Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 218, 18 July 1912 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUNTELEGRAM.THURSDAY JULY 18, 1912.

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This Is My 33rd Birthday

ROSE PASTOR STOKES. Rose Pastor Stokes, the famous settlement worker of New York, was born at Augustava, Suvolk, Russia, July 18, 1879. At the age of four she accompanied her parents to London, whence they fled to escape Russian oppression and it was in the Jewish Free School in the great English metropolis that she received her education. In 1890 the young women came to the United States and for three years after her arrival she worked as a cigar maker In Cleveland. While thus employed she studied hard to improve her education. In 1901 she became a contributor to a Jewish dally newspaper in New York City and a few years later she was employed as an assistant editor. In this position she flrst attracted public attention by her able discussion of sociological problems. The young writer embraced Socialism and rapidly rose to a position of leadership. In 1905 she was married to J. O. Phelps Stokes, a wealthy, young settlement worker and also a believer in Socialism.

"Healthy Liberty"

CONGRATULATIONS TO: Miss Ethel Roosevelt, daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, 21 years old today. Prince Victor Napoleon, the Bonapartist Pretender, 50 years old today. Bishop Joseph S. Key, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, 83 years old today. Dr. W. G. Grace. England's famous cricket player, 64 years old today. Alfred H. Brooks, chief geologist of Ihe United States Geological Survey, tl years old today. John R. Farr, representative in Congress of the Tenth Pennsylvania district, 55 years old today. . James Young, representative in Congress of the Third Texas district, 44 years old today.

Worth Her Weight In Butter. Curious custom still prevail with regard to marirage. In some parts of Uganda the custom is to offer six needles and a pack of India rubber for a wife. Some of the Kaffirs sacrifice oxen. The Tartars of Turkestan give the weight of the prospective wife in butter. In Kamchatka the price varies from one to ten reindeer. Some savages require a certain amount of labor. Among the aborigines it is said the current rate for a wife is a box of matches, which prompted a Paris contemporary to speculate whether one of the French government boxes would be accepted.

Light en a Dark Subject. Caller There's one question I should like to have answered. When a thought flashes across the intellect does it effect any molecular changes in the cellular or muscular tissues composing the material substance of the cerebral mass, or does it operate merely ; in the realm of the spiritual ego, thereby leaving no trace subject to detection or classification in the domain of substantiality? Information Editor (turning again to his desk) There is no premium on the coin. Chicago Tribune.

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"The essence of any struggle for healthy liberty has always been and must always be to take from some man or class of men, the right to enjoy power, wealth, position or immunity, which has not been earned by service to his or their fellows." From Theodore Roosevelt's speech on the New Nationalism at Osawatomie, Kansas, August, 31, 1912.

TWO (1912)

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17o Wealth 89 Poverty 10

J-o Wealth 0 Poverty 99

ONE (1850) 0 Wealth 100 Poverty 0

In 1850 the American people wre neither extremely wealthy nor extremely poor. In 1912 one per cent of the population possesses fifty per cent of the wealth and the major part of the population is balanced between extreme wealth and extreme poverty. While a growing increase in the extremely poor is indicated. When will all the wealth become centered in a very few and when will the majority of the population be lodged below the poverty line. This year of 1912 is to tell the story as to whether the tendency of the last 60 years is to be sent in .a direction which will restore something of the diffused wealth which marked the firm structure of 1850. To those who believe that such a suggestion is anarchistic we recommend the study of Germany which a hundred years ago was in the condition of diagram 3. Today it has passed through diagram 2, and is approaching the condition of the American people in 1850. With one difference, Germany today is developed to a greater pitch of industrial efficiency, education, science, and health than is America, showing that no great inequalities of wealth are necessary to advance civilization or industry.

The First Step-

Just now when people are determined on getting progressive legislation they are often told that such a simple thing as voting for United States senators by direct vote is contrary to the constitution. How many people know how the constitution in Indiana can be changed? The method as described in the constitution is harder than to blow open a bank safe with a cordon of police drawn up night and day in front of it. At present it is necessary to get amendments passed by two successive legislatures before they can be submitted to the people. There are many other things beside the direct election of senators which the people wish but they usually run up against the constitution made many years ago. The last resort in workmen's compensation laws and other laws for the benefit of the many is the contention before the higher courts that they are uncorstitutional. At a time when the liberties of the people are endangered by the constitution itself it is evident that the constitution which is excellent at one time is likely to become a menace unless means are afforded for the people to ratify it from time to time and to have the chance to change it. Legislatures are notoriously oren to corruption, to vacillation, and to browbeating by professional lobbyists. One of the most common faults with legislatures is not to do anything. Many a man can be persuaded not to do a thing when he would utterly refuse to do a wrong thing. Thus the constitution is often made a substantial bulwark for special privilege because it cannot be changed. The first action to be taken by ail progressives of whatever party, is to give to the people an easier way of amending their constitution by popular vote. The history of constitutional amendments submitted to popular vote all over the country shows that only in cases where all the people of the state are interested do the people take this method of securing amendments. It is not a thing which has been abused while everyone knows that the constitution and its tortuous way of amendments has been turned into a weapon of the few against the many.

Real and Artificial 8apphires. The chemical composition of the synthetic sapphire is the same as that of the natural sapphire. The only difference Is that the real sapphire is crystallized, while the artificial sapphire Is fused alumina or alumina glass. Between artificial and real sapphires there is just such a difference as there Is between potato sugar and rock candy.

Happy Thought. A young married couple went into a drug store the other day to use the tele phone, when the young woman found that she was several inches too short to reach the mouthpiece. "Oh. dear," she complained, "I wish this telephone were a little lower." Whereupon her husband remarked: "Try raising your voice." Kansas City Star.

Privilege Shocked at Oregon

NEW YORK. July 18. The National Boss-bund and the National Association of Privilege devoted the day of their joint session at the Gilden Food Hotel to discussing recent developments in Oregon. Chairman Bondedwater devoted his opening address to a discussion of the principle of the separation of powers in Democratic government. "Strong governments are dangerous to property," he declared. "At any moment a strong government might interfere with great private interests or disturb established methods of business and finance for the benefit of its master, the mob. To protest vested rights, therefore, we should endeavor to keep the governments of our cities and states as weak and disjointed as possible. Only when popular government is coherent andr unified is it to be feared. Elective offices should therefore be multiplied the more the better. When the administration of government is thus cut into separate and mutually independent bits, we get more chances to block the popular wish when it goes contrary to our great interests. If the people want a tax levied on our franchises for instance, we can, through our friends the politicians, try to block it in the lower house of the legislature; if we fail there, we have another chance in the upper house, if that fails we try to get the governor, though it is harder to make governors ignore popular clamor. Then suppose the Tax is legalized in spite of us we can easily nominate and elect 6tate comptrollers who will wink at its non-enforcement, and attorney-generals who will mix it up further and judges who will call parts of it unconstitutional or grant long delays till we can unload our stock. To block the operation of a law we need only to capture one position in the long line. The people, however, to force the full execution of the law, must capture afl and hold them. The people are big and slow and clumsy; we are little, but nimble and adroit. The more complex politics is, the better for us. We therefore demand that this great nation shall adhere to its glorious multiplicity of elective offices, the subdivision and disjointing of its forces and a system of politics so com

plex that nobody but expert politicians can work it." ! Chairman Bondedwater then introduced Mr. Buylaw, a prominent cor-1 poration attorney of Oregon. Mr. Buylaw reviewed the history of representative government in the various states under which crops had prospered and population increased so marvellously. "But what are these upstart reformers of Oregon trying now to do?" he asked. "Why have they taken up the Short Ballot idea and why are they go-

! ing to revolutionize the system of

state politics? The present Oregon ballot has about thirty offices on it, to which in recent years a dozen or more referendum questions are usually added. Naturally with such a ballot property was well protected against invasion by the people. If we couldn't control the governor we could at least control the legislature, or it a troublesome statute did pass we could slip through our own judges and sheriffs or prosecuting attorneys any of whom could soften the effect of the law when notified to do so by our friends among the politicians. "Now this cursed People's Power League led by Mr. U'Ren of initiative and referendum fame has coked up an initiative proposal which will make the Oregon ballots so simple that every dunderheaded farmer and clerk will be a politician and will go butting into the game and making his own ticket for himself instead of voting the ticket the bosses give him. You know how we are accustomed to kill popular bills by having the politicians arrange for a disagreement over details between the two houses and leave both houses on record in apparent favor of the measure. Well, they're going to abolish the State Senate and have only one legislature. Then they're going to give the governor a seat in this one-house legislature. That closes another loop-hole for it will be more difficult to get the governor and legislature pulling in opposite directions when they are sitting side by side thrashing matters out. More than that, this measure renders appointive, instead of elective, all the state administrative officers and the sheriffs and attorneys in the counties. That will leave only three offices on the state ballot, governor, auditor and

member of the legislature. Now. gea-j tlemen, I ask you what can the politicians do for us when the ballot is as short as that? How can we send our own men to the legislature when there is no shelter, no obscurity, on the ballot? Horn- can we put over a game on the people in such a blaze of light? Why, the people will be getting their own kind of men every time and they will be likely to have a people's legislature, doing just whatever the people say. A legislator who did as we told him under those conditions would be a shining mark, because the people have only three men to watch. On election day they will know every man they vote for even the busiest citizens will know a most unheard-of un-American condition, utterly at variance with the long ballot traditions of this great and glorious republic since the days of Andrew Jackson. "Now, gentlemen, for our purpose, long ballots are vital. We can't blame our friends here, the bosses, for ineffi

cient service unless politics is kept so complex that none but politicians can keep track of it. If politics gets simplified and the Short Ballot idea gets adopted, we will have the citizens

running the government all the time.

At the conclusion of Mr. Buylaw's

speech, there was considerable oratory upholding the American custom of making polities a jungle with the citizens on the outside looking in. The

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' A New Start. T told him there were dozens of people right here in town who bed never heard of him." "I guess that took him down a peg or two." "I guess it dWnt. Ha started right out to find them and borrow money from them." Houston Post.

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"THIS DATt JN HISTORY"

JULY 18. 1790 Adam Smith, the famous Scotch political economist, died. Born In 1723. 1853 The Atlantic and St. Lawrence railroad, connecting Portland and Montreal, opened to traffic. 1863 Col. Robert Gould Shaw, commander of the first negro regiment sent to the war by any free State, killed in the assault on Fort Wagner. Born in Boston, Oct, 10, 1837. 1864 President Lincoln called for 500,000 more volunteers. 1872 Benito Jaurez, the famous Mexican partiot, died. Born March 21, 1806. 1893 William M. Stone, governor of Iowa 1864-68, died in Oklahoma City. Born in New York, Oct. 14, 1827. 1895 Henry Irving, the famous actor, knighted by Queen Victoria. 1909 Don Carlos, the pretender to the Spanish throne, died in Lombardy. .Born at Laibach, March 30, 1848. 1911 England celebrated the centenary of the birth of Thackeray.

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