EDITORIALS
On the Way IN ORDER that there may be no misunderstanding or uncertainty, Kansas has again impressed upon her representatives in Congress what their duty is with respect to the popular election of...
...The trustees are Professor E. R. A. Seligman of Columbia University, Jackson Ralston, counsel for the American Federation of Labor, and United States Commissioner of Labor Charles P. Neill...
...Of course nothing will be done...
...Mayor Busse of Chicago is quoted in the newspapers as having said to the reporters in New York: "I never was looked upon as an absolute 'uplifter.' Politics is politics most anywhere...
...But if statehood is to be denied Arizona because her constitution contains these instruments of popular government what is taft and Congress going to do in the case of states that have changed their constitutions so as to include direct legislation and the recall...
...Forbidden the use of phosphorous, other manufacturers would have to get permission from the owners of the patent before they could change to the sesquisulphide process...
...It was important to secure complete assurance from the Diamond Match Company that future applicants for patent rights would be treated fairly...
...The ability of the soil and the agricultural art and sciences, to produce crops at a rate of increase greater than either the normal rate of increase of population, or the normal as temporarily influenced by immigration, he concludes, has been demonstrated times innumerable by the Department of Agriculture, by the experiment stations, and by the intelligent farmers all over the country...
...An Objection Silenced AS A SEQUEL to the story told in La Follette's last week about the dreadful effects of phosphorous poisoning in the match industry and the efforts now being made to prevent it by law, comes the information that the objection most strenuously urged against such legislation has been silenced...
...The Kansas legislature adopted, as an emergency measure, a resolution instructing the Senators and Congressmen to work and vote for an amendment to the Constitution that will permit the people to vote for their Senators directly...
...Yet it received scant notice in the daily newspapers...
...Arizona people may well be concerned over such an announcement, for the enabling act passed at the last session of Congress was so worded that Congress and the President are in a position to censor whatever the people of Arizona have decided shall be the fundamental law of their new state...
...This has finally been done...
...Steadily this movement progresses...
...INSPIRED DISPATCHES from Washington announce that President Taft does not look with favor upon the constitution of Arizona and that the provisions for the initiative, referendum and recall may stand in the way of its ratification by Congress and the President...
...But suppose President Taft had the power over these older states that he now has over Arizona...
...What will they do with Kansas...
...Publicity GOVERNOR CHASE S. OSBORN, in his message to the Michigan legislature, recommends "state legislation holding publishers accountable for printing the palpably dishonest announcements of investment swindlers and of all other unscrupulous advertisers who seek to betray the readers' confidence in the integrity of the press...
...We print it here for the information of those readers who attach some importance to the fact that the governor of a great state believes there should be a state law to protect rtaders from the unscrupulous advertiser with millions to spend...
...Helen C. Putnam...
...On the Way IN ORDER that there may be no misunderstanding or uncertainty, Kansas has again impressed upon her representatives in Congress what their duty is with respect to the popular election of United States Senators...
...Which is our notion of nothing to boast about...
...On January 6 the patent was turned over to three trustees who are given the power to grant its use upon "such terms" as the trustees "shall deem just...
...What will they do to states like Wisconsin, Massachusetts, California, Kansas, Michigan and others that are now setting about to give the people these democratic measures...
...As a mere matter of news this would seem to have some value...
...Farmers will Continue to Feed the Nation IN HIS ANNUAL REPORT for 1910, the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Agriculture says that agriculture in this country is not decadent and that it will continue to keep ahead of the new demands caused by increasng population...
...What would happen...
...The Association of Labor Legislation is to be congratulated upon so successfully disposing of an objection that for a time threatened to block the way to speedy and complete abolition of phosphorous matches and the distressing "phossy jaw...
...As early as last June the officers of the American Association for Labor Legislation succeeded in convincing the managers of the Diamond Match Company that they ought, in the interests of humanity, to throw the patent open...
...This was the objection that the passage of a law abolishing the use of poisonous phosphorous in the making of matches would promote a monopoly in the manufacture of matches from the non-poisonous sesquisulphide...
...What will they do in the case of Oregon...
...These names are a strong guarantee of just dealing...
...Educators should be fitted to establish through public schools better practices in hygiene and sanitation, and higher ideals of parenthood.—Dr...
...The patent is owned by the Diamond Match Company...
...What Would Happen...
...The use of this harmless substance is covered by a patent...
...And what will happen to governors like McGovern, Johnson, Stubbs, Foss, Os-born, Wilson and Deneen for urging their legislatures to pass the initiative and referendum...
Vol. 3 • January 1911 • No. 4
