EDITORIALS
Co-Workers OUIS D. BRANDEIS, speaking at the National Conference of Charities and Correction, in Boston, on June 14, said: "It is just a quarter of a century since I last expressed in public my...
...Aviator and Eagle WHO WAS NOT THRILLED by the newspaper accounts of that fight in the air, four thousand feet above the bull pens of Spain, between aviator Gilbert and an eagle...
...The Knott speech ranks as one of the most sarcastic utterances ever delivered in the House of Representatives...
...despite this fact it has been used to advantage by the very city against which it was aimed...
...THE TOBACCO TRUST, like the Standard Oil Trust, is a guilty law-breaker...
...The Congressional Record shows that he aroused "laughter," "more laughter" and "renewed laughter" when he uttered his witticisms at the expense of Duluth...
...This is especially the case because these problems will have to be solved largely through collective action in which legislation is necessary...
...Gradually the power of Patronage and Party Machine in national politics is being weakened...
...but I am convinced that for their solution we must look to the many, not to the few...
...Today I advocate it...
...Now there are five states where the naming of the nation's chief executive is brought more directly to the people,—Oregon, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Dakota and Wisconsin...
...Among other things of similar import, he said: "A material benefit to all the farmers of the country, especially the stock and cattle raisers and the dairy farmers, will be the by-products of BRAN AND SHORTS from the flour mills likely to follow the free export of wheat from Canada to those mills...
...Is This Trust-busting...
...Then I opposed it...
...This opportunity is granted by a law recently enacted by the legislature...
...TOM JOHNSON, when he was mayor of Cleveland, fought for a straight three-cent fare on the street railways, and for free transfers...
...Therefore when the people of Minnesota asked Congress for costly harbor improvements at Duluth, he loosed his irony on the northern city...
...The city has become a great port on the Great Lakes...
...I think all your business men must be farmers, if I can judge by the crowd that greets me here...
...You have a governor who is a farmer...
...Co-Workers OUIS D. BRANDEIS, speaking at the National Conference of Charities and Correction, in Boston, on June 14, said: "It is just a quarter of a century since I last expressed in public my views on woman suffrage...
...It appears that, even in the "conservative" East the after-dinner road of the reactionary orator is getting more and more difficult...
...Ample time is allowed to accomplish this...
...There it is...
...But it is a significant fact that the scientific demonstration of the injury to women from overwork and the ill effects of the toxin of fatigue upon motherhood and the race was prepared by Miss Josephine Goldmark, co-worker with Mr...
...The kernel for the miller, the husks for the farmer...
...That change in opinion is the result of my own experience in the various movements with which I have been connected, in which we have tried to solve the social, economic, and political problems that have presented themselves from time to time...
...On June 3, the President spoke in Chicago, right in the heart of the great farming region of the Middle West, and solicited popular support for his reciprocity deal with Canada...
...Because certain conditions existed in his time and in his community, he failed to grasp the possibility of great changes in another time and in another place...
...The insight that women have shown into problems which men did not and perhaps could not understand, has convinced me not only that women should have the ballot, but that we need them to have it...
...This judgment of the court was reached and is fully supported by convincing evidence of deliberate, long-continued and intentional violation of the law...
...One by One WISCONSIN VOTERS may express their choice of candidates for President and Vice President at the next election...
...Like the Standard Oil Trust, too, its violation of the plain terms of the law, can not even be sanctioned on the ground of "reasonableness...
...A WEALTHY MANUFACTURER, not a hundred miles from Chicago, recently told contemptuously of an artist who also had lived not a hundred miles from Chicago, and had killed himself because of the absolute misery of his poverty...
...You have Senators who are farmers...
...Man bird and eagle bird, they fought for supremacy of the air...
...We can imagine the kingly rage of the eagle as he saw this strange creature invading his heights with roar of engine and swish of propeller...
...He said: "I am only too conscious of my lack of experience and knowledge in the presence of farmers...
...We need all the people, women as much as men...
...Brandeis speaks out of deep knowledge when he says "net only should women have the ballot, but we need them to have it...
...The Tobacco Trust is ordered to dissolve...
...I must admit that I am a city bred man and while the spirit would be willing, I am afraid I could not milk a cow...
...On June 1, according to the terms of the ordinance under which the traction must now operate, the people of this great city began to enjoy the reduced fare...
...In the democracy which is to solve them, we must have not a part of society but the whole...
...News Item SENATOR WILLIAM LORIMER, after a prolonged absence from Washington, appeared in his seat again last week just in time to vote AGAINST the popular election of United States Senators...
...As years have passed I have been more and more impressed with the difficulty and complexity of those problems and also with the power of society to solve them...
...Knott fell into the error of unbelief in economic changes...
...That is, the Tobacco Trust officials are to be given the assistance of the lower court in rearranging their business affairs...
...Disconcerting WE REPRINT the following from the recent news despatches: "At the annual dinner of the New York alumni of Pennington seminary last night, Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw was the guest of honor and in a bitter speech assailing Progressive measures, but especially the direct election of United States Senators, and the initiative, referendum and recall, he spoke disparagingly of Governor Wilson of New Jersey...
...Few men have rendered as distinguished service toward the solution of our industrial problems as that freely given by Mr...
...Against this feature of the judgment, Justice Harlan vigorously dissents...
...What state will be the next...
...Irony in Ad-Writing PROCTOR KNOTT'S death in Kentucky last week revived amusing memories of his now famous "Duluth speech...
...But note the directions of the court...
...Brandeis...
...Thus does the good men do live after them...
...The mention of Wilson's name aroused the diners who cheered the former Princeton president to the echo and shouted, 'Wilson will be our next president,' to the utter disgust of Shaw, who, thoroughly disconcerted, sat down...
...Does not this sound like one of the classic myths come true...
...So remarkable has the sarcastic prediction of Knott proved, that Duluth's enterprising civic association distributes the Knott speech as a souvenir for visitors...
...Brandeis, notably in the successful defense of the ten-hour day for women workers, in the Ballinger investigation, and in the freight rate increases...
...Was ever a monarch more provoked to combat...
...Taft and the Farmer PRESIDENT TAFT made a speech in Milwaukee, September 17, 1909, which may be found in the Congressional Record, Volume 45, part 2, page 2023...
...Remarkable consideration, this, for a big criminal, convicted both of wrongful acts and of wrongful purpose...
...He does so with the same indignation at judicial usurpation of the legislative function that prompted his dissent from that part of the Standard Oil decision which makes the anti-trust act prohibit only what the courts may, in their wisdom, consider "unreasonable," It is just such decisions as these that help to explain the constantly growing popular distrust of the courts...
...His speech in the lower house of Congress was delivered at a time when Bourbon policies ruled and the Tory was in his glory...
...Chief Justice White, who wrote the majority opinion of the United States Supreme Court, says: "We think the conclusion of wrongful purpose and illegal combination is overwhelmingly established...
...The case is sent back to the lower court "to hear the parties by evidence or otherwise as it may be deemed proper for the purpose of ascertaining and determining upon some plan or method of dissolving the combination," and of remaking out of the junk a new organization within the law...
...It is illegal monopoly in restraint of trade under any construction of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act...
...And yet, practically every prediction of Knott's, extravagant as they were, and funny as they were when uttered ironically, has come true...
...And what matters it, that the sky fight was ended by an ordinary bullet, have we not discovered the new adventure story, the twentieth century thriller...
...Was the artist's misery, or the plutocrat's contempt for it, the greater dishonor to our social order?—The Public...
Vol. 3 • June 1911 • No. 25
