Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-08

need the intelligent cooperation OF
government both at home and abroad.
When this war is over we will face
the most intense industrial competi-
ton that the world Of commerce has
ever known. A comprehensive pro
lection Of the home market and sup
port for American foreign trade is in
dispensable if we are to preserve in
dustrlal prosperity. For both CAPT.
tai and labor we should develop a
progressive policy in taxation that will
lift the fiscal burdens Of government
from labor and enterprise and place
them upon monopoly and privilege.
Graduated progressive taxation upon
incomes. inheritances and land values
must be a part of any adequate pre-
paredness program.
We need universal service and mill
itary training Of the youth of Amer =
lea. This will do more in one gen.
GRAFTON to break down class and sec
tional prejudice. develop disciplined
vigorous and efficient citizenship and
to unity the diverse groups of our ma =
tional life in vital Americanisn,
than all other forces combined. Il
will destroy militarism and the mill
tary caste, while providing that gen.
uine preparedness for efficiency in
time Of peace and defense against
aggression in time of war which is
needed in every citizenship. This is
the policy of the labor government
OF Australia and the democratic peo-
pies government in Switzerland ana
is worthy of the vigorous support of
every informed progressive in Amer
lea.
We need comprehensive foreign
policy that will accept the facts of
the world situation and our obligations
under the Monroe doctrine: the open
door in China; and the exclusion acts !;
and prepare adequately to maintain
our right part in the world movement.
advancing the democratic purpose and
Truman interests in the interna tional
neld as against the domination Of
privilege. autocracy and militarism.
Doctrine Of States Rights.
Can these imperative national needs
be worked out by state rights Dem
ocratic party that plans state dom
mated militia with It's menace of shift :
less incompetence, sponls politics and
organized snobbery in a national de-
tense force, at time of world peril ?
More and more 1t becomes plain that
most of our pressing problems of
large import are national in scope and
will yield only to rational action. Yet
We find in the democratic party the
modern, and let us hope the last
stronghold of the advocates of local
sovereignty. This doctrine of individ-
ualism, sectionalism and disuniou
menaced and almost prevented the
freeing of the colonies from foreign
dominion. This doctrine we'll nigh
defeated the adoption of a unifying
constitution wherein the American ma
ton became . fact This doctrine
after 60 years almost overthrow the
national structure in dissension over
the issue Of slavery This doctrine
since the civil war has delayed ma
tlonal legislation so urgently needed
to solve the problems of pure food
transportation, child labor and con-
serVation. Wherever the fight for
more efficient and more humane gov
eminent has been waged and baneful
doctrine of states rights has been in
voked to rally and shelter the anti
social forces, to arouse sectional bias
local jealousy and all the mean, mar
row passions that hold mems eyes
upon the ground, when great huma,
needs call upon them to look beyond
the rough and dusty roads to the far
country that Is worth the toll and
sacrifice of the long, hard journey.
compromising our national neces-
sites how can a progressive hesitate
long to choose between the partv of
natlonalism and the party of section
allsm? Should not wise and sincere
progressives 60 en- masse into the Re-
publican primaries, and fighting
shoulder to shoulder with Progressive
Republicans, help and be helped in our
common struggle for social and in
dustrial justice in city, state and ma
tlon? II this is generally done the
common bonds Of our fellowship for
the past four years will not be broken
out rather augmented, and we can
continue to work together and bring
pack a chastened Republican party to
us ancient faith in human rights and
national integrity, which made it's tri-
umph under Lincolr's Leadership the
supreme achievement of the demo-
cratic spirit in the history Of man
Kind. We Progressives stand at the
cross roads. American social. indus.
trial and political life has broken down
Under the old individualistic control
A new national mind and conscience
developing social unity. industrial
Standardization. efficient political hon
esty: from a self-controled democracy
this is the goal of our generation in
American life.