EDITORIALS

...Aldrich should go on the stand...

...He testified that Edward Hines told him that it cost "a few of them" $100,000 "to put Lorimer across," and asked Mr...

...There have been new developments...

...Hines' charge...

...It is Mr...

...He has made no denial...

...We have plenty of laws and plenty of machinery, but we are content to sit down and watch how badly the machinery works...

...But so deep is the mystery in which he hides, so powerful the forces standing between him and exposure, that the public rarely is given a glimpse of his face...

...He is not a private person...

...Will You Help...

...But Mr...

...The Man Higher Up YOU HAVE all heard of The Man Higher Up...

...Taft wanted Lorimer's election brought about...

...the net of the law is seldom swung without bringing in its load of them, to be transferred to our jails...

...And in view of the new evidence of the use of $100,000 in cash "to put Lorimer across," it becomes more and more important that Mr...

...Aldrich's duty to testify...

...Let us not fail to respond...

...When the people are asked to accept a piece of statecraft, they are entitled to know the kind of forces that are back of it...

...Funk's narrative command confidence in its truth...

...WE ASK you all to read Professor Hodge's article in this magazine...

...The Little Men Below—the imps who do the bidding of this head devil of unrighteousness;—we see them often enough...

...Aldrich Should Testify LAST WEEK we expressed the hope that developments in the Loeimer case might clear both Edward Hines and President Taft of any willful misrepresentation, notwithstanding the disparity in their statements as to the President's interest in the Lorimer election...

...Why is there such a difference...

...Just one thing is necessary to its success, and that is that everybody lend a hand...

...At a meeting of the Women's Trade Union League in Chicago on Monday, Miss Mary E. McDowell, head of the University Settlement, said: "In our American cities, it costs us $2.50 per capita for fire losses, while in European cities the loss is but 33 cents per capital...

...Why not get together, boys and girls, and grown-ups, and form clubs for the suppression of the fly by the Hodge method...

...Whether or not Aldrich is a party to the Lorimer deal is important...

...Hines as a party to the scheme to have Lorimer made Senator from Illinois, still is silent...

...He is still the big figure in the gigantic plan to give us a central bank of issue and a new currency system...

...Funk's company to send Edward Tilden, the Chicago packer, $10,000 to kelp reimburse those who had hurriedly advanced the money...

...Aldrich clear himself of Mr...

...and in this instance good citizens everywhere hoped that in some way the two statements might be reconciled...

...Aldrich, who was also named by Mr...

...Taft denied this...

...Hines said on oath that Mr...

...As the record now stands, the people will believe Taft rather than Hines...

...This testimony puts a new light on the* controversy between Hines and Taft...

...The reason is that our machinery is all directed toward extinguishing fires, while in European countries it is directed toward prevention...

...His plan to exterminate the fly is simple, scientific, and—look at the pictures!—effective...

...Since that editorial was written, Mr...

...In that remark there is a call to action...

...Such disagreement between eminent gentlemen upon a question of so much importance to the public is at all times to be deplored...

...Hines' statement, also made on oath, that he knew nothing about the use of money in Lorimer's election, is therefore controverted...

...Unlike the President, therefore, he can lay no claim to exoneration in the public mind from questionable connection with the unsavory affair...

...With it falls any presumption in favor of the verity of his statement concerning President Taft's solicitation of Lorimer's election...

...He is that mythical person who is supposed to be prime instigator, financial backer and chief beneficiary of all manner of ill-gotten privileges...

...It can be done...

...Recent developments in the Lorimer affair indicate that—at last —we are to be made acquainted with The Man Higher Up...

...The circumstances surrounding Mr...

...A Call REPORTS from all parts of the country tell us of the activity of building inspectors who have been stirred by the Asch building fire in New York...

...Funk, general manager of the International Harvester Company, has given sensational testimony to the investigating committee at Springfield...

...He owes that much—at leasts—to those who are asked to follow him in his central bank of issue campaign...