Clarence Darrow Quotes
Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
Darrow, Clarence. The Story of My Life. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932.
The king had his first meeting with the new Prime Minister:
This was a great victory for the Victor Berger wing of the party. They purged the violence advocates and communists from the party. Despite this, a few right wingers call any socialist a communist and a revolutionary.
Roosevelt shocked the conservative members of his own party with this statement. Labor unions were not then an accepted concept in American society. Anti trust legislation and enforcement was in its infancy and companies in an industry commonly conspired as to price fixing, labor negotiations and market share allocations. TR had a scrupulous sense of fairness and equity.
This was the first use of the word “socialism”.
The Income tax had been ruled Constitutional by the Supreme Court in 1881, but the then “new” Court—the one that would render the Plessy v. Furgeson decision—was a more conservative one. By a 5-4 partisan decision, the Supreme Court reversed itself and killed the income tax until a Constitutional amendment could be passed 19 years later in 1913.
Most Americans looked at anarchists as communists. They generally were not, and opposed state communism as much as state capitalism. In many ways they distrusted government the way some modern libertarians do.
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston. He favored and argued for a middle ground of a capitalistic socialism or a socialized capitalism, which is what most democracies became.
Although very authoritarian in his governing style, the substance of the Constitution that and basic laws that he imposed on post war Japan were extremely left wing. Japan eschewed having a military, required total equality of women for the first time in Japanese history. The Civil Service was given great power and authority over business, there was a complete social safety net. MacArthur would not take kindly to this characterization as he thought of himself as a lifelong conservative and was the darling of the American right wing extremists. He took the American Constitution literally and was determined to turn ultra-militaristic Japan into a democracy. He did in one of the most dramatic cultural and governmental changes in history.
Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer who became famous in the early 20th century for his involvement in the Leopold and Loeb murder trial and the Scopes "Monkey" Trial. He was a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform.
