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...because of seditious acts nor because of traitorous conduct during the war, but on the sole ground of membership in the Socialist party five lawfully elected men have been debarred from office. As Colonel Theodore Roosevelt so ably pointed out in his maiden speech at Albany yesterday the position of the majority of the Assembly is absolutely untenable. If those men deserve expulsion, just because they are Socialists, then every Socialist in every office throughout the land should be expelled, and every Socialist should be disenfranchised...
...consistently translated his ideals into action, not-into words. His broad sympathies are tempered by hard common sense, and he is also the possessor of a sense of humor, which (one may safely believe) will keep him from regarding himself as the repository of all wisdom, or the sole spokesman of his one hundred million fellow-citizens. He seems so far never to have lost his head, with abundant opportunity to do so. He has showed the ability to carry out vast measures of relief abroad with the utmost economy of means, and he has executed drastic measured of repression...
What a pity! Such a fine system is debarred, through no fault of its own, from playing the full role which it is destined to play. The limitations are not inherent but exterior to it. The intrinsic value of the system is then, in no wise diminished. The sole trouble with this superimposed tutorial system is that there is no room made for it to stand on. It depends for its execution on the spasmodic efforts of the individual and on the mercy of the overwhelming regular work. Its co-existence with the undiminished ordinary study renders its very existence...
...best executive minds obtainable should be set up to direct and link the work of each into a unified whole. In this manner attention would be centered on the work at hand. A method of suggested legislative reform which seems plausible consists in the establishment of a committee whose sole duty would be the drafting of bills in such form that time may not be lost on the floor of the House in quibbling over details of phraseology and legality. Coordination of effort and legislative progress would be the result of these changes...
America is sick of the eternal wrangling and jockeying for position that seems to be the sole occupation of the Senate! Ever since President Wilson returned last July with the peace treaty, the overwhelming sentiment of the nation has been for ratification in one form or another,--few have cared much what. Admittedly the document is imperfect, but nevertheless nine-tenths of the forms of American expression--the press, the pulpit, the colleges, the chambers of commerce, the leading public men, straw votes--for nine months have urged ratification...