EDITORIALS
Is Peace Possible? THE McNAMARAS are in prison. The law has taken its course. There are those who feel that the sentences were not enough severe. Perhaps they were not. Perhaps even death by...
...The governor and prime minister openly combined to plunder the state...
...Mix and insert a few dozen candles...
...TfREAD Lincoln Steffens' story of recent developments in Los Angeles on page seven...
...bags of netting...
...They are demanding that the dynamiters, the criminals, be scourged out of the unions and brought to the bar of justice...
...What Darwin Found GHARLES DARWIN, the great scientist who gave to the world the "theory of evolution," went, when a young man, to South America to study nature...
...But that cannot be changed...
...When the McNamaras were arrested last May, we urged that the public suspend judgment until the accused men had been given a fair trial...
...2) by shutting out currents of air, which might move light material against a blaze...
...Labor, as a class, has not been and is not now getting what it is justly entitled to...
...Pennsylvania voters who are interested should get in touch with Clarence V. Tiers, State Secretary of the Pennsylvania Progressive Republican League, Pittsburg...
...Punish the McNamaras...
...those twenty-one innocent victims of fiendish hate...
...Pennsylvania's Opportunity ON APRIL 13, 1912, Pennsylvania.will have a primary election...
...It is one of the recently unscrambled eggs.—St...
...All that of course was eighty years ago...
...MURRAY, the comptroller of the currency, "raps dishonest bankers" in his annual report...
...We write these words now, many miles distant from the spot at which, year after year, we met on that day, a merry and joyous circle...
...many of the looks that shone so brightly then, have ceased to glow...
...How many families whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggle of life, are then re-united, and meet once again m that happy state of companionship and mutual good-will, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight, and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first days of a future state of existence, provided for the blest and happy...
...The case of the McNamaras against the People is ended...
...Concerning that he writes: "I am rather afraid I did not help my case much in the position I hold as postmaster at this place...
...If a man who is poor commits murder and is taken, he will be imprisoned, and perhaps even shot...
...toys of dried, painted wood...
...Pertinent Comment U THE LIGGETT & MYERS COMPANY, an erstwhile subsidiary of the American Tobacco Company, began business in St...
...It is a matter in which "rapping" is not sufficient...
...Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days, that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!—Charles Dickens...
...Some way of making impossible the operations of the McNamaras and their ilk...
...At this Christmas time let us seriously consider if Christ's teachings may not be given an everyday application to industry...
...Kansas City Times...
...And costly...
...But let us not prejudge the plan conceived by capitalists and labor leaders in Los Angeles of leading the way out of industrial strife...
...Dishonest bankers should be swatted...
...fluffy clothes for dollies...
...An effort is being made to secure delegates from every district pledged to a progressive candidate for President...
...but no less interesting to him were the people he found, and their customs...
...the eyes we sought, have hid their lustre in the grave...
...MR...
...Some way of curbing the type of capitalist who instigates violence in an effort to injure unionism...
...the hands we grasped, have grown cold...
...With this entire want of principle in many of the leading men, with the country full of ill-paid turbulent officers, the people yet hope that a democratic form of government can succeed...
...His experiences are described with painstaking exactness in "The Voyage of the Beagle...
...Louis Republic...
...Taft's heaven the packers have avoided going to trial for nearly ten years after indictments were found.—Philadelphia North American...
...Bloodless weapons they are, to be sure, but still forcible...
...Louis yesterday...
...ornaments of explosive celluloid...
...But abolish the conditions that produce the Ruefs...
...The rank and file are showing no quarter to those who may be found violating their confidence, outraging their trust...
...If those men out there where the strife has been most intense are really coming together in a new spirit is it not our duty to look upon their experiment at least with sympathy and with hope upon hope for its success...
...Guard the Christmas Tree WISCONSIN'S State Fire Marshal gives us thi» "recipe for a giant firebrand:" "Take,—twigs of resinous trees...
...Tragedies may be avoided, he says, "(1) by preventing anyone from readjusting anything on the tree after the candles are burning...
...And this determination but strengthens the position of the unions...
...The reported order of preference is (1) Harmon, (2) Taft, (3) Underwood.—The Public...
...festoons of leaves...
...Some method of adjusting the relations between the employer and the employee that will result in justice to both, without necessitating the use of force...
...The McNamara case can no more injure unionism than the Ruef case could injure popular government...
...The Progressives in Pennsylvania are going to make the most of this opportunity...
...and in a country that most Europeans then looked upon as quite barbaric...
...I know it is against the law, but my lawyer (naming him) recommended me to take this step.' The Chief Justice smiled acquiescence, thanked him, and the man before night was safe in prison...
...Let us try to set if there is not some better way of conducting modern industry...
...But does this not suggest something further...
...I knew an Englishman, who went to the Chief Justice (he told me, that not then understanding the ways of the place, he trembled as he entered the room,) and said, 'Sir, I have come to offer you two hundred (paper) dollars (value about five pounds sterling) if you will arrest before a certain time a man who has cheated me...
...The law—passed in 1906—permits the candidate for delegate to have printed on the official primary ballot the name of his choice...
...If THE BEEF PACKERS also think that the American courts are the nearest thing to heaven...
...Darwin found many wonderful facts to record about plants and animals...
...but if he is rich and has friends, he may rely on it no very severe consequence will ensue...
...By constant appeal to Mr...
...But I would rather be right than postmaster if I can not be right and be postmaster...
...An Unfettered Citizen APOSTMASTER in a Western State who refuses to jump when the Organization cracks the whip recently upheld the progressive cause in a public debate...
...Christmas to the Wanderer AND NUMEROUS indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment...
...Violence will not be tolerated...
...3) and above all, by putting out the candles before beginning to remove presents...
...Perhaps even death by torture were not adequate punishment for the death of...
...That was in 1831...
...Here is a brief passage from his account of his visit to Mercedes on the Rio Negro river: "Police and justice are quite inefficient...
...But let us not stop with that...
...The head man in the post-office sold forged government franks...
...If GRATITUDE FROM the whole country is due the New York Evening Post for its report upon Wall-street preferences for President...
...Some way of securing for Labor the just treatment that is so slow in coming...
...It is a sequel to the story printed in La Follette's last week...
...It may have to continue fighting (of course without violence) for its deserts...
...Thus: JAMES BROWN: (Favors Gifford Pinchot for President) Here we have, in rough form, a method of getting an expression of popular preference for Presidential candidates...
...What now...
...Label, Christmas Tree or The Ideal Incendiary...
...Many of the hearts that throbbed so gaily then, have ceased to beat...
...Punish Ruef...
...And we said: "Trade unionism is the only present hope of the American workingman for decent living wages and tolerable conditions of labor...
...wreaths of tissue-paper...
...Nearly every public officer can be bribed...
...cotton batting...
...Labor unions themselves are making answer to that question...
...On that day delegates to the national party conventions will be elected directly by the people...
...and yet the old house, the room, the merry voices and smiling faces, the jest, the laugh, the most minute and trivial circumstance connected with those happy meetings, crowd upon our mind at each recurrence of the season, as if the last assemblage had been but yesterday...
...Maybe we shall have to continue pitting the strike and the boycott against the lock-out and the blacklist...
...How many old recollections, and how many dormant sympathies, does Christmas time awaken...
...Justice, where gold came into play, was hardly to be expected by any one...
...Maybe that can't be done...
Vol. 3 • December 1911 • No. 50
