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pngressn-vs.n from
TWO 1MPOBIAXI MKAS"KKS.
Two Important measures or local I
import were passed unos yesterday fcy j
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ruppose 111 get bounced off the edl-
rial page for doing this.
be next thing to "bust" Is the mail
T trout. OnA Chlcaffrt hrmfia muiifl
VoDormoua net profit of 117,000,000
year.
discussed, and opinions vary as
to one of them. One was the
public utilities bill and the other the
amendments to the commission form
of municipal government.
The elimination oi me Home rule
clause from the public utilities law
aroused some antagonism to the new
law, especially in Chicago, and a
strong pressure was brought to bear
upon the governor to have him veto it,
but he finaly sanctioned it, holding
that it was at lea6t entitled to a trial.
The public utilities commission is de
signed to supervise and govern ail
public corporations In the state, rail
road, street railway, m'erurban, tele
phone and telegraph. It assumes ite
functions of the railroad and ware
house commission which will pass out
of existence when the new law be
comes operative.
The amendments to the commission
form originated with a gaiTg of poli
ticians at the state capital and there
AurhkTr; Vri lawmakers never intended should be
TjsjMHTience or
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en dent democracy, ine
people is coming, and ip
a numoer oi ior
Ker strongholds
of special privilege
certain ears which
have long been
out of tune with
progressive
thought are now
bent earnestly to
the ground. The
belated theory now
is that it is better
to yied to the
public will in time
than, stubbornly
resistine. to be
overwhelmed in
the rising tide of
popular rule.
The supreme
court is the latest
to feel along the
nervo of public
opinion and adjust
its own mental
processes accordingly. A great light
seems to have burst in upon that
gloomy and decorous chamber. Em
ploying the facility with which it once
"intrepreted" into laws things the
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CLYDE H.
TAVEMNCR .
the practical defeat of the commissiir
form of government. JIany of the be?c
features of the system would have
been nullified in the opportunities for
calling the commissioners on the cr-
in Those laws a'ld dissolved trusts in
a manner highly satisfactory and
profitable to the human ingredients of
the solutions, the court now discovers
strong constitutional grounds for sus-
pet by means of a recall based upon tam:nS Popular legislation,
but 23 per cent of the autliori::pfl vr,t. The recent rate decisions, sustain
rrs i any time, wnne ine right was
reposed in politicians to recall the
entire system as often as every two
years on a petition of 25 per cent of
the voters.
Such a law would precipitate con
tinued unrest in a community enjoy
ing the com niion form. The com
missioners would be intimidated by
the whip of the politician or the sore-
ing the right of states to fix by law
minimum rates which railroads may
charge, and the decision affirming the
jurisdiction of the federal government
over water power in streams are ex
amples of the way the new idea is
working out. The court has also re
cently affirmed the constitu'ional valid
ity of a number of laws demanded by
public opinion. Judged by its deci
sions of the past year, the supreme
l An rsalaoi.turt holds that a man
'can be beautiful. Not, however, while
f ha Is replacing a tire on his automo-
bUe.
ohn Aimstronf Chalwier is sane
lrglnU mod li8anein New YorK.
New York has that effect on a
i mcyxple.
tyles in women's suits are
I include hip pockets. It's a
wit th pickpockets won't find
any handier than handbags.
head and all the best features of
the system of city government would I court is now a popular tribunal,
become void. Even the commerce court, wnicn
The governor did well to put the ! soaked the public hip and thigh during
stamp of his disapproval on this meas-! .
ure. "
the first years of its existence, has
Eeen the error of its ways and is now
handing down decisions which do not
read as if they had been written by
the lawyers for the railroads. But the
eleventh, hour conversion of the com
merce court seems to havo come too
late to save it. The caucus of house
democrats the other day consigned
the commerce court to the perdition of i I
oblivion. The franchise of this tri- ;
bunal seems to have about expired.
But even with all these hor.efi'l :
signs, eternal .vigilance continues to
remain the price of liberty. The peo
ple should not now sleep, secure Id
the thought tat having started the
wheels of progressive government in
motion thev can relv on the machine.
The tendency of government is tx
become reactionary, to yield to the in-'
sidious influence of the special inter
ests when the voice of the people ibe
comcs subdued. The special interests
are always alert. Some criticism has
been leveled at the secret caucus of
the democrats of the house, and also
at the alleged centralized control Ct
the democratic majority.
With vigilant public opinion, how
ever, both cf these instruments of Wg
islation can be made, as they are at
present, highly efficient machines for
carrying out the demands of the popu
lar will. Their great advantage is
that they insure the passage of legis
lation without amendment, thus pre
venting the emasculation of bills, by
cliques, alliances and other forms- of
log rolling. Their danger is that they
can be used to defeat progressive legislation.
But as long as there is a quickened
public conscience the people need not
fear the forms of control adopted by
the house majority. That majority is
controlled by fearless, public spirited
men, who have adopted their arrange
ments with their eyes open. The cau
cus cannot be turned to evil uses so
long as these men are in control; and
these men, or men like them, will re
main in control just as long as the
people continue to Insist uycm having
their way in the national government
THE DA11K IliU'KS )' INSIIMOl'8
liOi'.uvisi.
The investigation of the lobbying in
dustry at Washington by the senate
coniniitt' e is developing some sensa-
1 tiona.1 if not startling information a3
to the methods I'nd tricks adopted by
lobbyist.. The Chicago Tribune ia
SLUR ON SHOP GIRLS REFUTED
(riiiladPlphia Bulletin.)
Direct refutation of the slur which
was put upon working girls by the ir
rational conclusions sent broadcast
over the country by the Illinois vice
exposing the lobby and verifying the commission investigators of the social
president's charges. j evil, is contained in the report of a
The testimony of President Lovett j voluntary committee of nationally
of the Cniou Pacitlc railway and of j prominent social 7 workers just mado
Congressman Palmer of Pennsylvania public as the resiilt of a series bf con-
reported that the Mexican fed
!!ost 600 in the battle at C'hl-'
The half dosen others ought
in the mood for peace. -
V Jersey men who killed
id then discovered it was
Vit were killing the chfek-
-nother argument against
shment
uis newspaper offers $100
st 10 reasons why people
from other states to
lut any one reason would
lire than that
established the fact that big interests
do not hesitate to rusorl to reprehen
sible trickery, to iniquitous deception,
and to heavy expenditures of money
to carry out schemes to circumvent
court action and to control legislation
antagonistic to public policies.
Insidious lobbyists have been con
stantly on duty at the federal capi
tal, secretly at 'work to influence
public servants by making black ap
pear white and v. bite, appear black
in order to secure results the employ
ers of the lobbyist desire.
How much the public interests have
lereiices conducted through the medi
um cf superintendents cf refuge
homes and missions in many cities.
These investigators declare their be
lief that injustice has been done to the
shop girls by the "widespread pub
licity given to a mistaken view of the
industrial responsibility for the so
called white slave condition" and flat
ly express the opinion that low wages
ca-j by no me:'ns be considered the
c liief and mcst vitilly significant pro
voking cause of vice.
It is well that some such author-
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t Tiutnoer or men in liu-
-ten to tjake the womay tl
li the 'supremo couris-.r
testing Its cl uxu-
nien seem rvr; u flo
. 1 -fclbl Ultr
Vuman a
Longfellow has
ict that she
sTgfellow
ying
itative bodv as tins hns nt las linnlif
been damaged and justice thwart-. . fit t0 ccrae fcrward and deny a grat-
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insidious lobbyists is just beginning to i
ppear, and we may properly assume :
that millions have been made by those !
whn tninlnv tlin lohlivi;- tw.- !
r - . ..... ... nvj i
uitous slander unon the hundreds of
thousands of self-respecting and clean
living young women who daily earn
their livelihood. Sweeping deductions
such as those in which the Illinois
commissioners Indulged, although pre
dicated upon some threads of truth in
the cases of a few unfortunates, too
often are accepted without reserva
tTo7Ilyr'fficPuuTTn rency to a degree far beyond their de
serving. As th" committee points out,
the most important contributing
causes of immorality among girls are
temperamental weaknesses, lack or
sound training, indolence coupled
with cravings' fcr fineries and pleas
ures incommensurate with their sta
tions of j'fe, evil associations and wil
ful flouting of the conventions. '
While it is true that the wages paid
are none too high, or even sufficient,
taking the class as a whole, that is
another question to be adjusted on
wholly different grounds, wherein pub
lic sympathy might readily be ou the
side of the workers.
When Willie has to mow the lawn ha
thinks his lot is very hard;
In doleful ton. s he asks us why wo wish
to have fo large a yard;
He bttterly complains about aches In his
arms and sides and back;
He fears the work will stunt his growth
and frets for servants that we lack.
When Wlll'e mows the lawn he makes us
! feel that lie is much abused.
And when he'.s through the mower looks
as if It h.-id been badly used;
He never throws a stick aside or lifts a
wire from the way;
He aklps the cornrrs shamelessly, al
though we give him double pay.
Whenever Willie mows the lawn the
neighbors all have cause to know.
Ana when he's through you might sup
pose tl at lie had done It with a hoe;
IT scatters grass upon the walks, ha
never eives a weed a glance;
ITe skins tl .e shrubs and barks the trees,
and wants his money In advance.
Ha sits up..n the steps and slirhs and.
when hir's through, can hardly crawl:
But merrily he keeps it up all day when
he is playing ball;
Klate and full ff ginger then, he skips as
liKl-.tly as a fawn,
But all his strength forsakes him when
our Willie has to mow the lawn.
"What on earth di
for?" growled Ams1
the front door of his !
and crushing his hat
i as he left his home f
goinjr down to that C
' ine sun never creep
1 day- by artificial lig
and clothes for ano'
j this yoke on my Ut-lVi
If I wanted a cock
bought it: if I wan
with my friends till
I could do it without
nnv one. :sow i can
"Oh, for the sens
i ha.l when i was
bird, light as uir!
in the morning .1
down by a sense c
now. When I we
have to listen to rc
thing I bad done or
done during tile da
ing my way in pet;
now, giving" up in
I had It in both grc
There were no ten
buy, with fifteen c;
ers attached; no 1
costumes because 1
the fashions get t
unworn and perft
of the last season
What induced m
comfort and freed
self a multitude
cares I don't know
I would never go
"How in the
through all I hav
Mrs. Aiusworth t
were back in tho
didn't have to cl
the washing jus
got to go over a1,
mend every hoi
button or he'll t:
ho puts the thii
free mother use
clothes. Now 1
and take care c
the comic paper
on mothers-in-1
were here this
lift with my d;i
I suppose even
mouth Jim woi
would be bis
mother. Of co
nice if she wen
his mother. A
turb him. He
fice every mori
household wor
when he come
look cheerful
smile on my
l!
Sith
day. I'd just JiUe
with him for one day,
It Will Not Help.
"Some day people will have ad
vanced so far "upon the way to civili
zation that every man and every wom
an will be permitted to wear, what
he or she wishes to wear, without be-
Pg'-'b'ulijeotfcd ; to pu'u
the hoots of foolish mobs." -
D . . , A ...... .1. ! I. . 1 . it, ,
1 um uu vuu mill iuui win dh anv i
idvantaRe?" . ,w. .. ' 1 now sitting in hi. office
"CerUinlv." newspaper and amokln
"No, even then it will not be pos- c"aninS about Me man
sible for any woman to wear what she " 0"e? 'fJ8,? ,r
likes, for no woman's husband will lue, J""11 w" Dave
ever hp nhin tn ffnrj tw men t-'a'l ttosa the an
. ' business life. I'd like
"Mv dear - RnM t -s "t'ii ' cook walk off In ft pass
vm, wW if T,r. S'oA v... i fore dinner. I guess
everything el e n' trZ i f responsibility mea
to el)
r. 1
Jfficr
'kin
ever many these millions may be,
a much greater damage has been done
to public interests.
Nearly every day the senate com
mittee finds some new evidence of the
Cirty work of the insidious lobbies;
some deviltry attempted or performed
that shows how detrimental to good
and henest government the lobbyists
have become.
iVhen President Wilson with a calm
'V that 'he cunuinir lnhbvlsia
ving to thwart tariff legis-
Ihe button that set the
Mon in motion, leg-
elieve and the
the condi-
roved
STEAMBOAT DIANA WILL LEAVE SOON TO
HUNT SUPPOSED CONTINENT IN ARCTIC
things up In this town; now let u:
have a party which shall be exclusive
ly for. the divorced people in our
set." ' ,
"It would be a splendid thing, Hor
ace, and the newspapers would urob-
ably give us a lot of space on .it," hi3 ! annoyances and dlsn
.
"pff for home, Mr. Ai'
Jones, the bookkeeper.
business hours. "I wi:
I never envy married
when the day's work
i
Be.
wife repli. d. "but you know; how I
hate a cru.-h."
!
n !
: i-i: S I,:- ! 'M
Gentle Fannie.
"Wliat are you laughing at, Ma
bel?" -
"I re just got a letter from Cousin
ijrann-8."
A' "I never suspected tlat your Cousin
rFai.aie wfcs much of a humorist
where is siie?" '
"In Holland. She says she intends
to.send me picture postcards from Rot
terflash and Amsterdash.'"
The Only Thing She Could Do.
"Jiy goodness! I can't understand
how she could give up her child.
They say it has Really bten adopted
by a family that lives in the coun
try." : j
"Yea. You Be she found a flat
that Just suited her, and they
wouldn't allow children in the build
ing." Nj Chance to Spite Him
Wh do yo i put up with the man-
noorisl ness?" asked the lead-
inratn. "You could eet annrhoi-
agfmenf tomorrow if you WPre tr
vei'this company."
''I. know it," reDlied tho
T. j . ". o-ar.
h.7y,r. wca 1 cven catch
a bad cold." ft.
Via mitt rt ihm rnrt r-vf nt
-r. ir, .V, : . tu -
f Will a rrT O rlnneB
m miles. . kT a .
Station win , P-Powren
t. erected at
.cay. end expeiw....
Vducred in oral:-
3blem of-. .
' " t Cancerous.
1 m tartocin mv arm r
Eoni
flr.ifU0at I,ha4 the name ot y
ilV. i rtt00ed?n raBelf. and I've
''mo' N ,dea of Business.
-Busmess!" exclaimed his wife-
eSr vV".110 0f bu3iae Sat'
fJrrt 7 te "a't know any bet-
savings in a baby) buggy factory."
Oolng the Right Thlna. "
ry d0e right thing, and
f'"!; eEB fce cccasionaliy
VT'if t0ili,Atsb for t
you go to your
pretty wlfo opens
gives you a kiss.
dinner of homo
evening if you evef
a; table coverej w
smoke the bapcy
you like to go 011
you've some one .
one with whom
some one you lori
"Ju6t so," , was
conic assent, 'il
"But we
garrulous
must , we d
filled full of
us at the
welcoming
chair and
lap to sym;
acrreeable
While we 1
talks to u
for dinner
gle life is
And there
"It bents
soon ns he
"how pers
to know w
"Good
said Miss
in' hoping
me up a
nothing,
old to 'hr
haven't i
fairs of a
cold. K
don't yc
don't nee
t don't
What I
every w
home of I
Isn't It
How nic'
ora tod:
in good
fort a We
yoware
dutiesl
yoar h
evening
been lnT
fthi fv uerteran they
the morj
made"-!
"Or
rtb.
vrbuTr!,
believe fj
-"TesT"
