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REVISION OF THE CHARTER
CALIFORNIA cities are acting almost in
concert with the purpose of making their
system of government more democratic.
San Francisco has recently adopted amendments
in its charter that will probably redeem the town
' from the rule of the corporation and the saloon.
Long Beach and others are after the commission
form of government. Now Los Angeles' charter
revision commission is ready with changes that
practically substitute a new for the present charter.
'As it has been outlined,, the proposed charter
will be one of the most advanced in its ideas any
where in the country. It embodies the best fea
tures of charters in those cities that have de
throned the boss, and follows the cardinal princi
ple of the Galveston-Des Moines plan, namely, the
greater centralization of authority. The adoption
of the commission form of government is probably
impracticable for a city as large as Los Angeles.
None has yet tried it, although it is highly suc
cessful in cities up to 100,000.
The increase of authority proposed to be given
to mayor and council, the reduction in the number
of elective officers and the concentration of bu
reau and commission duties into fewer hands is in
line with the idea that the heavier and more tech
nical the duties of each man the more likelihood
that an expert will be called upon to fill each place,
especially if the salary is made sufficient to attract
good ability. On the* other hand, public attention
will be more concentrated on a few officers of
great responsibility. The people will know whom
to praise or blame.
One of the wisest provisions of the charter re
vision committee is that which proposes to give
largely increased powers to the mayor who, it is
suggested, shall be a man of $6000 size. The chief
executive has to bear the blame for much that he
cannot help at present. He ought to have the
powers of a general manager of a great corpora
tion. It is true that the grant of great power to
any one man has inherent in it certain dangers,
but they are not so serious now as under old-fash
ioned charters, with no recall, nor yet so serious as
to have powers so scattered as to have not much
serious responsibility resting anywhere.
Other features of the proposed charter that are
apt to meet with general approval are the ideas
embodied in the provisions for:
Appointment of city clerk, city treasurer and
city tax collector by council — clerical officials
whose names should never burden a ballot.
Application of recall to appointive as well as
elective officials, so needful as to need no comment.
Increase in petition percentage for initiative
and referendum, to prevent the abuse of those
agencies by avowed enemies or unwise friends.
& Giving board of public utilities and harbor com
mission control over utility corporations and har
bor matters, with the right to issue orders that
shall have the effect of ordinances with only power
of review by council. Boards of this kind only
waste the time of their members if some authority
is not vested in them. The more authority, the
more dignity; the more dignity the better caliber
men who will be secured. 1# . ,
Increasing city's power to engage in municipal
ownership of public utilities. A city ought to have
the right to do anything its sovereign voters favor.
Fixing date for primary elections and provid
ing against duplication of those and general elec
tions. „ „, .
Los Angeles was one of the first of the larger
cities to give the world a lesson in the importance
of the recall and referendum in the local affairs of
a town approaching metropolitan size. It was one
of the first to have a municipal public service com
mission. It would be fitting for this city, which
now has a wide reputation for good government,
to take the load in bringing municipal charters up
to the standards demanded by the people as ex
pressed in the recent insurgent wave against ma
chine politics and corporation privilege in public
affairs.
The sugar trust stole several millions from
Uncle Sam in customs duties and is now alleged
to have stolen $500,000 worth of water from New-
York by tapping city mains. In view of its bad
record, we hope the court will fine it seven dol
lar.^, at the very hast, if it is found to have violated
the Sherman anti-trust law.
Having cleaned up their own house of lords
pretty satisfactorily, Americans are watching the
struggle in England with the complacency of spec
tators who feel a satisfaction in getting oft* an tin
pleaant job and wonder how somebody else would
go about doing it.
Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania is the rank
ing member on the finance committee and is slated
to succeed Mdrich as its chairman. Inasmuch as
Penrose has gotten wealthy out of politics, the
finance committee seems to be his logical place,
doesn't it?
If William Faversham is "more of a suffragette
than I am," as his wife is reported to have said,
what about those male clothes he has been wear
ing and the masculine name he has borne these
many years? Explanations are in order.
. "Prince John" of Brooklyn declares that Harry
Culpus is not th son of King Edward. Oh, very
well. Harry is something better than that — he's
a resident of Los Angeles.
. Lillian Russell's daughter has married again.
How many? Give it up. The Russell family's
' record has long since passed the mental arith
metic stage. •..'..
Editorial Page -_f 15he Herald
MARY BAKER EDDY
THE history of womankind has no parallel to
the career of Mary Baker Eddy. and its ef
fects on the lives of others, and the woman
who passed away at her home in Brookline, Mass.,
on Saturday night can be said to have directly in
fluenced more persons than any other of her sex
either in ancient or modern times.
Considered either as a spiritual leader or as to
her personality in its more human aspects, Mrs.
Eddy was a most wonderful woman., Having ar
rived at middle age, so poor that friends assisted
in her subsistence; having been afflicted most of
those years with physical infirmities and having
had unfortunate domestic alliances, both in the
homes made for her by father and husband, Mrs.
Eddy was what ninety people in a hundred would
set down as a failure in life. Her "best years"
were spent and nothing done.
That was indeed the world's verdict as Mrs.
Eddy struggled in the New England villages with
her marvelous will to beat down the "hand of
fate" that seemed to have marked her for the hu
man discard pile; that was what the world said as
it passed on in its parade of business'and pleasure
while a poverty-stricken woman worked on a
manuscript in a garret room with all the zeal of
youth. Presently the world took notice to the ex
tent that it sneered. Then, as is usual and very
human, it began to persecute. And when persecu
tion began the vital seed of what was to become a
great religious movement was watered and the
dreams and hopes of an indomitable woman .be
came fruition.
This phase of the experience of Mrs. Eddy has
always been the most interesting to us. It shows
that an iron will, a dreamer with an unflagging
purpose, cannot be denied their ambition, not even
by the great world. If Mary Maker Eddy had
happened to turn her purpose in another direction
than the purely spiritual she would have succeed
ed, because she would not have brooked denial; per
haps not so notably in business, or art, Oi science,
because in them she would have lacked the unction
which spiritual zeal put into what her followers
believe to be an inspired message.
But she would have succeeded, for humanity
is composed for the most part of those all too
ready to fall aside and make an aisle for the Eddys
to pass through. Equally great did Mrs. Eddy
prove to be in all the business requirements and
executive demands that the result of her success
ful work put upon her. Once on the high road to
success the Christian Science organization multi
plied fast, but never so fast that it was beyond the
grasp of its wonderful founder.
The personal fortune of Mrs. Eddy grew to an
estimated figure of $2,000,000, entailing further
draft on mind and body, and then envious eyes
fastened themselves on it and lawsuits followed.
The business of the "mother church" (speaking of
its material side) became enormous. But whether
in deciding on a church policy, either business or
spiritual, or in meeting the heavy demands her
personal success entailed, Mrs. Eddy was ever the
master.
In reviewing her career some would speak first
of her spiritual influence upon the world. In our
opinion the logical order is just the one we have
considered, because, in the first place, if God
chose Mrs. Eddy for an inspired work, he chose
her because she was this kind of dauntless spirit
and capacious ability. To understand her spirit
ual success correctly it is necessary to have an
adequate understanding of those attributes that
made her great also in the more purel> human
affairs.
It was not to be expected that a character that
achieved the successes Mrs. Eddy did could do so
without inflicting some hurts on the element that
tugged spitefully at her skirts, and that envy
which, like death, loves a shining mark, would
fail to send many shafts toward the founder of
Christian Science. Mrs. Eddy had been lam
pooned for the strong hand she held over the
church, but that was both a necessary thing in a
new school of thought and worship in its forma
tive period, and a natural corollary of the very
qualities that gave Christian Science to the world.
Mrs. Eddy had passed through the hard disci
pline of struggle with the world. It may have
made her a more rjgid disciplinarian, but it can
not be said by her critics that any facts support
them, for Christian Science has thriven mightily
under its founder's guidance and discipline, and a
tree must be known by its fruits. Every attack on
the founder has made old adherents more loyal
and brought new ones.
It is not necessary to discuss in this connection
the religious beliefs which Mrs. Eddy gave to a
world thai seemed eager for them. Willi rapidity
hardly paralleled beautiful temples of the new faith
have sprung up in all parts of the world. In Eos
Angeles alone there are seven societies. In many
cities the Christian Science churches arc the most
beautiful of all the buildings dedicated to worship.
Christian Science is no longer disputed as a force
for good in the world. Even those who refuse to
accept its tenets admit thai it has helped thou
sands physically and spiritually.
There will now be much speculation on the fu
ture of that church with the dominating person
ality of its founder gone. There arc some who,
basing their belief on the fact that no sect ever es
caped its serious internecine strife, think that a
struggle for the mastery in the church will soon
take place. It i- interesting, but idle, to speculate
in this way. There might even be a struggle of
this kind without any schism.
The probability is that for a long time to come
the memory of Mary Baker Eddy will be so re
vered among Christian .Scientists that it will be as
potent for unification as was her personality in
the seclusion enforced upon her during recent
years. Christian Science has sometimes been re
ferred to as a cult that would pass away with its
originator. That seems less probable today, in the
shadow of her death, than ever. Its own impetus
has become so great that it will carry the move
ment along, backed as it is now by great wealth
and a valuable prestige; besides which it has in
trinsic merit to which thousands bear enthusiastic
testimony. » ■"
Considered apart from her religious position
this can be said of Mrs. Eddy: The world owes
her gratitude for showing it how closely sobriety
and temperance in act and thought (and the con
verse) may affect body and spirit alike, If the re
sult of her efforts had only caused the multiplied
thousands of her adherents to live more orderly
lives and be examples to a headlong age, she would
not have lived in vain,
ACTRESS VIOLA BARRY A SOCIALIST?
SURE! STITT WILSON'S HER FATHER
STAGE FAVORITE COMES
OF LIBERAL LINEAGE
Pretty Belasco Ingenue Takes
Her Revolutionary ideas as
a Matter of Course
"Tel!, indeed, I am a Socialist. I am
too loyal a daughter to my father not
to believe and hope that the alms and
principles of the Socialist party will
prevail," said Viola Barry. Ingenue of
the Belasco stock company, yesterday
between scenes at rehearsal.
"I am a suffragette, but I do not be
long to any suffrage club or organiza
tion, because, you see, I have grown
up in this atmosphere and belief, and
I accept It more quietly, perhaps, than
those women who have recently become
converts to the cause."
Miss Barry In the daughter of J. Stltt
Wilson, recently a candidate for gov
ernor on the Socialist ticket, and as
she says, has been surrounded with
suffrage talk and Socialism in theory
and practice all her life. She came to
Los Angeles from Ye Liberty theater,
where she followed Florence Oakley as
leading woman, and since her arrival
here has been engaged to play the in
genue roles in Mr. Blackwood's com
pany.
"It is my first experience In roles of
this kind," said the young actress, "for
hitherto I have played the leading parts
altogether. Most of my dramatic ex
perience has been gained in, England,
where I played for two years with the
F. R. Benson Shakespearean company.
I played Juliet, Desdemona, Ophelia
and Portia, and enjoyed them all, but
think the contrasting types of Juliet,
with her warm, passionate southern
nature, and Ophelia, colder in the more
reserved manner of the north, the type
which might easily become mentally
unbalanced, are my favorite parts."
"When I first Joined Mr. Benson's
players I found that I must work very
hard to acquire the proper English ac
cent. They would not allow me on the
stage until I succeeded in speaking as
a native of England. I had never had
any dramatic school experience, and
only knew my characters and parts
through my own studies."
The young actress credits much of
her interest in stage life to her father.
"When he found me poring over a
volume of Shakespeare's plays he could
scarcely believe that I could even read
them, let alone understand them, for I
was less than 10 years old. He dis
covered that I not only had read them,
but that I already loved the heroines
and had a wide conception of their
characters, and he then encouraged me
to continue these studies. To me the
women of Shakespeare became real,
breathing, living personages then, and
I have always had that feeling. 1
formed a conception of each different
character, even in my early youth,
which has never altered. It has ex
panded of course and grown as I have
grown, but the fundamental ideas re
main the same, as does my devotion to
them."
Dramatic school training does not
seem a necessary preparation for an
actress' career, according to Miss
THE HERALD'S PUBLIC LETTER BOX
ULSTER AND HOME RULE
Editor Herald: I notice in the col
oring of your cables all Ulster is com-
posed of Orangemen. Of seven coun
ties in Ulster tv> are Protestant, An
trim and Down, 75 per cent; Catholic,
Donegal, 95 per cent; Londonderry, 58
per cent; Amagh, 56 per cent; Tyrone.
70 per cent; Termanagh, 75 per cent;
('avail. SO per cent. Ulster has always
returned a majority for home rule un
til the O'Brien split. Belfast and
South Down send a homo ruler. The
majority of Ulster Methodists aro home
rulers. Presbyterians only are Orange
men . BEUFASTMAN.
Los Angeles, Cal.
JOHN BULL AS EXPLOITER
Editor Herald: It may be said in
defense of the militant suffragettes
of England that the male Englishman
c.l the governing class has no respect
for the rights Of others that cannot
be maintained by force of arm-. The
English arc the greatest exploiters of
modem times. . The commercial and
land-owning class of England have ex
ploited and are exploiting their own]
working class to the limit of endur
ance. England, is the classic land of
capitalist exploitation. To force con
tinuous profits from English labor by
extending their foreign trade has been
the main object of the governing class
of England for the past two centuries.
To extend their trade English working
class blood has been shed like water,
wea . nations have been subdued or
exterminated, Egyptians defending
their country were slaughtered by
thousands, the Boers were robbed of
their country 1 > gain possession of
their rich geld mines, Ireland has been
misgoverned- and ; robbed for cen
turies, the starving East Indians are
mercilcv.ly exploited to pay enormous
salaries to impecunious Englishmen.
A war to extend trade Is a "holy
war" that appeals in terms of profits
and patriotism. As women do not
make soldiers they do not help to
bear the "white man's burden" of rob
bing the weak and Ignorant and are,
therefore, "unworthy to share in gov
ernment (exploitation) of the coun
try. The suffragettes are showing
that they can fight and are appealing
to their male opponents in the only
way that compels their respect.
W. H. STUART.
Los Angeles, Cal.
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Barry, yet she admits there have been
occasions when she regretted her lack
of more systemaic training.
"I had to have dancing lessons and
fencing while I was working with Mr.
Benson's company, for I found my
preparation in those two arts entirely
Insufficient. In regard to the diction,
however, Mr. Benson himself helped me
until he thought me proficient. I played
with his company for two years, and
then returned to Oakland to be near
my family."
Further troubles awaited the young
woman when she took her place in the
northern theater, however, for her ac
cent, which she had so carefully ac
quired, proved not at all pleasing to
the stage manager of Ye Liberty, and
she was forced once more to resume
the ordinary accent of Americans.
The suggestion made by William
Faversham recently that children
might profit greatly In pronunciation
and delivery if they were taken fre
quently to see good players, occurred
to Miss Barry here, and she repeated
it. She said that it would undoubtedly
prove a great drawing card to stock
theaters in America if the directors
would demand more elegant and ac
curate English from the players. She
believes, however, that study in a
CENTRAL PARK AND THE PEOPLE
Editor Herald: The new Central
park, from an esthetic point of view,
may please the park commissioners,
but I want to enter a strong protest
on the part of the people.
Some time ago one of tho council
men, ■when its plans and expenditures
wen- under consideration, not observ
ing any places for seats, remarked
that he jvould not vote a dollar unless
plenty Of seats were -provided, and
now we hear it is to he a place where
no congestion or loafers are to bo al
lowed.
Evidently under the head of loafers
are' to be considered the thousands of
tourists, business men and working
people generally, who with a little
while to spare during the day or even
ing*! wanting to get out of their stuffy
rooms and no place to sit down any
where, wandered to the pretty shade
of the trees of the old park to rest
weary body and mind. . On Sunday
morning the place was filled to over
flowing with Joyous people, drinking
In the balmy air nnd sunshine.
Who of us that have enjoyed its
soothing influence have not grateful
recollections? And now these aristo
cratic park commissioners have cut
down half of these trees and are go
ing, they claim, to make an attractive
sight for the eye hut an unpleasant
loafing place for the proletariat.
These parks, and especially a central
one like this, are considered every
where in cities "breathing spots for
1 the people.'' They are not needed by
people with automobiles and lawns of
their own, but for the people in a con
gested district such spots are abso
lutely necessary for their comfort and
health. , -
The whole thing. looks like a schema
to boom property in that district and
separate the contaminating Influence
of the masses and "loafers" that might
possibly affect real estate values In
the vicinity. It is wrong. There should
be plenty of seats everywhere, and if
there are any offensive features they
can bo regulated by police control.
1 sincerely hope the eouneilmen will
"get busy" and curb some of the
esthetic views of these commission-'
crs. G. H. C.
: Los Angeles, Cal.-•; y- *' , \
VIOTA DARK?
stock company Is one of the most ef
ficient methods of making progress
along her chosen line, and that each
opportunity to play a new role is a
distinct gain, no matter how small the
parttior how far removed from those
ordinarily within her range.
"It is so far a step from the manners
end customs of Shakespearean plays
to those of the modern drama that I
find it a difficult matter to adjust my-
self quickly,, and I realize that so long
as American managers decline to lose
money by playing Shakespeare I must
adapt myself to the requirements of
the public and play the more popular
roles. To do this without an occas-
j ional lapse into the manners of . a
'■ Portia or Desdumona Is the difficult
thing that I must overcome, and I am
sure that stock work Just now will be
of great assistance to me."
In discussing the difference between
dramatic.school training and that of
the stage Miss Barry said:
"In the ordinary dramatic school the
teacher usually tries to model the
pupil after a form which he conceives
to be correct, but too often the indi
viduality of the pupil is sacrificed and
nothing is offered to take its place.
With the stage experience when a
student has the necessary initiative
' and originality it is developed rapidly
1 and surely." '
REPUBLICAN SIMPLICITY
Editor Herald: Governor-elect John
son has expressed a desire that his in
augural ceremonies be plain-and; sim
ple. He particularly wishes that the
drunken orgy called the. inaugural ball
bo eliminated.
Good for Hiram! He's all right; and
I nominate him for president of the
United States on that platform.
It gives every true American a pain
to observe that our presidential inaug
urations are growing more and more
to ape the pageantry of the European
royal coronations, and that there aro
flunkies both In and out Of congress
now advocating a change of the dale
of inauguration because the inclement
weather of early March is likely to in
terfere with the show and "hurt busi
ness." -
Why this senseless pageantry? In
the beginning it was not so. The the
ory of our form of government is that
the chief executive is a public servant,
not it "Monarch, with a capital M. Fol
lowing out this conception, Jefferson
rode his bone to the supremo court,
dismounted, and after tying the faith
ful animal to the palings, went In ami
was duly sworn in by tho chief justice.
Why not go back to something year
the primitive simplicity? To bo sure
the historic palings arc forever gone.
They cannot again be used as hitch
ing posts, J but perhaps Mr. Johnson
might be able to borrow Champ Clark's
team of Missouri mules, and wo could
thus have a twentieth century renais
sance of the original eighteenth cen
tury simplicity. CONTINENTAL.
Santa Monica. Cal.
A HEARTY LAUGH
Being tha day's beat Joke from ths news J
.•' . exchanges. j
The broken-down cabby regarded
with a gleam of delight the taxi which
ha,d broken down. But he spoke no
word. ..'...
The chauffeur began operating on his
machine. He turned it, and twisted It,
and banged it, and cranked it; but to
no avail. And still the cabby spoke not.
The chauffeur banged again. He did
things to-ignition sparks that wouldn't
ignite, and cranks that refused to bo
anything but cranky. And still the
cabby, sour of visage, lay low and said
fln'! i •'-,'*<
Then tile chauffeur wiped his beady
brow, and then the cabby, still With
the gleam in his eye, crossed over. '.**,*■,
".'Ere!" ii" exclaimed grimly, holding
out his whip, "'.Ere y'uro, mister! 'It
1111 with uw\:r,'mi fs&smm£lm:
DECEMBER <6, 1910.
THE LONG, BUND FIGHT
* I
: , (Pieiao Outlook.)'
Endless, aimless, hopeless, useless
such are the sickening words that de
scribe the nation-wide conflict between
labor and those who finance labor's
employment. •VV*''
This fight has been going on, In
organized and semi-organized shape, |
for three-quarters of a century. It has
been acute for over hall' a century.
There Is not in tho conflict, as it pro
gresses today In this country, one
single suggestion of a definite and final
solution. As each battle closes, wo ;'
may count the dead and wounded and
the heart-broken, but we can point
to no moral gain of territory, no lasuo
settled, not even a permanent strategic
position won on either side. A thou
sand years of such warring, and but
for the awful tale of ruin and sor
row. It. Is all as though It had never
been.
The most terrible war of modern
times was the Thirty Years War, of
Germany. It began in religious dif-
I ferences, but as it rolled along it
1 picked up all the family rows and all ,
j ancient feuds and grievances with
', which the collection of petty baronies
and principalities that made up the -
. German empire was Infested. The re
gion had long seethed with hatred?,
ambitions.' aggressions, claims and
counter claims, and the war gave to
all these the oportunlty of vivid phys
ical expression. But years of war are
long years, and presently there came
I a time when quarrels had been fought
to a finish, when ambitions palled, ,
when claims 'counted for little, and
when even religious controversy lost
much Of the zest with which the devil
had flavored it—and so a general de
mand went up that the war should
cease. Did It then cease? Not at all;
it was really only at its beginning.
Civilization looked on at the terrible
spectacle of a war that was begotten
of war, an automatic conflict that per
sisted In spite of itself, a monster
stinging Itself In agony and praying
for a death that would not come. The
people had grown Into the war habit,
and they fought on year after year,
and decade after decade, blindly, wlth
• out purpose and without hope. No- p
body knew any more how the war be- "
gan; no one believed it would ever «nd. '.,
When all the fighting men were slain,
when the population was reduced to a ,
starving handful, when all the cities
had been sacked and resacked until
they were gaping ruins, when the last
dollar was spent, and the last jewel
was pawned, fighting ceased, and the
war was over.
The endless war of the strikes begins
to resemble the secondary stages of
the German Thirty Years War. No
body wishes to fight, nothing Is to be
gained in fighting, there is no real
cause of war, and there Is no ultimate
purpose in view. This particular
skirmish may be on an increase of
wages, but that does not settle the
question of pay at all, and the whoie
miserable business may be upon »us
again in a month or two. Or it may
be a matter of hours, or a closed shop,
or recognition of the union, or method
of hiring and discharge, or any one ot
a dozen different issues. No conflict
[ever really settles anything, and there
jis no limit to the amount of fighting
possible. None of the combatants look
forward to' a time when the war will
cease, and 1 rational methods prevail.
They do not ask it, nor wish it. The
general public, which is by far the
worst sufferer, seems to have become
calloused, indifferent and utterly pes
simistic. This is not the attitude of
the American people with respect to
other questions they are called upon
to face.
In the meantime, we are developing
the elements that go to make per
manency in warfare; mercenaries and
professional soldiers on both sides,
strike makers and strike breakers,
detectives and thugs, spies and sneak;-,
merchants and newspapers and pol
iticians that try to play both ends of
the controversy, bulldozers, boycotters,
fako injunctions and fake grievances.
There are ghouls, who make money
out of theso disturbances, and who
foment ambitious labor leaders
on the one side, and on tho other news
papers that get rich by fawning on
the big employers and by stimulating
class hatreds from above downwards.
A sorrowful situation, and Infinitely
strange withal! Strange that we should
endura all this strife and look upon
the problem as one of infinite compli
cation to which no solution Is possible,
when it is in reality so simple and
the remedy so easily within reach.
From time to time the public utter*
the words that make up the answer to
all "compulsory arbitration"—
when a chorus of protest rises from
both Hides of the fight, the public re
lapses Into silence again and proceeds
on its sorrowful way. Perhaps, wo
say. when they have striven against
each other until both sides have suf
fered great injury, then they will sub
mit. But, let us remember, not they
but we, the general public, are'the
chief losors. ,The cost of Industrial
warfare Is in the long run charged
back to the consumer. It is a gigantic
economic waste that must be paid by
somebody. Moreover, as our Industries
coalesce and grow larger, the waves
of disturbance run higher and farther
and create more terrible havoc. Time
and again we have been drawn to the
edge of the chasm and looked over.
We have seen. starvation, anarchy,
panic or pestilence waiting at th? end
of some i strike which chance has
brought to a close just at tho last mo
ment of respite.
- It is not from the armies in conflict
that the terms of peace will come, but
from the public at large which has so
long stood by watching, sorrowing and
suffering. We have the machinery for
the making of laws and for their exe
cution, and we -have courts where,
under the law, differences among men j
may be adjusted. It Is Incredible that
we have so long delayed in putting .
this machinery to work on this deadly
I struggle, to force it into the general
fabric of order and of reason. Wo
have listened to denunciation of capi
talists by demagogues and of unions
by snob' newspapers, and we have
learned that these are seeking not the
public good but their own mean profit.
The time has come when the American
people, wakened and stirred to new-;
hopes by the political changes of the
day, are ready to face this great issue
and to demand the enforcement of a
rational and effective remedy, "JxrA