NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING

News Worth Remembering THE people of few states are more progressive in political thought and action than those of Kansas. In the minds of most citizens, no man now in public life represents more...

...In October he will make a southern trip, speaking at a number of places, and on October 13 will enter Indiana to deliver an address in behalf of Senator Beveridge...
...Every Progressive candidate for reelection to Congress is practically assured of another term, but the candidacy of several Progressives in the same district has brightened the outlook for a few of the standpatters who seek renomi nation...
...Georgia Favors Income Tax The legislature of Georgia has adopted a resolution favoring the amendment of the federal constitution to permit the levying of an income tax...
...During the latter part of August he will speak in the west,—at the Cheyenne, Wyo., frontier celebration, and at Denver, Colorado...
...In the minds of most citizens, no man now in public life represents more definitely and aggressively the standpat principles than does Speaker Cannon...
...Roosevelt will make a number of speeches from the rear platform of his private car, as is the custom on political tours...
...He will also make a speech in Kansas on the last day of the month...
...It is declared that if renominated at the primary they will be defeated at the final election by their Democratic opponents...
...The states which have ratified the amendment are: Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and South Carolina...
...The teachers and the schools of the rural districts and small towns, must become the leaders in the new development that is to take place in rural society, Dean Bailey said...
...Taft Invited by Conservationists A disagreement that arose between those in charge of the program of the annual conservation Congress to be held in St...
...It is stated, also, that Representative Madison of Kansas, a progressive Republican and a member of the committee, will write a report condemning Ballinger's activities on behalf of powerful interests...
...In order to evade the jury's decision, millers are said to contemplate the establishment of bleaching stations in states which have no law against the sale within their boundaries of products so adulterated...
...President Taft is taking a hand in the Ohio fight in an attempt to secure harmony within his party, realizing that Governor Harmon has an excellent chance for reelection...
...The League of Wisconsin Municipalities in session last week discussed the new form of city government, and adopted a resolution favoring legislation to give to cities the largest possible amount of home rule...
...The rules of the House were defended as serving to expedite legislation by giving the majority protection from the "obstructive tactics" of a minority, although under them, he declared, the minority is assured of its rights...
...Assemblyman Silas Towne, one of the men at whom the resolution was aimed, made the sensational statement that Democrats had twice walked out of the chamber in this manner at the instigation of Republicans...
...Louisiana, Massachusetts and Rhode Island have refused to do so, while the legislature of Kentucky failed to take action...
...Early in September he will speak in Nebraska, the Dakotas, Minnesota, (at the conservation congress), Illinois, Wisconsin, and in Pittsburg...
...Pennsy Employees Ready to Strike For several months no great labor wars have arisen, nor has there been any indication of a conflict between capital and labor that would affect the whole country...
...In this connection he poin-ted out that rural conditions are s-.ich as to enable farmers to grow prosperous, but instead of staying on their farms and raising the standard of living—securing good roads, good school facilities, etc.,—they remove to the towns in order to secure these things...
...Flour is now made while in appear-ance by the use of nitrogen peroxide, which bleaches and makes the product more easily salable...
...The strike of 70,000 cloak-makers of New York last week came as a surprise, as did the trouble between the management and 15,000 employees of the Pennsylvania railroad, in regard to hours of work and compensation...
...The jury decided that any amount of poison introduced into food is an adulteration, even though it amounts to only nine parts in a million, as in this case...
...Charges were made that Mr...
...Dean Bailey said: "It is the first duty of every man to earn a deceit living for himself and those dependent upon him, but the final object in life is not to make money but to use the money in developing a higher type of endeavor and a better society...
...He was not seriously affected, however, and will finish his Kansas invasion...
...While Ohio is normally Republican, the present Democratic governor, and candidate for reelection, Judson Harmon, is exceptionally strong, while the Republicans seem unable to combine on any one aspirant for that office...
...Telephone Association Formed One hundred telephone companies of Wisconsin have formed an association to advance general interests and to oppose the enactment of detrimental laws...
...Loeb, it is believed by political leaders, would make a very strong candidate because of his activity in uncorering the sugar weighing frauds, and his services with Mr...
...Dalzell Wins on Recount The recount concluded in Pittsburg on July 12 shows that Congressman Dalzell won the nomination for Congress in the primary by a majority of 207 over his progressive opponent...
...This is in accordance with pre-election promises, and meets with the approval and cooperation of the residents of the city, Many resorts already have been forced to close, the sale of liquor in dives has been stopped, a number of disreputable saloons have been denied new licenses, and cheap theaters put under regulation...
...Socialists Clean Out Dives The Socialist officials of Milwaukee have undertaken to "clean up" the red light district which has flourished under previous administrations...
...The public seems to have formed its own conclusions after a study of the testimony...
...Whitewash for Ballinger...
...For these reasons the political campaign now waging in Kansas is of especial interest...
...He also referred to the Insurgents as men competent merely "to legislate in the newspapers and magazines...
...The Washington correspondence of the Chicago Tribune for July 17 is authority for a statement as to the findings of the Pinch ot-Ballinger investigating committee...
...When the committee was created, many progressives forecasted its findings...
...It is said that he is disinclined to enter politics, preferring to remain in the customs service...
...The result of the conference was not announced...
...Democratic Legislators Censured Democrats of Wisconsin, in state convention at Milwaukee last week, after a stormy session adopted a platform and endorsed candidates for state offices and United States senator...
...The Insurgents were characterized as men seeking to hide from their constituents a lack of constructive legislative ability by an appeal to prejudice, and their method of securing a revision was termed, by the Speaker, "mob rule...
...A. J. Schmitz of Milwaukee was endorsed for governor and Burt Williams of Ashland, a progressive editor, for United States Senator...
...President Taft is also interested in the New York campaign and after he had conferred with William Loeb, Jr., on the 11th, it was stated that the customs collector of the port of New York might accept the nomination for governor if it were offered to him...
...Cannon's speeches indicate that while his audiences are large, they are not "sympathetic...
...It is expected other members of the administration will be invited to speak...
...The striking cloakmakers seem to be winning...
...At the time this is written the railroad employees are ready to go out on a strike...
...It declares broadly for conservation...
...Following the acceptance of the platform, the convention unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the action of the three Democrats who walked out of the assembly chamber a year ago, thus bringing about the reelection of United States Senator Isaac Stephenson...
...Already a large number of the smaller manufacturers have agreed to the demands of the strikers, and the employers' association has agreed to arbitration...
...Briefly, the platform condemns the Aldrich-Payno tariff law, the alleged Republican extravagance, and the law requiring a 20 per cent, vote at the primaries to entitle a candidate to a place in the party column at election...
...Roosevelt as secretary...
...Adopts Commission Plan At a special election held on July 15, MarshaJltown, Iowa, adopted the commission form of government, by a vote of more than two to one in its favor...
...Cloakmakers Winning...
...The millers will then ship the pure, unadulterated flour to these stations, where it will be bleached and sold...
...Garfield Opposed by Bosses In Ohio, the political situation appears to be much the same as that which prevails in New York State...
...favors the popular election of United States senators, publicity of campaign expenses before elections, a national income tax law, a stronger corrupt practices act and home rule in local matters...
...The recount has added three votes to his majority...
...President Roosevelt has already accepted an invitation...
...Efforts at declarations in favor of the initiative and referendum and recall as a state policy were voted down, as was a resolution declaring specifically for taxation of all water power franchises...
...Commission Suspends Rates The Interstate Commerce Commission on July 13 voted to suspend the new railroad rates scheduled to go into effect on August 1. The burden of proof for sustaining the increases in freight rates will rest upon the railroads...
...Representatives of the men and the company are in conference and it is thought probable that arbitration under the Erd-man law may be resorted to...
...Undoubtedly James R. Garfield would be the popular choice of Republicans, but because of his sympathy with Gifford Pinchot and his attitude during the Ballinger investigation, he is not looked on with favor by President Taft, himself an Ohio man...
...Pinchot and associates of the National Conservation Association had secured as speakers only those whose views on conservation agree with their own...
...Bleached Flour Condemned A case of great importance, involving the pure food law, was decided in Kansas City, Missouri, on July 6. The decision of the jury in this trial sustains officers of the Department of Agriculture in their fight to prevent interstate commerce in bleached flour...
...Such a board passed on the use of benzoate of soda for preserving foods, and because it found no serious results followed the use of benzoate in food products, declared the use of that chemical lawful under the pure food act, although it permitted the utilization of decayed and otherwise unfit foods by manufacturers of canned goods...
...The strike comes at a time of the year when work is heaviest in the cloak and garment business...
...In France a general strike of railroad employees is threatened...
...He is an outspoken progressive on tariff and other legislation, and because of his advocacy of the recall, the commission form of government for Ohio cities, the short ballot, and other measures of the same nature, he stands in disfavor with the Republican bosses of Ohio and is not regarded by them as a contender for the nomination...
...Ballinger has already announced that he will not retire from office after the committee has reported, even though "vindicated...
...before the Country Teacher s' Association of Illinois, discussed problems that confront rural districts...
...After a conference between the factions it was agreed to invite President Taft to address the Congress...
...New York Politics Perplexing Theodore Roosevelt and Governor Hughes conferred on July 12 in regard to the New York political situation from a Republican point of view...
...Reports of Mr...
...It is probable that Mr...
...Cannon Attacks Insurgency While speaking at Winfield, Kansas, on July 16, Speaker Cannon was overcome by the heat after having delivered the greater part of his address...
...He said that the time for intensive farming is near and pointed to the cooperation in rural affairs achieved in Denmark at a time when that country seemed on the verge of disaster...
...According to John Callan O'Laugh-lin, there will be a majority Republican report "vindicating" Secretary Ballinger of all the charges that have been made against him in connection with reclamation work, the Cunningham Alaska coal claims, western power sites, etc., and holding him to be a model servant of the people...
...The strike would tie up the Pennsylvania's lines...
...It is not expected that the majority report will contain a denunciation of Glavis, Pinchot, Garfield, Newell or other members of the "prosecution...
...Agricultural Upliftment Dean L. H. Bailey of Cornell, author of standard books on agriculture and head of the Roosevelt country life commission, on July 15...
...His praise of the tariff was based on the great amount of revenue it has produced and the prosperity that has followed in its wake...
...Roosevelt's Itinerary The itinerary of Mr...
...Kansas, as well as other Western and Northwestern states, is receiving especial attention from the Congressional campaign committee in the form of lavish expenditure of money, and oratory of a "regular" character...
...The process produces poisonous nitrites, however, and impairs the cpuality...
...Trusts' on Carpet The grand jury of Chicago which last week began a second investigation to determine whether there is a meat trust, was instructed by Judge Landis to return indictments against the individuals who control the great packing companies, if they find that the companies are banded together in violation of the anti-trust law for the purpose of raising prices.—The Attorney General of Ohio is said to have discovered an agreement between ccal operators of the state for the fixing of prices in violation of the anti-trust law.—The cotton mills of New England which shut down several weeks ago in order to curtail production and to raise prices have begun work again, though not for full time...
...Mayor Seidel in an address before the convention of the Wisconsin League of Municipalities on the 13th said: "When an American official gets into trouble we usually can say: 'Look out for the business man.'" William J. Desmond before the same body declared it not uncommon for a candidate's expenses to exceed the salary of the office, a condition, he asserted, which has debauched the citizen voter and degraded the citizen...
...The minority will find that he is not a man fit to be entrusted with the guardianship of the nation's resources against "the insidious aggressions of the special interests...
...If arbitration fails, a general strike involving cloakmakers of the entire country may be called...
...Roosevelt's western trip has been given out...
...The millers, who have opposed the ruling of the Department of Agriculture's officials, desired a referee board appointed by the President, to pass on the case...
...His speech at Winfield was for the most part a defense of the tariff law and an attack, though of a milder nature than expected, on the Insurgents,—particularly Representative Murdock...
...In that state the Speaker is addressing large audiences in support of the few representatives who have followed his orders and who have supported him consistently...
...Paul from September 6 to 9 has been settled...
...The Democratic, or minority report will declare that the evidence shows him to be unfit to administer the duties of his office...

Vol. 2 • July 1910 • No. 29


 
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