HOLD YOUR BREATH!
Hold Your Breath! THE McReynolds negotiations witli the New Haven crowd of Wall, Street financiers having failed, civil suit has been entered by. the United States- government to break up this...
...What housewife would return to the days when foods were adulterated and misbranded...
...An excellent report of this school by Charlotte II...
...And there may be, also, criminal actions against those New Haven directors who arc responsible for the looting of fhis great railroad svstem to the extent of about.>100.(Hl(i.OOO...
...It would be an unique spectacle (wouldn't it...
...a e * THE IMPORTANT and suitable object of human knowledge ought not to be the learning of those things which happen to be interesting...
...The old railroad that circled Great Salt Lake through Ogden started on its round-about way from that point...
...If the Post Office Department will not assert its monopoly within the weight limit prescribed by the law, as it ought to, then there should he no division of business by the employment of joint agencies...
...and happiness comes through brotherhood, not through selfishness...
...What taxpayer in Wisconsin would consent to return to the old system under which railroad property was not taxed and the railroads only paid a small license fee...
...It is a little town in Utah—just a dot on the map...
...m * Horses, Wom^n and Children I AST Decoration Day, in addition to the cus-tomary parades of Civil War veterans, there were, in many cities, parades of work-horses in which many of the horses wore blue, red and yellow ribbons, badges given by local humane societies in recognition of the care and merciful treatment given the horses by their owners...
...That is possible...
...the United States- government to break up this ill-smelling Morgan monopoly with the club of the anti-trust law—a big stick that Roosevelt, when President, obligingly threw into a dark corner when his friend Mellen called to see him...
...My property should not mean your loss...
...A corporation can be no better nor worse than those who operate it...
...Doubtless there are other places throughout the country where these rival transportation systems are under one roof and are served by the same agent...
...But it is an important point in railroad history...
...It is true the good NEW days of political liberty and service to all the people leave mighty slim pickings for the old gang...
...but the learning of the manner in which we should direct our lives.—Tolstoy...
...Advocates of political equality will find it interesting...
...Is it likely to happen this time ? Well— ' seeing is believing!'' * * # Apologists THHERE are still to be found highly respectable citizens of New England who come forward with defenses and apologies for the looters of the New Haven stockholders...
...That is bad enough, in all conscience...
...It should be just as grave a crime to "plunder stockholders or the public through a railroad corporation as it is to personally rob an individual...
...Where is the self-respecting public official -who would return to the days of the free pass and other exchange of courtesies...
...Jordan appears on page eight...
...They want to get back into control...
...In Southern Pacific railroading Lucin is the point of contact between the Old and the New...
...A Correction Di AN error in transcribing, the title of the leading article in last week's La Follette's was printed as '' Exclusive Responsibility.'' The correct heading, which should have appeared, was "Executive Responsibility...
...It is the western terminus of the Great Salt Lake cut-off, the place where one begins or ends a voyage to sea on wheels...
...The propaganda against these things, which is carried on by such enlightening and discriminating agencies as the American Consumer's League, is doing much to force the public to realize that "the poverty of Lazarus makes itself felt in the house of Dives"—through infection-ridden garments conveyed from the sweat-shop, along the bargain counter, to the family, of the.purchaser...
...Humanitarians are seeking and obtaining legislation in behalf of the human weakling...
...The propaganda against cruelty to horses has been so effective that now not only are most drivers humane in their treatment of these faithful servants, but a genuine pride is taken by owners in keeping their horses sleek-coated, with neatly combed manes and tails, superbly harnessed to handsome trucks and, above all, adequately nourished...
...when meats and fruits were embalmed rather than healthfully preserved...
...Formerly drivers said that they must work their horses to the limit of every ounce of: horsepower or that competitors would distance them by doing so...
...There is now a growing tendency among those who own and use work-horses to discourage cruelty...
...to see our national government actually applying the criminal sections of the law to Wall Street looters in the same way it is usually applied to ordinary, pickpockets...
...Opponents of votes for women, particularly those who declaim that Woman has no capacity for political affairs, may perhaps be somewhat disconcerted at this fresh evidence of the straight drive women are already exhibiting in their civic activities...
...Employers of women and children in factory and sweat-shop are just beginning to see the same light, '' Enterprisers'' have explained that they must drive thin-blooded, hollow-eyed, consumptive women to death, and employ children not much more than weaned, because of the fierce and utterly merciless competition between manufacturers...
...To quote: "The directors should be made individually liable to civil and criminal laws for the manner in which they discharge their trust...
...TYLSCUSSING the achievements of the progres-sive movement in Wisconsin, Lieutenant Governor Thomas Morris, the progressive Republican candidate for United States Senator, asked some forceful questions...
...Such parades typified the emancipation of the defenseless horse from the overloading, the lashing, the cursing and rough treatment prevalent not many years ago...
...The report of the Interstate Commerce Commission (see page five) plainly calls upon the Department of Justice to begin such criminal suits...
...The greatest good to the greatest number...
...At Lucin these two sign boards appear over the safiie door: UNITED STATES POST OFFICE WELLS-FARGO EXPRESS COMPANY It may be that the man who presides over the neat little building which houses Uncle Sam's parcels post and the Wells-Fargo Express Company can serve two masters impartially...
...What Wisconsin shipper would return to the days of extortionate freight rates, unconscionable rebates and other unjust discriminations...
...But experience was demonstrated that a mercifully treated horse is an economic advantage, because, though'more work may be obtained for a brief space from a hard-driven horse, his earlier death ends surely in business loss...
...Live and let live...
...Lobbyist Philipp...
...And recently there was held at Madison a Suffrage School, where instruction by trained publicists, organizers, and speakers was given to a notably large group of volunteer suffrage workers...
...Serving Two Masters ET VER hear of Lucin...
...Is this business-like ? Uncle Sam should go after this parcel post business as though it meant business...
...Will the voters let them ? The "How" of It IN MANY of the states, thanks to the rapid spreading of equal suffrage sentiment, the main question is no longer "what to do," but '' how to do it.'' This is true of Wisconsin...
...To each according to his worth, not according to his strength...
...What mother would return to the days when her little boys and girls spent their days, and sometimes their nights, in the factory instead of the school room ?'' How will these questions be answered on election day...
...but the idea is gradually gaining ground that such doings are an economic mistake and altogether too expensive to indulge in...
...but it is a strain that should not be-placed upon any person's impartiality...
...It appears that it is also a common point between two other systems of transportation...
...The law of love is the highest law of life...
...the stalwart candidate, and his crowd clamor for a return to "the good old days...
...And if the arrangement at Lucin is to be found duplicated at other points in the country, a practice exists that should not be continued...
...We live bat once—why not live high ? To get is good, if the getting is fair, but to serve is better...
...But it is more than that...
...The Code of Co-operation II YE and let live...
...Is it too much to hope, asks The Journal of the America n 3/edical Associaiioii,--thgk\ the;-overworked woman and child will cease to exist at least as soon as the overworked and overdriven horse...
...But, if one of these pillars of society should step out and speak a good word for the gilded silencing of professors and reporters, editors and lawmakers, bankers and merchants, churchmen and capitalists, educational associations and boards of commerce,—if one should rush to the defense of the wholesale corruption of all these agencies for promoting public opinion, then what would you say ? :J» w Who Would Turn Back...
...The glory of the game is in team work...
...Let me ask who in Wisconsin would return to-the days of a three-cent fare...
...A happy human soul is earth's finest product...
Vol. 6 • August 1914 • No. 31
