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...California legislation, like the "grandfather clauses" of some Southern States, may be in conflict with the spirit and letter of some fundamental clauses of the Constitution, but they deal with emergencies which that document was not designed to meet specifically, but only generally and abstractly. They are attempts at a peaceful settlement of pressing racial problems. And the Californians, far from being "scare-mongers," have done their proper part towards forcing the nation to settle a question of whose gravity few people outside of California are aware. The Californians are distinctly on the side of peace. RALPH M. EATON, Instr...
...Boston the Legal Aid Society found that during the seventeen months ending August 31, 1917, the fees required by the state caused a total failure of justice for twenty-three percent of the persons who needed the aid of the courts. Last fall the Carnegie foundation issued a document called "Justice and the Poor" which shows how easy it is for a man to become an anarchist whom the New York Municipal Court has refused to aid in collecting a $6.60 bill because he did not possess the necessary ten dollar fee; or again, how brief is the passage...
...Joslyn's platform is a well-built and well-reasoned document, embracing nearly a score of the outstanding questions of the day. His Republican convictions are set forth with incisive moderation, which lends emphasis to every statement. He deals expeditiously with the various international and socialistic delusions; sets forth a peace program as clear as it is decisive; makes a quick analysis of the league of nations and puts well defined limits to its powers. The greater part of his platform is, however, devoted to domestic problems, beginning with the high cost of living and following its economic and sociological...
...reservations, shows that he fails to understand the present attitude of the American people. Nine months ago a referendum would undoubtedly have showed a majority in favor of passing the Treaty intact. But the Republicans chose to use their majority in the Senate to play partisan politics with the document of Versailles until it has become an issue between a treaty with some reservations or no treaty. And the majority of Americans support the former choice...
...desires that the treaty be adopted intact, but that seems impossible. At the Peace Conference he wisely compromised on several points, following the doctrine, as he styled it, of "intelligent expediency." It was a calamity that the Senate should have played politics and refused unqualified ratification of the document that promised to mean so much to the world. But it will be worse than a calamity if the treaty is refused entirely. Unless a League of Nations to minimize the possibility of future conflicts is created, the war will have been fought in vain. The treaty with reservations is certainly...