NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING

...And with the sense of the people behind us everything that is right is possible...

...The responsibilities of the past are tremendous but they are common responsibilities which all leaders of action and opinion must share...

...While I was hopeful, I was not in a condition of mind where the defeat greatly" disappointed me...

...Gompers' report urged more extensive organization among those in all industries and the general extension of the Federation...

...Mr...

...I was surprised at Mr...

...P." The Chicago World, a Socialist daily newspaper, makes the demand in bold-faced type and vigorous language that Attorney General Wickersham "bust the news trust...

...A young Russian in Chicago recently got into the newspapers with a story of distress, which, if true, marks one more blot on the name of Russian law and police methods...

...In order to insure a more just arrangement for those working in their establishment, the Filenes provided three devices: First: A system of self-government for employees, administered by the store co-operative association...

...And the World declares that it is Attorney General Wickersham's duty "to institute dissolution proceedings at once and put this monster trust out of business...

...They found that the common and accepted conditions in large retail stores were that the employees had no voice as to the conditions or rules under which they were to work...

...As with the tariff, we should go slowly with the trusts, but we should proceed firmly and watch closely the results we accomplish...

...Working through this association, the employees have the right to appeal from and to veto policies laid down by the management...

...but we will not rest contented until the entire platform is enacted into law and becomes part of our political system, national and state...

...This truth must be kept steadily before the minds of all of us...

...Third: A minimum wage scale, which provides that no woman or girl shall work in their store at a wage less than eight dollars a week, no matter what her age may be or what grade of position she may fill The Filenes have thus accepted and applied THE PRINCIPLES OF INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY AND OF SOCIAL JUSTICE...

...The paths broken by such pioneers will become the peopled highways...

...England went from high protection to free trade on the installment plan and her trade and revenue increased while she was reducing the taxes...

...The progressive party has come to stay...

...Instead of remaining petty tradesmen, they have become, in every sense of the word, great merchants...

...No man whose business is conducted without violation of the rights of free competition and without such private understandings or secret alliances as violate the principles of our law and the policy of all wholesome commerce and enterprise, need fear either interference or embarrassment for the administration...

...I am a member of the committee which has been investigating the proposed amendments to the Sherman anti-trust law, and I think the La Follette bill proposing amendments to that law meets with more favor than any other...

...News Worth Remembering York, last week a report of the executive council made the following reference to the McNarama case: "The McNamara offense was a social crime...

...To attain this result business invention of a high order was of course necessary—invention directed to the departments both of production and of distribution...

...and when this has been done, unquestionably there will have opened to us new avenues along which it will still be a duty to work for the moral and economic betterment of our people...

...and their regret at his leaving Washington will be something keen and genuine...

...He said: "I shall call Congress together in extraordinary session not later than April 15...

...He asked for support on his progressive record and despite the bitter attacks of reactionaries of all parties he carried his district...

...I am proud indeed that the great good fortune has been mine to fight shoulder to shoulder with the men and women who, in the ranks and in various positions of leadership, have waged this great battle for social and industrial justice...

...Jose Canalejas y Mendes, Prime Minister of Spain, was shot and killed last week by a young anarchist named Manuel Pardenas...

...Taft Favors Single Term President Taft's suggestion for a single six year presidential term follows: "It's contrary to my love of the dear old Constitution to suggest any alteration in its terms, lest it be regarded as a reflection, or a criticism of, that which has been put to the sacred use for one hundred and twenty-five years of maintaining liberty, regulated by the law and guaranties of the rights of the minority and the individual under the rule of the majority...

...Wilson says: "The result gives us hope that the thoughtful voters of the nation may now unite to give the country freedom and enterprise and a government released from selfish and arrogant influences...

...It would be difficult if not impossible to retrace our steps if we go too far at first...

...has resigned and Sir Cecil Arthur Spring Rice has been named to succeed him...

...If daring to express the convictions in my heart involves a term of imprisonment, the sooner we know it the better...

...If he is loth to grapple with the grave matters now a matter of controversy between Great Britain and the United States, he has yet earned rest and peace and a chance to create literature...

...Thinking people, who were made to realize the poisonous, miasmic influences corrupting the atmosphere of industrial life, were well-nigh overwhelmed by the weight of collective responsibility devolving upon them as a result of the existence of such conditions...

...But under the present rules of the Association this is impossible...

...The product that it markets is sold only to a chosen few...

...It charges that the "Associated Press—incorporated under the laws of the state of New York after it was driven out of Illinois—is the greatest and most iniquitous combination that has ever been conceived and perfected because it instructs the inter-state distribution of news...

...devoted to justice and progress...

...He announced ill health as the reason...

...Rival Candidates Discuss Election President-elect Woodrow Wilson and his two defeated rivals, issued statements to the public last week commenting upon the result of the recent election...

...Between the leaves of a book lying on the bed the following note was found: "The struggle under the competitive system is not worth the effort...

...Roosevelt's strength...

...It was organized for the purpose of gathering and disseminating foreign and domestic news for a price...

...If a judge by injunction can stifle the mind and prevent free expression, then the very essence of our liberty has been stolen...

...The McNamaras were either criminally insane or insanely criminal—-either condition due to imperfect education, incomplete education or defective mentality...

...The Filenes recognized that the function of retail distribution should be undertaken AS A SOCIAL SERVICE, equal in dignity and responsibility to the function of production: and t h a t it should be studied with equal intensity in order that the service may be performed with high efficiency, with great economy, and with nothing more than a fair profit to the retailer...

...Big business" will then mean business big not in bulk or power, but GREAT IN SERVICE AND GRAND IN MANNER...

...In September they moved into a new building with more than nine acres of floor space...

...but there are in America to-day many with like perception and like spirit...

...We will start with the protection not nearly as high, and we will not go to free trade, but we certainly should emulate England's example...

...In a speech before the convention, Samuel Gompers discussed the arrest of himself, John Mitchell and Prank Morrison at Washington saying: "I deny to any judge or any set of judges the right to gag my mouth...

...It can suppress news in the interests of the money power or it can mislead a nation in policies and politics...

...So far from being over, the battle has just begun...

...and, among other things, tha t it was the concern of the retailer to know whether the goods which he sold were manufactured under conditions which were FAIR TO THE WORKERS—fair as to wages, hours of work and sanitary conditions...

...I am a little specific in this matter, because it seemed necessary to be so, in order to be understood...

...Charles Page Bryan, ambassador to Japan, resigned last week...

...Wilson Reassures Business Mr...

...Second: A system of arbitration, through the operation of which individual employees can call for an adjustment of differences that may exist between themselves and the management as to the permanence of employment, wages, promotion, or conditions of work...

...It is capable of instilling the public mind with the rankest kind of seditious poison...

...The Michigan float was in charge of Miss Fola La Follette, whose home state, Wisconsin, defeated suffrage this time...

...In such cases we must have access to other remedies to bring prices to a reasonable basis...

...Bryce, the retiring Ambassador, made himself known to the people of the United States through his famous book, "The American Commonwealth...

...said the inquiring foreigner...

...Wilson reassures legitimate business...

...We will not rest content until every feature of the Progressive program has been put into effect...

...They have applied minds of a high order and a fine ethical sense to the prosaic and seemingly uninteresting business of selling women's garments...

...Their exceptional methods will become accepted methods...

...The trade offers many other examples of similar growth...

...Wilson Announces Special Session Just before leaving for a four weeks' vacation in Bermuda, Governor Wilson announced that he will call a special session of Congress not later than April 15 of next year to revise the tariff...

...The Business Man of the Future MC ELWAIN and the Filenes are of course exceptional men...

...For many years it has been customary at the close of the year for the national executive to call upon his fellow-countrymen to offer praise and thanks to God for the manifold blessings vouchsafed to them in the past, and to unite in the earnest suppliance for their continuance...

...A. Wayland, founder and owner of the Appeal to Reason, a Socialist weekly newspaper published at Girard, Kansas, recently shot and killed himself...

...The floor space of each was only twenty feet square...

...Graft," said the resident of a great city, "is a system which ultimately results in compelling a large portion of the population to apologize constantly for not having money, and the remainder to explain how they got it...

...Taft Says, "Rebuke to T. R." President Taft's statement follows: "I was hopeful that the result would be different...

...I hoped we might pull through...

...Suffragists Celebrate Victory A monster suffrage parade was held in New York on the evening of November 9 when 20,000 men and women of every nation and every walk of life marched, sang and preached the doctrines of "the cause" in celebration of the addition of four more states of the Union to the list of equal suffrage states...

...Before a newspaper can secure an Associated Press franchise it must have the consent of all of its competitors...

...The so-called "practical business man," the narrow money maker without either vision or ideals, who hurled against the Filenes, as against McElwain, the silly charge of being "theorists," has been answered even on his own low plane of material success...

...Larz Anderson of Washington, now United States minister to Belgium, has been named to succeed Ambassador Bryan...

...British Ambassador James Bryce...

...Of Burns' connection with the McNamara case the report said in part: "Burns has not and could not produce a scintilla of evidence to substantiate his oft-repeated mis-statement: 'Gompers knew.'" The report charges that Burns made it appear that officers of the federation were the "higher-ups," and that when Mr...

...In other times reducing the tariff would have reduced prices, but that was before the trusts monopolized the American market...

...In 1891 the Filenes occupied two tiny retail stores in Boston...

...Cause For Gratitude"—Taft President Taft has issued a proclamation calling upon the nation to observe Thanksgiving Day on November 28...

...They recognized that to serve their own customers properly, the relations of the retailer to the producer must be fairly and scientifically adjusted...

...But the Filenes recognized particularly their obligations to their own employees...

...The sheet anchor of popular government is in the division of the people into two great parties and no more...

...Washington Star...

...There is absolutely nothing for the honest and enlightened business man of the country to fear...

...And as the profession of business develops, the great industrial and social problems expressed in the present social unrest will one by one find solution...

...One was a glove stand, the other a women's specialty store...

...Twenty years later their sales were nearly $5,000,000 a year...

...Roosevelt Says Fight's Still On Colonel Roosevelt's formal statement upon the election and the future of his party follows in part: "During the campaign I said repeatedly that this was in no shape or way a one-man movement, but a movement for great principles—a movement which has sprung, as all healthy movements in our democracy must spring, from the heart and conscience of the people themselves...

...Were this made impossible by law, I can see no reason why the energy of the President and that of all his subordinates might not be directed rather to making a great record of efficiency for the first and only term, instead of seeking a second term for that purpose...

...In the recent campaign he ran for re-election as an independent...

...There are well known cases where the trusts have secured such control that they can suppress competition at home and maintain prices without regard to the import cost of articles...

...In Chicago and all other cities this operates as a perpetual bar and prevents—so far as it can—the establishment of new papers—makes it possible for the unscrupulous Chicago newspaper trust to exist...

...Among the floats in the parade were those representing Arizona, Kansas, Michigan and Oregon, which have just obtained woman suffrage...

...In any case, society is responsible for not remedying the conditions...

...Probably he is wise in his choice...

...Business --- The New Profession (Continued from page 8.) binding as an agreement to pay a note on a certain day...

...President Taft sees an abatement of the bull moose fever...

...The Filenes: A Case in Point THE CAREER of the Filenes of Boston affords another example of success in professionalized business...

...Four years is rather a short time in which to work out great governmental policies...

...If there is to be friction between his native land and the land of his adoption, he, quite naturally, at his time of life and with his well-known American sympathies, does not care to be drawn into it...

...that the employees had no appeal from policies prescribed by the management, and t h a t in the main they were paid the lowest rate of wages possible under competitive conditions...

...There were 5,000 men in this parade, in striking contrast to the 83 male sympathizers who were courageous enough to march in the New York suffrage parade two years ago...

...Scientific management practically eliminated the recurring obstacles of the unexpected...

...In his proclamation the President says: "A God-fearing nation, like ours, owes it to its inborn and sincere sense of moral duty to testify its devout gratitude to the All-giver for the countless benefits it has enjoyed...

...If the country could stand the burden, I would like to see the attempt made, in order that the people might learn the hollowness and the impracticability and the sham character of many of the promises...

...McNamara Offense a Social Crime" At the convention of the American Federation of Labor at Rochester, New What Will Wilson Do...

...Colonel Roosevelt announces that "the battle has just begun...

...Then the t e rm "big business" will take on a new significance, and will lose its sinister meaning...

...Commenting on his retirement, the Christian Science Monitor says: "Since Ambassador Bryce has steadily lived in the country, gone to academic and literary functions, paid his tributes to departing public servants, and continuously commented upon important matters without indulging in indiscretions either from the American or the British standpoint, Americans have come to love the man...

...But yielding to the modern habit, and just to show that, though I am a conservative, I am not a reactionary or tribolite, I venture the suggestion that it would tend to the efficiency of the executive and center his energy and attention and that of his subordinates in the latter part of his administration upon what is a purely disinterested public service, if he...

...Each of the other floats carried a suffrage delegation from the state represented...

...The year now drawing to a close has been notably favorable to our fortunate land...

...As we revise the tariff on the installment plan we can watch what effect the reductions have upon the trusts and the high cost of living...

...let it pass...

...He made the study, he introduced the radical changes found necessary, and so perfected his organization that customers could rely absolutely upon delivery on the day fixed...

...Our hope and purpose is to bring all the free forces of the nation into active and intelligent co-operation and to give to our prosperity a freshness and spirit and a confidence such as it has not had in our time...

...Our System.—"What is meant by graft...

...were made ineligible after serving one term of six years either to a succeeding or a non-consecutive term...

...As reported by the Record Herald, the young man, who is a naturalized citizen of this country, has received word from Russia that if he does not return and fill out an unexpired term in the army or send the authorities $500, his nearest of kin, a sister will have to suffer for him by spending an indefinite term in jail...

...They assert that the greater efficiency of their employees shows industrial democracy and social justice to be money makers...

...We will pluck from it all the fruit of protection and may have to go down to the roots, but I think the pruning should be done on the installment plan...

...But they have done more—they have demonstrated that the introduction of indust r i a l democracy and of social justice is at least consistent with marked financial success...

...They may adjust the conditions under which employees are to work, and, in effect, prescribe conditions for themselves...

...If Attorney General Wickersham will look up the law he will find that he can kill this news trust or compel it to furnish its news to any newspaper that wants to pay for it on the same basis it is sold to those who are now permitted to buy it...

...NEWS NOTES —Congressman William Kent of California now enjoys the distinction of being the only member of Congress without party affiliations...

...It is difficult to prevent the whole administration from losing a part of its effectiveness for the public good by this diversion to political effort for at least a year of the four of each administration...

...The difficulty I find with the present progressive program is that it contemplates the impossible...

...As a matter of fact the news of the Associated Press should be subject to purchase by every newspaper in the country, large and small, and each should be given the opportunity to buy the entire service or any part of it that is desired...

...The preeminence of the Filenes lies in the advance which has been made in the nature, the aims, and the ideals of retailing, due to their courage, initiative, persistence and fine spirit...

...But the significant thing about their success is not their growth in size or in profits...

...Gompers made reply "this turned upon him the brunt of the attack...

...The Republican party will be able to gather about it many who will recover from the bull moose fever, and also those who voted the democratic ticket because they preferred to defeat the bull moose party...

...Demands "Dissolution" of "A...

...It is a menace to a free press which is guaranteed under the Constitution of the United States...

...My own ambition will be more than satisfied if I may be permitted to be the frank spokesman of the nation's thought in these great matters...

...At peace within and without, free from the perturbations and calamity that have afflicted other peoples, rich in harvests so abundant and industries so productive that the overflow of our prosperity has advantaged the whole world, strong in the steadfast conservation of the heritage of self-government bequeathed to us by the wisdom of our fathers and firm in the resolve to transmit that heritage unimpaired, but rather improved by good use, to our children and our children's children, for all time to come, the people of this country have abounding cause for contented gratitude...

...Free speech and free press have ever been regarded as inherent and natural rights...

...I shall do this not only because I think that the pledges of the party ought to be redeemed as promptly as possible, but also because I know it to be in the interest of business that all uncertainty as to what the particular items of tariff revision are to be should be removed as soon as possible...

...If either of the old parties will endeavor to put into legislation any one of our planks it can count upon our hearty support in so doing...

...He knew that to make punctual delivery possible, careful study of changes in the methods of manufacture and of distribution were necessary...

...He declared himself in favor of a single six-year term for the President, and for a law giving to each department head a seat in the Senate and the House and the right to enter into the discussion of the proposed legislation in either of the national legislative bodies, which he declared "would keep Congress much better informed as to the actual needs in executive departments," He also suggested that local patronage be taken out of politics and that postmasters and other office holders ought to be put in the classified civil service system "so that it shall be automatic in its operation and the President may not be bothered and the Congressmen and Senators may not be bothered with that which is supposed to aid politically but which in the end always operates as a burden to the persons upon whom its use is thrust...

...A golden chariot drawn by four white horses driven by Miss Inez Milholland, was at the head...

...I do not care how unambitious, or modest a President is, I do not care how determined he is that he himself will not secure his nomination (and there are very few, indeed, who go to that extent) still his subordinates, equally interested with him in his re-election, will, whenever they have the opportunity, exert their influence, and divide their time between the public service and the effort to secure a chief's nomination and re-election...

...Big business" will mean professional business, as distinct from the occupation of petty trafficking or mere money making...

...Gore For Gradual Revision Senator Gore of Oklahoma, one of the most prominent of Woodrow Wilson's supporters and a progressive Democrat, in an interview at Washington recently said: "The tariff is the tree that bears trusts, and we are going to prune it a good deal...