NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering WORKERS of the United States and of Mexico—the leaders of the labor unions in both countries— met in Washington on the fourth of July and signed a compact of deep...
...If I have opportunity to engage them further in conversation, they say, 'Of course, we know that you cannot govern the circumstances of the case altogether, and it may be necessary...
...A similar response was made to his query whether it is America's duty to "carry self-defense to the point of dictation into the affairs of another people...
...But, gentlemen, after you have said and accepted these obvious things, your program of action is still to be formed...
...I yield to no one in that demand...
...And it was a conference, too, that was held in the face of war between the two nations...
...i do not own the government of the United States, even for the time being...
...And turning to domestic problems he adds: "No intelligent man is deceived by the temporary prosperity due to abnormal conditions and no one can appreciate the gravity of the problems with which we shall be faced when the war ends...
...We deem it an essential step toward democracy and justice that there shall be established for the masses, who have hitherto been without regular agencies for expressing their views and desires, opportunities that will enable them to have a voice in helping to determine international affairs...
...We unite in the demand for an undivided and unwavering loyalty to our country, for a whole-hearted patriotic devotion overriding all racial differences...
...Hughes Makes Common Cause With Progressives Charles E. Hughes, Republican candidate for President, in a telegram to to the National Committee of the Progressive party, June 28, set forth his claims to the support of the progressive voters of the United States...
...It is within the party that the liberalizing spirit you invoke can have the wisest and most effective influence...
...Fels and Justice Louis D. Brandeis of the United States Supreme Court...
...To what agency shall we look for the essential constructive program on which our security and prosperity must depend...
...I believe in workmen's compensation laws...
...The south, as well as the north, east and west, will be the gainers from our endeavors...
...I am eager to call the best ability of the country to our aid...
...Both its traditions and dominating influences are fatal handicaps...
...It is an unavoidable conclusion that present differences between our countries are the result of misunderstanding growing out of inadequate or incorrect information...
...but for God's sake do not do it unless it is necessary.' "I am for the time being the spokesman of such people, gentlemen...
...Fels stipulated that the money she offers shall be used for the establishment and upbuilding of a colony which shall be run on purely Single Tax principles...
...We are to elect a president of the whole country, not of a part...
...We are alive to the imperative necessity of assuring the bases of honest business...
...For the organized workers of Mexico it was signed by C. Loveira and four other Mexican labor union leaders...
...Wilson Pledges Every Effort to Avert Mexican War With the country trembling on the verge of war with Mexico President Wilson on June 30 took occasion to pledge himself to do everything in his power as President of the United States to avert armed conflict...
...It was also stated that the company is "tremendously overcapitalized," having increased its capitalization $104,000,000 in twenty-two years "without the investment of a single dollar on the part of the stockholders...
...His audience, composed of leading newspaper and magazine men and prominent public officials, interrupted him repeatedly with outbursts of applause...
...I solicit your earnest effort for the common cause...
...that the unfortunate consequences of past relations between the United States and Mexico have formulated a national attitude that questions the good faith of our governments...
...A committee consisting of Mr...
...No man has to think before he takes aggressive action...
...And i want you to know how fully i realize whose servant i am...
...Therefore, we, the representatives of the organized workers, having the right to speak for all of the workers, and in the interests of all of the people, urge upon our governments the appointment of a commission to be composed of high minded citizens, fully representative of our nations, to consider differences that have brought our nations to the verge of war, and to make such recommendations for adjustment as shall fittingly express the highest ideals of the great rank and file of the citizenship of our two coun-:ries...
...I find no difference in platform or in aim which precludes the most hearty co-operation and the most complete unity...
...Do you think that it is your duty to carry self-defense to a point of dictation into the affairs of another people...
...When will you act and how will you act...
...It is vain to expect it from the Democratic party...
...Hughes criticizes the Wilson administration for its foreign policy, especially with reference to Mexico, and makes a plea for "preparedness...
...far-reaching national policies...
...i get a great many letters, my fellow citizens, from important and influential men in this country, but i get a great many other letters...
...After expressing "our deep gratification in the consummation of this conference, which we hope and believe has laid the basis for better understanding and has welded ties that shall bind together the workers of our respective countries," these labor leaders go on to say: "We hold this to be fundamental— no relations between our countries, can be permanent that are not based upon the will of the masses of the people and in accord with their concepts of justice...
...That party has not the national outlook...
...The Progressives have insisted on responsible, not invisible, government, on efficient administration...
...But underlying every endeavor to promote social justice is the indispensable condition that there shall be a stable foundation for honorable enterprise...
...I have no sectional word to utter...
...to safeguard the future of the nation by protecting our women and children...
...American industry must have proper protection if labor is to be safeguarded...
...The brutal thing is the impulsive thing...
...The easiest thing is to strike...
...This company was denounced by the Commission on Industrial Relations because of an effective spy system which deterred employees from affiliating to labor unions...
...in wise conservation of our national resources so that they may be protected, developed, and used to the utmost public advantage...
...In its effort to show a kindly interest in its workers, the company offers them 5,000 shares at $8 less than the market price...
...to prevent exploitation...
...But it is sober truth as I see it that as we go forward we must make the Republican party the instrument of our advance...
...that existing agencies and methods of reaching an adjustment of these differences are unsuitable for dealing with these problems, which are fundamentally human problems, and that the relations between our countries ought not to be directed in accord with abstract standards of justice, but ought to be keenly sensitive and responsive to the human interests and moral forces...
...It goes without saying that it is the duty of the administration to have constantly in mind with the utmost sensitiveness every point of national honor...
...News Worth Remembering WORKERS of the United States and of Mexico—the leaders of the labor unions in both countries— met in Washington on the fourth of July and signed a compact of deep significance...
...but before a man really conserves the honor by realizing the ideals of the nation he has to think exactly what he will do and how he will do it...
...This proclamation was drawn up by President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor and was signed also by every member of he Executive Council on behalf of the organized workers of the United States...
...President, do not allow anybody to persuade you that the people of this country want war with anybody.' "I got off a train yesterday and as I was bidding good-by to the engineer he said, in an undertone, 'Mr...
...I have no right in the use of it to express my own passions...
...We make common cause in the interest of national honor of national security, of national efficiency...
...Rosenblatt, Sylvan Robinson, and Michael Salit, all of New York, will make the arrangements for establishing the colony, and will consult with Mrs...
...Why debate any part of that, except the detail, except the plan itself, which is always debatable...
...Endowment for Single Tax in Palestine The movement to establish a "fatherland" for the Jews was given a distinguished impetus by Mrs...
...President, keep out of Mexico.' And if one man has said that to me, a thousand have said it to me as I have moved about the country...
...We must show that we know how to protect the public without destroying or crippling our productive energies...
...Do you think the glory of America would be enhanced by a war of conquest in Mexico...
...Wo appeal to the workers and all of the people of the United States and Mexico to do everything within their power to promote correct understanding of purposes and actions, to prevent friction, to encourage good will, and to promote an intelligent national opinion that ultimately shall direct relations between our countries and shall be a potent humanitarian force in promoting world progress...
...It is estimated that her gift will amount to $25,000 annually and may reach a higher figure than that during the early years of the colony...
...I am deeply appreciative of your indorsement...
...Hughes said: "I welcome the support of the Progressives...
...Pullman Company Has "Profit Sharing" Ignoring the experience of the International Harvester Company whose profit-sharing employees suspended work recently, the Pullman company has announced a profit-sharing plan...
...Mary Fels, widow of Joseph Fels, the wealthy Single Taxer, when she recently endowed a Single Tax Colony for Jews to be established in Palestine...
...Do you think that any act of violence by a powerful nation like this against a weak and destructive neighbor would reflect distinction upon the annals of the United States...
...and i have constantly to remind myself that i am not the servant of those who wish to enhance the value of their mexican investments, that i am the servant of the rank and file of the people of the united States...
...In his speech at the New York Press club he asserted that he was ready to sacrifice his political fortunes if necessary to carry out his convictions...
...Mr...
...Of course it is the duty of the government, which it will never overlook, to defend the territory and people of this country...
...i have no right to express my own ambitions for the development of America if those ambitions are not coincident with the ambitions of the nation itself...
...The ideals of America are written plain upon every page of American history...
...In this speech the President said: "Of course it is our duty to prepare this nation to take care of its honor and of its institutions...
...I am in deep sympathy with the effort to improve the conditions of labor...
...It is the first joint appeal and proclamation of principles ever issued on this continent by an international labor conference...
...I have not read history without observing that the greatest forces in the world and the only permanent forces are the moral forces...
...We must rescue our instrumentalities of interstate and foreign commerce, our transportation facilities, from uncertainty and confusion...
...When he asked if the glory of America would be enhanced by a war of conquest in Mexico, shouts of "No" came from all parts of the banquet hall...
...I get letters from unknown men, from humble women, from people whose names have never been heard and never will be recorded, and there is but one prayer in all of these letters: 'Mr...
...For the conduct of the great departments the executive is directly responsible and there is no excuse whatever for the toleration of incompetence in order to satisfy partisan obligations...
...We want deeds, not words...
...Justice Brandeis has been an enthusiastic and a powerful leader in the Zionist movement—a high-minded and practicable movement to make of Palestine a "home country" to which people of the Jewish faith in all parts of the world may turn—where the exiled and the persecuted may find a refuge from oppression, develop freely their own institutions, and live richly their own lives among their own people...
Vol. 8 • July 1916 • No. 7
