Mohave County miner., 1916-10-07

have been taking care of some people but we have not been taking care of the great body of the people. We have not thought about their morals; we have not thought about their health, we nave not thought about their rights as human beings, and we insist that you put the policy of this party in our hands or we will go off and form a party of our own.'
 "And thereupon the great Progress sive party sprung up-great not. be- cause it turned out to be more numer- ous than the party from which it had seeded, though it did. that, but be- cause it had the red blood of human beings in its veins and was ready to work for mankind and forget the in est. of p @arvovT Dart-. I want to pay my tribute of respect to the pur- poses aEd intentions of the men who formed that group in our politics.
 But tine interesting thing is that, inasmuch as they did not get the op- portunity, we took advantage of our opportunity to do the things that they wanted to do. And I want you young
 fellows to understand the reason for that. There are standpatters in the Democratic party. There are men sit ting down hard on the breeching strap. There are men who are trying to hold back and to serve what they believe to be conservatism, though it is really reaction. But the interesting thing about the Democratic party is that those men are in a small minority in its ranks, whereas, in the party of the opposition, they are in a majority and are in control.
 "The interesting thing for all politicians to remember is that the Progressive voters of this country, all put together outnumber either party. 1 venture to say they outnumber both parties put together. This country is progressive and if you youngsters are going to be in the running, you will throw in your fortunes with the party of which the Progressives have the control.
 'I am a Progressive. do not spell it with a capital 'P', but I think my pace is just as fast as those who do it. It does not interfere with the run ming and l am very astonished to see the company that some gentlemen who spell their name with a capital are keeping. They are engaged in the interesting enterprise of trying to capture a party which is fortified against them and refusing to enter a party which is already captured by those who believe in their principles. The intellectual processes by which they arrive at their conclusions are entirely obscured to my intelligence.
 But you will notice that a party that merely wants control does not have to have any principles. Look over the ranks of the support of the Republican party. Did you ever see a more motley company in your life? Did you ever see elements so abso- lutely contradictory of each other as the elements of that party? If they moved in any direction, they would have to move in many directions, and if I am trying to get in power by the support of people that do not agree with one another it is very dangerous for me to profess my own opinion.
 Back of that party are those who want to inject into our politics, the politics of Europe. Some want to in- ject those policies in order to move in one direction, and others want to in ject them in order to move in exactly the opposite direction. Under these it is not wise to an- nounce your direction. Some of them are progressives, or were, and profess dissatisfied with the pres ent leadership and guidance of the party, and others are so self-satisfed with it that they are afraid that the entrance of this new element will dis turb some of their favorite plans and so, looking at each other with sus- picion they have only one enthusiasm and that is the enthusiasm to get in. see in my minds eye, this great motley company enthusiastically ] united in great drive for possession.
 "one thing has become evident, not because it was explicitly stated, for ] has been explicitly stated, but because it is unmistakably implicit in almost everything that has been said. | Am 1 not right that we must draw | the conclusion that if the Republican party is put into power at the next | our foreign policy will be changed? I cannot draw
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