EDITORIALS

...The developments of waterways...

...Now comes Congressman S. C. Smith of California with a public declaration that he is a progressive...

...Isn't Mr...

...Trade between the United States and the Philippine Islands increased 84 per cent, during the first year's operation of the new tariff law, according to the consular reports...

...He was deeply respected by his opponents...

...It has been named the "Jersey Route...

...The Control of Common Carriers and the regulation of rates to be charged, based on justice alike to patrons and to investors, a thing impossible without physical valuation...

...Our eyes are opening to the fact that he is often the product of blighting environment, of perverted and neglected bringing up, of faulty education...

...It also is a model of its kind...

...Inertia SPEAKING in Indiana the other day, in support of Senator Beveridge, Colonel Roosevelt said: "There were differences between Senator Beveridge and some of the representatives of the Republican party in Washington, but there were not any differences between him and the bulk of the party outside of Washington...

...The Nation has given a rousing vote of confidence to the progressive leaders and to the progressive policies, and will without dcubt continue that endorsement at the November elections...

...No more tariff outrages...

...He is the People's Candidate...

...Few men have possessed his commanding intellect, his brilliant eloquence, his genial satire, his sensitive conscience, his wholesome morality...

...He is the kind of man who invites heckling...

...Roosevelt over-sanguine...

...Dolliver was cast in a rare mold...

...The composite platform of Progressive Republicanism upon which the great leaders stand, and in the carrying out of which many new men will join, contains the following planks: "1...

...he was loved, as men are seldom loved, by his associates and friends...

...His unerring penetration of the disguises thrown around Big Business statesmanship made the old leaders tremble...

...It wears well...

...When he hurled his protests into the very stronghold of the System, he made the nation listen...

...I hope to represent all the people of the Second District Te...

...The stories are all good...

...gardless of their party affiliations and furthermore to be free from sectional prejudice as befits one who represents the Nation...

...The Prison Congress THE changing order is bringing about a new conception of the duty of society to the criminal...

...The shadow of his loss rests upon every home in the land...

...Dolliver is dead...

...Once at a banquet, a gloomy man sat opposite him...

...and hearing him was to be convinced...

...They are a little late in starting, but they are all right...

...Where Kent Stands WILLIAM KENT is the Republican candidate for Congress in the Second California District...

...He harbored no animosities...

...No more Cannonism for him...

...The curtailment of the franking privilege, and the abolition of that privilege as used in political campaigns...

...Read it and see if you don't think a progressive Republican who states his position so definitely and who shows so deep an understanding of the Big Issue in politics, is just the kind of man the country needs in Congress...

...The abolition of domination of Congress by the Speaker...

...He had the attributes of greatness...

...To such lengths has the adulteration gone that it may be laid down as a fact that people on small incomes to-day rarely if ever wear anything but cotton and shoddy mixtures.—Ida Tarbell in the American Magazine...

...The enactment of laws that shall carry into effect the conservation policies, both as affecting the natural resources of the nation and also our human resources to the end that there shall be a more equal sharing of the bounties of nature, and that human life may be lived more safely, more broadly and more happily, and that the waste of life now incident to many occupations employing men, women and children may be reduced to a minimum...

...We are no longer insurgents but are regular Republicans, pledged to further those measures that tend to abolish special privilege, and to permit a more equal sharing of our country's opportunities...

...A prodigious worker, a masterful debater, a courageous fighter, he was a host in himself in the present struggle for political justice...

...His political course was steered by principle...

...The equipment will consist of five freight locomotives, one hundred freight cars, eight timber truck coaches and sixteen trailers...

...Now Kent has issued another statement to the voters of his district, telling them exactly and unmistakably where he stands upon national questions...

...It is my belief that in the future as in the past our people can rely best upon a progressive Republican party to accomplish the legislation needed and so unequivocally demanded, wherever public opinion could be expressed at the polls...

...As concerns this district, I shall, if elected, study carefully and in detail the needs of the various sections, and shall do all in my power to obtain such Federal aid as may fairly come to the district...

...The purging of the National Temple of the political power of those great special interests that have impudently legislated against the public welfare...

...The stock is held by the farmers and actual patrons of the line in such a way that there will never be an opening for a company or a corporation to monopolize the railroad...

...It follows, in full: "Since the beginning of the Primary campaign in which I received the nomination for Congress, the Progressive portion of the Republican party has become the dominant factor in that party...

...I shall not bind myself in caucus against this platform, nor against my conscience...

...In this matter it must be frankly recognized that combinations are inevitable, that competition can no longer be trusted to remedy overcharge...

...We must exclude Asiatics or forfeit the future of the Pacific Coast as a home of democratic opportunity...

...This new and humane attitude toward those who have been tempted and have fallen will not tend to increase crime...

...Hereafter he will be found lined up with the progressives in Congress, he declares, and—if elected—will support no legislative program that does not reflect progressive Republicanism...

...It is rather that a new way is to be opened up to him...

...It protects against cold and damp...

...This statement was published in full in La Follette's as a model of clearness, frankness, and sincere progressivism...

...Mark Twain hated a gloomy man," said a New York editor...

...Control is the only remedy...

...The revision of our immigration laws to the exclusion of all undesirable immigrants and all who cannot be assimilated into our democracy...

...I shall diligently attend to the public business and shall consider myself a public eervant and not a part of a political machine...

...Dol~ liver's voice is stilled...

...He received his nomination directly from the people...

...Kent believes in letting the people know where he stands...

...What Galsworthy did dramatically, the International Prison Congress is setting out to accomplish scientifically...

...This road will be one hundred miles long...

...But the soul of him lives in people's hearts wherever men are striving for freedom...

...But the spirit that spoke through it is the spirit of brotherhood and righteousness, and is enduring...

...In Dolliver this cause had a powerful champion...

...I do not believe that our people are much interested in partisan politics or in the spoils of office, but that rather they wish to elect men willing and able to carry out the mandates so clearly given from end to end of the Nation...

...2.-A downward revision of the tariff as a result of exhaustive investigation and detailed reports, by an intelligent and disinterested board of expert men, who recognize neither special interests, nor sectionalism, but rather the welfare of the Nation as a whole...

...But the impress he has left upon the thought and aspirations of mankind is indelible...

...Wool, the world over, has always been accepted as the poor man's special friend...

...It was merely that Senator Beveridge and the bulk of the party were ahead...

...The control in the public interest of the great corporations doing an interstate business...

...John Galsworthy's drama, Justice, shocked a nation by showing the ruin of the mind by solitary confinement, and led to immediate reforms of the treatment of prisoners in England...

...For our part, we have never seen the slightest evidence that the Aldrichites and the Cannonites were even getting ready to commence to begin to start in the direction Beveridge and the people are going...

...Or merely that it is just "playing horse" with the public, well knowing that the tariff board is a body without power and without authority to do the work required of a tariff commission—and that it was made so by Aldeich and his "me-too" Senators...

...Yet Dolliver held no grudges...

...it will lessen it, because it contemplates curing it...

...Going Slow THE American Economist (the mouthpiece of the interests that have grown powerful through tariff extortion) prints a story from Washington to the effect that the tariff board is "disposed to go slow," and that "little progress has been made thus far in ascertaining the cost of production either at home or abroad...

...in which effort I shall not be handicapped by a congress or by a speaker hostile to progress, or demanding in return my allegiance to reactionary measures...

...It came in the hour of his country's need...

...The spread of the Merit System of public employment, especially in the postal service, to the end that that great department of the government, may be cleared of partisan politics, and that public servants may no longer be used as cogs in any political machine...

...not by personalities...

...Does this mean that the Economist has inside information...

...The law provides for free interchange of merchandise between the Philippines and the United States...

...A great leader, a splendid statesman, is gone...

...as a being with a warped soul whose spirit must be broken by harsh and hope-crushing punishment...

...It would be a very pleasant thing to have happen...

...The primary is a fine educator...

...It is expected that the railroad will be in full operation by the middle of 1911...

...What's the matter with you?' cried Mark Twain...

...Intellectually honest and instinctively democratic, he rebelled against the dishonest, undemocratic exploitation of the people in the name of Republicanism...

...Its keynote is hope— hope for the offender instead of despair...

...Why don't you laugh?' 'Ah, sir,' said the gloomy man, 'how can I laugh when I remember that every time I breathe a soul passes into the great beyond?' 'Good gracious,' said the humorist, 'did you ever try cloves?'—Kansas City Star...

...His matchless abilities were consecrated to the common good...

...FARMERS BUILD RAILROAD FARMERS in southwest Missouri are building an electric railroad of their own...

...I shall not recognize partisanship where partisanship runs counter to the public welfare...

...Any man fighting alone in the public interest is comparatively powerless, but an army of men working with the enthusiasm of a great cause, and possessing the public confidence must be efficient in that cause...

...but will it...

...This man would not smile at the most amusing jukes...

...The graduated income tax...

...The story of the recent session of this Congress in Washington is told-elsewhere in this magazine...

...Capital can no more be forced to competitively fight capital than men can by law be forced into personal encounters with their neighbors...

...The election of U. S. Senators by direct vote of the people and the extension where possible of the principles of Direct Legislation...

...The others will catch up...

...These are among the National policies for which I have always stood, and for which I shall always stand...

...It is not that the way of the transgressor is to be made Lss hard...

...The installation of a national parcels post as a relief from the extortions of the express companies and as a means of making the department a paying business...

...During the primary campaign he gave the voters of the Second District a statement of the principles for which he is fighting...

...No longer do we look upon the transgressor as a creature inherently and incurably vicious...

...at a time when the cause of the people calls for the best leadership, the largest minds, the truest hearts...