EDITORIALS
Again the People Win DENVER had an election on May 17. The issue involved was whether the public utility corporations or the people should rule. It resulted in a great victory for the people. One...
...Now, many people are aware that these germs exist...
...One of them was a man at the head of a large work for boys: the other was a woman connected with the Associated Charities...
...Read these summarized articles in La Follette's to use with your neighbor voters...
...He aims to tell the readers of La Follette's, briefly and yet comprehensively, the message contained in the articles that have appeared recently in several of the great progressive magazines...
...3. Will the Railroads Throttle the Panama Canal...
...And they know that the functions performed by these germs are worse than useless...
...THE JOKE'S ON YOU...
...In this newspaper Mrs...
...3. The Annexation of Cuba by the Sugar Trust...
...The old order of Special Privilege is giving way to the new order of Public Welfare...
...VII...
...This proposition was backed by both the Democratic and the Republican machines and by the city hall gang...
...Smash the machine...
...I said that neither of them were capable of doing the best in their respective fields when they held such a prejudiced and ignorant attitude toward a class which had shown themselves to be so amenable when reached by wise and kind treatment...
...By B. B. Hampton in April and May, 1910, Hampton's...
...They will place in clear light the Beast of Franchise seeking public utility companies in the Jungle of Politicians...
...She was trying to impress her hearers with the necessity of knowing something of the work which other organizations were accomplishing in order that they might be able to accomplish the best results in their own particular field...
...1. What is K? 2. The Making of K. 3. A Battle Royal for Wool...
...Clean out the grafters...
...They hurled their votes against the Beast...
...They belong in the literature of exposure...
...This one was fought bitterly by the bi-partisan machine...
...VIII...
...Barrett went on to say what she thinks of the work Judge Lindsey is doing...
...SHALL THE RAILROADS THROTTLE THE PANAMA CANAL...
...Keep my name on your list as long as I live and then send it two years to my executors...
...W. Child and others in the February, March and May, 1910, numbers of Everybody's...
...Both of these persons stated that they had never known an unfortunate girl to be reclaimed...
...But what about the people who are fed upon distorted and perverted "news...
...She first wrote an indignant letter to the Republican, denying the statement credited to her...
...By Richard...
...3. The Vast Riches of Alaska...
...2. The Sugar Trust and the Mormon Church...
...1. The Secret of the Sugar Trust's Power...
...LA POLLETTE'S will publish during the next three months the salient points and conclusions of twenty-seven or more recent magazine articles...
...These are slogans that have gone ringing nation-wide the past few years...
...I. THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT...
...That issue is whether we shall have in the city, state and national governments a control of public affairs by and for the people just as LINCOLN meant, or government of, by and for the special interests of beef, oil, steel, sugar and public service companies, just as cannon and Al-drich now mean...
...So is Tom Johnson, and Judge Lindsey...
...These articles clearly set forth the real issue in the campaign of 1910, whether in Wisconsin, Iowa, or in New York...
...But to remove the conditions that produce grafters, that is the real problem...
...S. JULIAN, Kansas City, Mo...
...It was defeated, overwhelmingly...
...It signifies for one thing that Judge Lindsey's story, "The Beast and the Jungle," has proven to be the hardest blow yet struck at machine politics in Colorado...
...2. Is the East Also Insurgent...
...They classify in the science of social bacteriology...
...These men are made the victim of misrepresentation on every occasion...
...So they have set about the business of destroying the germs...
...By E. P. Lyle in the Febriary and March, 1910, numbers of Hampton's...
...But the people had read the story and apparently recognized the crooked trail pointed out by Lindsey...
...5. Billions of Treasure...
...2. Why the Panama Canal May Be a Bad Business Venture...
...THE LAWLESSNESS AND VIOLENCE OF GOVERNMENT BY PUBLIC UTILITY COMPANIES...
...This paper declared editorially and otherwise almost every day that if the Citizens' ticket were elected, the water franchise granted, and the Initiative, the Referendum and the Recall measures adopted, it would mean that Lindsey's course in writing "The Beast" had been approved by the public and the truth of the story established...
...1. The Barred Gateway...
...Shall the Special Interests Rule...
...These will show the steady encroachment of certain special interests which menace the public good...
...The twenty-seven articles, condensed into nine brief statements, will show Cannonism, alias Aldrichism, alias the System, in actual operation...
...Insurgency is alive, intelligent, aggressive, widespread, unrelenting...
...Kate Waller Barrett, president of the National Florence Crittendon mission, reflecting upon Judge Lindsey...
...Barrett was made to say that Lindsey had declared that no girl who had gone wrong had ever been redeemed...
...Francis Heney is a man whom the mercenary press has sought to discredit by means of doctored "news...
...They will disclose the coarse and sordid alliance of Big Business and Vice and some of the tricks and games by which the people are misgoverned and plundered...
...They will disclose the lawlessness and even violence of government by graft and greed...
...V. SHALL ALASKA BECOME A MORGANHEIM BARONY...
...What Lindsey has to Combat ON ANOTHER page of this issue, Charles Edward Russell tells how men who have incurred the ill-will of the Interests are put upon the black list of the subsidized newspapers...
...You see a mass of germs wrigging, slipping, moving, and writhing around in the life of human society...
...THE "JOKER" IN THE WOOLEN SCHEDULE OF THE TARIFF...
...4. Shall Alaska Become a Morganheim Barony...
...I consider La Follette's the best and most fearless magazine that exists today...
...One question voted on was whether or not to grant a new franchise to the Denver Union Water Company, one of the four utility corporations that constitute the Beast in Denver...
...By Rear Admiral R. D. Evans in the February and March, 1910, Hampton's...
...To knock out the grafters is laudable...
...Kittle, it will be remembered, is the author of the series published a year ago in La Fol-lette's on "The Making of Public Opinion...
...1. Is the Republican Party Breaking Up...
...They will reveal the "jokers" and "snakes" in legislation...
...THE "JOKER" IN THE SUGAR SCHEDULE OF THE TARIFF...
...but the Republican did not publish it...
...This is what really happened: At the semi-annual meeting of the Colorado board of charities and corrections she made some informal remarks...
...These articles are along the line of many that have appeared the past few years...
...Barrett's denial of the statement attributed to her by the Republican, and her own report of what she did say, throw the white light of truth upon a particularly offensive piece of newspaper misrepresentation...
...WHAT HAS BECOME OF OUR PURE FOOD LAW...
...By Judge Ben Lindsey in 8 articles in Everybody's, from October, 1909, to May, 1910, inclusive...
...See that your neighbor voter gets the whole list...
...By J. C. Welliver in the January, March and May, 1910, Hampton's...
...Turn the rascals out...
...One alone will not show the steady encroachment of the "System...
...Since the saving of girls is as much a part of the work of the Denver juvenile court as the saving cf boys, the publication of this statement, purporting to come from an eminent authority on this kind of reclamation service, could have no other effect than that of hurting Lindsey in the minds of a great many people...
...Thoughtful men are beginning to see, however, that it will do little good to merely destroy the germs, if the conditions that produce bad germs are not eliminated...
...Mrs...
...By Ray Stannard Baker in the March, 1910, American...
...Then she wrote to the officers of the Denver home and gave them the facts...
...And then Mrs...
...For another thing, this victory indicates that the spirit of revolt against machine politics and misrule is not confined to any one section but is nationwide...
...They probably represent the real opinions of a real railway president...
...Barrett herself exposed the deception...
...By George K. Turner in the January, 1910, Mc-C lure's...
...By S. H. Adams in the February, 1910, Hampton's...
...What does this mean...
...It pleaded daily for the defeat of the reform forces in order to show the whole world that the people of Denver—where Likdsey described the Beast in action—did not give credence to the account...
...But the people voted to adopt all three of these instruments of democracy...
...These microscopic bugs run about performing various functions all the way from stock jobbing and overcapitalizing, down to bribing, paying and taking graft...
...THE ALLIANCE OF BIG BUSINESS AND VICE IN CHICAGO...
...The story of these important magazine articles will be written by William Kittle...
...Recently the Denver Republican printed in a prominent position a statement credited to Mrs...
...What kind of self-government can be builded out of daily misinformation...
...Another question was upon the adoption of the Initiative, the Referendum and the Recall in city affairs...
...He has given much time and thought to the preparation of this new series...
...The same determination to shake off the hold of Special Privilege upon government that was shown in the congressional elections in Massachusetts and New York and in the city election in Milwaukee, recently, is exhibited again in Denver...
...keep it coming...
...2. The Guggenheims and the Smelter Trust...
...A Problem in Social Bacteriology ONE of the live popular magazines has been giving its readers a series of articles entitled, "The Confessions of a Reformed Street Railway President...
...Some man who knows a good deal about the street railway business and the inside workings of the brains of a street railway manager wrote the articles...
...These twenty-seven or more valuable articles will be combined as shown in the following outline,—several on one special interest being summarized into one brief, clear and comprehensive statement...
...How are they to form intelligent and unbiased opinions upon public affairs...
...It is indeed high time that thoughtful people everywhere begin to consider whether or not in this country we have a free press...
...By Charles Edward Russell in the March, 1910, number of Hampton's, in an article entitled, "Chaos and Bomb Throwing in Chicago...
...The juvenile court of Denver," she added, "is known throughout the world, not only for the excellent work which it has done for the boys, but for the equally excellent work it has done for the girls...
...Keep up your good work...
...By Ray Stannard Baker in the February, 1910, American...
...As an illustration," she said, "of how ignorant some workers were of what other organizations were accomplishing—I referred to two workers in California, with whom I had recently come in touch...
...Mrs...
...1. Founding the House of Guggenheim...
...They need no comment...
...By S. H. Adams in the May, 1910, American...
...By J. L. Mathews in the May, 1910, Everybody's...
...This work for girls is unique, and is unequaled, in my opinion, by that accomplished in any other court in the United States...
...In fact this story was injected into the campaign by one of the organs of the machine, The Denver Republican...
Vol. 2 • June 1910 • No. 22
