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...extremists who insisted on complete and immediate socialization, and who caused some disorders, especially in Turin, have received a heavy blow in the referendum by which the workmen voted nearly three to one to accept the compromise. The radical faction may be expected to continue to make trouble, but it will hereafter be recognized as a mere discontented minority which has no honest basis for its case. Three-quarters of the workmen involved want to make haste slowly. Mr. Turati, veteran leader of the moderate Socialist group in the Parliament, in an interview reported in yesterday's Evening Post, said...
President Wilson's telegram declaring it imperative that the Democratic party stand as the uncompromising supporter of the Versailles Treaty without 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...
...referendum vote were taken to the students, I for one, would vote for this extra-curriculum machinery of extensive and intensive culture as an excellent educational plan but if an initiative, the most modern of all modern governmental devices, were granted, I would move at the same time for such a perfection of the system as is needed for its operation in full force and effect...
...Constitution will reveal the fact that it makes provision for many revolutionary changes. It provides for the direct election of the nation's chief executive. It establishes ministerial responsibility. And it embodies many things which have been much discussed in the United States; for example, the initiative and referendum, the recall, woman suffrage, proportionate representation, single tax, public ownership of railroads...
...National referendum is a clumsy, expensive thing, but it is not half as clumsy as a Senate which seems to have been talking treaty even since the world began, which will apparently stop only under the cloture power of death, perhaps only under the cloture power of the millenium. Give us Peace--Oh! Senators: Pace with Germany, Peace with Austria, Peace with the world, and, best of all, Oh! Senators the sweet peace of silence in the halls of Washington...