EDITORIALS
Throwing off the Yoke HERE IN THE UNITED STATES we are trying to make the Seriate really representative of public opinion. Over in England, the people are engaged in a similar task—that of removing...
...One Way Out...
...A workingmen's compensation law was secured...
...Of course he can...
...Paste it in your hat, lest you forget a name...
...While the man dug in the sewer he learned Italian and studied stone-masonry and bricklaying at a night school...
...But are the people of England to free themselves from bourbonism in government before we have fairly made a start...
...Utter, R. I. Lawrence, Mass...
...This bit of slick business was, however, quickly discovered by friends of the measure and reconsideration was ordered so that the reference might be changed to the Judiciary Committee, which reported favorably the popular election resolution of last session, and is the only Senate committee which has ever favored it...
...Over in England, the people are engaged in a similar task—that of removing from the path of progress their bourbon House of Lords...
...McCall, Mass...
...It is nothing against the book to say that the "One Way Out" will accomodate but "here and there a traveller," and to suggest that the real "way out" in the escape from poverty must be broad enough to accomodate everybody...
...Moral: Watch your Senators...
...Keeping Faith NEW JERSEY now has a law providing for the commission form of government for cities...
...And even though their protest on the floor of that chamber should prove unavailing, they will carry on, as in the past, their fight for legislative measures that are in the public interest...
...Mann, Ill...
...Also a railroad liability law similar to the federal act...
...AGAIN and, if we recollect aright, for the seventh time, the House of Representatives has passed and asked Senate concurrence in a joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to provide for election of United States Senators by the people...
...Against the Resolution: Senators Gallinger, Lodge, Penrose, Heyburn, Warren, Smoot, and Bradley;—7...
...Dodds, Mich...
...Harris, Mass...
...It is sane in that respect, and in its view of the "ignorant immigrants,"—the view of one who knows their good qualities...
...But, whatever the action of the committee, the Progressive Senators will continue the struggle, even to the floor of the Senate, for the right to name their proportion of the members of the several committees...
...It may be for a few, but, of course, it would cease to be a way out at all as soon as the multitude commenced travelling it...
...In both countries the highest legislative body is in the grip of Special Privilege...
...He stands above them, and can outrun, see farther and go faster...
...It was the fear that these vital provisions would be omitted from the bill that inspired Governor Wilson to send his special message to the legislature pointing out the path of duty...
...The promptness with which the House acted on this measure after the opening of the present session is a matter for general congratulation, genera] except as to the handful of political antediluvians in the House —sixteen all told—who voted against its passage...
...The people are indebted to the Governor's vigilance for a commission government law that really places control with the voters...
...The book is valuable as a protest against the native-American's middle-class idolatry of the boiled-shirt job...
...The measure happening to arrive in the Senate at a moment when its friends were not advised, the watchful Senator Gal-linger and the willing Vice-President Sherman proceeded with deftness and despatch to "chuck" it into the pigeon-hole of the Committee on Privileges and Elections—a bourne whence, of all the numerous procession of similar measures that in a generation of time have gone that way, no traveler has ever returned...
...and "Whereas, the control of the committee and the fate of legislation is practically and by precedent dependent upon the selection of members upon each of said standing committees, and especially the Republican majority of each committee...
...1.20 net...
...Weyl tells us how it is being accomplished...
...As for these Voices out of the Past, the list is here: Cannon, Ill...
...power headlights for locomotives, and the establishment of a school of mines and metallurgy...
...In ours it is the Money Power...
...The fight will go on...
...and "Whereas, there is a division among the Republicans of the Senate—a minority of whom are known as Progressive Republicans—to wit, Senators Clapp, La Follette, Bourne, Botah, Brown, Dixon, Cummins, Bristow, Crawford, Gronna, Poindex-ter and Works;—each division being well recognized in the Senate and throughout the country as based upon clearly defined differences on important legislative measures and questions of great public interest...
...The details of this plan are given in the following resolution which was laid before the Committee on Committees by Senator La Follette: "Whereas, under the uniform practice of the Senate, every bill is referred to some appropriate standing committee and is therefore practically under the control of such committee to be considered or not considered, reported or suppressed...
...KANSAS MADE PROGRESS in labor legislation at the last session of her legislature...
...With the reactionary majority responsible for defeat of the measure in the last Congress substantially reduced at recent Senatorial elections by the numerous transfers to the Lame Duck Society, the outlook for Senate concurrence at the present session is greatly improved...
...Again...
...They "emigrated to America,"—that is, they got into the stream of immigrants from Europe, lived as they lived, and made good as they make good...
...WILLIAM CARLETON is the pen name of the author of "One Way Out," a most interesting fact-story published by Small, Maynard & Co., Boston, Mass...
...But after all, do we not all know that the physically strong American who will give up his class-associations and, with his equipment of education, go into the slums, drop his living to $8.00 a week for a family of three, study the language of the diggers of sewers and learn new trades at night school, can win out in competition with the immigrants...
...Sullqway, N. H. Hinds, Me...
...The vote was as follows: For the Resolution: Senators La Follette, Bourne, Cummins, and Bristow;—4...
...Also that all coal mines must be thoroughly equipped with a telephone system...
...also, let them hear from you...
...Carleton succeeded because he had advantages over his fellow diggers...
...in theirs, Landlordism...
...And the bill as finally passed last week contains the initiative, referendum and recall...
...The question is: Is it "one way out" for the salaried slaves...
...It is more interesting than most novels...
...But, if in response to Mr...
...Wilder, Mass...
...The forces of democracy are mighty forces, and they are now moving, in tide-like unison, the world over...
...Dwight, N. Y. Malby, N. Y. Fordney, Mich...
...It is the true story of the escape from the hell of poverty into which a middle-class New England family fell when the breadwinner lost his job as book-keeper for the "United Woolen Co...
...Danforth, N. Y. McDermott, Ill...
...Also a law requiring all coal mines to be provided with bath houses, with a shower attachment...
...and "Whereas, the Republican Senators known as Progressive Republicans are in the minority in about the ratio of one out of four...
...Carleton's summons, bookkeepers, clerks, salesmen, and professional men "emigrate" to Little Italy in large numbers, this advantage will disappear...
...They found a bigger, better, saner life, and better friends in "Little Italy" than they ever had in their "trim little house in the suburbs...
...The clerk went into a ditch and dug...
...It was turned down by the Standpat Senators...
...The Fight Will Go On WHEN THE EXTRA SESSION WAS CONVENED, and the two Houses took up the matter of organization of committees, the progressive Republican Senators presented to their colleagues a plan by which they might have representation on the important standing committees in proportion to their numbers...
...On April 21, this resolution was voted on by the committee...
...It is an inspiring story...
...one that will find quick response in the hearts of liberty-loving Americans...
...And while we see The System, with its bell-wether statesmanship, steadily giving way before the onrush of popular government, it is good to learn of the progress our neighbors across the water are making in throwing off the yoke of the hereditary Lords...
...In "The Twilight of the Lords," Mr...
...He achieved a success in his new field at forty...
...Now Therefore Be It Resolved by the Committee on Committees that the Progressive Republicans be accorded by the Committee on Committees such proportional representation upon the committees of the United States Senate as their numbers bear to the total Republican membership of each of said committees, and the assignments of Progressive Republicans upon each be designated by Senators La Follette, Bourne, Cummins, and Bristow, the four Progressive Republican members of the Committee on Committees, which said assignment and designation shall be approved and ratified by the Committee on Committees...
...McMosran, Mich...
Vol. 3 • April 1911 • No. 17
