COURAGE, MR WILSON
Courage, Mr. Wilson NEWSPAPERS report that Privileged Busi-ness, disturbed by Mr. Wilson's insistence upon calling a spade a spade, is now holding solemn conferences with itself as to the...
...Wilson's insistence upon calling a spade a spade, is now holding solemn conferences with itself as to the advisability of "throwing a scare" into Wilson...
...And if the necessity of getting in his crops does not keep him at home, then it may be something else—a heavy storm, bad roads, or a spell of illness...
...They will support Wilson if he defies the Money Power...
...Q. * * * HOW MUCH TROUBLE he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only to what he does himself, that it may be just and pure.—Marcus Aurelius...
...COMPARE the New York gunmen with the assassins of the Virginia or Kentucky mountains...
...Finally Dunscomb refused to pay more and the Royal Company sued...
...Out of the remaining seven states that will hold sessions this winter, however, there surely will be found the two that are necessary to secure the ratification of this amendment...
...In his message to the Wisconsin legislature, Governor Mc Govern recommends a law permitting "absent voting...
...The people have a right to look upon the presidency as their strong arm...
...Why not have equality of opportunity for voters...
...A READER, T. L. Cole of Washington, has called our attention to a slight misstatement in the article on the federal income tax amendment in La Pollette's for December 21...
...It is obvious that the busy farmer, with never enough help at harvest time, cannot leave his fields to go to the polls...
...Many inhabitants of New England, who dislike Mr...
...And in these days of striving for fundamental democracy, we are confronted at every turn with the necessity of making over the laws and constitutions and administrative methods that did very well for the fathers but do not meet the complex needs of to-day...
...But were he inclined to lose his nerve at the threat of another financial panic, let him remember that the people this wide country over are now wise to the game of the speculative bankers and the gambling promoters...
...But there is further justification for this improvement of our election machinery...
...The method of taking the vote—if properly safeguarded as to secrecy and honesty—is of less importance than getting the expression of all the people...
...His counsel appealed on the ground that this was inadequate relief, and the result was the reversal by the Appellate Division, granting recovery of double the sum of all payments...
...the mountains, the forest, the sea render men savage...
...Almost every election time we hear something about the "prospects" of "getting out the farmer vote...
...Now the issue pops up lustily right on our front door step,—so lustily, indeed, that Governor Foss devotes considerable space to it in his recent message to the Massachusetts legislature...
...These people, on the whole, constitute one of the very best elements of our body-politic...
...Vermont and Virginia will not meet until 1914, unless in extra session...
...Because the fathers may have paid their bills by delivering sacks of grain, no one argues now that we should not pay ours by sending telegraph messages...
...There is the farmer, for example...
...The Municipal Court allowed him double the amount of the last payment he had made...
...New times," said the poet Lowell, "demand new measures and new men...
...If modern conditions make it difficult, or practically impassible for large classes of voters to go to the polls, then the polls should be taken to them...
...Bryan was declaring for government ownership of railroads getting severely pummeled for it...
...They will not be stampeded...
...There is every reason why citizens so situated should be permitted to use the mail in voting...
...Florida does not hold its regular session until April...
...Then came talk that the place in which to try government ownership out was in remote Alaska...
...Make Voting Easier EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY is a present-day slogan...
...The case," says The Survey, "grew out of a loan made to one Alexander Dunscomb by a lending concern which called itself the Royal Company, and whose directors were Mark and Philip Sugarman and Prank C. Stratt...
...Getting at the Loan Shark NEW YORK has removed another stout prop from under the loan shark's structure of chicanery and extortion...
...THE "ANYTHING-TO-WIN" progressive might well paste in his ring-battered hat this remark of Abraham Lincoln: "Judge Douglas is an extremely clever man, but he is not a great man because he values success more than he values truth...
...He used to go to the office each month, give them his salary of $50, and receive back $47.50 of it— making him a new loan, they called it...
...Dunscomb had borrowed $47.50 and had paid the company $2.50 a month for twenty payments...
...but they will surely condemn him if he falters or yields...
...On November 8th the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court handed down a decision which rules "that usurious loans are void as to both principal and interest, and if usury has actually been paid the borrower may recover twice the excess paid in all transactions within a period of two years...
...they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.—Victor Hugo...
...May Wilson use it with unflagging determination to drive the oligarchy of greed out of the temples of honest business and honest government...
...The state needs their suffrage quite as much as they need easy access to the ballot box...
...With rural free delivery to and from his door every day, it would be an easy matter for the farmer to express his political will on men and measures through the mail...
...They understand the situation...
...Mellen's train service and monopolistic methods are asking that this option be exercised...
...We insist upon equality of opportunity in business and industry...
...Three of the ten states that have yet to act upon this amendment will not have legislative sessions this month...
...The poacher dwells in the forest, and the smuggler in the mountains or upon the sea...
...It seems but yesterday that Mr...
...The state needs the farmer vote, too, just as it needs the votes of the railroad men, the traveling men and the mail clerks...
...or it may be permitted to dangle inertly while Privilege makes off with the people's dearest posses sions...
...We must do our part, by providing adequate regulation in this Commonwealth, to make national ownership and operation unnecessary...
...It is not enough to emphasize the need of those who are compelled to be absent from home on election day...
...We may help bring that about by using the mail in voting...
...He mentions particularly mail clerks, railway employees and traveling salesmen among those who are practically disfranchised because their business takes them away from home on election day...
...Dunscomb brought a counter-suit to recover double the amount of usury he had paid...
...the legislature should also consider the need of those voters who are forced to remain at home...
...and may it grow in strength and efficiency in such service...
...His business is just as dependent upon weather conditions as is the railroad man's upon train schedules...
...The recent utterances of the President-elect indicate that he is not to be easily frightened by the growls of Wall Street...
...It may be wielded vigorously in protecting the body-politic...
...And often it is quite as difficult for him to go two miles to the polls as it is for a traveling man to go fifty...
...Jarring New England Into Action WHEN the Boston and Maine was linked to the New Haven railroad system by means of the Boston Holding Company, provision was made that Massachusetts might, upon one year's notice, buy a majority of its stock, thus gaining control...
...Because the fathers (who had no other way) drove or trudged to the polls to cast their votes, does that debar us, in this day of fast mails and rural delivery, from letting Uncle Sam's post men carry our ballots to the polls...
...cities produce ferocious men, because they produce corrupt men...
...Voting by mail is in line with progress...
...Like everything else that tends toward more complete self-government, it is in keeping with the spirit of the new order...
...We should try to make it as easy for James Smith, farmer, or John Brown, brakeman, or Sam White, traveling man, to cast his vote as it now is for Joseph Doe, merchant, who passes the polling booth election morning on his way to his store...
...And he gives this warning: "In the present crisis in Massachusetts, confronted as we are with the necessity of formulating a stable policy for the maintenance of our railroad facilities, it be-hooves us to take fully into account the probability of the acquisition and operation of the railroad systems of the United States by the national government...
Vol. 5 • February 1913 • No. 5
