EDITORIALS
Deplorable WHEN AN EMINENT GENTLEMAN like Mr. Edward Hines swears to a state of facts, it is deplorable that his statement should be denied by the President of the United States. Mr. Hines swore...
...Worth a Two-Cent Stamp DOWN IN CLARKSBURG, West Virginia, there is published a little newspaper called the Exponent...
...W. L. Moore of the Weather Bureau, it seems pretty clear that water will run off a hill faster when the hill is bare, than when it is clothed with forest...
...Hines and President Taft...
...The political will of a whole state thwarted by a mere handful of subservient Senators...
...The bulletin is a fine document in justification of the whole doctrine of protecting watersheds from erosion—a thine which is a national duty...
...However, some one remarked last week that Oregon had outdistanced New Hampshire as a political experiment station, but we are now moving with even greater dispatch...
...Most people need no proof of this...
...L. Hall and Hu Maxwell, and supports the contention that forests on the headwaters of streams steady and equalize their flow...
...The position of Governor Bass is not uncertain, as he is thoroughly progressive and reliable, and fully stated his position and desires in a special message to the Legislature, March 9. In it he gives the status of the measures before mentioned, and calls attention of the state to the fact that they have passed the House and are pending in the Senate...
...The initiative, referendum, and recall, are unconstitutional in New Hampshire...
...a tax commission bill, the last two being progressive measures of extreme importance so far as the state is concerned...
...But it is difficult to see any circumstances that would justify a lack of candor on the part of the President in the present instance...
...And those with good memories—and the back townships are full of such—recall that President Taft has, more than once,—notably when the Kerby shorthand notes were produced in the Ballinger investigation and again when the troops were rushed to the Mexican border,— issued statements at variance with the facts...
...Hines as an architect of Lorimer's political fortune...
...But while the conservation side stayed put, Mr...
...Lorimer, on reaching the Senate, made Aldrich his bellwether, whose vote he purposed to echo...
...A Tardy Bulletin SURFACE CONDITIONS AND STREAM FLOW is the title of circular 176 of the Forest Service...
...This is even more deplorable than the fact that an issue of veracity has been raised between Mr...
...The President of the United States could not afford to have the impression prevail for a single instant that it was his insistence which set the wheels in motion at Springfield...
...The discussions of current affairs appearing here are ably and intelligently edited...
...SAYS NAHUM J. BACHELDER, Master of the National Grange,in a recent letter to La Follette's: "The farmers do not object to downward revision of the tariff...
...Perhaps this editorial feature would be welcomed in many other communities...
...Hines was under oath, and subject to indictment for perjury if he failed to tell the truth...
...perhaps he felt that circumstances justified it...
...We admit with sorrow that the Senate is the great stumbling block in the path of progress, but We look forward with joy to the task of cleaning up that stable at our next election...
...It appears, however, that the long-headed businessmen who contributed to establish this paper proposed to donate space to citizens and political students writing without motive other than to promote the common welfare...
...The space thus donated is headed, "The Public Welfare: Non-partisan Politics...
...Can you imagine a case where the Recall would be of greater service to the people...
...It will pass the House...
...The delay is accounted for by some sub-surface conditions in the Department of Agriculture...
...It is not so very different from daily newspapers to be found in the smaller cities elsewhere...
...It is by Wm...
...Governor Bass is fighting hard for the fulfillment of the promises his party made to the voters...
...A workmen's compensation act will be introduced this week, in which will be incorporated modern employers' liability features...
...We suggest to editors of daily and weekly newspapers that they write for a copy of the Exponent and examine this novel department...
...He warns them that their failure to do so will mean "a conspicuous failure of representative government and will be so understood by the people of New Hampshire...
...In it he calls upon the law-makers to redeem the pledges of progressive legislation made in the platforms of both parties...
...Perhaps like the policeman in the picture who smiles as he carries away his burden of charred remains (and it may be well for his peace of mind that he can smile), we close our minds to the meaning of these happenings as soon as possible after the first shock...
...The bulletin has just arrived, though dated fifteen months ago...
...they do object to being made the scapegoat for the sins of the high tariff system, and if their products are put on the free list they will insist on free trade in all other articles...
...the lower house is, on the whole, voting right, but ineffectively, because the Senate refuses to keep pace...
...Taft denies...
...Also an act to prevent campaign contributions by corporations...
...Another notable triumph for the fresh egg.—Chicago Record Herald...
...For it is remembered that Mr...
...a bill ratifying the income tax amendment...
...Taft wanted Lorimer elected...
...The New York Assembly has passed a bill limiting to six months the time during which food may be held in cold storage warehouses...
...Every person connected with the scandalous deal by which Lorimer was elected is irretrievably smirched...
...Like Kansas, New Hampshire is having trouble with a Senate that is not responsive to the public will...
...But should we...
...The promptness with which the letter of denial was issued from the White House is not surprising...
...New Hampshire's Trouble GOVERNOR BASS'S special message to the New Hampshire legislature last month, has the right ring...
...And Aldrich is silent...
...Perhaps evidence will be found by the future historian that will acquit both gentlement of misrepresentation...
...Senator Aldrich, should he see fit to speak, would probably dispel the doubts and misgivings aroused by Mr...
...ISN'T IT about time to organize the International Fly Swatters Association...
...Lori-mer, that he did what he could to have Mr...
...Hall and Maxwell and Moore were held up, so far as bulletins were concerned, pending further study...
...Moore's anti-conservation pronunciamento was given the widest publicity as a congressional document...
...We of the progressive wing are younger and inexperienced, but have beaten them to a 'frazzle' so far, and I am convinced that a determined 'steering committee' is more effective than a militant and too-conspicuous leader...
...Surrender to the railroad will be opposed by the Republicans, and by some of the Democrats...
...Let us hope so...
...But Senator Aldrich is also named by Mr...
...Rather should we not let these horrors prey upon our thoughts until we are stirred to mighty action...
...Hines' testimony...
...The opposition will not be by the Democrats alone as you suggest...
...If the Senate condescends to pass the public service commission bill, the members of which will be appointed by the Governor, we may then suspend the operation of the statutes of 1883 and 1889, but forbid the railroad from increasing rates now being collected, for a period of two years during which the Commission will examine into the matter and suggest to the next Legislature whether or not the railroad is entitled to further relief...
...The battle cry will be 'A Commission or No Relief,' and the House can be depended on...
...The members of the House who are entitled by reason of age and experience to be leaders are not progressives...
...This Mr...
...In spite of this rather tricky-looking outcome, however, the Appalachian bill has become a law...
...a public service commission bill which legislates the present railroad commission out of office...
...Perhaps our failure to wipe out conditions that make such scenes as these possible is due to our inability to imagine how terrible they are...
...The New England character is rather conservative, and we are inclined to let other states try political innovations first...
...The government has already adopted the common-sense theory of Hall and Maxwell in the matter of the White Mountain and Appalachian Park law...
...a corrupt practices act...
...But the constant recurrence of these industrial tragedies—differing only in degree, not in kind —would seem to make it a duty to do so...
...It is known that the publication of the bulletin was held up by the powers that be, on account of the strenuous opposition of Prof...
...It is also remembered that Mr...
...To almost everybody, except Colonel Chittenden of the Army Engineers and Prof...
...Hines swore before an investigating committee engaged in probing the circumstances under which the Illinois senatorship was negotiated to Mr...
...Lest We Forget IT WAS ONLY after long consideration that we permitted ourselves to reproduce on the cover page of this magazine the gruesome pictures of the factory fire in the Asch building in New York City...
...The situation at the time Governor Bass's special message called upon the legislators to do their duty is thus summarized by one of the Progressive members of the lower house in a letter: "The House has passed bills for the election of delegates to national conventions by the people, and the nomination of Senators at the primaries...
...Lorimer made the grantee, because Mr...
...Perhaps he deemed it advisable to do so...
...Moore to the Department's placing itself on the conservation side of this question...
Vol. 3 • April 1911 • No. 14
