Re: [PEN-L] Battleground: NW Ohio

[Joel Blau]

Also, social welfare measures on the state level such as workmen's comp and mothers' pensions (the precedessor of AFDC) + the city manager system to reduce corruption/end control of ethnic urban political machines + direct election of the senate (previously done by state legislatures) + the progressive income tax+ plus a variety of antitrust measures (Sherman Anti Trust Act--1890, Clayton Act barring interlocking directorates -1902). Much of this was done to eliminate the most egregious features of early 20th century capitalism and make it a smaller target for the left--hence Theodore Roosevelt's criticism of the `greed and purblind folly of the rich'

Joel Blau

Michael Hoover wrote:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/19/2004 6:34:43 PM >>>

fwiw: michael perelman mentioned that early 20th progressives were
often republicans...call them 'structural' as opposed to 'social'
reformers, they had faith in ultimate rightness and efficacy of
capitalist system (many of them had benefitted from it)...they did,
however, have fears of working class political power so they supported
some state intervention and electoral changes to advance their
conception of desirable public policy...   michael hoover

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