EDITORIALS
Wilson's Victory EVERY TRUE PROGRESSIVE in the country received with satisfaction the news that James E. Martine had been elected United States Senator from New Jersey. For one thing it gives the...
...resorted to the two defenses abolished by the proposed law...
...What is really needed in Newport, Ky., as in some other places, is an injunction to prevent the "politicians" from interfering with the people's attempts at self-government...
...As a matter of fact there is no case on record in Wisconsin where the farmer has...
...We find it indispensible...
...He won...
...We do indeed...
...His success will spur leaders in other states to take their fights against the pothouse politicians into the open, carry them through to the end without wavering, and win them...
...also, put in a new door sill and storm protector, in the person of George W. Dilling for mayor...
...And so do good citizens everywhere...
...Yet ex-Senator Smith, after sizing up the new legislature, opined that the sena-torship would be an easy plum to pick for himself...
...For another gratifying thing it is a victory of Public Opinion over System Politics...
...The worker does not realize that the system is killing him because he is being bled a drop at a time...
...When the votes were counted on the night of the 7th, it was found that a majority of the voters (which now include women) preferred to have their mayoring done by another person...
...He does not imagine he is robbed because he has nothing and loses only as he makes...
...Perhaps this will mean only a postponement of Ruef's punishment...
...Many of these workers are the children of farmers...
...Governor Wilson thought differently, and waged a brilliant and inspiring battle for the voters' choice...
...On January 6, the Diamond Match Company, yielding to the arguments of the officers of the American Association for Labor Legislation, agreed to turn its patent over to a board of trustees...
...Slow-Moving Justice ABRAHAM RUEF, the San Francisco boss and corrup-tionist, who is trying to crawl out from under his sentence of fourteen years' imprisonment, has been given another respite...
...Cases are on record where lawyers have taken $600 out of $1,000 awarded to a hopelessly maimed client...
...But instead of stating openly and frankly that they object to the bill because it would cut off the collection of exorbitant fees from maimed clients, some of these practitioners, there is reason to believe, are trying to alarm the farmer and arouse his opposition by saying that farming interests will be harmed by the law...
...These laws would cut off the "negligence attorney's" big fees...
...The defense of assumption of risk and fellow servant's negligence, which the farmer never uses, are abrogated...
...perhaps it will result in his freedom...
...But, seriously, it is to be hoped that the constitution will not be found a barrier to the kind of government that the people want...
...This action completely removes the chief objection raised against the passage of a law by Congress to prohibit the use of the poisonous phosphorous in the making of matches...
...Rejoice with us...
...The opponents of the bill do not cite this fact when planting the seed of unreasoning opposition...
...But, whether or not Ruef escapes is not as important as is the fact that several members of the California legislature, upon hearing of this order of the Supreme Court, remarked grimly that they would no longer oppose the application of the recall to judges...
...The People there want a clean and good city...
...For busy people who wish to have at their elbows a helpful reference book of information, there is a little book called The World Almanac, published at the Pulitzer Building, New York City...
...When the workman secures a settlement, the lawyer gets a fat fee of from 25 to 70 per cent...
...Trying to "Hoodwink" the Farmer PROPOSED LAWS designed to assure fair treatment to sufferers from industrial accidents will lighten the purses of just one class...
...Cleaning House" FROM A BUSINESS MAN on the Pacific Coast came this brief message on the 8th: "Seattle 'cleaned house' yesterday...
...Barriers A READER OF La Follette's in Kentucky writes: "Being a reader of your valuable paper, I have noticed from time to time the cities which are taking up commission government...
...His defense of contributory negligence is retained under the proposed act...
...of the amount...
...Permission is given Ruef for a re-hearing of his appeal...
...For one thing it gives the people of New Jersey, and the rest of us, a representative who knows no other interest than that of the public...
...The progress of science, art, government, religion, education, labor, industry, commerce, finance, navigation, exploration, and a thousand or more subjects are set forth concisely...
...Because they have the Recall, the People are in a fair way to get it—without delay...
...Is the farmer to be "hoodwinked" into opposing the bill because he has been told by a personal injury lawyer that the bill is "dangerous...
...The whole country is indebted to those concerned in bringing about this cancellation for their service in hastening the elimination of a most dreadful occupational disease...
...The proposed law, as a matter of truth, will not change the farmer's status in defending himself against damage suits...
...Dissatisfied with their mayor,—whose attitude toward the denizens of the vice district was the immediate cause of dissatisfaction,—the people decided to put the Recall into operation...
...So, at the request of the trustees, concurred in by President Taft, the company cancelled the patent in order that nothing may stand in the way of complete abolition of "phossy jaw...
...The proposed law will protect the thousands of men and women who face danger every day in our large manufactories...
...The old mayor steps out...
...the new walks in...
...This time it is the Supreme Court of California that waves back the waiting jailer...
...Most people believe that the United States ought to have an immigration which would go into the country, and not one which would increase the size of our slums and multiply our city problems...
...Canada, however, acts upon her views, and we merely express ours in words...
...I want you to know that Newport at its last election decided by a majority of 176 to have it and we hope to vote for commissioners this fall...
...They want the bill killed for reasons that are purely selfish...
...The Immigration Policy of Canada is based frankly on the Government's desire to have settlers who will go into the newly opened agricultural regions...
...This class is composed of so-called "negligence lawyers...
...Seattle will henceforth, no doubt, be free from the stigma of "vile and appalling conditions" that brought her into disrepute...
...It is ever a matter of felicitation when the People get what the People want...
...Paving the Way ON JANUARY 30, the Diamond Match Company cancelled its patent for sesquisulphide...
...Most of these "negligence lawyers" make a specialty of urging injured workmen to bring suit for damages...
...But even this extraordinary act was not sufficient entirely to quiet the "suspicion of monopoly...
...Wisconsin and several other states are trying to remedy this condition by passing laws granting financial assistance to injured workers and their dependents...
...The "negligence attorneys," inspired by selfish fears, are decrying this reform...
...use of this non-poisonous substance is now open to all manufacturers of matches...
...The accident victim receives the balance...
...Fearing, though, that the politicians will try to enjoin us, the Business Men's Club have, through an attorney, brought a friendly suit to prove the constitutionality of the law...
...Appeal to Reason...
...Martine was the choice of the voters in the primaries last summer...
...Collier's...
...All the important laws of Congress and of state legislatures are clearly summarized...
...Able lawyers and legislators of all parties are authority for the statement that the passage of the bill will not work a hardship or an injustice to the farmer...
Vol. 3 • February 1911 • No. 7
