EDITORIALS
Common Interests PACIFIC Avenue and Pacific Street, in San Francisco, voted together against the initiative, referendum and recall. Pacific Avenue is where the Wealth and Fashion of 'Frisco reside....
...A similar note of warning to the System Senators was struck by Senator La Follette during the debate on the Payne-Al-drich tariff bill a year ago, when he said: "When I began this fight in this chamber four years ago in behalf of the public interest and against the forces of special privilege, I stood alone as a Republican Senator...
...and, besides, I am persuaded that we pay over to the express company about two cents a dozen more than we need to pay to give a fair return for the service...
...and is not so violent as to require the attendance of the surgeon or the undertaker...
...214 institutions now give teachers' training courses in agriculture...
...Farmers' institutes are now organized in every State...
...San Diego was the first city in California to adopt that system, and should be mentioned among the progressive cities...
...I cannot be wholly indifferent to the fact that Senators by their absence at this time indicate their want of interest in what I may have to say upon this subject...
...My neighbors co-operate with me in using these eggs, and thus we are saved from five cents to thirteen cents a dozen on the eggs, and we get really fresh eggs, instead of cold storage eggs...
...Pacific Street marks the lurid course of 'Frisco's tenderloin...
...the attendance at the institute meetings was 2,395,908...
...who are apt to bob up repeatedly, I save La Follette's in a complete file for reference...
...Since October, 1908, the number of institutions in the United States giving* instruction in agriculture has increased from 545 to 875...
...Prophecy LA FOLLETTE'S is requested by a reader on the Pacific Coast to reprint "those prophetic words uttered by Senator La Follette in the Senate chamber when * * * Aldrich, Hale and the others retired to the cloak rooms" during the course of his speech...
...A lawyer in San Diego writes: "The commission plan was adopted by charter amendment in January, 1908...
...If he believes in popular government, he will favor these three measures...
...Fifteen million horsepower...
...Now there are ten of us engaged in the same fight...
...He writes: "We should have a parcels post...
...We make special mention of this fact because our attention has been called to the omission of this city from the list published in La Follette's for November 26...
...Therefore I rely on the Roll Call as safe history...
...Butter comes in the same category...
...It is quite as effective...
...It has heard...
...If a man distrusts the capacity of the people to govern themselves, he will oppose the Initiative, Referendum and Recall...
...That is too great a price to pay even for "immediate development...
...but charges taken from the Congressional Record are not easy to disprove...
...Mansions and dives—"respectability'' and vice—unite to resist the advance of democracy...
...Satisfaction OVER in Paris, the other day, a theatrical manager and a dramatic critic fought a duel...
...The person named does not need to declare what he has done, for La Follette's attends to that feature of the performance...
...He even figures out that the Express Monopoly has a plain bearing on the High Cost of Living...
...Here is a source of energy that the people cannot afford to let slip into the control of private monopoly...
...Instead of the sharp-pointed rapier, we use the gilded advertising contract...
...And to render it more convenient, it is now indexed, by names of statesmen who have been honored by the insertion of a political biographical sketch, flavored with sweet incense or with sulphurous fumes...
...Because democracy in action sounds the knell of special privileges...
...Ninety-nine moveable schools of agriculture were held, with an attendance of 65,977...
...It begins the work of the short session while the voice of the people is still reverberating throughout the land...
...Congress CONGRESS is again in session...
...The incident suggests how much more humanely are differences between dramatic critics and theatrical managers settled in this country...
...President, I pause in my remarks to say this...
...will it heed...
...Minnesota Republicans are going to give their party a progressive tonic on January 4. * * * THE Initiative, the Referendum and the Recall are three measures to secure a more direct and effective government, of, .by, and for the people...
...That is what pleases a large number of American voters in these days...
...And as it treats of many living men...
...I warn you that if you refuse to consider every proposition advanced in behalf of the public and carry out your determination to make this tariff legislation but the instrument by which special interests may, through special privilege, enrich themselves by unjust exactions from the public, the public will hold you responsible and prove its resentment as certainly as elections are held...
...To have it would bring the producer and the consumer more closely together than almost anything else that could happen now, "For instance, on account of the prohibitively high cost of eggs in this little city, I am shipping from central Ohio every week a case of thirty dozen eggs and paying $1.12 expressage...
...WILLIAM KITTLE...
...This index tells the date when each noble lover of his country appeared on the rostrum of the little magazine, and had his "piece" spoken for him by La Follette's...
...less sensational...
...In the Congressional Record for April 19, 1906, the following passage occurs in Senator La Follette's speech on the railroad bill: "Mr...
...Charges are made which, could they be disproved, would bring damages for libel...
...Fifteen Million Horsepower IN HIS annual report for 1910, just issued, Secretary of Agriculture Wilson points out that "of the available water power on the National Forests, estimated to be in the neighborhood of 15,000,000 horsepower, only the most insignificant fraction has as yet been harnessed...
...After running the lung of the critic through, the T. M. (we must assume) found his honor "satisfied...
...but not at the surrender of the public rights...
...Call the Roll WE PASS along the following suggestion from a reader of La Follette's: "Let each stand and answer to his name...
...The public is interested...
...It should be harnessed, of course...
...Fresh Eggs ONE OF our readers in Beverly, Mass., figures that the people should no longer be compelled to pay a tax to a private concern for service that should be performed by their own postoffice system at a higher standard of efficiency and at lower cost...
...The system has worked splendidly in this city and the people are satisfied...
...Another Progressive City SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, has a commission form of government, together with the Des Moines system of direct nomination without party affiliation...
...But it ought not to be necessary to find a means of disposing of thirty dozen eggs in order to have this advantage...
...That index will grow in value like an old fiddle, as the years pass...
...As current history, it has unusual authenticity, for this reason: no matter how severely it exposes and castigates, the accused have found no remedy but bad language...
...That weekly Roll Call is becoming an important state document...
...likewise, a can of honey, or a package of honey in the comb, or maple syrup, or dozens of other things that might be mentioned...
...Departments of agricultural instruction have been established in 38 public high schools...
...when it is called...
...Here is a prize that Big Business looks upon with covetous eye...
...Unless this important question is rightly settled, seats now temporarily vacant may be permanently vacated by those who have the right to occupy them at this time...
Vol. 2 • December 1910 • No. 49
