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Paine, Robert F.
Women a Great Factor - - Robert F. Paine "I think that women are a great factor in peace."—Queen Marie. WHICH indicates that Her Majesty is just an average woman. It seems impossible for...
...The next war, with its aerial bombs and gases, will be prosecuted in woman's immediate presence, and the lesson of it should be thorough and final...
...The time is at hand for some State Legislature to lead the way...
...A child of fourteen, say, is supposed to know all the laws passed by the legislature and all the embroidery attached by the courts.— —From Labor...
...All the great Commissions and Boards— Interstate Commerce, Federal Trade, Tariff, Shipping Farm Loan, Railroad Labor,—are affected by the decision...
...The specific point settled by the majority opinion written by Chief Justice Taft is that the law of 1876 by which the unrestricted power of removal of first class postmasters is denied to the President, is in violation of the Constitution and invalid...
...That Mr...
...Will the people ever learn ?—BURTON K. WHEELER...
...Chief Justice Taft on behalf of the Court says: "We wish to express the obligation of the Court to Mr...
...several parties concerned in the transacBuckner had to overcome unusual difficulties tion...
...Another Milwaukee business man said: "I have used the Mail Voting method many times when absent on pleasure or business, and consider the idea of applying the same system for the general use by all voters, one grand great good thought, and you may count me one of your strong adherents...
...These thoughts should keep us alert lest in our human gardens of today we find a Judas growing...
...Daugherty refused to testify in his own behalf...
...Others prominent at this convention were Henry Ward Beecher, Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass...
...They hid behind Jess Smith who was found dead in Daugherty's apartment.-They were both guilty...
...She had personal magnetism and true oratorical power...
...Brandeis as a great jurist, lawyer, scholar, writer, publicist, but I think of him as an ideal friend and companion, always wise, sympathetic and helpful, at the same time full of joy, wit and enthusiasm...
...They were shielded by the Coolidge Administration witnesses, and all others who had the temerity to take part in the investigation were persecuted...
...And yet, from her fifteenth year, when, as she herself related in a personal interview, she read in Horace Greeley's Weekly Tribune, accounts of a woman's rights convention being held in Worcester, Mass., Olympia Brown dedicated her life to the advancement of women,—to their equal rights,—educational, political, legal, economic...
...Wish you best success...
...Upon the death of her husband she carried on for twenty years the extensive newspaper and printing business in which she was engaged...
...Often in her later years she would refer to the change in women's status,— the advantages they enjoyed now as contrasted with her own youth...
...One understands the heroic achieve ments of this great brain and heart...
...Justice Story in the commentaries on the Constitution as early as 1833 said, as cited by Justice Brandeis in his dissenting opinion: "If there has been any aberration from the true constitutional exposition of the power of removal (which the reader must decide for himself), it will be difficult, and perhaps impracticable, after forty years' experience, to recall the practice to the correct theory...
...In America, as in England the conviction prevailed then that the people must look to representative assemblies for the protection of their liberties...
...He had come to Washington as attorney for Glavis in the Ballanger investigation...
...And on the many occasions when I afterwards heard her lecture, preach or pray, or even in conversation, the sound of her voice stirred in me the same profound emotion...
...She graduated in 1860 from Antioch College, which was one of three institutions of learning at that time in this country trying out the experiment of co-education...
...She was a devoted wife,-mother and home-maker...
...They had two children...
...An inherent democrat in the broadest sense of the word, a splendid American, a wonderful friend, Louis D. Brandeis is seventy years young today...
...The jury deliber- stand and tell his own story for the honor ated for sixty-five hours, an almost unprece- of the great office he had held, and for the dented record, and failed to reach an agree- credit of the Harding Administration, may ment...
...Shocking "moral turpitude...
...A Wisconsin Assemblyman said: "Your story has a fine background and impresses me greatly...
...She outlived her contemporaries and was among the few of the pioneer suffragists to see the object of their struggle and sacrifice, achieved...
...Only a part of the Court held this view, however...
...The Verdict in the Daugherty Case THE TRIAL of the case of the United States versus Harry M. Daugherty, former Attorney General of the Coolidge administration, must convince even the most credulous that the investigation into the Department of Justice by Progressive Democrats and Republicans was not inspired from Moscow or from a narrow partisan standpoint in the minds of all right-minded citizens...
...The majority decision makes it unconstitutional, and as every layman can plainly see, adds enormously to the President's political power and his already undue and excessive control of patronage...
...Her vibrant voice, logical thought, earnestness and power moved me deeply...
...The Daugherty Trial A Conservative Viewpoint IF ANYTHING were needed to remind for the conviction of the former Attorney thoughtful American voters this year General and three for his acquittal, but on that the bad politics of localities may in- the final vote there were seven for convicfect the higher politics of the national Gov- tion and five for acquittal...
...And man-ruled government impotent to interfere...
...Within the memory of millions still living, our Southern slave-owners bred to women with the same delicate regard for pedigree and profit as in breeding to cows...
...Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania was chosen to represent the Senate...
...Henry Parker Willis is a distinguished economist, authority on finance, college professor and author of many valuable books and treatises Olympia Brown held the Universalist pastorate at Racine for nine years...
...Brandeis a high place in my father's esteem...
...These flowers are protected, cared for by the loyal masses, and our fields will be like the flowers in our National Parks...
...There is no good reason why a system could not be worked out whereby every voter would have the option of going to the polls to vote or of voting at home and putting his ballot in the mail box...
...True, the Constitution does not specifically state that the President can not of his own accord dismiss officials whose appointments must be confirmed by the Senate...
...He went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into which he entered and his disciples...
...Today, observe the promptness and convenience with which woman hops from one husband to another, her product, if she regretfully has any, lest, to all intents and purposes, in a mixture of parents and ex-parents...
...Justice Brandeis succinctly argues: "The President's power of removal from statutory civil inferior offices, like the power of appointment to them, comes immediately from Congress...
...As a child I cherished the conservative type of garden, but as I mellow mentally through contact in my happy home life my sentiments have undergone a change...
...These men are but symbols of a government run by corrupt financial interests for their own selfish gain...
...and Olympia Brown remained throughout her life a champion of justice for the colored people...
...The mother's product was lost to her in the slave market...
...A great privilege, a tremendous influence on one's life to know him, Make Home Voting Optional AGAIN the elections stir me io ask why all citizens who prefer to mark their ballots in the quiet of their home instead of going to the polls, should not have the privilege of using Uncle Sam's splendid mail service to that end...
...In the Bible we read that "Jesus had prayed to the Father to have his disciples glorified and all other believers with him in heaven...
...A famous and ernment, the lesson has been taught in the astute criminal lawyer, Mr...
...Think not, then, 0 trembler, God forget-teth thee...
...The strong presentation of arguments against the conclusion of the Court is of the utmost value in enabling the Court to satisfy itself that it has fully considered all that can be said...
...well seem to be the most regrettable thing On the final vote, the jury stood ten for in this whole affair...
...Undertaken at our request, our obligation is none the less if we find ourselves obliged to take a point of view adverse to his...
...Pepper for his able brief and argument as a friend of the Court...
...But, "the great factor" cannot rescue the sweating, stunted child-victims sacrificed to the Moloch of incorporated greed in factory and field...
...At one stage in their delib- case will be tried again was not at once erations, it was said that the jury voted nine decided.—REVIEW OF REVIEWS...
...I shall introduce and do all in my power to promote the passage of such an amendment in the coming session of Congress...
...It was during her first pastorate at Weymouth, Mass., that the Rev...
...A letter from a Boston lady expressed approval of the plan for Home Voting by mail thus: "I think it a fine way to bring out a vastly larger vote than ever has happened, especially the women...
...1835 Olympia Bromn 1926 REV...
...Justice Holmes puts it thus: "We have to deal with an office that owes its existence to Congress and that Congress may abolish tomorrow...
...The delightful and convincing article on this important reform by Senator Schultz in our February magazine brought some significant responses well worthy of consideration at this opportune time,—just after election and before the meeting of the State Legislature...
...Olympia braved her way against prejudice through a New York theological seminary and was ordained to the Universalist ministry in 1863...
...This goes far beyond any practice heretofore approved or followed...
...To seek his advice is as natural as to breathe...
...Shaw...
...Shortly before the September primary she sat on the platform at Racine when Governor Blaine spoke...
...Many friends and relatives lie buried today in the poppy fields abroad...
...The decision tends to nullify the constitutional limitation on the President's appointive power afforded by the clause "by and with the advice and consent of the Senate...
...Positive dissilition of a relation that is established to protect common chastity...
...Men settled that by unrestrained cutting of each other's throats...
...but whether or not the his acquittal...
...A few years ago at the home of her son in Washington, she fell and suffered a severe fracture which her friends feared would have serious consequences at her age, but her physical and mental rebound was like that of youth...
...The majority opinion holds that the President has the exclusive power of removing executive officers of the United •States whom he has appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate...
...OLYMPIA BROWN, pioneer preacher and suffragist, who died suddenly the last week of October at the age of 91 years was buried at Racine, Wisconsin, which had been her home for 46 years, Wednesday, October 27, 1926...
...And remember that some of these flowers grow on rocky promontories with little soil to encourage them...
...Never before, since the German industrial concern to certain Swiss foundation of the Government, had the great interests in consideration of substantial office of Attorney General of the United gifts in the form of United States Liberty States fallen so low...
...With such power over its own creation, I have no more trouble in believing that Congress has power to prescribe a term of life for it free from any interference than I have in accepting the undoubted power of Congress to decree its end...
...The bonds were traced to the defendant's burned books...
...While fighting for the vote she was non-partisan...
...But, at all events, it will be a consolation to those who love the Union, and honor a devotion to the patriotic discharge of duty, that in regard to 'inferior officers' (which appellation probably includes ninety-nine out of a hundred of the lucrative offices in the government), the remedy for any permanent abuse is still within the power of Congress, by the simple expedient of requiring the consent of the Senate to removals in such cases...
...She supported Senator La Follette for President and on his death urged the election of Robert La Follette, Jr., to the Senate...
...I am sold on the idea and want to assure you that if I may be of any assistance to you in making the public see it as you do, I will be pleased to put my shoulder to the wheel for the same...
...He listens intently...
...Woman is the great factor in the lives of children...
...They are shortened in height on the rocky places, but the blossoms are brighter than those on better soil...
...Gwendolyn Willis is Professor of Languages at Bryn Mawr...
...They are Arkansas, Florida, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina, There are also many states where If a child under age goes to work and is injured or killed, no compensation is paid...
...The sun of righteousness has shown upon my garden...
...Justice McReynolds in the course of a long and very serious argument says: "The President has often removed, and it is admitted that he may remove, with either the express or implied assent of Congress...
...To prescribe the tenure involves prescribing the conditions under which incumbency shall cease, for the possibility of removal is a condition or qualification of the tenure...
...A Revolutionary Decision ON OCTOBER 25th the United States Supreme court handed down one of the most important constitutional decisions as it affects political conditions in the United States, ever rendered...
...Daugherty of who defended Mr...
...Human Gardens BY ELIZABETH BOWMAN HARPER FROM MY Midwestern town I look back upon the friendships planted in my heart years ago, now badly scarred, not by real bullets but by cuts from hoes of fevered hands, guided by distorted brains, all in the name of Patriotism...
...And as Justice Brandeis finally concludes : "Nothing in support of the claim of uncontrollable power can be inferred from the silence of the Convention of 1787 on the subject of removal...
...One of our greatest tillers of the human soil has gone but he planted the seeds of honesty in the human garden which are being cherished by many loyal tillers who remain...
...She was inherently domestic and fond of home...
...The record is damning...
...The Archbishop of Canterbury tearfully deprecates the complete impotence of the church in settlement of the world's present greatest "industrial disturbance...
...Daugherty, did not allow Ohio, formerly Attorney General of the his client to go on the witness stand, where United States, and Mr...
...Congress alo e confers on the President the power to appoint to it and at any time may transfer the power to other hands...
...The disagreement of Bonds which they had received from the the jury seems not to have been based upon late John T. King, acting as go-between for any doubt whatever as to the facts regarda German agent named Merton, who had ing the distribution of the large sum given come here representing the parties in in- to John T. King for his aid in procuring the terest...
...The evidence was sufficient to convict Daugh-erty and Miller, formerly Alien Property Custodian...
...Several days before the next November election I saw in a Milwaukee paper the picture of a long line of voters who expected to be absent from home on election day casting their ballots in a box provided for the purpose...
...Olympia Brown was known as Wisconsin's "Mother of Suffrage" and throughout her long and useful life she was a noted national figure, endeared and honored because of her distinguished service to mankind...
...She will sit in the ashes of her home, surrounded by the mutilated, blackened corpses of her children, and then, if ever, she will realize that she is not the great but the greatest factor in human affairs...
...Perthat involved their failure to protect the haps the most appalling and humiliating fact public interest while in office...
...Notwithstanding a few jurors failed to mete out justice to these men who played the game with corrupt big business, public opinion found them guilty...
...The indict- in this whole shocking affair was the rement was framed in a somewhat difficult joicing of the defendants and their personal and unusual way, because the statute of friends at the results of the trial...
...The suggestion of a solution is ready, fresh and sound...
...You will find Bob La Follette's propositions along that line smoke-screened by a rise in wheat to $1.51, or better, in the agricultural regions wherein women are a great factor, but not the greatest, and side-tracked by reason that democracy, generally, has become too prosperity-fat and lazy to worry much about fundamental principles...
...One who knew her intimately says of her that she was never happier than when she could spend the summer months at her home on Lake Avenue, Racine, and tend the flowers in her old-fashioned garden...
...Justice Holmes, Justice Mc-Reynolds and Justice Brandeis all wrote strong dissenting opinions...
...Had it not been for the Progressives in the senate, Daugherty, Miller, Smith, Forbes and Manington would have still been operating right under the shadow of Washington's monument, while the leaders of the old guard would be denouncing Progressives from the housetops and claiming that they, the Old Guard, were receiving their inspiration from Lincoln's tomb...
...We hope to reap a harvest, because we are perennials, and if cared for we will multiply until the earth blossoms with progressive human flowers...
...Both have won high position...
...Over 15,200 appointive places are not to be held at the whim of the President...
...She was small of stature but her noble countenance, dignity, and earnestness gave her a commanding presence...
...Not a leaflet waveth but its God doth see...
...Her strength and endurance were extraordinary...
...The jury was merely confused and prosecuted by the United States District by the complexities of the legal points inAttorney, Emory Buckner...
...Let us vision women, the great factor in peace, in the next war, against which all the wisdom and ingenuity of men seem impotent to provide a preventive...
...She was fifteen years younger than Miss Anthony, twelve years older than Dr...
...To escape limitations had intervened to preclude punishment, rather than to have their honor their indictment for bribery...
...Like the song: "On the grass of the cliff, at the edge of the steep, "God planted a garden, a garden of sleep...
...This is due to a fine bit of judicial construction...
...He was then a famous lawyer...
...that both God and nature selected her as the greatest factor to defend what she has borne in agony and reared in sacrifice...
...It was decisions of this import that caused the Progressives to adopt as a plank in their platform in 1924: "We favor submitting to the people, for their considerate judgment, a constitutional amendment providing that Congress may by enacting a statute make it effective over a judicial veto...
...No wonder men and women come from all parts of the earth and from all walks of life to consult with him upon all manner of questions...
...Is it a question upon which one has worked until the maze seems impenetrable...
...Quite independent of their sympathetic attitude on public questions, they were personally congenial and from their first contact they became close and lasting friends...
...Olympia Brown was a co-worker for suffrage with Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anna Howard Shaw, and others of that noble band...
...It was charg- vindicated, seemed in their minds the ed that they had expedited the transfer of a summum bonum...
...The Amendment to correct the Taft dismissal opinion need provide only that executive officials whose appointment must be confirmed by the Senate, shall not be removed by the President except by advice and consent of the Senate...
...The world knows Mr...
...The Statute of 1876 has been unmodified and in force for half a century...
...Be the problem large or small his interest and desire to help are ever keen...
...Olympia Brown was married to John Henry Willis in 1873...
...Miss Brown went to New York City and took part in the organization of the "American Equal Rights Association...
...Please keep me informed...
...And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them...
...They moved to Racine in 1880...
...A Wisconsin State Senator expressed himself on the subject thus: "Your thought on 'Home Voting by Mail' was very interesting to me, and I have often wondered why something of reform could not be worked out...
...The Supreme Court considered the question involved of such importance that it requested the Senate to appoint counsel to argue the constitutional rights of the Senate...
...Buckner's cross-examination...
...A Milwaukee merchant said: "That is the finest idea for getting out a good wholesome vote that it seems possible to obtain...
...The particular case decided concerns the removal of the postmaster at Portland, Oregon, February 2, 1920, by the Postmaster General, acting by direction of the President...
...Louis D. Brandeis THE EDITOR of the Jewish Tribune, writing me of Ms intention to dedicate the issue of November 12th to Justice Louis D. Brandeis, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, which occurs on November 13th, asked me for an expression of appreciation of some phase of the great Jurist's character, to which I replied: I have known him as "Uncle Louis" since the first time I met him at our home in 1910...
...Coming at a time in history when confirmation by advice and consent of Senate has been challenged, as it was by President Coolidge in the case of Warren for the Cabinet, for example, and in his numerous attempts to influence the action of the members of these most important quasi-judicial Commissions and Boards created for the protection of the public interest, the Supreme Court decision giving the President unrestained power of dismissal is a big boost to autocracy and a corresponding blow to democracy...
...The solution is so simple...
...Such astute and volved in the charge of conspiracy, and the varied efforts had been made to conceal the possible motives and relationships of the facts and destroy the evidence that Mr...
...However, Mr...
...but the present theory is that he may override the declared will of that body...
...Shocking turpitude...
...No one comes in vain...
...It seems impossible for woman to realize that she is, potentially, the greatest factor in respect of peace, war or anything else...
...Daugherty did not take the in developing his case...
...The law says that compensation shall be paid to the person injured while employed, etc The courts say that the law can not help anyone who was unlawfully employed...
...A million or more miners, protesting against the ages-old degradation of wives and children, are starved back into the pits by organized greed and, in the presence of the moral atrocity of it, the church helplessly folds its hands in its lap...
...Miller, formerly he might have told his own story subject Alien Property Custodian, for conspiracy to Mr...
...A pioneer feminist as well as suffragist, She kept her maiden name because she believed the custom of taking the husband's name was a survival of woman's becoming on marriage the husband's chattel...
...I well remember the impression Olympia Brown made on me when as a student at the Wisconsin University I heard her speak in the Assembly Chamber of the State Capitol...
...The indictment of the conviction of Colonel Miller and two for course still holds...
...Blazoned high up on the list of those great pioneer workers for equal rights and justice to all mankind will be the name of Olympia Brown...
...For the outstanding fact remains that every specific proposal to confer such uncontrollable power upon the President was rejected...
...it conflicts with the history of the Constitution, with the ordinary rules of interpretation, and with the construction approved by Congress since the beginning and emphatically sanctioned by this Court...
...Over many years she was an in-timate friend of Congressman and Mrs...
...The purpose of this convention was to work for the rights of the negro as well as women...
...Max D. Steuer, long weeks of the trial of Mr...
...When the ballot was won, Olympia Brown used it for the progressive cause...
...Its duration and the pay attached to it while it lasts depend on Congress alone...
...These and other comments indicate an appreciation on the part of the public of the convenience and pleasure of voting at home and real desire for an extension of the privilege...
...The case was tried in the Federal immediate transfer of the alien property in District Court at New York by Judge Mack, question...
...Women have merely borne the burden of the weeping and burying in war, with some immediate, temporary sacrifice in the term of meatless, heatless, sugarless weeks, etc...
...And protection of the individual, even if he be an official, from the arbitrary or capricious exercise of power was then believed to be an essential of free government...
...Neath the blue of the sky, in the green of the corn, "It is there that the regal red poppies are born...
...His activities in the public interest had won for him the title of "People's Lawyer...
...The value of 'Voting by Mail from the Home' will never be known until you create an 'Educational Path': Education and a trial—perhaps we'll have both before long...
...All fathers graciously admit this: many because they are busy with other matters, others because they are lazy, and some because their wives make them feel it...
...She was an ideal presiding officer and had the honor and dis- tinction of presiding at the hearings held in the Senate in Washington in 1913 on the Constitutional Suffrage Amendment...
...The bond soon grew to include the members of both families and the relationship constitutes one of the richest experiences of my life...
...His understanding heart and brilliant mind work in unison, making him the best possible guide, friend and counsellor in all human affairs...
...Public opinion finally forced a reluctant administration to indict them, but not until they had had ample time to destroy much evidence...
...Why not the next Wisconsin Legislature...
...BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE JUDICIAL HAIR-SPLITTING In spate of all that has been done on workmen's compensation laws and laws for the safeguarding of children, Florence Kelley is the Survey reports that there are still six states which have no workmen's compensation act whatever...
...At the age of seventy-seven she made a suffrage campaign in Kansas with a record of aver 300 speeches...
...The half century of struggle and martyrdom for enfranchisement of women will be the marvel of future generations...
...It seems strange that with all the agitation of the problem of getting out the "stay at home" vote, more attention should not have been given to the simple Common sense plan of giving every voter the chance to stay home and vote...
...Henry Allen Cooper, of Racine...
...Meanwhile, women, I guess, will go right on rallying to the prosperity, or League, or tariff, or some other emotional slogan of this or that grand old party, blind as to their real power and loyally putting one political foot down after another in the well-worn spoor of grandfather, father and factor husband, if any...
...Yet, is there any question but women are the backbone, the greatest factor, of the English churches, and of the American, as well...
...one feels the action of his splendid intellect, trained to ultimate efficiency, guided by vast experience and the deepest human sympathy, at work upon the tangled skeins of the problem...
...His opposition to the New Haven transportation monopoly, to advanced freight rates, together with his championship of shorter hours of labor and minimum wage, had given Mr...
Vol. 18 • November 1926 • No. 11
