EDITORIALS

...Third, what is the amount of the production of this commodity in this country...

...But when the bill came to a vote it was found that the machine Republicans had joined hands with Tammany Democrats and killed it by a majority of ten votes...

...A tariff commission, in order to be of any service to Congress or the country, ought to have its duties clearly defined, and should be clothed with authority to ascertain all the facts that should enter into honest tariff revision...

...Second, what are the raw materials used in its production and manufacture...

...In view of the facts, this attempt to reconcile the people to the Payne-Aldrich tariff outrage by pretending.that the "persons" whom the President is empowered to employ to "assist" him in administering the maximum and minimum provisions of the law are in reality a "tariff commission" such as the people demand, is cheap political pettifoggery...

...The new tariff law, in place of the McKinlay policy of reciprocity, provides for tariff retaliation by adding 20 per cent, ad valorem to the regular duties on all goods imported from any country which discriminates against American products...

...This retaliatory duty applies by force of law ugainst every foreign country except such as the President shall ascertain and proclaim do not discriminate in any manner against American goods...

...They had grown weary of machine-made representation...

...Attorney General Wickersham seems to have been only too successful in pouring oil upon the troubled flames.—Boston Transcript...

...A man of right convictions, he also has the political intelligence and the moral courage without which even the best convictions may cut but a sorry figure in public affairs...

...The House of Representatives is not just ready to buy Uncle Joe Cannon an auto, but it will be glad to figure with him in regard to an elegant pair of roller skates.—Houston Chronicle...

...Fifteenth, what part of the proposed duty represents the difference in the cost of production between this and competing foreign countries...

...Fifth, how many concerns are engaged in the manufacture of the commodity under consideration...

...Here are some of the things such a commission should find out: First, what is the nature and use of a given commodity under consideration...

...President, I reiterate that Oregon has evolved the best system of popular government that exists in the world to-day...

...The "best-tariff-law-ever-enacted" fairy tale brought not even a smile to the grim face of the outraged Consumer...

...The referendum prevents misuse of the power temporarily centralized in the legislature...

...And incidentally as a justification of the upward-revision tariff law...

...The recall, to my mind, isi rather an admonitory or precautionary measure, the existence of which will prevent the necessity for its use...

...To the extent, if any, that "such persons" may be engaged at the public expense, even on the eve of Congressional elections and to meet widespread public sentiment, in the business of being a "tariff commission" and collecting "detailed information" to be "of great value in enacting tariff legislation," to that extent they are engaged in an unlawful enterprise, outside the scope of the law of their appointment...

...Governor Hughes was waiting to sign it...

...Sixth, who are the principal producers...

...This resolution needs no further comment...

...principles, not boss or machine dictation...

...Twelfth, what is the percentage of the labor cost to the total cost of a unit of product in competing foreign countries...

...NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, By the Minnesota Shippers' and Receivers' Association of Minnesota: Flnt That we hereby most emphatically express our disapproval of the conduct of said Committee in refusing to compel the different departments of the Government to give up and transmit to the Committee all the papers and documents relating in any way to the investigation of this matter...

...The absurdity of this latest "defense" will be apparent to anyone who will take time enough to read the tariff law...

...During the special session, when Aldrich found his tariff bill jeopardized by the determined opposition of the progressive Republicans in the Senate, he appealed to his reserves on the Democratic side...

...It is very different from what the people have come to look upon, and what is generally known as a "tariff commission...

...They turned to Hughes...

...The initiative develops the electorate because it encourages study of principles and policies of government, and affords the originator of new ideas in government an opportunity to secure popular judgment upon his measures if 8 per cent, of the voters of his State deem them worthy of submission to popular vote...

...Stand-pat Congressmen, who aspire to reelection, it appears, are finding themselves in sore straits to hit upon something— most anything—that will "go" with their constituents, by way of justification...

...The voters in the Republican party are for it...

...Until very recently, New York was notoriously a boss-ridden state...

...Siamese Twins in Politics LAST YEAR, when Cannon found he lacked enough Republican votes to put him back in the Speaker's chair, he called to his assistance as many of the machine Democrats as were needed to pull him through...

...Then the people began to insurge...

...The corrupt-practices act is necessary as a complement to the initiative and referendum and the direct primary, for, without the corrupt-practices act, these other features of popular government could be abused...

...They responded...

...He is a Republican of the Abraham Lincoln type—a democratic Republican...

...Kent, whose convictions they fear and whose fighting qualities they do not despise.—The Public...

...On several occasions he has shown symptoms of peevishness at the persistence with which Attorney Brandeis has been attempting to wring out the whole truth concerning the activities of Secretary Ballinger...

...The direct primary absolutely insures popular selection of all candidates and establishes the responsibility of the public servant to the electorate and not to any political boss or special interest...

...The initiative and referendum is the keystone of the arch of popular government, for by means of this the people may accomplish such other reforms as they desire...

...Every tune the committee voted to suppress documents or records called for # by Mr, Glavis' attorney, Nelson was found with the "majority...

...Although the district is said to be strongly Republican, there is no telling what the Interests might try to make it if the party nominates such a man as Mr...

...What questions should a permanent tariff commission enswer in order to furnish any information to Congress1...

...And, sixteenth, what part of the proposed duty represents the reasonable profit for the American manufacturer if he is to be given a reasonable profit...

...The Australian ballot assures the honesty of elections...

...The Oregon Way SENATOR JONATHAN BOURNE, JR., made a speech in the United States Senate on May 5 on "popular" versus "delegated" government and the effect it has on legislation...

...Let no one be deceived by it...

...Fourth, what is the amount of the consumption of this commodity in this country...

...It has been claimed in the public press of the country that the said investigating committee was appointed for the purpose of "white-washing" the conduct of Secretary Ballinger and for the purpose of protecting the President from criticism...

...Kent is the very kind of person to put into his place in Congress...

...The registration law guards the integrity of the privilege of American citizenship—participation in government...

...BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That we request of the Committee that hereafter no attempt be made to conceal any testimony, but that a full and fair exposition of all the facts be made so that full justice can be done both by the Committee and the public to the parties concerned...

...and WHEREAS...

...We wish a copy of this speech might be placed in the hands of every voter in the country...

...Senator Nelson comes from Minnesota...

...Tammany came to the rescue...

...Kent will doubtless have to encounter the opposition of the railroad ring, brutal or wily or both as circumstances require, and upon winning at the primaries he will be confronted by the same opposition at the election...

...In view of this fact there is more than ordinary significance attached to the resolution adopted on May 17, 1910, by a great organization of Mr...

...And under the leadership of Governor Hughes the people of New York state have been fighting for a primary election law...

...A majority of the Republican members of the legislature favor it...

...He points out, however, that "where the selection of public servants is left to a political machine or boss, as is frequently the case under our convention system, the tendency is toward misrepresentative, and not a truly representative, form of government, notwithstanding the election is supposedly by the people...

...Under the operation of this law popular verdicts will be based upon ideas, not money...

...They came...

...How long will evidence of the bi-partisan character of the System have to accumulate before it is plain to all that our Aldriches and McEnerys, our Cannons and Fitzgeralds, our Aldridges and Sullivans, are really Siamese twins in poli-tics...

...Kent was in the thick of the fight in Chicago against the gray wolf pack fifteen years ago, and as one of the incidents of that fight he served efficiently in the City Council...

...So they did as Cannon and Aldrich had done and sent a "C...

...It is earnestly to be hoped, therefore, that every democratic Republican in his district will vigorously support his candidacy at the primaries, and that upon his nomination every democratic Democrat there will join the democratic Republicans in making his election to Congress sure...

...Bourne believes in a truly representative government...

...This is all the "tariff commission" for which the law provides, and in authorizing the employment of such persons the law circumscribes and defines their lawful functions...

...William Kent for Congreis from California NEWSPAPER dispatches from San Francisco report the candidacy for the Republican nomination for Congress from the second California district, of William Kent, formerly of Chicago but now of Kentfield, California...

...This year it seemed certain that they would get it...

...It follows: WHEREAS, the recent communications from the Secretary of the Interior and the President of the United States have made it clear that the joint committee appointed by the House and Senate to Investigate the controversy relating to the conservation of the natural resources of the country, has failed to respond to the public demand for a com pi te and full revelation of the facts relating thereto...

...This by way of appeasing the voters who see in the Payne-Aldrich law a repudiation of party promises and a betrayal of public confidence...

...In the campaign for nomination, Mr...

...If Congressman McKinlay, the present member from the second California district, is the representative of the Interests that the news dispatches describe him as being, Mr...

...Eleventh, what is the percentage of the labor cost of the total cost of a unit of product in this country...

...Reading the insurgents out of the Republican party will leave it much like a blown egg—all shell and no meat.—Farm, Stock and Home...

...argument, not abuse...

...Political Pettifoggery AND now the people are being told that the Payne-Aldrich tariff law is the best ever because it provides for a tariff commission...

...Second] That it is the sense of this organization that inasmuch as the puolic have no other means of acquiring knowledge excepting through Congress or a Committee of Congress, any investigation by that body should be free from quibbling, technicalities and partisanship...

...Nelson's constituents—the Minnesota Shippers' and Receivers' Association...

...At the end of the section occur these words: "To secure information TO ASSIST THE PRESIDENT IN THE DISCHARGE OF THE duties imposed upon him by this section, and the officers of the government in the administration of the customs law, the President is hereby authorized to employ such PERSONS AS MAY be required...

...An an example of popular government, in good working order, Mr...

...Tenth, what is the total cost of production per unit of production in competing countries...

...Nothing could be more certain than the intention or Congress to deny them such authority, for Congress deliberately eliminated from the bill every shred of legislative authority for this work which the bill at one time contained...

...He says: "Mr...

...Q. D." call to their Democratic kin...

...The President's assistants provided for in the Payne-Aldrich law cannot legally collect such information...

...In the New York legislature the other day the machine Republicans counted noses and found they could not muster votes enough among members of their own party to defeat the direct nominations bill...

...Bourne describes the system now in force in his own state, Oregon...

...And this is what the defenders of the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill would have the people accept as a tariff commission...

...The "downward revision" soothing syrup was not swallowed by a public that has learned to look first to the label...

...So the "tariff commission" farce is being tried out on the public...

...Ninth, what is the total cost of production per unit of production in this country...

...As I have fully explained, the publicity pamphlet provided for by the corrupt-practices act affords all candidates for nomination or election equal means of presenting before the voter their views upon public questions, and protects the honest candidate against the misuse of money in political campaigns...

...What is it that is necessary to determine in order to settle the difference in the cost of production at home and abroad...

...Thirteenth, what is the cost of transportation to the principal markets in this country from the principal points of production in this country...

...Eighth, what are the ruling market prices of this commodity in competing countries...

...It is, however, an essential feature of a complete system of popular government...

...At rare intervals there may be occasion for exercise of the recall against municipal or county officers, but I believe the fact of its existence will prevent need for its use against the higher officials...

...Seventh, what are the ruling market prices of this commodity' in this country...

...Fourteenth, what is the cost of transportation to the principal markets in this country from the principal points of production in competing foreign countries...

...A Gentle Hint SENATOR JONATHAN BOURNE, JR., made a speech in sional committee investigating the BALLlNGER-PiNCHOT controversy...

...Third: We view with regret the attitude of the Committee in so conducting the investigation that it became necessary for the House of Representatives to call on the departments of the Government for information in order that justice might he done to those who were assailing the Ballinger policies...