A CHANGED VIEWPOINT
A Changed Viewpoint MR. B. P. YOAKUM, chairman of the board of dircetors and of the executive committee of the unfortunate 'Frisco railroad, has issued a statement to the stock holders explaining...
...It is equally true that within the same period many other familiar corporate acts such as contributions to political campaigns, rebating, trade and traffic agreements, have come under the ban of public opinion...
...The iniquity is the same, whatever the profit...
...A centipede with corns...
...This charge na-turally excited some attention and was "headlined" in the press which speaks for the ''interests.'' It seemed best to wait for rebuttal from the Philippines, which has now been received in the following form...
...The public does not regard transactions of this kind as perfectly proper if only a "liberal" profit is made and as very wicked if anything more than a "liberal" profit is made...
...A Reply to Dean Worcester By ERVING WINSLOW THE latent forces are obvious which inspire the singularly bitter attacks upon the declared policy of independence to the Filipinos, as soon as they demonstrate—by successive steps to be granted as rapidly as possible—their ability to govern themselves...
...Yoakum, discovered, recognizes that public disapproval of transactions such as his "is right...
...He adds in his statement: "No one will deny the great changes that have taken place in public opinion during the last ten years...
...Worcester, why, then, did not those officials take steps to free the slaves by means of habeas corpus proceedings under the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, and further, why did the Philippine Commission, the upper house of the Legislature of which Mr...
...Worcester, the displaced commissioner who has shown an active interest in this sort of '' development," hopes to return to the Philippines to continue his "business", if his present tour in the United States is successful in placing stumbling blocks in the way of the present righteous program...
...Yoakum's personal profit from these deals that shocks the public, but the discovery that such practices were included in "banker-management" of railroads...
...We will take the law into our own hands...
...four hundred and twelve replied that they would still prefer to be in the factory...
...subject colony...
...Unemployment A MAN willing to work and unable to find work is perhaps the saddest sight that Fortune's inequality exhibits under the sun.—Car-lyle...
...and most likely true...
...I have all the money I need, but I am not going to tell whence I get it...
...Interesting, if true...
...Is IIuerta, per program, knocking down Mexico's rich resources to the highest foreign bidder, as the price of his job as bloody dictator...
...asked the teacher in surprise...
...What Was Worse "Can you imagine," said the facetious teacher of natural history, "anything worse than a giraffe with a sore throat...
...THE BEST recommendation I can have is my own talents and the fruits of my own labor...
...Worcester was a member, draft the Contract Labor law which makes the Filipino a slave to all intents and purposes, as should he try to leave his employer or refuse to work he will be prosecuted and sentenced to imprisonment...
...We know that Mr...
...The whole world knows that certain European plutocrats (some of them with royal titles) are "interested" in oil and mining concessions in Mexico...
...Worcester's report and are submitting the following questions to be answered by the opposite party...
...P. S.—A London dispatch last week reports that Lord Cowdbay (the John D. Rockefeller of Great Britain) denied a statement published in New York to the effect that he was about to dispose of his Mexican oil interests to an American concern, and said: "Neither my firm nor I have sold nor are we about to sell our Mexican oil interests to the Standard Oil Companv or anvone else...
...Mr...
...This news item is significant...
...What, pray...
...If slavery and peonage have been allowed to exist in the islands during fifteen years of American administration, with thousands of American officers, officials, and employees stationed throughout the islands in different capacities, and if it still exists to the extent reported by Mr...
...It is not the amount of Mr...
...Yoakum feels that the criticism directed at him for promoting and building little feeder lines of road which were sold at a good stiff profit to the 'Frisco is unjust because his profits from these deals represent at most "only a liberal interest on investments...
...Its significance lies not in any supposed tribute to our factory conditions, but rather in its reflection upon a school system that makes factory life, by comparison, seem preferable...
...And it appears that public indignation has brought Mr, Yoakum himself to recognize, or acknowledge, this...
...While I believe it ought not to apply to pioneering enterprises which have in the past depended for their success on syndicate or individual financing, on the whole I am convinced that the policy is right...
...THE AIM of education should be rather to teach us how to think than what to think—rather to enable us to think for ourselves than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.— beattie...
...The threat contained in those last ten capitalized words is plain...
...That is my secret...
...Harbison, the new Gov-ernor General, of his own initiative, at once took measures to search out each lingering form of peonage which he heard existed in some remote places where labor is scarce and where the employers, anxious to hold their help, take advantage of the ignorance and immediate needs of the laborer, and induce him to sign disadvantageous contracts on advance of wages, either in cash or provisions in kind...
...Which sounds quite different from the Mr...
...The telegram to President Gompebs read: "Mine operators and citizens' alliance have announced in the morning local press that tomorrow they will give all representatives of organized labor from outside of this state twenty-four hours to leave...
...A trustworthy correspondent writes...
...Anarchy PRESIDENT GOMPERS of the American Federation of Labor received an appeal the other day from labor officials in charge of the copper miners' strike at Calumet, to intercede with President Wilson for the protection of labor representatives in Michigan in their constitutional rights...
...Yoakum, unrevealed, of old...
...they will be disappointed...
...The "kept" press will, of course, refrain from referring to this incident as "anarchy...
...That if they fail to do so they will be sent out of the district in THE MANNER THAT SUGGESTS ITSELF AS MOST CONVENIENT AND EFFECTIVE...
...These forces are the ever present influences of predatory wealth which now no longer deny even in words what their actions have revealed for years,—their hope to "develop" the Islands by obtaining possession of all their natural products and then to demand the continued endorsement of the United States for the only "stable government" they will allow to be possible—a permanent...
...I recognize the public disapproval of dealings between a corporation and its officials...
...Yes, sir," "came the answer from one boy...
...Worcester seems merely to have been fouling his own nest...
...A Reminder five hundred girls, between fourteen and sixteen years of age, in Chicago factories, were asked: "If your father had a good job so that he could have afforded to keep you in school, would you prefer to stay in school or go to work in a factory...
...B. P. YOAKUM, chairman of the board of dircetors and of the executive committee of the unfortunate 'Frisco railroad, has issued a statement to the stock holders explaining the dealings between Director Yoakum and Promoter Yoakum, which were recently uncovered by the Interstate Commerce Commission...
...and what others will not do for me I will try to do for myself.—Audubon...
...We absolutely refuse to acknowledge the truthfulness of Mr...
...A Pertinent Query Some time ago, according to the Christian Science Monitor, the correspondent of the Associated Press at Mexico City had an interview with Huerta, who sarcastically said: "They are expecting to see me bankrupted most any time...
...Home and Farmstead...
...Worcester sticks at nothing as he is a ''seasoned controvertialist'' and his first attack takes the form of declaring the Filipinos unworthy of independence because of the "existence of slavery" among them...
Vol. 5 • December 1913 • No. 52
