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vance with the Speaker it takes a two-third vote ,to get a bill up to be voted upon. In other words, 77 votes pass a bill, but it takes 102 votes to get a bill considered. "Is there anything like that in Wisconsin? Of course not, and "nowhere else where there is hon est government. Until we change those infamous rules we cannot have honest government in our state, let alone good government. "Then we have the cumulative voting system. When we desire to vote for an honest man for the Legislature we give him a vote and a half; those who wish to vote for a dishonest one give him three votes. I think one vote and one wife are enough for any man." When Governor McGovern's turn came he did what was ex pected and advertised Wiscon sin, largely, and especially the last session of the legislature for its good work. Governor Deneerihas served as the state's Thief executive officer long enough to know what he is tilking about and when he, in either public or private speeches announces a lack of honesty in the government of the State of Illinois it's high time that the people pay attention and get busy to make it what it ought to be. On Saturday it was a mixed crowd of Labor representatives, college professors and socialists that gathered at the Club rooms to eat and listen to remarks of the various speakers on the sub ject of Co-operation Among Civ ic and Labor Organizations for 1 City Betterment. Prof. Robert F. Hoxie, of the Chicago University, was toast master, and short addresses were made by a dozen labor heads. Mrs. Raymond Robins of the Women's Trade Union league made a plea for better conditions among women workers, and traced the history of the women's organizations from the first time the perfection of certain machin ery made it possible for women to do the work of rrien. John P. Frey of Cincinnati, edi tor of the International Molders' Journal, told the club what the unions had done for the advance of civilization and the betterment of the laboring man's conditions and told how the co-operation with ciyjc organizations could be accomplished. John C. Kennedy responded to the toast, "Socialism." After stating briefly the object of the Socialist movement, he declared that the peace of the United States was menaced more now than at any time-since the days before the civil war. "The lesson that we should learn from the history of our country is that compromises and halfway measures will be useless. We must strike at the root of the trouble or we may have another; civil war." - Others who spoke were George H. Mead, Mary McDowell, Mathew Woll, Victor Olander, G. W. Perkins, Jane Addams, Connor A. Webster, William E. Rodriguez and Ernest Tyne. Invited guests unable to be i kK -. 'itjuirfCtJi! - t.j 'a. ijtiitf&&&