THE MILEAGE ROLL OF DISHONOR

VOTED AYE

MEMBERS TO RETIRE
Republicans		Democrats		Union Labor
Daniels, Cal.		Bell, Cal.		Livernash, Cal.
Davis, Minn.		Breazeale, La.		Wynn, Cal.
Hunter, Ky.		Dinsmore, Ark.
Kyle, O.		Dougherty, Mo.
Morgan, O.		Emerich, Ill.
Smith, N. Y.		Foster, Ill.
Spalding, N. D.		Griffith, Ind.
Van Voorhis, O.		Hughes, N. J.
		McAndrews, Ill.
		Miers, Ind.
		Richardson, Tenn.
		Rider, N. Y.
		Robb, Mo.
		Robinson, Ind.
		Shober, N. Y.
		Shull, Pa.
		Snook, O.
		Wilson, N. Y.
Total	8	Total	19	Total	2
MEMBERS RETURNED
Republicans		Democrats
Adams, Wis.		Aiken, S. C.
Beidler, O.		Broussard, La.
Bishop, Mich.		Davey, La.
Brandegee, Conn.		Fitzgerald, N. Y.
Brooks, Col.		Goulden, N. Y.
Brown, Wis.		Hill, Miss.
Brownlow, Tenn.		Hunt, Mo.
Burke, S. D.		Legare, S. C.
Cromer, Ind.		McDermott, N. J.
Crumpacker, Ind.		McNary, Mass.
Cushman, Wash.		Maynard, Va.
Draper, N. Y.		Pujo, La.
Dresser, Pa.		Rainey, Ill.
Fordney, Mich.		Ryan, N. Y.
Gardner, N. J.		Sullivan, Mass.
Gillett, Cal.
Graff, Ill.
Grosvenor, O.
Howell, N. J.
Howell, Utah.
Hull, Iowa.
Humphrey, Wash.
Jones, Wash.
Knopf, Ill.
Lorimer, Ill.
Loudenslager, N. J.
McCleary, Minn.
Mann, Ill.
Marshall, N. D.
Martin, S. D.
Minor, Wis.
Overstreet, Ind.
Patterson, Pa.
Rodenberg, Ill.
Sherman, N. Y.
Smith, Iowa.
Snapp, Ill.
Southard, O.
Southwick, N. Y.
Sterling, Ill.
Sulloway, N. H.
Tawney, Minn.
Wachter, Md.
Weems, O.
Total	44	Total	15
DODGED
Republicans		Democrats
		Harrison, N. Y.
		Scudder, N. Y.
Total		Total	2
Birdsall, Iowa.		Adamson, Ga.
Bonynge, Col.		Bankhead, Ala.
Conner, Iowa.		Bartlett, Ga.
Dovener, W. Va.		Brantley, Ga.
Hamilton, Mich.		Gilbert, Ky.
Hemenway, Ind.		Goldfogle, N. Y.
Kennedy, O.		Hopkins, Ky.
Lafean, Pa.		Ruppert, N. Y.
Landis, Ind.		Sims, Tenn.
Miller, Kan.		Stanley, Ky.
Zenor, Ind.		Stephens, Tex.
Wiley, Ala.
Total	11	Total	12
GRAND TOTAL—GRABBERS AND DODGERS
Republicans	63	Democrats	48	Union Labor	2

—Collier’s Weekly.

The industrial barons pay the same sum for a large as a small cotton crop. Just enough to keep the planters’ help alive.—The Appeal to Reason.

Alarmists who are forever crying about “the dangers of Socialism” remind one of that Scripture that tells of the fellow who “fleeth when no man pursueth.” There are comparatively few Socialists in the country. And if certain reforms are consummated there will be a less number. And there are mighty few Socialists who are “dangerous.”

In this connection may be noted an incident that occurred during the Cooper Union lecture course at New York City. It was claimed that the audiences, judged by their applause, were Socialistic. So a vote was taken. In one audience of 1,200 people there were less than twenty Socialists. Then this question was put to the audience: “Those who believe the time has come for the community to assert a larger control over the public enterprises, such as the trusts, railroads and public utilities, please rise.” The entire audience arose.

There are no “dangerous classes” in such an audience—a typical, intelligent public gathering. “The people will wobble right.” The people are discovering the wrongs in government and they are finding that they themselves are largely to blame for these wrongs. They find that they have neglected their rights. They have conferred special privileges. They have permitted aggressions. It is largely their own fault. They are beginning to see that. They want to correct their mistakes. They will correct them.

And those who cry “wolf” when the people are trying to get back their own are more dangerous than any others.—The Buffalo Times.

“Populist” is from the Latin word populus, meaning the people. “Populite,” which is used to a considerable extent in the South instead of Populist, is also from the Latin word populus. The original meaning of the words “populist,” “democrat” and “republican” is substantially the same.—The Missouri World.

Without vision a people perishes. The need for “seers” is greatest in a democracy where autocracy fails and the people must fall back upon broad instincts, intuitive reasoning and average intelligence. The poet-seer is the highest type of the visionary. His message comes in the form of rhythmic speech which has the widest carrying capacity. Poets, however, do not come into the world by accident. The poet comes only after preparation is made and reception is assured. For support he can depend no longer upon an indulgent king or upon patrons. Today the people stand in place of these. But as yet the collective mind has not worked out the problem of protection in spiritual properties. This is one of the main problems America has to meet: to create and sustain a race of poet-seers which will stand in right relation to the people and move in these broad lands as broad as they.—Tomorrow.

Monett, the Ohio lawyer, began the prosecution of the Standard Oil trust when the Government was fostering the trusts and the courts knocked him out. Now the Government begins to make signs that it is against the trusts and another case has been begun in Ohio. The courts will change their sides. Monett was downed by Rockefeller, beaten by the courts, and kicked out of the Republican Party. A nod from the President changed the whole situation.—The Nebraska Independent.

Despite the fact that the Czar refused to permit a delegation of workmen to present a petition to him, he, realizing the havoc that had been wreaked upon the people, finally consented to have a delegation call upon him and present their grievances. It may be true that the delegation was not those chosen by the men engaged in the original movement, but it is also true that even for appearance’ sake he had to go through the formality of receiving a delegation of workmen, and, at least to that degree, the new departure has been recognized.

It is also of interest to know that, though the Russian workmen have had no organization, yet their strike has been declared at an end by agreement, and that they are now engaged in the selection of their representatives in a mixed commission to determine the following questions: A shorter workday, an increase in wages, the right to organize, and assemblage and freedom of speech.

Jointly, the people insist that the government shall be based upon justice and the participation of the people therein, regardless of their station in life, equality before the law, inviolability of domicile, the freedom of association, of speech and of the press, and compulsory education.

Thus, after all, out of the strikes of the Russian workmen, though many of their dear ones have been killed and mutilated, their blood has sanctified their cause and will make for the good, the progress and the uplifting of all the people of Russia.—American Federationist.

A revolution is on, and the attacking party has inscribed the Populist principles upon its banners. The attacking party is not insurgents or rebels. It is in power, the Government, the whole thing. Never before has the prospect seemed at all discouraging for Standard Oil raids, Beef Trust schemes and kindred despoliation of the land and the fulness and the people thereof. Everything worth considering is now consolidated against the robbers. Have good cheer, Populists. The day is breaking. Up and don your armor. Whet your battle-axe.—The Joliet News.

He alone is great who can suggest a thought in such a way that the other man believes he originated it—The Philistine.

A Wall Street victim, after squandering his own money and his wife’s, committed suicide, and yet some of the New York clergymen who are so active in denouncing the small gambling houses have not a word to say against the New York Stock Exchange which slays its tens of thousands where the small gambling houses slay their thousands.—The Commoner.

The spirit of Populism has reasserted itself and taken the Sunflower State by storm.

The shots fired by the Kansas Legislature, forced from it by a determined demand of the people, at the trusts and monopolies have been heard around the world. They sounded the death-knell of plutocracy in America.

Aimed at the Standard Oil octopus, these shots hit every political and commercial scoundrel in the United States. The special privileged class have been dealt a blow which staggers their fabric from centre to circumference.

This is the beginning of the end of corrupt government. The people who do the labor and produce the wealth of the world will be deceived and plundered no longer. The revolution is on and it can’t be checked.—The Dalton (Ga.) Herald.