Review of reviews and world's work . t. They had alsostopped the payment of considerable sums toabsent or discharged officials. They had advocated home rule; streetcomfort stations; municipal hospitals,markets, storage houses and abattoir; a pub-lic lodging-house; j-cent fares; a redistrictingof the city; free text-books and pennylunches for underfed children, as well asproperly built, lighted, warmed, and cleanedschool-buildings. They had rendered abor-tive the efforts of a certain book concern tohave the school board made appointive, andhad assured Milwaukee the right to electits own board.
Review of reviews and world's work . t. They had alsostopped the payment of considerable sums toabsent or discharged officials. They had advocated home rule; streetcomfort stations; municipal hospitals,markets, storage houses and abattoir; a pub-lic lodging-house; j-cent fares; a redistrictingof the city; free text-books and pennylunches for underfed children, as well asproperly built, lighted, warmed, and cleanedschool-buildings. They had rendered abor-tive the efforts of a certain book concern tohave the school board made appointive, andhad assured Milwaukee the right to electits own board. They had been campaigningagainst tuberculosis, food-adulteration, andthe contract system, explaining the high costof living as a result of private monopoly, andadvocating municipal model tenements, freelegal advice for the poor, and social centersto replace the saloon. Ever since 1908 the Social-DemocraticAldermen have been closely watched by thecitizens. Even the capitalist press admittedtheir worth—and a strong press it is, with. nine dailies, naturally a unit in anti-Socialistpolicy. Perhaps one of the most tellingblows -truck by the Social-Democrat- hasbeen their minimizing of expenses to thecounty for grand juries, attorneys fee-, andcourt charge-. This saving, due to their waron graft, ha- been very great. Such an econ-omizing of cash, amply proi metimesaffect- a community more favorably than anypurely moral issue. All these and many other acts have beenfor some time stored in the public memory ofMilwaukee; they all helped spell su« •The voter- of the city had really witniSocialists at work. So. too. had the citizensof the entire State, for Social-Democraticmembers of the legislature had in the mean-time been active, and the people as a wholehad approved their labors. WHAT HAS BEEN, WHAT IS BEIACCOMPLISHED? Here, now, comes the really vital we envisage the practical answer. \program may be, on paper, all that Plato,More, or Bellamy could dream, yet in p
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