EDITORIALS

That Stalwart "Convention" PROGRESSIVES in Wisconsin are not deceived by the recent meeting of Tory politicians in Milwaukee. It would do violence to the intelligence of Wisconsin citizenry to...

...Its practical working will be followed with general interest...
...They are men standing in a rising tide, every wave of which laps higher and higher, soon to close over their heads...
...Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and elsewhere...
...This last wave in Iowa has risen to their chins...
...The Time for Action THIS is the time of year to make the butcher, the grocer, the baker and the fruit dealer declare their intentions with reference to flied...
...On the contrary it is the rule...
...They followed the course of the Aldrich upward-revision tariff law through Congress, and repudiate it...
...You are a captive...
...Be Independent THIS is commencement time...
...Pollock's article on another page of this magazine tells what is being done in Ohio to make assessments equitable...
...They are "an added poisonous and deleterious ingredient...
...It was guilty of selling—in the language of the court —"a certain article of food called ice" that "contained an added poisonous and deleterious ingredient which consisted wholly or in part of a filthy, decomposed and putrid animal and vegetable aubstanoe...
...Ask them what they are intending to do about manure piles at the back of their shops, about screens and eleetric fans...
...As for the rising tide, it is patient, and can wait...
...Philadelphia has manifested a willingness to try it out...
...But Hull, Standpatter, was defeated in the Des Moines district by Prouty, and in the second district, grilk, Progressive, takes the place of a Standpatter...
...It amounts to no more as an indication of public opinion than a meeting by Messrs...
...When the Ice Man sells us frozen stuff for ice, the law says it must be congealed aqua pura...
...Milwaukee, too, is considering its adoption...
...It was not a party convention...
...From Chantecler, in Hampton's...
...Their shouts of joy prove merely that their mouths are not yet stopped...
...The bulletin sent out by the Department of Agriculture is headed "Adulteration of Ice...
...Then they know you want certain principles carried out...
...The ice man did not add them...
...One of the first responsibilities to confront them is that of citizenship...
...And because of his equipment for intelligent and effective service, the college-trained citizen should accept this responsibility with as much earnestness and devotion as that of making a living...
...President Woodrow Wilson of Princeton, in an address on "Citizenship and the Educated Man," recently said: "Every educated man should be independent...
...Through a knot hole can be seen the sky and marching stars...
...Tax Reform MR...
...In Ohio there is now an opportunity for putting it into widespread use...
...Therefore the man who sells ice which contains anything but frozen water, is guilty of a violation of the law...
...With power to see, capacity to suffer, one may come to understand all things...
...Excellent...
...ON MARCH 25 the American Ice Company of Washington, D. C, pleaded guilty of a violation of the Pure Food and Drugs Act, and was fined $150...
...Plainly, this is discrimination...
...Yes, adulterated is the word...
...In this instance this was not done...
...I think the total number of voters in this country is about 15,000,000...
...It should be every man's pride to be no man's man...
...True, but that fact doesn't make ice of them...
...Somers has had years of experience in developing his system in New York, Chicago, St...
...These so-called "delegates" represented no one but themselves and the politicians who placed the badges on them...
...The movement to secure a fairer distribution of the burden of taxation among property owners appears to be making encouraging headway...
...Ice is food...
...They .were not delegated by the Republican voters, either to attend a "convention" or to register opinions...
...Smith possesses land and buildings valued at $10,000...
...During the first six months of 1910 a re-appraisal of the land and buildings in that state must be made...
...The men you can be sure will vote the Republican ticket and the men you can be sure will vote the Democratic ticket do not govern the country...
...Jane Addams in The American Magazine...
...It represents what happens everywhere under our present system of assessing property for purposes of taxation...
...Political managers do not keep awake nights about you if they know how you vote...
...It would do violence to the intelligence of Wisconsin citizenry to believe otherwise...
...BROWN owns $5,000 worth of real prqperty...
...How to bring about a scientific and just appraisal is a matter that is beginning to arouse the interest of city and state officials...
...E. W. Doty, an expert, addressed the common council last Wednesday upon invitation of the council itself...
...of its true value...
...It was merely a "framed-up" getting together of the Bourbon clan—the enemies of progres-sivism...
...It is the snake that we must kill.—From Speech of Gifford Pinchot...
...The Republican voters ©f Wisconsin understand the meaning of Cannonism, and are against it...
...Duckweed, frog-spittle, algae of various sorts, as well as typhoid germs and sediment may freeze in the water, but they don't make ice...
...The alliance between business and politics is the most dangerous thing in our political life...
...They are welcome to such jubilation as they can legitimately get out of it...
...To be sure, Vice-President Sherman and James E. Watson, Ex-congressman, and Cannon henchman, were sent to the meeting by the "regulars" at Washington to give it an appearance of regularity...
...Not more than one-fifteenth— about 1,000,000...
...On that fact they are to be sincerely congratulated...
...If you are independent they will ask: 'What do you want?' If you do not tell them of something you want they are in despair...
...The Milwaukee gathering represents nothing but the renewal of the System's fight to regain its hold upon Wisconsin...
...Then watch to see if they keep their promises...
...This will undoubtedly be followed by formal consideration in the council...
...Ice may be adulterated...
...Ice we buy...
...In Cleveland, the Board of Realty Assessors (of which Frederic C. Howe, the municipal expert is a member) is using the Somers system of Realty Valuation...
...How many of the voters govern the country...
...The case of Brown and Smith is not exceptional...
...For purposes of taxation it is assessed at 60 per cent...
...But to Progressives elsewhere in the nation, who may have been misled by press dispatches into thinking this gathering was in reality a regularly constituted convention of the Republican party, we would extend a bit of information as to its true nature...
...What is Ice...
...Smith, standpatter, won in the Council Bluffs district over Byers, Progressive, for Congress...
...Thousands of young men and women, well-equipped and eager, are leaving the universities to take hold of the world's work...
...Instead, a self-constituted committee, a little group of men, known throughout the state as wheel-he rses of the standpat, or Stalwart, element in the party, who have been fighting the progressive movement ever since its inception, called the meeting and arranged for the attendance of "delegates...
...In an insect's death are hinted all disasters...
...It feels under it the lift of universal moral law, and its triumph is sure...
...Hence, as far as an expression of party sentiment goes, no significance is attached to this conclave of the standpat politicians...
...I once asked a young man who held a good position on a Chicago daily what special thing Hull House had meant to him, and he at once replied, 'It was the first house I had ever been in where books and magazines just laid around as if there were plenty of them in the world, and it changed the whole aspect of life for me to know people who regarded reading as a reasonable occupation...
...As between there two property owners, the burden of taxation is not distributed equitably...
...How to prevent such unfairness is a problem that is calling forth the best efforts of students of taxation...
...But to be "regular," as the "regulars" themselves have given meaning to the word, a party convention must be called by the state central committee...
...It takes into consideration the fact that land values are created socially, and that the community itself is informed as to the comparative value of different parts of the city...
...His property is assessed at 40 per cent, of its full value...
...Aldrich, Cannon, Sherman and Payne, and the adoption by these gentlemen of a resolution "strongly endorsing" the tariff law, would reflect the opinion of the voters of the country...
...The Rising Ti 'e in Iowa GARROLL, stand at candidate for governor in Iowa, won over Garst, Progressive, by a tiny majority—a majority 90 per cent, less than in the last election...
...The Aldrich-Cannon group in Washington have expressed great joy at the result...
...It aims to solve the problem of uniformity in the taxation of property of all individuals of the state...

Vol. 2 • June 1910 • No. 24


 
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