EDITORIALS
For the Children OME ONE has said, "Save a man and you save a soul; Ssave a child and you save a soul plus a life." This idea is lack of the work Lindsey is doing in the juvenile court; back of...
...The Senator from Providence will stand firm for the cause of the people, and we expect to win although after a long and stubborn fight...
...Small Merchants Welcome Parcels Post FOLLOWING is a bit of testimony that has a bearing on the attempts now being made in an organized way to create popular antagonism toward the parcels post on the ground that it will injure the small dealer...
...If you are interested in progressive Republicanism, now is a good time to subscribe.—"Rath" in the Detroit Times...
...More than that they give—freely and gladly—what they have of inspiration and encouragement...
...Splitting Hairs SIFTED DOWN, the Lorimer case at this writing presents to the country a remarkable spectacle of "hair-splitting...
...Which is equivalent to a debate on the question: "Resolved, That it requires more than one bad egg to spoil an omelette...
...Speaking of the magazine trust, La Follette's Weekly is still uncontrolled...
...It has been the custom to print a small number of copies of any bill at the request of the member introducing it...
...That is why we print the following letter from State Senator Edwin C. Pierce: "I am a member of the Rhode Island Senate, elected last November as the candidate of the Democrats and Independents to represent the city of Cranston, a new city of about 25,000 population...
...back of the social center movement now spreading from state to state...
...Driven from one defense to another, those Senators who are seeking to establish the purity of Mr...
...But Senator Pierce knows the crags and precipices of System politics in Rhode Island that bar the way to legislative consideration of a bill in the public interest...
...It is published by Eugene Wood, Hayden Carruth, Thomas Selzter, A. Tridon and George Allen England, a fact that gives reasonable assurance that it will continue to be bright and worth reading...
...And it is this idea that should prompt every man and woman throughout this wide land to urge his representative in the lower House of Congress to vote for the bill creating the Children's Bureau (described on page 10 of this number...
...Write your Congressman today...
...Reading Bailey's defense of Lorimer in the United States Senate, recalled to my mind the language of Burke : " 'Parliament cannot with any great propriety punish others for that in which they themselves have been accomplices.' "To my mind this language will apply to any Senator who votes for Lorimer to retain his seat in the Senate...
...We enjoy it...
...back of the service Jane Addams is rendering to humanity in Hull House...
...There is need to act quickly...
...Two numbers of The Masses, "A monthly magazine devoted to the interests of the working people," has come to our desk...
...Each town or city has just one Senator irrespective of population, with the result that less than 10 per cent, of the people of the State choose a majority of the Senate...
...It is one of the many flashes of Public Opinion that gleam from each day's mail...
...The Providevce Journal, the principal newspaper of the state, just before the opening session, made a strong attack on the wretched service furnished by the street car monopoly of the state, and aroused an enormous public interest...
...The writer of it apparently had access neither to pen and ink nor to a typewriter, yet the lack of these accessories interferes not in the least with his terseness of expression...
...It comes from Consul General John H. Snodgrass at Moscow, Russia, and is published in the government's Daily Consular and Trade Reports...
...back of the Ten-Hour Law for Women...
...The interest of the people in the bill is widespread and deep...
...back of the fight to wipe cut the child labor disgrace;—back of all men's efforts to conserve child life...
...Sister states, that have freed themselves from the fetters of the special interests, do look with sympathy upon the efforts of good citizens to set Rhode Island free...
...it may be long of achievement...
...Under these adverse conditions, the progressives of Rhode Island are deducting with resolute courage a fight for popular government and popular progress in which they are entitled to the sympathy of the people of the United States...
...Conservation of our natural resources is a very important and necessary duty...
...After the introduction of my bill the Journal endorsed the principle of it, did not criticise any of its details, although furnished with a typewritten copy, and commended the bill to the serious consideration of the General Assembly...
...I do not mean, however, that we expect the passage of the bill at the present session, but we expect to secure consideration for it...
...Its viewpoint is socialistic...
...Let us all work together to secure the speedy passage of this bill...
...The bill and resolution went to Senate Judiciary committee, where it has been sleeping ever since...
...Snodgrass says: "The owner of the only English and American store in Moscow informed the writer that when parcel post was first introduced in Russia, it seriously threatened to impair his local trade, as his customers started to dealing direct with the larger houses in the western European capitals, but later it turned out that they preferred to order through him when in need of articles not in stock, and instead of proving a menace to his business, it became of assistance to him...
...No great profit results, as a rule, on goods ordered by mail, but customers are secured and held for other lines, and thus local merchants welcome the introduction of the system...
...As to the other suggestion, we are reminded that a portion of the Democratic party—a portion that at times wields potent influence in the nation's affairs—has for its emblem a tiger...
...It is a difficult task these people have cut out for themselves...
...It will, however, require strong pressure from the people to secure the printing of the bill and public hearings...
...The session is drawing to a close...
...On January 4, 1911, the first legislative day, I introduced a bill for a public service commission, closely following the model of Governor Hughes' New York public utilities statute, but a little more inclusive in its provisions because covering telephones as well as other public service corporations and giving power to regulate the hours and conditions of labor in public utilities...
...I think the wild, rampant, long-horned Texas steer would be a more fitting emblem for the Democratic party than the little, demure, long-eared jackass...
...The city that I represent, hitherto a Republican constituency, has over 3,000 voters, while we have towns also represented by one Senator whose total vote is much less than 200...
...This bill was accompanied by a resolution to create a joint special committee...
...We take it that our correspondent applies this quotation from Burke not in the sense that Senators may be regarded as accomplices, directly or indirectly, in corruption, but in the sense that by their actions they help to perpetuate or to destroy the System that finds the readiest expression of its political will through "jack pots...
...Emblems OUT OF THE PILE of letters on the editorial desk we pick the following to pass on to the readers of La Fol-lette's...
...That is a great deal...
...The disposition of the committee, as I learned by consultation with the chairman, is not to print the bill or give a public hearing and to pigeonhole it...
...He goes on to explain— "The reason why it is so difficult to secure consideration in our Senate for a measure in which the people are so deeply interested is because the apportionment of Senators under the Rhode Island Constitution is probably the most glaring instance of political inequality now existing is the Anglo-Saxon world...
...but not more so than the conservation of the children, through which will come higher efficiency, more diffused happiness, and nobler achievement for the whole human race...
...The bill is long, but a little shorter than the New York act, and is for the most part identical with that act, although with few necessary adaptions...
...Lorimer's election are now engaged in a quibble as to just how many corrupt votes must be cast to taint an election...
...I shall demand the printing of 5,000 copies of this bill...
...But a beginning has been made...
...Insurgency in Rhode Island IT ISA GLADSOME THING to hear a note of insurgency struct in Rhode Island...
Vol. 3 • February 1911 • No. 8
