The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-01
Monday, June 1, 1908.
POLITICAL BI-PRoDUCTs.

There are the usual signs this year that those who are disappointed with the conduct of the two older political organizations intend again to enter the field of agitation in an independent manner. They are. too, on the whole good signs. for they vindicate the judgment of the founders. who held that whenever the free institution, as we have 1t In this country, fails to work to the satisfaction of all, there will not be lacking those who will agl- tate for an improvement in the condi- tions. They will not necessarily sue ceed in their undertakings along the line laid out by them but they will stimulate the apprehension of the old CT parties. and ultimately compel them to hew straighter to the line of exem- plary conduct. A little scolding Is a good thing for the regular organiza- tions. which through over-indulgence too often overlook the fact that the power they enjoy is delegated power.
 The story has been told in the news columns of The Journal-Courier how the members of organized labor in this city are to begin to agitate for a representative upon the board of edu- cation. There is no reason In the world why such an agitation should net be carried on. The schools are filled with the children of men who are affiliated with organized labor and 1t
 is right. both in theory and morals. that their parents should have on the board a representative, In order that they may be convinced that ev- erything is being done that can be done to insure their educational well fade It is just as proper, too, that organized labor should be represented on the board as that the two political parties should be. Unless the broad principle is laid down that members of the board of education must be se- lected for their intellectual fitness for the post, and without regard to their social and political connections, the recognition of one organization war rants a demand for like recognition of another organization. The enforce ment of the demand must, however, remain in the hands of the responsible appointing power. But the mere fact that organized labor has concluded to agitate for membership on the board of education shows to what an agreeable extent the working people of New Ha- ven are interested in the management of the schools. Organized labor may not land representative on the board at the first throw. but the immediate result of It's interest in the subject will be to stimulate the service now being given by the school commissioners, who once in while act as if the pow CT they exercise Instead of being del- egated is regarded as personal power.
 The Socialist party has already met in convention and nominated it's State ticket, thus reaping whatever advant- age there Is in being in the field first. We are particularly interested in the resolutions so far as they relate to all
 legged weaknesses in the political or ganization Of Connecticut. Of course 1t is a part of the faith of socialism to attribute whatever is wrong to the efforts of the capitalietic class to fur ther strengthen the chain with which they hold the laboring class in leash. Whether this conclusion applies as generally as the socialists believe Is not really of much consequence, but 1t is wholly to the credit of the party of socialism that 1t denounces bi-en- niel sessions of the General Assembly as tending to remove the people farther away from the control of their own ln- stitutions. The agitation for biennial sessions was not of popular origin, nor have the consequences of 1t been good for the public at large Pleasure is to be found in the attitude of the sooial- fists towards government by commis. sion instead of by popular agencies. A like contentment of mind overtakes us when we note the protest offered the kind of local government doped out by the general assembly. We are not convinced that a demand for a larger liberty in the control of home affairs rests on a basis of socialism, but 1t is right and it ought to be needed iron
 whatever source it comes, In denounc
 ing the attempt to have a direct urinary law enacteds we are a bi