NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering THE power of an awakened public to influence the affairs of the country—the true test of democracy—was never better exemplified than in the political situation which has...
...23 79 0 13 23 92 Oregon...
...A bill making compulsory the publication of a list of contributions and the names of the donors has been introduced in Congress, but it provides that the list need not be made public until after elections...
...On February 10 arguments began before the Supreme Court of Illinois to uphold the ten-hour law for woman, Mr...
...Republican...
...For the last few years German conservative factions have been uniting on measures to lessen the growing Socialist vote, but have made little headway.—The Canadian House of Commons has under consideration plans for the building of a navy.—A new ministry has been formed in Spain...
...Of the 3,498 Republican editors who answered the second question, 2,686 said "No," while 812 endorsed the tariff, a rato of 3 to 1 against the law...
...30 Cannon...
...Allds, and Senator Conger testified that he personally saw the passing of the money from Moe to Allds in a room in the Capitol at Albany...
...The Speaker claimed that he had been misrepresented by the press of the country...
...The court said that in determining the earning power of a railroad doing an interstate and local business there is a tendency to deny that outstanding bonds and stocks are evidences of values...
...Roosevelt...
...Independents Totals...
...10 18 0 16 10 32 Totals...
...Ohio...
...It is said the receivers of the two last packages are dead...
...And the public was not disappointed...
...2» 4» 1 30 SO 7B Qrand total.......812 2.686 27 877 839 *m9 turn.—The postoffice committee of the House is making little headway in its investigation of the cost of handling second-class mail matter and may not reach a definite conclusion as to the course of action warranted by the postal deficit...
...4 14 1 4 6 18 Nevada...
...In 'order to gain their end they are arranging to use the figures of the Cannon poll in centering their strength in the states where anti-Cannonism is most apparent...
...To Investigate Cost of Living On February 9 the Senate passed a resolution authorizing an investigation of the causes of the high cost of living...
...44 249 2 27 46 278 Kansas...
...The railroad brotherhooods will probably arbitrate with the companies, and while no definite steps in that direction have yet been taken it is likely that the miners of the country will submit their claims to a board of arbitration...
...Of the 3,050 votes cast, President Taft received a third...
...Cannon found support in the answers of 546 of the 3,199 Republican editors questioned: about 1 in 5. Thirty-one of the 572 Independent editors rallied to his support, about 1 in 18...
...Republican...
...Calhoun is now en route to China—fully instructed...
...A reorganization of the whole postal department and a scientific plan of accounting may be decided upon.—The Senate passed the Bennett "white slave" bill on the 11th, with amendments...
...The central bank scheme of Senator Aldrich, if adopted, would throw a great quantity of bonds drawing two per cent, interest on the market...
...He says that this was done with the full knowledge of Mr...
...Republican...
...29 206 1 39 30 245 Indiana...
...Governor Haskell is defending himself...
...Independents Totals...
...The Independent vote was 33 to 1, a total of 232 to 58 against him...
...Taft's Speech President Taft's New York speech had been awaited with interest...
...Of the total of 3,771 Independent and Republican editors who answered, 577 were for Cannon...
...News Worth Remembering THE power of an awakened public to influence the affairs of the country—the true test of democracy—was never better exemplified than in the political situation which has developed since the passage of the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Law...
...The following table shows the result: Roosevelt ..........................................1360 Taft ................................................1,098 La Follette...
...It has also been taken to indicate that Senator La Follette is popularly recognized as the leader of the little group of progressive Republicans in the Uni-ted States Senate who are fighting valiantly to safeguard and promote the public interest in legislation...
...He reviewed the bills now before Congress providing for the regulation of railroads, the issuance of injunctions, and for the conservation of natural resources, and expressed the belief that these measures would be enacted into law at the present session...
...The administration bills for the amendment of the interstate commerce law are before the House Committee...
...He said that the only substantial defect in the entire tariff law was the failure to reduce the duty on woolen goods, and that "the change which this tariff effected was a marked change downward in the rates of duties and a recognition by the party that the time has come when instead of increasing duties they must be decreased, when the party should recognize that the proper measure of protection is a difference in cost of production here and abroad, including a fair profit to the manufacturer...
...They must be changed to conform to the law...
...4 12 0 3 4 15 Nevada...
...about 1 in 6. The Tribune's questions were short and to the point...
...Despatches from the national capital indicate that the reactionaries in Congress and on the side-lines recognize in the poll a final and convincing argument in favor of retiring Cannon...
...65 142 3 36 68 177 Nebraska...
...He characterized this action as "prostitution of the law" and an effort to limit the efficiency of the Forest Service by preventing the training of men capable of taking hold of the work to be done in the conservation of forest resources...
...9 33 0 4 9 37 Colorado...
...Taft, and says that it is not "fair" to ask for help and give a body blow in return, in the way of the corporation tax...
...a ratio of 4 to 1. At the outset of the Republican congressional committee's campaign to fight for the re-election of those members who have been the consistent friends of Cannon and Cannonism, the poll of twenty-six states between the eastern mountain slope and the Pacific ocean is vitally significant...
...63 221 1 40 69 261 Wisconsin...
...29 119 3 36 32 168 Totals.........57 248 3 62 60 310 SOUTH— Kentucky.......8 19 0 10 8 » Tennessee...
...Moe testified that he handed an envelope containing $1,000 to Mr...
...For...
...Vote on Cannon...
...It asked: "Is Cannon your choice for the next speaker...
...5 23 0 11 5 34 Tennessee...
...There would be no demand for these by other banks and the use of postal savings deposits for their purchase would solve a great problem...
...The high rank accorded to Gifford Pinchot is significant...
...1 29 0 B 1 34 Idaho...
...Against...
...65 96 3 41 68 137 Totals----.....250 1,235 18 237 268 1,572 MOUNTAIN— Montana...
...The result was amazing...
...This and the Manchurian situation may test Minister Calhoun at the outset of his diplomatic career...
...Postal Savings Under Debate The postal savings bank bill was still being debated in the Senate on February 9. On the 7th, Senator Ray-ner discussed the bill and said there was no constitutional basis for a postal savings bank...
...116 Coming on top of the Tribune's poll of Republican and Independent editors on Cannon and the Aldrich tariff law, this poll on the Republican choice for President is convincing proof that the people in that part of the United States lying between the Alleghanies and the Pacific Ocean, comprising twenty-six statu...
...On February 9, a temporary injunction was issued by Judge Hook in the United States Circuit Court, restraining the state of Oklahoma from enforcing its 2-cent passenger fare law and certain freight rates...
...Not only did he make known his views on this subject, but he almost unconditionally endorsed the Payne-Aldrich tariff law, repeating the views he expressed at Winona, Minnesota—the speech which effectually cast a damper over the President's trip down the Mississippi...
...Here the Republican vote against the speaker was 199 to 57...
...The republican party did not promise to authorize monopoly nor the suppression of competition and control of prices...
...14 39 1 12 15 51 Utah...
...The Senate of Illinois has passed a primary bill and a bill providing for the commission system of municipal government...
...Foreign Relations It is likely that Japan will enter objection to the passage of a bill, now in Congress, which would exclude all aliens who cannot be naturalized...
...Trustland Twenty-six manufacturers composing the Paper Board Association pleaded guilty to the charge of being members of an illegal cbmbine in restraint of trade, and were fined $2,000 each by the New York Circuit Court on the 7th.—Unless the International Harvester Company can prove that it is not a trust, it will have no legal standing in Michigan, is the decision of Judge Smith in the Eaton County Circuit Court of Michigan...
...Against...
...9 1 6 • 14 Ariiona...
...22 68 1 44 23 102 Grand totals......546 2,883 31 041 677 8,194 Vote on Aldrich Law...
...Congressional Notes Senator Borah of Idaho in a speech on February 10 scored those who oppose the proposed amendment to the constitution, to permit the levying of a tax on incomes wihout apportionment between the states...
...He is in favor of a modified form of the single tax plan...
...and "Do you indorse the Aldrich-Cannnon tariff...
...President Taft will be urged to speak on the subject of conservation on the occasion of his visit to Chicago, March 17...
...Against...
...Governor Haskell of Oklahoma and other state officials are under examination by a committee of the legislature, on the charge of spending public funds irregularly...
...How Legislation May be "Influenced" The whole State of New York was shocked this week by the testimony of State Senator Benn Conger and Hiram G. Moe in the Senate investigation of the charge that Senator Jotham P. Allds, Republican leader of the senate, had accepted a bribe of $1,000 in cash when he was a member of the state assembly, as the price of his assistance in suppressing legislation which a bridge-building combine feared would be inimical to the interests of the combine...
...25 175 1 46 28 221 Oklahoma...
...The lower house of the legislature must pass on the measures before they will become laws...
...Against...
...It cannot collect bills or notes through legal procedure...
...Choice for President Following this poll of Republican and Independent editors, which reveals a condition of political affairs almost without precedent (where the leaders in power of a dominant political party are discredited by an overwhelming majority of the rank and file of the party), the Tribune on February 14 published the result of a poll on the Presidency...
...35 2S1 0 42 35 203 Michigan...
...An interesting phase of the Cannon poll comes to light in Illinois, Cannon's home state...
...All I have to say upon that is that nobody responsible for a government like ours would destroy values and confidence for the pleasure of doing so Nobody has a motive as strong as the administration in power to cultivate and strengthen business confidence and prosperity...
...Against...
...The bill will go to conference...
...There can no longer be any doubts that he is too heavy a load for the party to carry...
...If enforcement of the law is not consistent with the present method of business, it does not speak well for the present methods of business...
...8 8 O 1 5 9 New Mexico .....11 13 O 14 11 27 Totals...
...But nevertheless, said President Taft, the bill was a substantial compliance with the tariff promises of the party...
...The poll corroborates the contentions and justifies the attitude of the Progressives in both houses of Congress who have fought against the continuation of Cannon rule and all that it includes and typifies...
...In an open letter written to Representative Longworth of Ohio, Mr...
...Pinchot Active Gifford Pinchot in his new capacity of President of the National Conservation Association is continuing his effective fight for conservation...
...84 78 2 42 88 120 Totals.........409 1,271 11 254 420 1*28 MOUNTAIN— Montana...
...122, Cummins...
...27 200 1 38 28 238 Totals______282 998 9 201 U» PRAIRIE— Iowa............125 371 2 36 127 417 Kansas...
...14 Scattering...
...31 61 2 1 2 33 78 Minnesota...
...But it does rest with the national government to enforce the law...
...The other plan contemplates the use of the money for the taking up of government bond issues...
...33 143 2 35 35 180 Illinois...
...On February 9, the Senate of Illinois unanimously voted in favor of such an amendment...
...22 99 3 38 25 137 Totals...
...One provides that the money shall be deposited in the banks nearest to the postoffice where the money is received...
...News Notes Mayor Gaynor of New York has appointed a committee to consider the feasibility of abolishing all personal taxes, raising revenue by a tax on land and buildings alone...
...The President said that the Republican policy is to preserve, without excessive duties, that security against foreign competition to which the American manufacturers, farmers and producers are entitled, and also to maintain the high standard of living of the American wage earners, the most direct beneficiaries of the protective system...
...197 Hughes...
...The Independents gave a larger vote against the Aldrich-Cannon schedule, tfceir vote being 577 to 27...
...Republican...
...68 165 3 34 61 199 Nebraska „. 14 190 2 48 16 238 Oklahoma...
...The reserve provision of the measure was assailed by Senator Bristow, who said that it would result in the accumulation of from $40,000,000 to $70,000,000...
...15 228 3 46 18 274 North Dakota ____ 10 113 1 18 11 131 South Dakota____ 16 129 0 12' 16 141 Missouri...
...Of the 159 on board the ship, there is but one survivor...
...57 224 4 64 61 288 SOUTH— Kentucky...
...They claim that it is not strict enough to meet the terms of the pure food law...
...57 199 1 33 68 232 Wisconsin...
...It is expected that Senators Lodge, Elkins, Smoot, McCumber and Crawford will be chosen as members of the committee...
...Advocates of Cannonism and of- the Aldrich-Cannon tariff saw their hopes vanish into thin haze last week under the illuminating ray of light cast upon the situation by the Tribune's comprehensive poll of Republican and Independent newspapers in twenty-six states west of the Alleghany mountains...
...5 60 0 13 5 83 California...
...Reports from Washington state that while it has been determined among reactionaries that Cannon is out of question as ruler of the next House, still another candidate of the same stripe must be put up to take his place...
...Where did it Come From...
...Ohio...
...Taft was nominated appeals were sent out to large corporations, urging them to contribute to the republican can paign fund through their executive officers and stockholders, thus evading the law prohibiting corporations to contribute...
...The need for a law to make it compulsory for political organi-zations to issue statements showing from whence contributions to their campaign funds were received, is again brought into prominence, by a statement of John M. Glenn, Secretary of the Illinois Manufacturers' Association, the body making the hardest fight on the publicity clause of the corporation tan pro-vision of the Aldrich tariff law...
...29 208 1 28 30 232 Totals.........183 1,007 6 175 188 1,182 PRAIRIE— Iowa...
...And this sentiment is in strong contrast to the endorsement of the law, made again by President Taft in a speech at New York on the 12th of February...
...The President's decision is important because of its effect on the labeling of all manufactured food products...
...It seems hardly probable that the federal incorporation act recommended by the President will be passed at this session...
...812 2,686 27 577 839 3,463 Do You Indorse the Aldrich-Cannon Tariff...
...3 4 0 0 3 4 Totals...
...65 Bryan...
...These men all supported the tariff bill most enthusiastically at the last session of Congress, and an investigation by them of the causes of the advance in the price of commodities is not likely to bring discomfiture to Senator Aldrich and those who hail the new tariff law as "the best ever...
...13 35 1 12 14 47 Utah...
...Two plans have been offered...
...Brandeis, attorney for L. R. Glavis in the congressional investigation of the Alaskan coal land cases, and author of a celebrated brief on the subject of the effect of long hours of labor on women, is engaged in this case...
...This poll was confined solely to Republican editors...
...For...
...It was announced on February 8 that the distillers of straight whiskey would submit President Taft's recent label ing order to the Supreme Court for a decision...
...A bill has been introduced in the Prussian diet for the re-form of suffrage requirements...
...47 177 2 47 49 224 Indiana......._ 67 162 1 39 58 201 Illinois...
...But the part of the bill most debated is that providing for the disposal of the deposits of the postal banks, when they are established...
...3 4 0 0 3 4 Totals...
...The part of the President's message most eagerly awaited by "Big Business" was that relating to the enforcement of the anti-trust act...
...It is an effective answer to the claim of the standpatters, led by Aldrich and Cannon, that these men are demagogues, striving to bring discredit upon the leaders of their party...
...Tie fact that Mr...
...10 30 1 4 11 34 Colorado...
...The total vote of Republican and Independent editors against the Aldrich-Cannon tariff was 3,463 to 839...
...4 10 1 6 6 16 Wyoming...
...Governor Hughes of New York, and Governor Fort of New Jersey are opposed to an amendment of this character.—The expenditures of the immigration commission were attacked on the floor of the House on February 8. It was charged that the commission's trip abroad in 1907 was a pleasure trip—a junket—and that the expenditure of over $650,000 had brought no adequate rePoll of Editors West of the Alleghanies Shows Opposition to Cannon and Aldrich Tariff Law...
...The proper disposal of postal savings deposits is the most difficult problem to solve in the enactment of the postal savings bank bill, said the President...
...Moe also testified that he gave two packages to two other persons, members of the assembly, one containing $1,000 and the other containing $4,000...
...The ^government at Washington can be counted on to enforce the law in a v/ay best calculated to prevent the destruction of public confidence in business, but that it must enforce the law goes without saying...
...On February 9, he bitterly attacked the action of George P. McCabe, who succeeded him temporarily, and who took steps to prevent the training of foresters by the government...
...Against...
...Labor Difficulties Throughout the country conferences are being held between labor and capital in an effort to settle differences with regard to hours of labor and wages...
...Independent...
...Independent —Total — LAKE— Ye...
...This plan is favored by those who endorse Senator Aldrich's central bank system...
...28 65 4 11 32 76 Minnesota...
...36 120 3 30 38 180 PACIFIC— Washington...
...Both Republican and Democratic organization leaders appear to agreed that the dead men shall not be named in the investigs-tion...
...To most people it is convincing...
...Total — LAKE— Yes...
...Glenn charges that after Mr...
...14 44 1 13 15 57 California...
...Addressing part of his remarks to the Democratic side of the House, he intimated that the minority in this session may soon be the majority...
...546 2,653 31 541 577 3,194 Is Cannon Your Choice for the Next Speaker...
...It has few friends among the large corporations because it does not exempt those formed under its provisions from the operations of the anti-trust law, and the President will not urge its passage until other legislation, pledged in the party platform, is enacted...
...It shows that they are the representatives of their constituents, the true leaders of the party...
...Cannon Grieved Brought to a realization of the overwhelming disfavor in which he is held by the public and by even the people of his own state, as shown by the Chicago Tribune poll, Speaker Cannon, on February 14 from the floor of the House, attempted to defend himself...
...It was expected that the President would make definite his attitude toward the great business combines of the country...
...3 10 1 8 4 16 Wyoming...
...Pinchot received votes in every state but Biz, out of those in which the poll was conducted, is also significant as an index to the attitude of the people toward the former chief forester and the well defined and aggressive conservation policies which he champions...
...26 229 1 48 27 277 North Dakota____ 25 94 0 19 25 113 South Dakota____ 28 121 0 16 28 137 Missouri...
...The result of the poll taken by the Chicago Tribune, which we give elsewhere, is a startling indication that the people as a whole throughout the country are satisfied that that measure is not a fulfillment of the pledge of the Republican party...
...The Tribune did not suggest the names of any candidates, but compelled the editor to write the name of his preference and also the name of the party with which he was affiliated...
...He declared that he simply obeyed the will of the majority, and that with the majority rested the power to fix the procedure of business in the House...
...The President's attitude is expressed in these words: "The administration has been attacked on the ground that its policy tends to create a panic in Wall street...
...On February 11, the French transatlantic steamer, General Chanzy, was wrecked on the reefs near the Island of Minorca in the Mediterranean...
...He claimed that on account of the failure of the law to meet the demands of newspaper publishers in the matter of the rate on print paper, "the amount of misrepresentation to which the tariff bill, as a downward revision bill, was subjected never has been exceeded in this country...
...3 10 1 8 4 16 AH""* -........4 9 0 1 4 10 New Mexico...
...Tribune's Startling Poll Even while the President was thus defining the policies of the present administration, the Chicago Tribune's poll of Republican editors was bringing consternation into the camp of the standpatters...
...and having 456 electoral votes, hold fast to the progressive poli-cies advocated by Mr...
...1 29 0 5 1 34 Idaho...
...The question asked by the Tribune, was as follows: "If you could vote for President today, for whom would you cast your ballot...
...83 238 4 37 87 276 Michigan...
...The results are compiled from the answers of more than 3,000 Republican editors and about 600 Independent editors in the territory between the Alleghanies and the Pacific ocean...
...34 129 3 31 37 160 PACIFIC— Washington.....21 81 0 13 21 94 Oregon...
...40 Pinchot...
...Those who expected such a change cannot visit the responsibility of their mistake on innocent persons...
Vol. 2 • February 1910 • No. 7
