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a sane world, her children would still be alive and she be free to enjoy her love and motherhood, as her right and glory. But ours is a mad world, and it is its perverted morality, its sleek righteousness, its oily puritanism which stand condemned, and not Ida Sniffen Rogers.
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THERE appears in our city a weekly publication, "The New Republic," which should be read by all advanced people. Although most of its editors have graduated from the stuffy atmosphere of parlor Socialism and the exaggerated importance of social settlement work, they are worth reading for they can at least write, which is more than can be said of the bulk of newspaper editors. Also they have unearthed from the ruins a fresh and breezy tone of the American plains, a tone sadly needed in American journalism. That they should be guilty of such a commonplace as this, I quote this from "The New Republic:
"From Bakunin to the McNamaras and Alexander Berkman, the terrorist has been more of a nuisance to the labor movement than to the social order which in his fatuous feebleness he hoped to replace."
is, of course, lamentable. We have a right to expect from the sponsors of a new republic that they should know that the Bakunins, McNamaras, or the Berkmans are in fact the only force that has made history. However, we welcome "The New Republic." May it increase in wider knowledge and truer understanding of those who have cried in the wilderness of American ideas, long before these striplings were even conceived.
THE FUTILITY OF INVESTIGATIONS
BY STELLA COMYN
FOR the past two weeks the Federal Commission on Industrial Relations have been in session at City Hall. Capitalist, philanthropist, educator, labor leader have followed one another on the stand; all conscious that the searchlight of public opinion was on them -- all testifying, not to what they really believe, but to conciliate that powerful force. With every newspaper
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