NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
Newt Worth Remembering GIFFORD PINCHOT, in a speech at St. Paul on June 11, assailed the special interests that are destroying representative government in this country. He spoke to members of the...
...Congressman Hull, standpatter, was defeated in the Seventh district by S. F. Prouty, progressive, by over 3,000 votes...
...The message is as follows: "The recent meeting of System Republicans at Milwaukee confirms the general belief that it is the purpose of the privileged interests of this country to fight reform legislation by concentrating an attack upon you...
...Big Banks Merge Last week two Chicago banks having combined deposits of $184,433,935 were merged into a banking institution that will be second in capital and deposits of all the banks of the country...
...They talked of "party regularity," but every move they made was in defiance of party regularity and in defiance of party law...
...This nation has decided to do away with government by money for profit and return to the government our forefathers died for and gave to us—government by men for human welfare and human progress...
...No need of fire to heat water...
...He characterized the present government as one of, by, and for the special interests, citing the Payne-Aldrich tariff law as a recent example of the manner in which Big Business is able to take what it wants from the people, through a System-controlled Congress...
...If such there be, let him ask the young men, in whose minds the policies of tomorrow first see the light...
...No other amendments or motions were allowed by the terms of this rule...
...It will be no child's play, for the power of privilege is great...
...Pullman Company Rebuffed On June 11 the United States Circuit Court in session in Chicago refused to grant the injunction asked by the Pullman Car Company to prevent the Interstate Commerce Commission's recent order, reducing rates, from going into effect...
...Good Citizenship Above Parties "It is a greater thing to be a good citizen than to be a good Republican or a good Democrat...
...The President took this action because Mr...
...They fail to see that the political dogmas, the political slogans, and the political methods of the past generation have lost their power, and that our people have come at last to judge of politics by the eternal rules of right and wrong...
...It was stated that for $5,000 the passage of a bill framed by the interested fishermen themselves could have been secured...
...Labor Problems On June 6 the House of Representatives adopted a joint resolution proposed by Congressman A. J. Sabath of Chicago, authorizing the appointment of a commission to investigate the subject of employers' liability legislation.—Attorney General Wickersham has refused to begin action against the steel trust for its alleged oppression of employees...
...C. A. Kennedy and Walter I. Smith, loyal Cannon men, defeated their pro-giessive opponents but by smaller majorities than heretofore...
...Its progress during the last twelve months is amazing...
...It is a great deliverance...
...The alliance between business and politics is the most dangerous thing in our political life...
...The brass bound collar of privilege has become plain upon their necks for all men to see...
...Lorimer Case Progresses Evidence confirming the confession made last week that $3,500 had been raised to kill the "fish" bill introduced in the Illinois legislature, was heard at Springfield last week...
...Harrison in a speech in the House a few weeks ago, charged that the President and the Attorney General had meant to deceive by predating the Wickersham report on the Bal-linger-Pinchot controversy...
...The twenty-three self-seekers named all the men that attended their conference...
...The second is complete publicity of all the affairs in which the public has an interest, such as the business of corporations and political expenses during campaigns and between them...
...it lived in disguise...
...This has been reduced to 432, according to the official count, which is in dispute...
...Puppets Known to All "A new life is stirring among the dry bones of formal platforms and artificial issues...
...Postal Bank Bill Passed On June 6 the postal savings bank bill agreed upon, by the Republican caucus was introduced in the House and with it came the first rule of procedure that has been reported from the rules committee since the reorganization in which Speaker Cannon was ousted...
...Hull is at present one of the larger cogs in the Cannon House machine and his political demise will be a severe blow to the Czar...
...Arguments will be heard for a permanent injunction...
...Does any man not blinded by personal interest or by the dust of political dry rot, suppcsc that the bulk of our people are anything else but progressive...
...If wisely they accept the inevitable, the adjustment will not be hard...
...The special interests must get out of politics...
...A somewhat similar agreement was reached with eastern and southern lines, and immediately afterward President Taft rent a message to Congress urging the enactment of the rail bill so that the rate supervision section shall go into immediate effect...
...Both banks recently absorbed smaller concerns and it is said that the new bank will be connected with the largest bank of the country, the National City Bank of New York...
...They are known for what they are, and their time is short...
...They have grasped the fact that the special interests are now in control of public affairs...
...We all are—we who have not taken the trouble to resent and put an end to the knavery we knew was going on...
...With Democrats chiding the Insurgents for their attitude toward this rule and charging inconsistency, it was passed by a vote of 169 to 144, ten insurgents voting against its adoption, objecting to the stifling of debate...
...The process of consolidation which is proceeding in finance and business is well illustrated in this case...
...It does the cleaning easily, and makes the house cleaner and brighter...
...People Demand New Deal "The people of the United States demand a new deal and a square deal...
...The demand of the people for political progress will not be denied...
...E. H. Gary of the United States Steel corporation will have the largest interest in the new institution...
...To try to divert the march of an aroused public conscience from this righteous inevitable conflict by means of obsolete political catchwords is like trying to dam the Mississippi with dead leaves...
...ing, Mr...
...The motto in every primary—in every election—should be this: No watchdogs of the interests need apply...
...Fels-Naptha whitens floors, brightens painted woodwork and brings out the colors in oil-cloth and linoleum...
...The black shadow of party regularity as the supreme test in public affairs has passed away from the public mind...
...But the power of our people is still greater, and their steadfastness is equal to the need...
...He can sink no farther...
...On the following day, at the conclusion of a meeting of Progressives in Minneapolis, a telegram was sent to Senator La Follette, signed by the following: James A. Peterson, George S. Loftus, Chas...
...His majority in the last election was over 8,000 votes...
...Two things alone can bring success...
...The one great political demand underlying all others, giving meaning to all others, is this...
...But it will be well worth all it will cost, for self-government is at stake...
...It was a conference of the representatives of the interests...
...The special interests must be put out of politics...
...No Republican convention was ever called or constituted in that way...
...It is the snake that we must kill...
...Diaz Called a Despot Charges were made last week by John Kenneth Turner, magazine writer, before a house committee investigating the subject, that political refugees from Mexico were returned to that country by U. S. government officials contrary to law and without being given an opportunity to make legal resistance...
...He said that the people had lost confidence in Congress, as at present controlled, because "they have so often seen Congress reject what the people desire and do instead what the interests demand...
...The Republican party in Wisconsin is represented by a state central committee and its chairman...
...Harrison's remarks in connection with his resolution, however, offended Mr...
...Makes the glass shine like sparkling crystal...
...A Congressman Snubbed The President refused to see Representative Francis Harrison of New York when he called on June 9 to present a delegation...
...It will be remembered that the Attorney General afterward admitted that he predated the report at the request of the President...
...There is no third course...
...The special interests must get out of politics, or the American people will put them out of business...
...Twenty-three men, closely affiliated and fertile in secret schemes, met in secret and called a meeting of their fellows...
...The Republican nominees for Congress from Iowa will number eight progressives and three "standpatters...
...The man in the street no longer asks about a measure or a policy merely whether it is good Republican or good Democratic doctrine...
...The Pullman company will continue its effort to prevent the reduction...
...The brand of politics served out to us by the professional politician has long been composed largely of hot meals for the interests and hot air for the people, and we have all known it...
...The rule came up for consideration on the 7th...
...Who is to blame because representatives of the people are so commonly led to betray their trust...
...The protest against politics for revenue only is as strong in one party as in the other, for the servants of the interests are plentiful in both...
...It has taken firm hold on our national moral sense, and when an issue does that it has won...
...The old order, standing pat in dull misunderstanding of the great forward sweep of a nation determined on honesty and publicity in public affairs, is already wearing thin under the ceaseless hammering of the progressive onset...
...The devil in the livery of heaven would be the devil still...
...Same for tiling or mirrors...
...Under the guise of Republicans and friends of Governor Davidson, these representatives of privilege and plunder met to plan Senator La Fol-lette's defeat...
...and you don't need a scrubbing brush...
...The great gulf of division which strikes across our whole people pays little h ed to fading party lines, or to any distinction in name only...
...Differences of purpose and belief between political parties today are vastly less than the differences within the parties...
...And the choice will lie with the interests themselves...
...And Fels-Naptha does all this in cold or lukewarm water...
...But when they come to be retired it will be of little use to replace an unfaithful public servant who wears the collar by another public servant with the same collar around his neck...
...Felicitations between the chairman of the meeting and President Taft were exchanged by wire, and a resolution adopted endorsing the Taft administration and strongly approving the tariff law...
...The old style leaders, seeking to switch public attention away from this one absorbing and overwhelming issue, are pitifully ridiculous and out of date...
...Not a party caucus,—not a party primary,— not a party county convention,—not a party mass meeting, was held to select delegates...
...Fels-Naptha and a soft cloth keep it shining and spotless with very little work...
...Monopoly Rests on Politics "All monopoly rests on the unregulated control of natural resources and natural advantages, and such control by the special interests is impossible without the help of politics...
...William D. Connor, of Marshfield, former Lieutenant Governor, was selected as "state chairman" and a campaign committee of twenty-two members chosen...
...Dalzell's Victory in Doubt In the Thirtieth Pennsylvania district, Congressman John Dalzell, who was regarded by fellow "regulars" as safe from insurgent attacks, met with a startling surprise...
...Turner also stated in the Appeal to Reason, a Socialist paper, that the American Magazine after publishing a number of his articles on the horrible conditions prevailing in Mexico, refused to publish the remaining numbers of the series for which it had contracted...
...Turner stated that men who had fled from Mexico after incurring the wrath of President Diaz had through the conjunction of American minor officials and Mexican officers been forcibly kidnapped in an attempt to return them to their native land...
...To these ends, many unfaithful public servants must be retired, much wise legislation must be framed and passed, and the struggle will be bitter and long...
...Progressives Make Headway Governor B. A. Carroll of Iowa, a standpatter, who two years ago was nominated over the same opponent by a majority of 23,000 votes, was renominated by a majority of about 3,500, according to early returns...
...Official opposition to the conservation movement, whatever damage it has done or still threatens to the public interest, has vastly strengthened the grasp of conservation upon the minds and consciences of our people...
...The Attorney General claims that the acts complained of by the American Federation of Labor come under state jurisdiction.—A conference held in Chicago last week under the auspices of the American Association for Labor Legislation resulted in an enlightening discussion of the problems of compensation for industrial accidents and the need of legislation to protect workers from the dangers of occupational diseases...
...Charges were made by other witnesses that President Diaz has countenanced and encouraged slavery, has ruled with a heavy hand, suppressing all the facts relating to his tyranny through the exercise of a rigid censorship of the press, and has killed many thousands for their attempts to secure political freedom...
...Clack, the progressive candidate, brought action, after the last figures had been given out, claiming that some of the election judges had counted votes cast for him as votes for Dalzell and that he, in reality, has won the nomination by about 1,500 votes...
...When political parties come to be badly led, when their leaders lose touch with the people, when their object ceases to be everybody's welfare and becomes somebody's profit, it is time to change the leaders...
...Neither this committee nor its chairman called or endorsed the Milwaukee meeting...
...The overshadowing question before the American people today is this: Shall the nation govern itself or shall the interests run this country...
...The Man Higher Up" On June 10 Charles R. Heike, secretary and treasurer of the American Sugar Refining Company, and Ernest W. Gerbraeht, formerly superintendent of the Havemeyer and Elder refinery in Williamsburg were found guilty of complicity in the sugar weighing frauds against the government...
...For the last ten years the determination to do so has been swelling like a river...
...Seven Democrats joined the regular Republicans in the vote to send the bill to conference...
...Efforts to obscure or belittle the issue have only served to make it larger and clearer in the public estimation...
...Morality has broken into politics...
...It will do their business no manner of harm to make it conform to the general welfare...
...An agreement was reached by which the railroads promise to withdraw the increases in their freight rates that have been already filed with the commission and which brought forth the injunction and to make no further increases until the new railway law goes into effect...
...One of the most significant facts of the time is that the professional politicians appear to be wholly unaware of the great moral change which has come over political thinking in the last decade...
...Taft...
...Heike is the highest officer of the trust brought to trial...
...Twenty-six insurgents joined the Democrats in voting for the acceptance of the Senate bill but they were defeated by six votes...
...Others may be prosecuted...
...If it will, it is good, no matter who proposed it...
...It cleans and polishes windows, and the glass in china closets or bookcases...
...But one way or the other, conform it must...
...F. Keyes, Max D. Robb, Frank M. Anderson, Stiles P. Jones, Paul J. Thompson, S. R. Childs, W. M. Jerome, L. R. Larson, P. W. Guilford, S. A. Stockwell, Lynn Haines...
...Every woman knows that a porcelain bathtub is hard to keep white and clean...
...And it is as easy as it sounds...
...As far as the recount went...
...Black had been granted a recount by the county commissioners and had already opened eight ballot boxes and secured a recount of the votes, before Dalzell secured an injunction temporarily restraining the commissioners from continuing the recount...
...They have decided once more to take control of their own business...
...Their conference was born under a false flag...
...It must be undertaken soberly, carried out firmly and justly, and relentlessly followed to the very end...
...The task is a tremendous one, both in the demands it will make and the rewards it will bring...
...After the new law becomes effective rates cannot be raised until the Interstate Commerce Commission has reviewed and approved them or a long period of time has been given it in which to do so...
...Now he asks whether it is honest and means what it says, whether it will promote the public interest, weaken special privilege, and help to give every man a fair chance...
...He spoke to members of the Roosevelt Club and his address was vibrant with earnestness and conviction...
...Political leaders, trust bred and trust fed, find it harder and harder to conceal their actual character...
...A representative of the people who wears the collar of the special interests has touched bottom...
...We feel that the reform movement in Minnesota, as well as elsewhere, would suffer by your defeat and therefore, believing in the principles for which you are fighting, and in recognition of the support to which your great work entitles you, we wish to tender you our good will and support in the coming contest...
...They are made liable to a prison penalty and the payment of large fines...
...Black had gained votes...
...it died unhonored and unsung...
...They insist that the special interests shall go out of politics or out of business —one or the other...
...The inside history of the secret sessions of the twenty-three is yet to be told...
...The vital separation is between the partisans of government by money for profit and the believers in government by men for human welfare...
...Use Fels-Naptha...
...It cleans polished hardwood floors and varnished surfaces without dulling...
...The first is honesty in public men, without which no popular government can long succeed...
...I believe the young men will do it" Wisconsin Tories Meet A meeting of Stalwart Republicans and other politicians opposed to the progressive movement led in Wisconsin by Senator La Follette was held in Milwaukee on June 8. This gathering was reported in many newspapers throughout the country as "the Republican state convention" but as a matter of fact it was not called by the state central committee and was in no sense representative of the party...
...Had a Republican convention been called, the friends of La Follette would have carried every county in the state as they will carry every county at the September primary...
...On June 9 the bill passed the House by a vote of 195 to 102, 22 Democrats voting for the measure...
...Rate Increases Halted After the government had secured an injunction restraining the 24 railroads composing the Western Trunk Line Association from enforcing the advanced rates scheduled to go into effect on June 1, a conference was held between a committee appointed by the railroads involved and President Taft and his advisors...
...An estimate was made that the annual economic loss to the nation from industrial diseases and accidents totals $854,250,000...
...With respect to this gatherIn All Households there is a deal of cleaning and scrubbing to do at the end of the week...
...What is the conclusion of the whole matter...
...It provided for eight hours of debate equally divided between Republicans and Democrats, after which the minority party would be allowed to offer a substitute bill and to move to recommit the Republican bill to the committee...
...The cases will be appealed, it is said...
...If they resist, both the interests and the people will suffer...
...After receiving the message the House voted to send the bill to a conference...
...If it will not, it is bad, no matter who defends it...
...Sounds easy, doesn't it...
...None ever will be...
...Conservation a Popular Issue "Conservation has captured the nation," he said...
...Vice President Sherman and Ex-Congressman Watson were sent by the national Administration to assist in giving the meeting a semblance of "regularity...
...If they resist, as doubtless they will, it will call for nerve, endurance, and sacrifice on the part of the people...
...Every man who knows congress well knows the names of senators and members who betray the people they were elected to represent, and knows also the names of the masters whom they obey...
...The conservation movement cannot be checked by the baseless charge that it will prevent development, or that every man who tells the plain truth is either a muckraker or a demagogue...
...In that respect there is little to choose between them...
...Above all, what we need in every office is free men, representing a free people...
...They called it a Republican convention...
...C. H. Crownhart, campaign manager for the Progressive Republicans, said in an interview: "The Milwaukee meeting was not a Republican convention...
...The inter-relation of the great interests of the country is made clearer by this recent merger...
...In Chicago, the jury was selected that will try Lee O'Neill Browne on the charge of bribing Charles A. White to vote for William Lorimer for Senator...
...Fight Will be Hard "To drive the special interests out of politics is a vast undertaking, for in politics lies their strength...
Vol. 2 • June 1910 • No. 24
