Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...York where it was my duty to expose scandal. Scandal being exposed, the city was aroused to investigation. Theodore Roosevelt was appointed police commissioner. He tried to compel the police to enforce all laws equally. Trouble arose at once. Leading citizens of New York came with protests and the reform movement was checked...
...city might share in the spoils. Much the same conditions were found in Pittsburg, Philadelphia and Chicago. Opposition was the same in all cases. Opposition came from the slums. It came from the top of the city. It also came from the state government, back of the city. All reforms were practically stopped by this opposition. Then, I mean about ten years ago, we were all talking about municipal reform. We thought the state governments and the national governments were all right. I dropped the cities and took up the state. I went back to St. Louis because Folk could...
...Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Ohio,--they were all alike. There was a reform movement in Wisconsin in which LaFollette, its leader, was opposed both by the city and by the United States government. Against him in the control of his party was the federal machine made by appointments of the United States...
After the lecture, all members of the University interested in Socialism or social reform are invited to a organization meeting in Thayer...
...evils of a long established custom are too apt to be overlooked and the advantages of a proposed remedy to be dismissed as theoretical and unpractical. Although this natural conservative tendency is the reason for inactivity in reform, it is certainly no justification for the undue continuance of a "laissez-faire" policy. The present tutoring system is not satisfactory, and various expedients, among which that outlined above would probably bring the best results, are possible. Under the circumstances, some remedial action on the part of the authorities should be undertaken...