The Survey, Volume 30, Number 4, Apr 26, 1913Various
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The Survey, Volume 30, Number 4, Apr 26, 1913
Various
Charities -- Periodicals; Social problems -- Periodicals; United States -- Social conditions -- Periodicals
Measures for better primaries and corrupt practices acts had been
introduced several times while he was still president of Princeton
University. The Employers’ Liability Act was recommended by a commission
named by his predecessor, Governor Fort. The Consumer’s League and
Federation of Women’s Clubs had been working for a long time to improve
laws relating to the hours and condition of women and children in
industry. At the same time, no one who has been in touch with the
marvelous change which has brought New Jersey to the first rank of
progressive states can fail to realize that in practically one session
of the Legislature the astounding insight, force and influence of one
man achieved what might otherwise have taken years to accomplish. It
must be remembered that almost all the important Wilson legislation was
passed by the Legislature of 1911, when the House was Democratic. The
Senate, although Republican, was brought into line by the governor. The
session of 1912, when both Houses were Republican, produced little
important legislation, and the Legislature of this year up to the time
when President Wilson resigned to assume his duties at Washington passed
but one important measure—that regulating the trusts incorporated in New
Jersey. The jury reform bill is still under discussion and will be the
subject of a special session of the Legislature in May.
I shall attempt to give a list of the laws primarily relating to social
legislation, but the great reforms which will always be associated with
Wilson’s name, although specifically political in their nature, must
have a vast influence on the whole structure of the state. If our
politics become cleaner, inefficiency and graft must gradually disappear
and the citizens will grow to feel that they can trust their
representatives with larger and larger sums to be used for the relief
and care of the wards of the state.
Among these laws perhaps the most important are the following:
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