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[[Image:PamphletFrontPageProgressivePartyPlatform1912.jpg|thumb|left|190px|The Platform of Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Party]]

[[Image:PamphletFrontPageProgressivePartyPlatform1912.jpg|thumb|left|190px|The Platform of Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Party]]

===1912 Platform===

===1912 Platform===

The platform called for [[women's suffrage]], recall of judicial decisions, easier amendment of the U.S. Constitution, social welfare legislation for women and children, workers' compensation (government payments for accidents on the job), limited injunctions against unions during strikes, farm relief, revision of banking to assure an elastic currency, required health insurance in industry, new high inheritance taxes, higher, new federal income taxes on the rich, and limitation of naval armaments after the U.S. caught up in the naval race.  Pacifist [[Jane Addams]], a leading supporter, was stunned to discover she had to endorse a platform that called for the building of two new battleships a year. Perkins, a board member of [[U.S. Steel]] corporation, was blamed for blocking an anti-trust plank, thus shocking reformers like [[Gifford Pinchot]] who saw Roosevelt as a true trust-buster.  The result was a deep split in the new party that was never resolved. Roosevelt's philosophy for the Progressive Party was based around [[New Nationalism]], which was the belief in a strong government to regulate industry and protect the middle and working classes. New Nationalism was paternalistic in direct contrast to [[Woodrow Wilson]]'s individualistic philosophy of "New Freedom".  

Pacifist [[Jane Addams]], a leading supporter, was stunned to discover she had to endorse a platform that called for the building of two new battleships a year. Perkins, a board member of [[U.S. Steel]] corporation, was blamed for blocking an anti-trust plank, thus shocking reformers like [[Gifford Pinchot]] who saw Roosevelt as a true trust-buster.  Other items included in the platform were:

 

* [[women's suffrage]]

* Recall of judicial decisions

* Easier amendment of the U.S. Constitution

* Social welfare legislation for women and children

* Workers' compensation (government payments for accidents on the job)

* Limited injunctions against unions during strikes

* Farm relief

* Revision of banking to assure an elastic currency

* Required health insurance in industry

* New high inheritance taxes

* Higher, new federal income taxes on the rich

* Limitation of naval armaments after the U.S. caught up in the naval race

 

The result was a deep split in the new party that was never resolved. Roosevelt's philosophy for the Progressive Party was based around [[New Nationalism]], which was the belief in a strong government to regulate industry and protect the middle and working classes. New Nationalism was paternalistic in direct contrast to [[Woodrow Wilson]]'s individualistic philosophy of "New Freedom".  

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