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Monarch Butterfly
Monarch Butterfly
From a worm a lofty flower
Monarch Butterfly
Monarch Butterfly Monarch Butterfly (Spring 2003)
First Real CommunismRiot after riot. Class resentment & state-sponsored violent civil unrest. Educated elite agitate, implement anti-capitalist policies, start teaching propaganda. Employees could take over a company if they allege the company is poorly run. Shortly afterwards the state must take over the failed businesses. Economic collapse & starvation. City officials would divide some groups to fight among themselves. They would combine other groups, like legitimate & illegitimate children, married & unmarried. Feminism & industrial scale abortion were born. Paris attacked Germany as the rural, conservative French countryside watched with horror. Otto Von Bismarck, worried about his own German population, occupied & pacified Paris in a military battle. Then the Germans left when Paris paid a large ransom or reparation for bombarding western Germany. The national French Army, many soldiers brutalized & comrades killed by the communists, installed the Third Republic of France. Bismarck would later regret not destroying Paris utterly, like excising a cancerous tumor, as Paris intellectuals fled to other countries & started to agitate. Communists killed over 80 million people in the 20th century. YouTube video is not available because the uploader has deleted their account. |
"First Battle" of Civil WarChief Black Hawk refuses to recognize the treaty of 1804, that gave all land east of the Mississippi to the USA, because Jumping Fish & other chiefs were DRUNK. And they were not the legitimate leaders to negotiate. Upon advice of White Cloud, the prophet in touch with the Great Spirit, chief Black Hawk attacks into Illinois April 1832 with 200 braves. Future President Lincoln would remember. "I fought, bled and came away...I had a good many bloody struggles with the mosquitoes. And although I never fainted from loss of blood, I can truly say I was very often hungry. He made gallant charges on wild onion beds." Finally crushed at the Battle of Bad Axe River in Wisconsin August 2, 1832, Black Hawk & White Cloud are escorted to Saint Louis by a US Army lieutenant, the future Confederate President Jefferson Davis. The Indians arrive as celebrity war hostages in D.C. April 22, 1833 & meet 3 days later with the Great Father Andrew Jackson. They are imprisoned guests at Fort Monroe May 1 to June 4. Robert E. Lee was stationed at Fort Monroe where his first son was born. Many others related to this story read like a "who's who" of the Civil War. Black Hawk & White Cloud, promising to keep the peace, are released for an East Coast whirlwind tour. On June 6 Black Hawk & President Jackson watch the same show in the same theater in Baltimore. In New York they see a hot air balloon at high altitude, closer to the Great Spirit. Black Hawk dictates his memoirs published later in 1833. He passes away Oct. 3, 1838 in Iowa with his family. (FORT MONROE MUSEUM)
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Pittsburgh, PA Pittsburgh has a Mayor-Council government. Elected At-Large mayor & 9 councilors elected each by precinct. But in 1911 the City Manager system briefly took over & was fought back (Baltimore Sun July 20, 1911). The article counted 30 new City Manager city councils since the first was Galveston "necessitated" by the Great Hurricane of 1900. The new system has only one At-Large district, multiplies the mayors as commissioners, calls them "city councilors", who appoint a City Manager as the real mayor executive. That's democracy. The old system is republic, has subdistricts where voting minorities have representation. Wikipedia says nice things about Pittsburgh, which still has the old system which made the cities great. (Baltimore Sun July 20, 1911) [...] In comparison with the slow movement of direct election of Senators, of Government supervision of railways, the parcels post and other reforms; the commission plan is making rapid progress. Necessity forced its adoption upon Galveston, but its own merits have led to its adoption by one city after another that was weary of extravagance, graft and inefficiency. James Bryce and other economists familiar with conditions in this country agree that one department government in which Americans have failed most signally is municipal administration. Petty politics growing out of the ward system and the irresponsible membership in large city councils have given scheming politicians an opportunity they have been quick to grasp, and in nearly every large city the “boss” has ruled for the benefit of himself, his “friends’’and followers and at the expense of the great mass of taxpayers. Extravagance, graft, unwarranted franchises and grants of various kinds, excessive taxation and poor public service have resulted, in all too many instances. Municipal reform is recognized as a necessity, and the commission plan appeals to many communities as the simplest "method of accomplishing results." One municipality after another has adopted it— first the smaller towns, then large cities like Birmingham and Memphis. More than 30 have adopted the commission plan since the beginning of the present year, and Atlanta and others of large population, are now considering it. The passage of the law allowing New Jersey cities to abolish the old Mayor and Council and institute a commission, if a majority of the voters so determine, was a decided step forward. This was followed by the victory of the commission plan in Trenton. The close vote in Jersey City indicates that the leaven is working, and if the new plan proves a success in Trenton, we may expect to see other Jersey cities falling in line. Whether this is the ideal system for the larger cities remains to be determined, but its workings are well worth observing. Politicians, even of the "machine’’ variety, make a mistake in opposing Just reforms that are demanded by the people. Exercising foresight, they might strengthen themselves by accepting the inevitable instead of Inviting annihilation by stubbornly opposing any change in systems or methods that are doomed. Municipal reform Is certain to come, it is only a matter of time, and those who aspire to continued leadership will be unwise if they fail to recognize the trend of events. |
GOVERNED BY COMMISSION
GOVERNED BY COMMISSION Over 30 cities have adopted the commission plan of government since the first of the year [1911], and the movement Is growing In momentum. Alabama is among the States invaded by the new system since January 1 [to July 20], and now Georgia is feeling the full tide of the movement. Atlanta, Macon, Augusta and Columbus are investigating the subject, and there seems little doubt that the coming session of the Georgia Legislature will witness the introduction and passage of a bill opening the way for these cities to make the change. However, the sweep of the movement is by no means limited to the South, as will be gleaned from the following list of cities which have adopted the model system:
(Baltimore Sun July 20, 1911)
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