EDITORIALS
Another "Conspiracy"? WE ARE ASSURED by the Administration that there is no cause for excitement in the Controller Bay affair. It is, asserts the White House press bureau, like trying to make a...
...You alone can save Wiley...
...There you have undisguised the answer to the judicial recall idea...
...Everyone now knows how greatly at variance with the truth were these statements...
...The common run of people must have somebody to make their laws, they being themselves unworthy as compared with—well, with judges where there are no dukes.—The Public...
...Law-Making Judges HARPER'S WEEKLY digs down to the bottom of the question of recalling judges...
...They had to go...
...If such a thing were to happen, it would not take long to clean all the special interests and bosses out of the politics of the state...
...It would be a good thing if every voter in Minnesota' had a copy of this book...
...Those who are left are fighting grimly on, though at tremendous odds, to safeguard those rights still remaining to the public...
...And folks will wonder if, in this Controller Bay episode, the President is showing the same good-natured optimism...
...In the last campaign his little book, "The Minnesota Legislature of 1909," did splendid service in loosening the hold of the plunderbund upon that state...
...Haines' book shows who are the true representatives of the people, and that is important to know...
...Now Mr...
...They undoubtedly will unless You, Mr...
...PRESIDENT TAFT SAYS to Congress, "Pass my Canadian bill without changing a single word...
...They will also be deeply indebted to President Taft for his purely personal fight...
...Doc" Wiley is the guardian of your health and of the health of your children...
...It is the business of Congress to find out...
...PiNCHOT was dismissed...
...The records in the Ballinger case have not yet had time to get musty...
...nor have the facts of that scandal grown dim in the public mind...
...Public Spirited Citizen, whose children must eat the food made with benzoate of soda and its little coal tar brother, saccharin,—unless BOTH of you raise a mighty protest...
...It is characteristic of these men that they will go down if need be, but never with lowered colors...
...TITHE NEWSPAPERS, if they get their free paper and pulp, will be deeply indebted to the Democratic party as such...
...In it he calls the roll on men and measures...
...that the public domain was not in danger...
...One by one have they gone—these zealous, able, devoted champions of the public interest that Roosevelt gathered about him...
...It would be better if half the voters of the state read it and pondered over it, word by word...
...As chief chemist in the Department of Agriculture, Dr...
...Will they succeed...
...Yet it would be surprising, would it not, if demands were made from these same sources to abolish Congress, and turn over to the President the business of law-making...
...His courage and vigilance and intelligence make trouble for those special interests that flourish best under a sleepy-eyed, complaisant government...
...To the insistence of a correspondent that the Recall is necessary to avoid the danger to democracy of giving irresponsible lawmaking power to any class, the candid Weekly replies: "Is there not some novelty in the idea that the common run of people are so much more trustworthy than the judges...
...Will you permit him, on a flimsy technicality, to be kicked out of an unfriendly Administration—as your friends Pinchot and Glavis were—without showing your resentment...
...and that "it was merely a foul conspiracy...
...But you must shout very loudly...
...No Minnesota voter need east his ballot in the dark in the next election...
...Wiley has been waging unremitting warfare on impure food manufacturers, patent medicine fakirs, and others who have been growing rich by cheating the public...
...Haines has written another book similar in scope and purpose...
...Public Spirited Citizen who have a vote, and You, Mrs...
...It is, asserts the White House press bureau, like trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill...
...The voter then knows what to do...
...You can do it in the same way that you prevented the "Cunningham" coal lands from falling into the possession of the Alaska Syndicate...
...He calls it "The Minnesota Legislature of 1911...
...Strangely obsessed were these three men with the idea that public office is a public trust...
...He bears the scars of many a battle in your behalf against unscrupulous manufacturers who would defraud you of your money and despoil you of your good health...
...And Now it is Wiley GARFIELD was let out...
...but it also shows the gang at work...
...Big Business hates Wiley...
...So with Wiley...
...They interfered with the Taft-Hammond-Ballinger-Aldrich procession of carrying out the Roosevelt policies on a stretcher...
...There is no other answer in substance...
...Glavis was given his walking papers...
...They will not be in the least indebted to the Republican party, for even the Republican contingent that supported the Reciprocity bill did not wish to do so but was politically coerced.—Review of Reviews...
...Newspapers are demanding that the Senate hurry up and ratify this pact, just as it was handed out by the Administration, and then "go home...
...It is remembered that the country was repeatedly assured when the charges were brought against Ballinger that there was no cause for public agitation...
...For several years, the food adulterators and candy poisoners and their friends, both in and out of official position, have been on the trail of Wiley with the avowed intention of "getting his scalp...
...He will find, in Mr...
...Haines' book, an illuminating record of his representatives...
...The Minnesota Legislature of 1911" MINNESOTA is greatly indebted to Lynn Haines...
...This would be more convincing if the people had shorter memories...
...When the men who serve the bosses are exposed, the fight is half won...
Vol. 3 • July 1911 • No. 29
