EDITORIALS
THE SENATE AND THE "ELDER STATESMEN" SENATOR BEVERIDGE of Indiana has published a magazine article on "The Control of the Senate" in which he attributes senatorial power to a dominating extent to...
...The unemployed class will disappear...
...The need of the nation is for independence, initiative, fearlessness...
...New England often keeps her senators in for life...
...Do a murder git commit, we hear of and tell it...
...Their chemistry is nearer ours than any other...
...But their maintenance in office by Rhode Island, Maine, Illinois, Wisconsin, or any other state, for any possible length of time, proves nothing except their fitness to represent the political factors in such state...
...It is to men and morals that the attention of the nation is slowly but permanently turning in cases where the popular brain is not quite sure of correctness in regard to measures...
...It must come everywhere...
...The principles that give control in the Senate to the "elder statesmen" are worth the closest attention...
...She will even endure some independence of view on important matters, in her senators, as in the case of Hoar on expansion...
...Such a law is not the measure we have advocated...
...Iowa kept Allison in for thirty-five years...
...Aldrich should for a single session see the light and act for the people instead of the corporations, even his smoothly-adjusted machine would be smashed by the powers other than the people whom Mr...
...Do a mighty chief die, we publish it, and in borders of somber...
...And it makes it a felony for the movement with no funds to contribute anything to the defeat of the party with the barrel...
...Tell each of you its greatness for good...
...If its perusal by the farmers of the country does not result in some new methods in marketing, the farmers will convict themselves of a sad lack of business ability...
...don't "knock...
...She has enacted a law for the payment of campaign expenses from the public treasury...
...It gives the independent movement none...
...Jay Gould is said to have boasted that he always left the farmers along his line enough for seed...
...FORREST CRISSEY, in the current Everybody's, has written of a form of graft which has hitherto escaped exposure—the thefts and swindles of the produce market...
...English as She is Wrote STYLES in Siam may be different from styles in America...
...And then he answers the question by asserting that, while it is not a matter of practical dietetics, the most sensible eater is the cannibal, who, "in consuming his own kind is eating exactly the right stuff...
...This is good...
...Aldrich represents, and which really own and man the machine...
...Day by day new "jokers" have been discovered in the tariff bill...
...There is a chemistry of species," says Dr...
...Hopkins...
...Build mills for finishing it, say "refining sugar...
...The Beauties of Cannibalism THOSE pessimists who oppose cannibalism should be ashamed of themselves...
...Doubtless, in the first stages of the reform which must follow a general acceptance of this truth, monkeys will be bred and slaughtered for human food...
...We shall all live by Morgan-Rockefeller methods...
...If Senators were elected by the people of the United States, their presence in the Senate would be presumptive proof of their fitness as agents of the popular will...
...Fix on some stage of its production at which it is unfit for market, say "Not above Number 16 Dutch Standard in color...
...hence, the power of Hale, Frye, and Aldrich of the New England group...
...They really constitute the factors that control the nation—as things now are...
...Perhaps this is because it is one of those complex subjects which are beyond mastery for the man who can give it only a little time...
...And mystery with regard to a subject on which depends the subsistence of the people, is an exceedingly serious thing...
...One wonders how the business has gone on so long if conditions are so bad...
...Colorado Leads---Where...
...WE said in a recent editorial "Colorado Leads the Way...
...We stick to it...
...and when the big ones began eating the small ones, they found in their bodies "the most efficient protein" for their own nourishment...
...If by some miracle of Divine grace, Mr...
...Cannon makes fun of, but which observers from all lands think they have seen taking place recently in American political life, has not brought light to the voters on the tariff...
...but the nation's interest in a really deep waterway from the Lakes to the Gulf is superior to any possible interest in power...
...This is an extraordinary law...
...We circle every town and extortionate not for advertisements...
...Governor Deneen's policy would at once develop a great water power at Dresden Heights...
...Such a system is perfidiously wrong and evil...
...He never will...
...The nation as a whole has a greater interest in this waterway than has Illinois...
...The Leak in the Produce Market MR...
...Recipe for a Successful Trust FIND some necessity of life which in whole or in most part must be imported, say sugar...
...Illinois Hesitates as to Waterway GOVERNOR DENEEN wanted to begin at once in the matter of expending Illinois' $20,000,000 on the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway...
...asked Dr...
...The surest recipe for a long term of office in the United States Senate is to secure election from a corporation-ridden state and do the work of the corporations...
...This is true optimism...
...Ready on Friday...
...Rubber boots and wooden chairs imported as wool...
...The men and the faction responsible for them will reap the whirlwind...
...Lorimer wanted to wait until the United States might be enlisted in the project so as to make the channel really deep—deep enough to carry the longest lake vessel, or to admit war-ships in case of need...
...The result will be that the unfinished product will have to be sent to your mills to be finished, "refined"—and you will have a $145,000,000 trust,—say the American Sugar Refining Company...
...P. S.:—We have found it impracticable to obtain interviews with citizens who have been eaten, so these observations do not reflect their point of view...
...So when the news came that Colorado had passed a law for the public financing of campaigns, we said "Colorado Leads the Way...
...The "law of automatic promotion" offers success to the man of dependence, supineness, craft and willing subservience to the Powers that Prey...
...Beveridge says, likes to keep her senators long in office...
...Find a boss powerful enough or unscrupulous enough to let you write a tariff bill and to pass it, say Cannon or Aldrich...
...That is natural in, for instance, the matter of dress...
...And so long as that body of traditions and customs of which Mr...
...If men rule this nation merely because Rhode Island and Maine keep them in office for long periods of time, the people ruled ought to know it, and ponder on it...
...So Havemeyer's citizen ate up all his fellows and formed the Sugar Trust...
...And at last, a huge superman, super-citizen, and super-corporation will result, who, physically as the Standard Oil Group are like soon to be financially, and by similar policies, will have become, like the elderly naval man, at once the cook and the captain bold, and the mate of the Nancy brig, and the bos'n tight and the midshipmite and the crew of the captain's gig...
...color tests in sugar not for purity, but to send sugar to certain mills to be whitened...
...Such things are not the moral deeds of good men, but the work of scoundrels...
...The people change their point of view...
...A corporation has been declared by the Supreme Court a citizen...
...Crissey's article would seem to indicate that commission men quite often omit to do this, even...
...Staff has each one been college, and write like Kipling and the Dickens...
...and he suggests that Washington must always remain a negligible quantity in senate-ruling as compared with Rhode Island as long as the policies of the two states remain relatively as they now are...
...By "citizens" in this connection is meant the corporations...
...He has had blown into his face the hot air from thousands of protective-tariff blowers, revenue-tariff blowers, and free-trade blowers, but the real God's air of candor and truth he has not been permitted to breathe...
...Unfortunately, bad things may be mistakenly done in a good cause, and under cover of good causes wicked things may be perpetrated...
...Unfortunately, there are more ways than one...
...Self-employment will be found for all in the pursuit of their fellow men for food—or in running away from them...
...Below the Surface in the Tariff Contest THE average voter does not understand the tariff question...
...It gives the third parties little...
...Writ in perfectly style and most earliest...
...Number one...
...Nothing is gained by "knocking...
...If he is correct in his statements, most of the produce commission merchants who handle shipments from our farms and orchards and gardens belong in jail rather than in offices...
...hence Cullom's position of influence...
...Perhaps it is just as well...
...He has not had for a generation, at least, a fair chance for an education upon the tariff...
...of the first year's salary or 15 per cent...
...It gives the great parties funds raised by taxation, and it makes the financing of competing parties criminal...
...A law which under the guise of a measure for public payment of campaign expenses, issues exclusive franchises to any two political parties, steals the livery of reform to serve corruption...
...The men supporting it must be prepared for a searching of hearts as well as of treasury returns...
...It has been a beautiful demonstration of scientific truth...
...The state chairman then sends 12 and one half cents for each vote cast for governor in such county to the county chairmen...
...And it implies a scientific justification of our captains of industry who have been for years feeding one class of our citizens on the bodies of their fellows...
...subtle changes in the words of the cotton schedule,—a thousand places where craft and deceit are used to raise tariff rates without seeming to do so: all these are sowing the wind...
...Perhaps the most serious obstacle to the unreserved acceptance of his conclusions is the completeness of the case he seems to make...
...The question is, where...
...Lorimer pleads...
...This is what rule by the "elder statesmen" under present conditions really means...
...However this may be, no matter what dark corners may be illuminated by investigation and exposure, the tariff catacombs remain, for the average man, as black with mystery as ever...
...If he is correct in his statements, growers of apples, peaches, small fruits, onions, celery, cranberries, eggs, potatoes, and the like are entrusting the sale of their produce daily to men who deliberately lie, steal, falsify reports, make sham sales to their accomplices, and otherwise commit crimes, every day, and in thousands of cases, beside which pocket-picking is brave and grave-robbing rather honorable than otherwise...
...Buy it...
...Anyhow, "boost...
...He spoke of "the law of automatic promotion" by which the men last in go to the foot of the ladder, and climb to higher place by practically the sole method of stepping up a rung at a time as those who happened to reach the ladder first fall off or climb off...
...Better wait a while and do the right and efficient thing, than to go ahead now and do the wrong and futile one...
...Hence it was with something of a shock that English-speaking people received the following announcement, distributed by the founders of a new Siamese newspaper: "The news of English we tell the latest...
...Cannibalism is a very old custom, and the pessimists should have remembered that if it had not been useful it would not have persisted...
...Illinois has kept Cullom in for twenty-six years...
...All legislation is a matter of men as well as of measures, of morals as well as of brains...
...But when William E. Chandler, a man second to none from New England in statesmanship, revolted from the railway ring which ruled his state, his senatorial head fell in the basket as soon as the railways' guillotine could be set up...
...The people should demand its abolition...
...Hopkins, "and the nearer the two species of animals are together, the more nearly does the chemistry of their bodies agree...
...Once let the people, who do not understand the tariff, come to believe their law the nefarious work of scoundrels, and American history will be searched in vain for an instance of political downfall in the past as complete as that which will come to the men so condemned...
...No senator is entitled by any valid claim to any place of power save by the possession of fitness for the carrying out of the will of the people of the nation...
...It calls upon the new member and the new senator to abandon his trust and become a cog in a machine run according to this "law of automatic promotion...
...It finds, if not "sermons in stones" and "books in the running brooks," at least "good in everything...
...No one can deny the truth of much of this...
...After a while, purer cannibalism will be adopted with great sociological profit...
...F. Rowland Hopkins, before the Royal Institution of London, puts us to shame by putting in a boost for the much-maligned cannibal...
...the corporations, never...
...The subject is as forbidding and as obscure as ever...
...hence Allison's power...
...Beveridge speaks is allowed to rule the Senate, to a large extent the House, and thus the Nation, "the law of automatic promotion" means that the unswerving, unfaltering, satanic policy of the great Interests, by keeping their servants in power through control of rotten-borough districts and rotten-borough states, will enable them to control the places of power and influence, and to make this government as much a branch of their businesses as if the House and Senate were elected by their Boards of Directors...
...The imperative demands of the future will be for the ship canal for which Mr...
...If such a right had been given it would not have been established on any such "automatic" basis as mere length of service...
...But in the matter of a language, variations in style are usually confined within the limits of correct use...
...The moral uplift which Mr...
...Coupled with ability and fidelity to the public weal, it is the highest sort of claim to preferment...
...Candidates for office may contribute 25 per cent...
...What would be the most efficient protein for men...
...To let them be financed by candidates is as bad as to allow the litigants to support the courts or to permit the devil to finance the pulpit...
...Be it remembered, permanence in office from any state proves merely the approval of the powers dominant in that state...
...Gobble up, subdue, or kill off all competitors, like, say Arbuckles or the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company...
...if it is a fee office...
...It does not follow, however, that the people of the nation are not better equipped to deal with the tariff than formerly, merely because they have no better mastery of the subject...
...Dr...
...Length of service is a legitimate credential for high place, if it be honorable service...
...A member of Congress from Colorado gives us the following resume of the law: "The law provides in substance for payment out of the state treasury to the state chairmen of the respective political parties the sum of 25 cents for each vote cast for the respective candidates of such parties for governor at the preceding election...
...Of course no constitutional power exists in Rhode Island or Maine or Illinois or any other state to rule the nation...
...Buy it...
...It gives the great parties practically all the funds...
...THE SENATE AND THE "ELDER STATESMEN" SENATOR BEVERIDGE of Indiana has published a magazine article on "The Control of the Senate" in which he attributes senatorial power to a dominating extent to senatorial permanency in office...
...Robbing the Hand that Feeds" is the appropriate name of the article...
...Perfectly simple...
...New England, as Mr...
...Morgan fed one steel citizen after another to the biggest steel citizen, and the Steel Trust resuited—and so of all the Trusts...
...That many think this the case is shown by the increasing sentiment favoring a tariff commission of experts whose duty it shall be to master it for the people...
...Senator Beveridge mentions the proneness of Washington to change senators, and the example of Rhode Island in letting hers alone...
...The present tariff bill must make good in this field of morals, and here the uplift has been most active and effective...
...He never did...
...The legislature—much addicted to deadlocks—could not agree, and nothing was done...
...Put a duty on the unfinished product equal to that on the finished, say "one and ninety-five hundredths cents per pound," on refined sugar and all light enough in color for use...
...Contribution by all other persons or corporations to political parties, committees or candidates is made a felony punished by fine and imprisonment in the penitentiary...
Vol. 1 • June 1909 • No. 23
