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AUGUST, 19X3.
31
Books Received
The Country Church. The decline
of its influence and the remedy. By
Charles Otis Gill and Gifford Pinchot.
Published under the authority of the
federal council of the churches of
Christ in America. The Macmiilan
Co., New York. Price, $1.25, net.
Bob Taylor Books. Lectures and
best literary productions. His life
and career. Silk cloth binding, ?4.00,
the set. Half morocco, $5.00. Full
morocco, $10.00. Bob Taylor Pub
lishing Co., Nashville, Tenn.
The Wisdom of Bernard Shaw.
Being passages from tho works of
Bernard Shaw, chosen by Charlotte
F. Shaw. Brentano's, New York.
The Britannic Question. Deals
with imperial questions of today.
Richard Longmans, Green & Co.,
Fourth Ave. & 30th Sts., N. Y. City.
How to Help. A manual of prac
tical charity. By Mary Conyngton.
The Macmiilan Co., New York. Price,
50 cents, net.
American Syndicalism. The I. W.
W. By John Graham Brooks. The
Macmiilan Co., 66 Fifth Ave., New
York, publishers. Price, $1.50, net.
The Larger Aspects of Socialism.
By William English Walling. The
Macmiilan Co., New York. Price,
$1.50, net.
The Life of Thaddeus Stevens. A
study in American political history,
especially in the period of the civil
war and reconstruction. By James
Albert Woodburn, Ph. D., L. L. D.
The Bobbs-Merrill Co., publishers,
Indianapolis, Ind. Price, $2.50, net.
The Education of Tomorrow. The
adaptation of" School Curricula to
an Economic Democracy. By Ar
land D. Weeks, M. A., professor of
education North Dakota agricultural
college. With an introduction by
M. V. O'Shea, professor of education,
university of Wisconsin. Sturgis &
Walton Co., 31-33 East 27th St.,
New York. Price, cloth, $1.25, net.
New Worlds for Old. By H. G.
Wells. The Macmiilan.. Co., New
York. Price, 50 cents, net.
The Girl's Fight for a Living.
How to protect working women from
dangers due to low wages. By
Thomas H. Russell, A. M., L. L. D.,
associate of the American Academy
of political -and social science. An
impartial survey of present condi
tions, results of recent investigations
and remedies proposed. With state
ments by Hon. Barratt O'Hara, lieu
tenant governor of Illinois; Hon.
Edmond Beall, employers and gover
nors of many states. M. A. Donohue
& Co., publishers, Chicago, 111. Price,
paper cover, 25c; cloth, $1.00, post
paid. Work and Life. A study of the
social problems of today. By Ira W.
Howerth, .A. M., Ph. D.f professor of
sociology, University of California.
Price, cloth, $1.50, net.
The Road of Living Men. A novel.
By Will Levington Comfort. J. B.
Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, Pa.
Price, $1.25, net.
Scorpio (Sonnets), by J. A. Chal
oner. Palmetto Press, Ronoake
Rapids, N. C. Price, $1.50, net
Postpaid. The Business of Pawnbroking. A
guide and a defense. By Samuel
W. Levine of the New York bar. D
Halpern Co., 10 Cooper Square, New
York. Price, $3.00, net, postpaid,
$3.20.
Immortality Established Through
Science. By John O. Yeiser, Omaha,
Neb. Published by National Maga
zine Association, Omaha, Neb. Price,
$1.00, postpaid.
Immigration. A world movement
and its American significance. By
Henry Pratt F&ircfiild. The Mac-
mfllan Co., New York. Price,
$1.75, net.
Between Eras. From capitalism
to democracy. By Albion W. Small.
A cycle of conversations and dis
courses with occasional side-lights
upon the speakers. Intercollegiate
Press, Kansas City, Mo.
The Church and the Labor Con
flict. By Parley Paul Womer. The
Macmiilan Co., 66 Fifth Ave., New
York. Price, $1.50, net.
THERE WILL BE NO AVI1ITE
WASI1 FOR THE LOBIJY
Nothing has so stirred tho coun
try in recent years as tho develop
ments in the lobby investigation are
now doing.
The Washington lobby of tho Na
tional Manufacturers' association
has placed itself in the limelight, and
each day we are given something
fresh and interesting in tho way of
its lobby operations to contemplate.
When President Wilson charged
that there was an "insidious" lobby
at work to compass tho defeat of tho
tariff bill, saying that such a lobby
was spending a large amount of
money in the way of questionable
advertising to influence public
opinion, ho was severely criticised
by tho protected interests and their
sympathizers, and for a timo it
looked as though the president in
his zeal to serve the public had gone
too far. Many of his friends who
havo a way of shunning all antagon
ism, expressed the fear that he could
not sustain his charges, but Presi
dent Wilson, it has been shown by
developments, was more than con
servative in what ho said, as the
proof to back him up is being rapidly
presented. Day after day more evi
dence comes to light. Day after day
it becomes plainer that tho presi
dent knew of the appalling state of
affairs that made it possible for a
regularly organized lobby to be
maintained at Washington to in
fluence legislation in tho federal
congress, to tako part in the elec
tion of congressmen and senators
favorable to the protected interests
and to defeat those candidates who
could not be won to the favor of the
lobby and its clients.
Tho revelation in Mulhall's story
that the lobby pursued Samuel
Gompers, president of tho American
Federation of Labor, and absolutely
failed to corrupt him, is a startling
and interesting feature of the drama
that is now being enacted. Gompers
was hounded by these sleuths of cor
rupt greed, who attempted to either
buy or bully him away from his
advocacy of labor legislation.
It is creditable to Mr. Gompers
that he withstood the influences of
that crowd, but he is a strong man
and his heart is in his work. They
might havo known that they could
not take over to their servico such
a man as Gompers.
While all the things that Mulhall
has said to discredit and reflect od
certain public men may not be
liteTally true, it transpires that
what he has said of 'credit to cer
tain men has been verified by them.
Speaker Clark has sustained Mul
hall's statement as to him, and
Gompers has likewise backed him
up.
Probably the labor leader may be
able to point out instances where
the lobby has pursued him. Wo do
not know who it was that attacked
him in California, but it was evi
dently an attack when the attempt
was made to convince the public
that Gompers had trampled the
American flag, when in fact he had
only mounted a table which had been
decorated with bunting in prder that
he might better be seen and heard
by tho peoplo he had been asked to
address. He had not trampled the
flair under, foot. He had not of
fended, but if those who were pur-1
suing him could mako it nnncnr that
ho had dono so, they would havo
iRKon a long stop toward his des
truction. This ie what thjy wantod
to do they wanted to either huv
him or destroy him.
According to Mulhall that lobby
didn't hunt for little game, for along
its trail we soo nothing but tho pros
trate forma of tho mighty. TIioho
that were caught in the lair of this
lobby are distinguished and power
ful American citizens. Thoso that
repelled the approaches and escaped
are greater and more powerful.
Champ Clark doflod and defeated
tho lobby, and he is greater and
better for it.
Samuel Gompers, who was the
faithful representative of organized
labor, we are told, was pursued for
months by the representatives of tho
National Association of Manufactur
ers, who w.ere attempting to exorcise
an improper influence over him, as
they had dono in tho case of men of
political rank in Washington, but
they were utterly unsuccessful in
persuading him to "sell out" tho
cause of organized labor.
The American peoplo will not bo
content with anything like a white
wash for this lobby or the men who
havo fallen under its influence, and
the whole story of an organized plan
t5 promote national legislation for
the benefit of a greedy sot of in
vestors should bo truthfully told In
a searching investigation. Nashville
Tennesseean.
liance upon the captain on the bridge,
and tho man behind the gun, tho pwb
lic is wiser than many of the techni
cal exports. As hoad of the navy de
partment, Secretary Daniels Is carry
ing on a rcmnrkahlo campaign fr
naval clllcloncy. His recognition of
tho personnel of tho naval sorvlco,
as one of tlio most important de
ments of efficiency, iu a notablo ex
amine of soundness of judgment.
Buffalo (N. Y.) Times.
LEARNING TO IX) VB
"She says she thinks sho could
learn to lovo mo."
"Yet you do not look happy."
"It is going to be expensive. Had
her to the theater last night, with a
little supper afterward. Tho flirst
lesson cost mo $25." Kansas City
Journal.
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SECRETARY DANIELS' SPEECH
AT ERIE
"The man is greater than the
ship-," said the secretary of the navy
at Erie. Amplifying the Idea, Secre
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this day of mechanism, there is dan
ger of undervaluation of 'readiness,
aptitude and personal Initiative.
That is true. In its instinctive re-
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