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ReplyDeleteProgressivism – Liberal Reform or Conservative Reaction?
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, Progressivism is a Liberal Reform. In the last 40 years of the 19th century, the Republican Party, with financial backing from conservative business leaders, dominated the government. Legislation contrary to business interests rarely received a hearing in the chambers of Congress. Despite their initial suspicion of the Republican Roosevelt, business interests took his cooperation for granted when he became president. The powerful finance capitalists, J.P. Morgan, expected to do business as usual, when, in 1902, President Roosevelt threatened to take action against Morgan’s National Securities Company. “If we have done anything wrong, send your man to my man and they can fix it up,” was Morgan’s reply to the threatened court action.
However, rising discontent with business practices demanded new approaches. Edward Bellamy’s “Looking Backward” and Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” pointed to socialist solutions. The Socialist Party, organized in 1901, attracted increasingly large numbers of supporters. The Socialist Party in 1901, attracted increasingly large numbers of supporters. In 1912, Eugene V. Debs garnered 6 percent of the vote in the presidential election. The government could not afford to ignore this trend. Just how thorough-going was the resulting reform is a question that historians still debate. Some view Progressivism as the fulfillment of the Populist agenda and the forerunner of New Deal reforms. Others question its impact. One historian, Peter Filene, even suggested that perhaps the time had come to write an obituary for the Progressive Movement.