AFTER MANY
After Many Years AGAIN, after forty-three years have passed, the Constitution of the United States has been amended. Article Sixteen, permitting Congress to impose a national income tax, has just...
...They are all pawns in the great game of high finance...
...Here is an extract from the discussiou that followed his address: Mr...
...in order to float this new issue of fictitious stock.' Then the president has to cut down expenses, cut out the repair of rolling stock and every other expense that is possible to put off until the next year in order to make his eight per cent...
...then we may be sure we are nearer to a solution of this: "problem...
...Congress should not lose any time in passing an Income Tax law...
...This is the standing given to the common schools of the state...
...This he has not done...
...a nation's wealth is in the bottle—hence the phenomenal growth of this financial prodigy...
...Vrooman—"It undoubtedly is, and it might be added that these financiers do not look at the problem from the point of view of the stockholders...
...C. P. Cary has been State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Wisconsin for ten years...
...more work out of the boys than it would otherwise, but "it will proclaim to the Chinese youth and to the world at large the value of fresh air...
...They ap-plied ten tests to the common schools of each slate and on these tests they rank Wisconsin away down in the column of states to the twenty-eighth place...
...There, in a very few words, is laid open the heart of our transportation '' problem.'' Railroads are run by financiers, by stock exchange manipulators, by trust lawyers...
...Already the country has waited for it so long that the delay has been a reproach to our machinery of government...
...Election day is April 1. Genealogically Speaking FORM the admissions made to the Pujo com-mittee by "masters of capital," we might describe the parentage of the Money Trust thus: Fathered by Chief Promoter Morgan and mothered by a lax Banking System, An over-patient Public is the nurse...
...Pointing Wisconsin's Need IN ITS recent educational report, the Russell Sage Foundation ranks the common schools of Wisconsin twenty-eighth among the forty-eight states in educational efficiency...
...Mr...
...There should be a change in that office...
...It is declared that in this way the school will not only be able to get ten per cent...
...Railroad properties are used, as it was shown before the Pujo Committee that insurance funds are used, as giant pawns in the game of High Finance...
...Running the Railroads MR...
...A high record of school attendance does not necessarily mean a correspondingly high degree of general intelligence...
...The two reports are independent in every way...
...And the report of the Wisconsin...
...Congress is now free to give the people what they have been demanding for two generations and more —a system of taxation that will lift some of the burden from the shoulders of the poor and place it upon the backs of the rich...
...The Russell Sage Foundation is a non-partisan and non-sectarian body...
...One may not apply the same tests to schooling in an agricultural state like Wisconsin and a densely populated urban state like Massachusetts...
...YALE IN CHINA," the collegiate school and hospital in Changsha, Hunan Province, China, intends to have its buildings representative of the best in western civilization...
...Like other reports of this kind essaying to compare school work in widely separated communities, allowance must be made for, perhaps, unavoidable inaccuracies...
...Another year he gets an order to build up the road, and so on...
...The Foundation report shows that 24.8 per cent...
...It appears from this report that the high order of individual and civic intelligence to be found among the people of Wisconsin is not due to the administration of the State Superintendent's office during the past ten years, but in spite of it...
...We have had ten years of a do-nothing policy...
...Is it true that this situation, which has arisen in this country in the last twenty-five years, markedly is at the heart of our railway problem ? Is it true that the railroads are not in the hands of railroad men Tuning the railroads for railroad purposes, but are in the hands of financiers, who look upon the railroads not from the point of view of railroad men, not from the point of view of an operating industry, but from an utterly different point of view...
...The great captains of industry are great captains on the battle line...
...State Board of Public Affairs to the present Legislature discloses the same unsatisfactory condition of a very large number of rural schools...
...Their report is the result of careful investigation and comparison...
...The obstacle known as "judicial interpretation," placed in the way of this tax by the Supreme Court in 1894, has at last been cleared away...
...Little children in rural communities may be educating themselves in a very real sense in the fields and woods and barn yard when they are too small to attempt a long journey to the district school...
...It ranks Wisconsin thirteenth in intelligence...
...yet what they get finds no place in records of school attendance...
...of the children, of Wisconsin are not in any school, public or private...
...one of our foremast students of railroad economics and author of American HwUway Problems in the Light of European Experience, recently discussed the present railway situation in the United States at a meeting of the Chicago City Club...
...Experts in the Bureau have urged that the boys' dormitory be equipped throughout with outdoor sleeping-rooms...
...is also true that in those groups that actually control the destinies of our railroads, there are not any railroad men at all...
...And I presume it...
...CARL VROOMAN...
...I want a dividend of eight per eent...
...The roads are being manipulated neither in the interest of the sbipper, nor the passenger, nor the stockholder, but in the interests of the stock gamblers...
...Their report is based, as they state, "upon, a general examination of conditions in twenty-seven counties in widely separated portions of the state and upon more detailed investigation of the conditions in 131 schools in thirteen counties...
...The training they receive from their parents and in the school of nature undoubtedly compares very favorably with the training given to the little folks in the playground schools of large cities...
...they hire a president as I would hire a stenographer, and they give him his orders...
...When the railroads are separated from financial banking operations, when they are operated for the public instead of for "Wall Street, when railroad men instead of promoters run the railroads...
...The Stale University and normal schools are not included in the report...
...Article Sixteen, permitting Congress to impose a national income tax, has just been adopted by the necessary three-fourths of the state legislatures...
...Particular attention is paid to hygienic and sanitary arrangements...
...Allowing for any possible looseness of comparisons, however, the investigation made by the Russell Sage Foundation proves conclusively the need of prompt and thorough-going improvement in the supervision of the common schools in Wisconsin...
...The stockholder is a creature to he manipulated and used, just as the shipper and the passenger are...
...Isn't that at the very heart of the railroad problem in this country...
...It ranks Wisconsin twenty first in the average days of attendance of each child...
...The men employed by the State Board of Public Affairs are not directly or indirectly connected with the Russell Sage Foundation, and the men employed by the Russell Sage Foundation have never been connected with the men employed by the State Board of Public Affairs...
...They say: 'This is the game this year...
...To him has been entrusted the great task and opportunity of supervising the common schools, developing them along the lines of democracy and efficiency and leading the movement to make our schools most faithfully serve the needs of the community...
...Joseph Cummins—"I presume it is true that a very small number of interlocking groups of financiers have the actual control, the actual final say as to what shall be done in the financing of the railroads—what shall be done about rates so far as they can control them...
...Let Wisconsin demand an educational administration which shall measure up to the civic advancement of the state...
...Among suggestions that are receiving careful consideration is one from the United States Bureau of Education...
...The railways are dominated by the great financiers, hs>the_great banking, houses of the world,..And the railroad men themselves are simply cogs in this great mechanism...
Vol. 5 • February 1913 • No. 7
