A competent program for national
preparedness must comprehend and
meet the social, economic, and spirit
lal needs of the people. Mere mill
AIRY preparedness alone is inadequate
'or the safeguarding of the nations
life, even in time of a The final
of the titanic struggle that now
.,onvulses Europe will be decided in
he homes, workshops; fields, and lab
o~ratories of the peoples now at war.
Any program for national security in
line Of wal that does not involve So
:ial and economic security In time of
leace is false to the needs Of the ma
ions life, and arouses suspicion as
o the good faith or intelligence Of its
ldvocates. ]
'The great nations now at war
AVE developed an organized coopera-
i've industry. capable of economic
production. unprecedented in the