The Commoner
FEBRUARY, 1914
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Ah Associated Press dispatch from
Washington, under date of January
28, says:
"At a meeting of the Common
Counsel club today, its president,
Joseph W. Folk, solicitor of the state
dppqrtment, announced that plans
have been perfected for the creation,
o -'t e- 'common counsel clubs' in
every school district of the United
States. The purpose is to create a
national organization, which shall
:ii"inrvi- the men and measures of
'progressive democracy.'
"Today's meeting took the form of
a luncheon at the University club.
Secretary of State Bryan was the
guest of honor and was introduced
by Mr. Folk as 'the richest man in
the world, not in silver or gold, but
in the affections of his fellow men.'
BIWEEKLY. LESSONS FROM
PARENT CLUB
"Explaining the proposed exten
sion of the sphere of influence of the
Common Counsel club, Mr. Folk said:
" 'This plan contemplates weekly
or biweekly lessons being sent to
each common counsel club from the
parent organization in Washington,
somewhat along the .lines of the in
ternational Sunday school lessons.
" 'We have decided to establish a
common counsel club in every school
district in the United States, with the
schoolhouses as social centers. We
shall employ a professional organizer
who will devote his whole time to the
work.
" 'About 500 applications already
have been received to form local com
mon counsel clubs. They come from
all over the United States and indi
cate, the widespread interest in the
idea.'
,"Mr. Folk suggested the naming
of a committee to draw up a perma
nent constitution and by-laws for the
parent organization of Washington,
and similar constitution and by-laws
for the local clubs. Upon motion of
jo-onv m Davies, commiss'oner of
corporations, "" e was appointed one
member of the committee, with Mr.
F ",- "a obo'rmnn. tbe other members
of the committee being Louis F. Post
assistant-secretary of labor; William
J. Harris, director of the census;
Samuel H. Thompson, Jr.. assistant
attorney general; Samuel J. Graham,
assistant attorney general, and Frank
P. Walsh, chairman of the congres
sional commission on industrial rela
tions. BRYAN PRAISES PRESIDENTIAL
PRIMARIES
"The club here consists of cabinet
officers, assistants, senators repre
sentatives and other leading demo
crp4f In the government service.
"Secretary Bryan told the club
adoption of the presidential primary
plan would mark the completion of
the movement by which the people
are coming into absolute control of
the naming of their president. Never
again, ho declared, would Wall street
have anything to say in the election
of a president.
V Hrvn denounced the rules of
the senate allowing unlimited debate,
referring to them as the 'last stand
of the reactionaries,' which permitted
a few to do what they ought not to dc
and preventing a majority from doing
what ought to be done.
"Louis D. Brandies of Boston told
the club the government ought to
furnish to small industrial, commer
cial and business men of the country
information which would enable
them to conduct their affairs with the
r?ittip scientific management employed
by the big business man or concern
with large capital. This, he asserted,
would be the final step in progressive
democracy."
REPUBLICAN PARTY NEEDS
PRINCIPLES
Mark Sullivan in Collier's Weekly:
The trouble with the republican
party as it exists now is that it has
no principles, and in the present state
of this' country it is not leaders nor
conventions that make parties; it is
principles. The republicans avow
frankly that they have no principles;
their position is that they hope for
hard times, and when hard times
come they expect to persuade the
country that the democratic party
was the cause. The turkey buzzard
is the appropriate symbol for a party
with such an attitude toward the na
tion. The republican position has
been, put into apt words by The
Buffalo Times:
Thpre is no party at the present
time which bases itself, as a party,
on negation of the administration's
policies. There are republican lead
ers who try to keep the ball rolling
by reiteration of outworn ideas, and
there are republican newspapers
which seem to think it a party obli
p"mt to Tfticise the administration,
simply because it is a democratic
administration. They are
cifrcJii"- to a formula. They either
don't realize, or don't care to see
that the people have walked
away from them and their methods.
TO STAKE OUT A RADIUM CLAIM
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Washington Star.
A TALKER IN ATHENS
Socrates called himself "The Gad
fly of the State." What made him
such an influence was tlat while he
stirred and challenged other minds
he was modest and just about his
own. It will be remembered that
when the oracle said he was the
wisest man, he could explain it only
on the ground that he knew the
limits of his own mind, and others
did not know even that much.
' "I am one of those who are very
willing 'to be refuted if I say any
thing which is not true, and very
willing to refute any one else who
says what is not true, and quite as
ready to be refuted as to refute; for
I hold that this is the greater gain
of the two, just as the gain is greater
of being cured of a very great evil
than of curing another." And again,
"If unintentionally I have said any
thing wrong, I pray that He will im
pose on me the just punishment of
him who errs; and the just punish
ment is that he should be set right."
Athens tired of him' at length and
gave him the hemlock, just as s"he
tired of hearing Aristides called "The
Just." She was .a volatile country,
but after all, she was full of genius,
and while she may have punished the
great at. times for their troublesome
ness, she did not reward the com
monplace, as. so many. other nations
have done and still do. Harper's
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