EDITORIALS
Helping Along REMEMBER this—whatever comes out of the proceedings in the United States Senate concerning the methods used in electing Senator Lorimer, the public airing of the "jackpot" scandals...
...Pinchot said: "During the time when I was acting as Chief Forester, we had a bill before Congress of great importance to the forestry work...
...In the next Congress, how many other members elected on the Democratic ticket will be found ready to place progressive legislation first and party advantage second...
...Among the features of this number are a condensed history of the Chicago Garment Worker's Strike, "Christmas and the Spirit of Democracy," by Samuel McChord Crothers and "Labor and the Law," by Louis F. Post...
...Pinchot speaks from first-hand knowledge...
...When that is done a faithful public servant will not have to secure the consent of any man "behind" a Senator or a Representative before his legislation is permitted to go through...
...The trail led me to a certain office in New York City...
...When Jerry Moore of South Carolina can get 228 bushels per acre at a cost of 43 cents per acre...
...We congratulate the editors upon the excellence of this number and welcome Life and Labor to the ranks of publications, free and courageous, that bow to no interest save that of the common good...
...Life and Labor THE first number of Life and Labor has appeared...
...The Men "Behind" GIFFORD PINCHOT spoke the other night in the gymnasium of the University of Wisconsin to a demonstrative audience that filled the hall...
...I went to that office and talked with the 'man higher up.' When the purpose of the bill was made plain to him, he said he would interpose no further objection...
...The report of the Wisconsin industrial insurance committee gives some interesting figures on the great economic waste under the present system of dealing with the victims of work accidents and adds: "But these questions of monetary cost are not the only considerations...
...He is right when he says that the thing to be done first of all in forwarding the Conservation Movement is to drive the special interests out of politics...
...other states will not lag far behind the leaders in the movement...
...Democrats and Insurgents ought to get together, at least, on the progressive legislation urged alike by both during the last campaign...
...I expect to vote with the Insurgents when in doing so I can best further the cause of progressive legislation...
...In its efforts to draft a satisfactory bill dealing with this complicated phase of modern industrialism, the committee has worked with similar commissions of other states to arrive at general agreements having as their object uniform legislation in the different commonwealths...
...What they have done, too, opens up a new vista for those looking toward "the industrial awakening of the South...
...Mr...
...Perhaps the next reform in Europe will be a measure providing for a "down and out pension" for superfluous monarchs...
...He discussed "The Advance," showing how, step by step, the movement to conserve the natural resources has progressed until now it is beyond the power of the special interests to stop it...
...This object, the committee has recognized, is of paramount importance if the economic balance in interstate competition is to be maintained...
...to figure out the cost, in dollars and cents, of producing a bushel of corn, and to find out, as a business man would, just what his profit is on his investment of labor and land and tools...
...He declared that the thing of most importance to do now is to drive the special interests out of politics...
...It is a humiliating confession to make, considering the length of time I had been in Washington, but that had never occurred to me before...
...Ever since he began to do things for the people his way has been blocked and his name anathematized by every big business interest whose privileges were in any way threatened by his service for the common good...
...May their achievement prove a stimulus to other farmers, old as well as young, to discover that hidden gold mine on their own land...
...lar election of United States Senators...
...In almost all individual cases the employee has severed his contract with his employer, and fellow employees thus have been encouraged to adopt an attitude of suspicion and distrust toward capital...
...when Steve Henry of Louisiana can produce nearly 140 bushels per acre at a cost of only 13 cents per bushel...
...In an editorial on "The Magazines," the Philadelphia North American says: "One or more of such weeklies as Collier's the Outlook, the Saturday Evening Post, La Follette's, the Independent, and the Literary Digest, are well-nigh indispensable to the thoughful American who desires to be well informed...
...For years our experiment stations, our colleges and our Department of Agriculture have been teaching the farmer that, with scientific methods, he may "grow two ears where only one grew before...
...That all the industrially important states soon will have similar laws is strongly indicated in the existence in all these states of official bodies working on the problem...
...It is a monthly magazine published in Chicago by the National Women's Trade Union League and edited by Miss Alice Henry, with the assistance of Miss S. M. Franklin and Mrs...
...He was pleasant about it, but steadfastly refused to start the measure on its way through Congress...
...No arguments seemed potent enough to move the Senator who had charge of the bill...
...That this has been demonstrated by the boy champions needs only the reminder that many farmers in the United States are glad to get a crop of fifty bushels on an acre...
...The Democratic majority in the House will be of no avail without the Insurgents in the Senate, and the Insurgents will be powerless without the Demo-crats in both the House and Senate...
...Justice to the Injured Worker ONE OF THE FIRST bills introduced into the Wisconsin legislature, which convened this week, was a measure creating a system of absolute money indemnity to the victims of industrial accidents...
...The results achieved by the winners in the contests conducted by the Department of Agriculture are truly remarkable...
...And while Joe Stone and the other boys are learning how to grow more than a hundred bushels per acre, they are also learning how to keep accounts...
...The Democrats and Insurgents combined their strength in the last session of Congress against the Wickersham administration railroad bill and by such cooperation had struck from this bill the clause exempting railroads from the operation of the Sherman anti-trust law, together with other objectionable features...
...Its name is well chosen...
...Success to the boy champions...
...In other words, the people of that district are progressive and they wanted progressive representation...
...Where Gray Stands THE SIXTH INDIANA Congressional District is normally Republican...
...Illustrative of the control exercised over the people's representatives by Business, Mr...
...Its subject matter, albeit serious, is given to the reader most interestingly...
...The spectacle of an injured workman or his widow and children waiting for from six months to five years for the doubtful outcome of a claim for damages is not one to inspire cordial and trusting relations between employers and employees...
...Its cause is the truly democratic cause of justice to the worker...
...Then, one day, a friend of mine asked me why I didn't find out 'who was behind' that Senator...
...Justcce is the key-note of the bill as reported...
...The Boy Champions THE story of the boy champions in corn growing is an inspiring story...
...Soon after my return to Washington I discovered that the bill had come out of the committee room and was proceeding without further delay toward passage...
...Frances Squire Potter...
...In the last election, it was carried by a Democrat, Finley M. Gray...
...That bill lested in the pigeon holes of a committee room...
...The old system of fighting every claim for damages and of requiring needy persons to inaugurate expensive suits in order to press just claims, has, in innumerable instances, brought about a most deplorable state of affairs between employers and employees...
...The proposed act, accompanied by a report which is designed especially to explain the problem of work-accidents and its probable solution, was agreed upon unanimously by a committee of seven members with widely varying political affiliations and beliefs...
...It is probable that Minnesota, Michigan, Massachusetts, Illinois, West Virginia, Missouri, Washington, and other states will pass compensation laws this year...
...His election is attributed to the dissatisfaction of the voters with Congress-man Barnard's support of Cannonism, until the eleventh hour, and his support of the Cannon-Aldrich tariff bill...
...It could not be pried out...
...when eleven year old Joe Stone of Georgia can grow 102 bushels to the acre at a cost of 29 cents per acre;—when these yields can be secured by mere boys under the direction of experts in the government service, what is there that one may not predict for the future of agriculture in the United States...
...Recently Congressman-elect Gray, in a newspaper interview, said: "The Democrats and Insurgents will be mutually dependent upon each other to enact legislation...
...England has succeeded in persuading the new government of Portugal to allow the deposed King Manuel an allowance sufficient to keep the wolf from the door...
...This fact alone, it is expected, will have a powerful influence in hastening the enactment of laws which will give to injured workmen and their dependents something they have not had under the present complex conditions...
...Helping Along REMEMBER this—whatever comes out of the proceedings in the United States Senate concerning the methods used in electing Senator Lorimer, the public airing of the "jackpot" scandals has already given powerful stimulus to the demand in all sections of the country for the popu...
Vol. 3 • January 1911 • No. 2
