EDITORIALS
"Investigation" WHEN PRESIDENT TAFT appointed the members of the Postal Rate Commission, he named Mr. Justice Hughes of the United States Supreme Court, President Lowell of Harvard University, and...
...The people have absolute power over the use and disposition of the public domain...
...Merit system Upheld TORYISM IN WISCONSIN has been given still another rebuff...
...Another effort to tear down the structure of progressive legislation in "the pioneer progressive state" has failed...
...Hewitt, the world recognized expert on flies living in Ottawa...
...There is great significance in the judicial confirmation of the government's authority to make a charge for the use of reserves for grazing purposes...
...Express companies profit from the transportation of magazines...
...But the curious mental twist of the minds of those making the decision is worthy of close scrutiny, and while pathetic, is also amusing...
...Yet President Taft appointed Maxwell...
...The people are alarmed...
...It was settled the other day by a decision of the United States Supreme Court...
...The practical and effective method of exterminating the fly, described by Professor Hodge of Clark College in La Follette's a few weeks ago, has resulted in a most remarkable quickening of public interest...
...The taxicab company refused to acquiesce in the demand and the case was taken to court...
...The enclosed article suggests the way in which a campaign against the disease fly should be organized...
...Recently a taxicab driver was injured in cranking his machine and applied for compensation provided by law where the injury received compelled cessation of work...
...The flies are beginning to breed...
...He says: "Dear Mr...
...Justice Hughes of the United States Supreme Court, President Lowell of Harvard University, and Lawrence Maxwell, a Cincinnati lawyer...
...The matter of dealing in bad faith with the people appears to be of less concern than the unpleasantness of being found out...
...Shall the work of the convention be in line with the progressive thought of to-day...
...This commission, it will be remembered, was created by act of Congress last session...
...What the short ballot is intended to bring about is told, plainly and interestingly, on another page of this magazine by Mr...
...Older states, like Oregon and Wisconsin, are changing their constitutions to this end...
...Now is the moment for the destruction of their breeding beds...
...It was, the American people were led to believe, created solely for the purpose of making an impartial investigation of the whole subject of transporting magazines through the mails...
...The conditions for a campaign are favorable...
...What Will Ohio Do...
...There is no time to lose...
...A Solid Foundation UNCLE SAM is really the manager of Uncle Sam's property...
...The meat of the decision is as follows: "That a driver who receives a percentage of his cab's earnings by way of payment, instead of a fixed salary, is not a workman within the meaning of the workingmen's compensation act...
...This fact is no longer open to a possibility of doubt...
...With the decision of the state Supreme Court, the other day, sustaining the civil service law, the last hopes of the pot-house politicians of breaking down the merit system in the state's government were dispelled...
...It only requires a leader to direct the attack, and to show the hosts who are willing fighters how to fight...
...OHIO IS TO HAVE an opportunity to make over its constitution...
...The Westminster county court decided against the driver...
...How satisfactory it would be if Ottawa the Federal City, would give a lead to the other cities of the Dominion in this direction...
...secretary of the short ballot organization...
...I would suggest that you should endeavor to secure its immediate reproduction in the city newspapers...
...In an organized campaign to exterminate the fly, I feel sure everybody would be only too glad to lend a had...
...considered apart from these other devices, will probably arouse a contest in the Ohio convention...
...We hope his appeal will meet with an immediate response, not only in Ottawa, but also in all other parts of the Dominion...
...CHILDS...
...George, and let him recognize in every bit of fly producing garbage that he can meet, a dragon worthy of his valor...
...Other measures have been tested before the Supreme Court...
...War on the Fly NOW IS THE TIME the flies are beginning to breed...
...Splendid advice...
...What is needed now is cooperation and quick action...
...And we in the United States will do well to emulate our neighbors to the north...
...It was accepted by Taft and Hitchcock as a compromise, when their scheme to cripple the magazines that have been printing disagreeable facts about the Administration, by imposing higher postage rates, was rejected...
...It also confirms the right of the government to impose a' tax for such privilege...
...What are you doing to exterminate them...
...When this was discovered and made public, Maxwell resigned...
...You as mayor are obviously the right leader...
...The people of the United States are indeed to be congratulated that the highest court found in the law a solid foundation for these features of Conservation...
...The inheritance tax law, laws relating to the powers of the tax commission, laws conferring certain powers upon the railroad commission and public utilities, laws concerning actions to enforce the collection of license fees due the state from railroad companies, the law changing the rule of defense in case of injury received by employees of railroads, the primary election law, and the pure food "law have all been assailed...
...If so, the constitution will be made to accord the people actual control over their government...
...George's Day...
...You have Mr...
...If the youth of the city could be enlisted in this fight against the common enemy and free the city from the usual plague of summer flies there would occur, as enclosed article points out, such an uplift in health and cleanly living as the people had never experienced...
...A few people in every town and city can do wonders, but if every householder joins in the campaign the pest will be surely doomed...
...We congratulate the Governor General...
...Congress declared specifically in this act that no member of the commission shall "have any interest in any business directly or indirectly affected by the publishing of magazines or newspapers...
...It was then appealed to the court of appeal, which sustained the decision of the lower court...
...The people, it appears, have been waiting only to be shown what they must do to rid themselves of these pests...
...What is there in reason or in law to prevent the government, under the same doctrine, from charging a price for the use of other resources, such as coal mines or water power sites...
...New states, like Arizona, are trying to draw their constitutions so as to be helps, not hindrances, to popular government...
...for the removal of all removable garbage which if left to rot in the warm spring will prove the fertile incubator of myriads of disease and death bearing messengers...
...But in each case their constitutionality has been upheld...
...Wisconsin is bringing about a People's Government, constructively and enduringly...
...It became known that Maxwell was the attorney of the Adams Express Company...
...Let us not neglect it until another season, but band together right now to carry our warfare into the strongholds of our common enemy, the fly...
...Another instrument, the short ballot, which should not be...
...Broadly speaking, the court lays down the doctrine that the federal government is not hampered either by constitution or by statute in its business of administering to the public lands...
...PRACTICALLY EVERY STATE and community in the United States, compared with England and Germany, is in its infancy in provision for the inspection, enforcement, and collection of information as a basis for the rational improvement of legislation for children.—Survey...
...I would remind you that next Sunday is St...
...They are, in a very particular way, parties to the controversy...
...The importance of this has been given public recognition by no less a person than the Governor General of Canada, who urges wide publicity of Professor Hodge's article...
...On that day let every Ottawa boy be a St...
...In a short time millions of these little filth and disease carrying insects will appear to harass and endanger every community...
...A Hair-Splitting Decision WHILE there have been many decisions rendered by American courts that are abortive, which has led to great abuses and a general decline of respect and confidence in the judicial branch of the government, yet England is apparently striving, in some instances, at least, to emulate judicial practice of this country...
...In a letter to Mayor Hopewell of Ottawa, Governor General Grey recommends an organized crusade...
...Mayor,—I enclose a very useful and most opportune article from La Follette's, an American newspaper...
...A workingmen's compensation act is in force in Great Britain, and under its provisions all wage earners are included...
...Direct legislation, the recall, and other instruments of popular control are finding their way into the fundamental law of the states...
...It is to their interest that the present mismanagement of the Post Office Department be continued...
...This decision confirms the right of the Forest Service to impose restrictions and regulations concerning grazing on public reserves...
Vol. 3 • May 1911 • No. 19
