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The First Year and a Look Ahead What the National Popular Government League Did in 1914; What Should Be Done in 1915
Judson King
Paperback. Forgotten Books 2015-09-27.
ISBN 9781331144793
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Excerpt from The First Year and a Look Ahead What the National Popular Government League Did in 1914; What Should Be Done in 1915: Report to the Second National Conference on Popular Government at the Willard Hotel, Washington, D. C., January 4th and 5th, 1915 The causes which led to the formation of the National Popular Government League may be briefly stated. Organized effort to secure the Initiative, Referendum and Recall had been going on for some twenty years. Many state leagues had been started, several of which were dead or inactive. Two national organizations had successively ceased to exist. Some twelve state leagues were in existence in varied stages of vigor and efficiency. Nearly all farm and labor organizations were in favor of these principles; some were doing things, others not. But the movement at the time the National Popular Government League was formed was entirely sporadic, localized, and without co-ordination. First: There was no national "Clearing House of Information" whose business it was to collect and distribute accurate data concerning the status and practical workings of popular government measures, thus enabling the workers in every state and city to take advantage of the failures and successes of every other state and city. Second: There was no central bureau of recognised authority to which a legislator, or a person drafting a measure, could apply for the most effective and approved forms of amendments and laws embodying these principles. Third: The special interests and the reactionary press were conducting a subtle, powerful nation-wide campaign of misrepresentation upon these measures. Their lobbyists and tricky politicians were at work at every state legislature and charter commission where these measures were pending. Result. "Jokers" which rendered the Initiative, Referendum and Recall defective or worthless in one-half of the states and one-half of the cities which had them. Fourth: There was no national organization to which local leagues could apply for apt literature, able speakers, expert counsel, or effective help in conducting their struggles. Many campaigns have been lost for the lack of such aid, to say nothing of thousands of dollars wasted in amateurish, misguided effort. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
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