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<bibl><title>Skandinaven</title>,
<date when="1917-10-08">Oct. 8, 1917</date>.
<title level="a">The New Party</title><title level="a" type="sub">(Editorial)</title></bibl>
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<publisher>The Newberry Library</publisher>
<pubPlace>Chicago, Illinois</pubPlace>
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<addrLine>60 West Walton</addrLine>
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<note>Transcribed from digital images contributed to the Internet
Archive by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.</note>
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<p>The new National Party, a political organization accepting all the principles advocated by Prohibitionists, Progressives, Social Democrats, and Single Taxers, was organized Thursday evening. The party will be launched formally this coming year at a national convention, probably in Chicago.</p>
<p>The platform of the party contains the following planks: Government ownership of public utilities and control of natural sources of supply; abolition of land monopolies through a gradual increase in taxes on land values; absolute prohibition of all traffic in intoxicating liquors except for religious or industrial purposes; and adoption of an amendment to the constitution concerning universal suffrage.</p>
<p>The meeting authorized the national chairman and the conference chairman to name a committee of twenty, - four from each participating group, - to look after the interests of the party until the convention in 1918.</p>
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<p>Virgil Hinshaw, national chairman of the Prohibition party, Matthew Hale, of the Progressives, John Spargo of the Social Democrats, Mrs. Joseph Fels of the Single Taxers, Dr. Ira Landrith and Rev. Father Maguire from the organization committee.</p>
<p>In addition to the platform, the meeting adopted a "declaration of the principles of the war," held in the most patriotic and loyal terms, at the same time striking a blow for freedom of speech and of the press. Secret diplomacy was frowned upon.</p>
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