A more expeditious method of amending the Federal Constitution.
National jurisdiction on those problems which have expanded beyond reach of the indi vidual States.
Social and industrial justice to be secured by legislation for the prevention of industrial acci dents, occupational diseases, overwork, involun tary unemployment; the prohibition of child labor; the minimum wage for working women, with prohibition of night work for women and an eight-hour day for the same sex ; one day's rest in seven for all wage-workers; the aboli Lion of the convict contract labor system; pro tection against the hazards of sickness, irregu lar employment and old age through a system of social insurance; establishment of public con tinuation schools; the organization of workers, men and women, as a means of protecting their interests.
National regulation of interstate corpora tions through a strong Federal administrative commission.
The appointment of diplomatic and consular officers solely with a view to their special fitness and worth.
A protective tariff to equalize conditions of competition between the United States and foreign countries, both for the farmer and manufacturer, and which shall maintain for labor an adequate standard of living; an imme diate downward revision; a non-partisan scien tific tariff commission; the repeal of the Cana dian reciprocity act.
Full and immediate inquiry into the high cost of living.
The improvement of the national currency system.
Conservation and national control of natu ral resources.
Development of our rivers, especially the Mississippi and its tributaries.
Use of the Panama Canal for American benefit, free from control of American rail roads, and American coastwise trade to be exempt from tolls.
• Public ownership of the natural resources of Alaska.
Equal suffrage to men and women. Limitation of campaign contributions and expenditures.
Registration of lobbyists; prohibition of Federal appointees from holding office in state or national political organizations.
Restriction of the power of the courts. Restriction as to injunctions and contempt proceedings in labor disputes.
Establishment of a Department of Labor.
The re-establishment of the Country Life Commission; development of agricultural credit and co-operation.
Establishment of a centralized National Health Service.
Revision of the patent law.
Power to value the physical property of railroads by the Inter-State Commerce Com mission; abolition of the Commerce Court.
Construction of national highways; exten sion of the rural delivery system.
A graduated inheritance tax, and ratification of the income tax amendment to the Constitu tion.
Judicial and other peaceful means for set tling international differences; an international agreement for the limitation of naval forces.
Protection of the rights of American citizen ship at home and abroad.
Increased care of our immigrant population.
A wise and just policy of pensioning Ameri can soldiers and sailors and their widows and children.
Creation of a parcels post.
Extension and strict enforcement of the Civil Service Law.
Readjustment of the business methods of the national government.
Protection against worthless investments by means of new legislation creating governmental supervision.
The campaign that followed will not soon be forgotten by the generation that witnessed it. Great numbers of Republicans allied them selves with the new party and at the election, Roosevelt, the Progressive, received 4,126,020 votes, as compared with the 3,483,922 votes cast for Taft, the candidate of the stand patters. California, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Washington were carried by the Progressives, totalling 88 votes in the elec toral college, while only Utah and Vermont, with eight electoral votes remained in the Re publican column. The elections of 1914 showed a drift of the Progressives back to the old party, with the exception of California where a heavy Progressive majority was rolled up. By 1915 many Progressives felt that their party had served its purpose by defeating the reactionary elements of the old party and the breach was almost healed during the presiden tial campaign of 1916, in which Mr. Roosevelt, the leading Progressive, supported Mr. Hughes.
That perfect harmony did not prevail, how ever, was shown when the electoral vote of California was thrown to Wilson because of differences between Hughes and Johnson sup porters in that State. The Congressional elec tions of 1918, however, showed that the breach had been closed and the Republican party again presented a united front to its doughty enemy, the Democrats. (See REPUBLICAN PARTY). Consult Anon., (The Progressive Party, its Rec ord from January to July 1916' (New York 1916); De Witt, B. P.,