Show 0 JAN N INDEPENDENT NT VIEW r There e e has already been much talk of 1 progressive ro e ek k i B I i lt a pro progressive r sl e Democrats this yea year Bon the great conventions have me and framed I I their platforms th the ultra progress progressives progresses es have had iii their their-sav ir sayin hoth conventions and aft or all w JI V I I before us a summer bUmmer thing but the exchanging of inaccuracies over be t t and the tariff and it w would be a a safe wa wager r that not one new ew thought will be advanced on either r theme There was no reference to our lost export trade with half the he inhabitants of the earth no hint of how to stop the drain of of gold annually an an- to pay interest and dividends no outlining of any sensible plan through which th the nations of the earth by an object lesson might be reind reminded re re- i minded ind d by our flag in their ports that there is such sucha a nation as the United States no hint of any plan through which interest might be reduced to make it possible f for r tho men of affairs in our countr country to borrow borro at reasonable lc rates on good security the money needed to carry cany o on their enterprises The best that can be found in either platform as a remedy for our country's ills iUs is but a poultice poul poul- t tice ee riot not a cure ure though ne' ne never er before had platform platform plat plat- form makers so good a chance to draft an instrument instrument ment that would have found an echo in every earnest earnest earn earn- est Americans American's heart as they had this year rear but both parties broke down so did the progressives and so SOl all summer we will as a nation drift and hear the changes hanges' rung on the differences between and |