EDITORIALS

...The citizen is sovereign...

...La Follette's pointed out the course which would be pursued by the subservient representatives of Big Business in the House of Representatives...

...It was exceedingly important that no mistake be made in the start of our expansion program...

...the East Indian with the Englishman...

...It dominates both branches of congress...

...It will control the new committee on rules...

...in its course Miss Addams unfolds the evolution of her ideas on social questions and gives the practical reasons for the beliefs which she holds and which have had so large an influence upon the social workers of the country...

...That Mr...

...Above all nations is humanity," is its motto...

...If the people's interests have not suffered by the change so made, it is because of the good fortune of finding an equally capable man for the post made vacant, but certain it is that in making the change the Speaker did not consult the interests of the people, or even those of the party, but the low, unworthy one of personal revenge...

...In a German paper, the Corbacher Zeitung, for February 10, under a New York date line, a story is printed to the effect that at the present time in the United States there is in cold storage the following amount of food: 14,000,000 steers, 6,000,000 calves, 26,000,000 sheep, 60,000,000 hogs, 2,000,000,000 eggs—all of which is said to be worth $1,200,000,000...

...Cooper, and President McKinley himself emphasized the honor shown and the confidence he reposed in the selection by personally announcing his choice to Mr...

...That editorial was written five days before the action of either caucus...

...He knew the high qualifications Cooper brought to his post, the wisdom and conscientiousness with which he met its duties, and has testified to his worth by word and deed...

...If any baser instance of stultification than that shown by this action of the Speaker can exist, it is hard to conceive of it...

...After years of conspicuously efficient service, service that merited higher expression of appreciation than even the Speaker could give, Cooper was removed by one once a subordinate member of his committee, not because of incapacity or dereliction of duty, but simply because he had responded to the noble inspiration of freedom and of serving his country...

...At that time the Washington press dispatches were heralding the noisy parliamentary skirmish as a great decisive battle...

...He made no personal warfare on the Speaker...

...the Swede with the Norwegian...

...If the correspondent of our contemporary in Germany has given the figures correctly, isn't it about time the...

...The membership is made up of students from all the nations...

...Cooper's chairmanship was the important one of the committee on insular affairs...

...However, the stultification would have occurred had he voted to retain the Speaker, for in Cooper's instance Cannon added personal vindictiveness, if not insult, to tyranny over the House and disragard of popular interests and demands...

...It is not expected that the appearance of this publication will bring about the hasty disarmament of the world powers, but it is certain that the movement thus originating among students of many climes, and spreading to far-distant lands, will bring nearer the day when we shall be a family of nations rather than a group of belligerents...

...The first number has just appeared...

...Cooper and Cannon BECAUSE Congressman Cooper of the first district of Wisconsin stands high in the esteem of his fellow members of the House and once occupied an exalted committee position, his action in voting to declare the office of Speaker vacant is characterized in the Cannon press as a stultification of a large, generally fair, and judicial mind...

...What have you to say about the "law of supply and demand operating automatically to adjust prices" when the supply is thus locked up tightly in the vaults of the cold storage trust, awaiting a day when the prices will be on a higher and a still higher level...

...When Senators and Representatives will join with those of opposite politics to serve the System, the voter should not hesitate to support the candidate of some other party whenever necessary to elect men who will faithfully serve him and his country...

...To be true to his ideals Cooper could consistently vote no other way than he did...

...If no other ground existed for the necessity of a change in the rules of the House this instance alone would have been sufficient...

...Most striking is the atmosphere of international fellowship that permeates its pages...

...The public was rejoicing over the downfall of Cannonism and the overthrow of System control in the house...

...American people were beginning to cast inquisitive eyes in the direction of the group of men who thus control with an iron hand so large a part of the nation's food supply...

...Cooper met the responsibilities splendidly has been attested not only by the course of events in the administration of affairs in the islands, but by his repeated reappointment to the chairmanship of that committee until a year ago when he was removed by the Speaker because—spare the mark!—he had declared in favor of a change in the rules of the House that would mean truer representation and better government for the people...

...In order to bring the chapters closer together, and closer to allied organizations throughout the world, the Association is publishing The Cosmopolitan Student...

...The ballot is all powerful...

...When Cannon needed the votes of Democrats to retain power to appoint all the standing committees on legislation in the House in the contest of March, 1909, he summoned Fitzgerald and twenty-two of his Democratic colleagues to save the day for System control of the House...

...It is a great human story of a great woman...

...The downfall of Cannonism...

...A Great Story JANE ADDAMS, the founder of the Hull-House, in Chicago, the most extensive and important social settlement in the United States, begins her life story in the April American Magazine...

...Mark what really happened in the caucuses of both parties when they came to select the members of the new committee on rules...

...When Aldrich was pressed for votes last session to maintain high tariff rates, he had but to cross the aisle to the Democratic side of the Senate, lay his compelling hand upon the required number of Democratic senators and swing them into line...

...And that the lesson may be "rubbed in," the administration is invoked and ignobly joins in by withholding its patronage from him...

...Think of that, hungry citizen...

...The steel trust, the sugar trust, the beef trust, the cotton trust, in short, the System, will control in that caucus by an overwhelming majority...

...In Cold Storage HERE is a bit of information that may well claim the attention of the Senate committee which is investigating the high cost of living...

...Realizing also that the chairmanship of such committee required a man of the highest abilities and character—one in'whom Congress and the people, as well as the islanders themselves, would repose confidence—President McKinley and Speaker Henderson canvassed the House field thoroughly...

...It was realized that a new congressional committee to deal with these problems would have to be created...

...It speaks through Aldrich in the Senate and through Cannon in the House...

...Cooper and urging the Wisconsin statesman to accept...

...What wonder that a high-minded patriot like Cooper, anxious to serve the people, could not entertain any respect for such an official...

...The Chinese student mingles fraternally with the Japanese...

...Cannon, before becoming Speaker, was himself a member of this same committee...

...Cooper is of too big a nature to harbor petty resentment at the incident of his removal from a committee post, but there can be no peace between his ideals and the ideals of Cannon...

...The world will be the better for the writing of this story...

...World Brotherhood IN twenty-two of the leading colleges and universities of the United States there are chapters of The Association of Cosmopolitan Clubs...

...yet knowing all this he arbitrarily removed him from the chairmanship as a punishment for independence and to make him an example of terror to others who might be inclined to disregard the close corporation that arrogates everything to itself in the House...

...It is a promising journal...

...It threw diplomacy to the dogs, denied the progressives any representation and named all of the Republican members of the committee, then, to show its contempt for the public, made a coarse exhibition of its power by also electing Fitzgekald, Tammany Democrat, a member of the committee on rules...

...The central idea is to promote international acquaintanceships, and mutual understanding, to the end that there shall be peace among the nations...

...The President and the Speaker finally decided that the man of all men for the place was Mr...

...The System asserted its power boldly...

...the Spaniard with the American...

...That his conscience approves the course taken there can be no doubt in right-thinking, independent minds...

...The public must understand that, whenever necessary, System control is a bi-party control...

...The overthrow of the interests...

...If for diplomatic reasons it places an insurgent Republican on the committee, it will be strong enough to balance that appointment with a Tammany Democrat...

...When the United States acquired the Philippines and Porto Rico as a result of the war with Spain, new and grave problems were presented...

...The lesson is obvious...

...Even disregarding the personal equation entirely, could such a broad-minded man as Cooper escape the conviction that the present official was not the kind of man that should occupy the chair of Speaker...