Frederick Howe
 Frederick Howe     | |
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| Born | November 21, 1867 |
| Died | August 3, 1940 (Age 72) |
| Nationality | US |
| Alma mater | • Miami University • Allegheny College • Johns Hopkins University |
| Spouse | d Marie H. Jenney |
Frederic Clemson Howe was an American lawyer, progressive reformer, author, member of the Ohio Senate, and Commissioner of Immigration of the Port of New York.[1] He was also founder and president of the League of Small and Subject Nationalities, a self-determinist organization formed during World War I.[2]
Education
He received a bachelor's degree from Allegheny College in 1889 and a Ph.D from Johns Hopkins University in 1892.[3]
Confessions of a Monopolist
His political novel Confessions of a Monopolist was published in 1906. For Howe, the main skills that a businessman must possess are not entrepreneurial skills, but they are, above all, political skills. The businessman must be able to manipulate the system and the political actors in order to take advantage of it. This implies that the main economic actors since the nineteenth century, like the Rockefellers, have not built their fortune by the economic system, but thanks to the political system. Howe also showed that politics, like law, are essential for the existence of monopolistic companies. When these businessmen and politicians are accused of anti-social behavior, they trot out slogan retorts of "socialism" and "anarchy" - even while they themselves are creating corporate socialism[4]
Career
In 1901, he was elected to Cleveland City Council, Ohio as a Republican. During his tenure, he became a key advisor to Tom L. Johnson, mayor of Cleveland at that time. He ran for reelection as an independent, but lost. In 1904, he married Marie Jenney. He studied law at Miami University in Ohio.
Howe was a member of the Ohio Senate from 1906 to 1908. In 1911, Howe became secretary of the National Progressive Republican League, which supported the presidential candidacy of Robert M. La Follette Sr.. In 1912, he published a laudatory report on La Follette's work in the state of Wisconsin in the publication Wisconsin: An Experiment in Democracy, which, however, did not prevent La Follette from failing in his candidacy, whereupon Howe, who liked neither Theodore Roosevelt nor William Howard Taft, supported Woodrow Wilson. In 1914, Wilson appointed him Commissioner of Immigration of the Port of New York on Ellis Island. In this position, Howe sought to improve the treatment of immigrants and their protection from exploitation.
In 1932 Howe joined with George Norris, Harold Ickes, Felix Frankfurter, Donald Richberg, Edward Costigan, Grace Abbott, Paul Kellogg, Amos Pinchot, and Peter Witt, to establish the National Progressive League. The main objective of the group was support the Democratic Party nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt for president. The organization disbanded following Roosevelt election victory.[5]
Rexford Tugwell claimed that Howe was "the subject of vitriolic attacks by the business interests" and was "pictured as a Red".[6] Chester R. Davis now decided to get rid of Howe. He later recalled: "Fred Howe was a man of high ideals and very practical sense. He was the 'turn the other cheek' type. He was a well-meaning man who permitted his organization to be loaded down with a group of people who were more concerned with stirring up discontent than they were with achieving the objectives of the act." [7]
On 27 July 1933, George N. Peek, head of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration appointed Howe as the head of the Consumers' Counsel.[8] Howe was associated with other left-wing members of the Roosevelt administration. When it was reorganized in 1935, Howe was removed to the post of special advisor to the Minister of Agriculture. In 193, he became an advisor to the Government of the Philippines on agricultural lease and cooperative issues. After returning to the United States, he became an expert consultant on agricultural commodities of the Temporary National Economic Committee, which Roosevelt had founded in 1938 to study the problem of monopolies.[9]
References
- ↑ Howe, Frederic C. The Confessions of a Reformer. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 1988.
- ↑ http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=HFC
- ↑ https://case.edu/ech/articles/h/howe-frederic-c
- ↑ https://www.falseflag.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Confessions-of-a-Monopolist-Frederic-C.-Howe.pdf
- ↑ https://spartacus-educational.com/Frederic_C_Howe.htm
- ↑ Rexford Tugwell, Roosevelt's Revolution (1977) page 355
- ↑ Chester R. Davis, Reminiscences (1953) page 313
- ↑ https://spartacus-educational.com/Frederic_C_Howe.htm
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20140408212109/http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-shgape&month=0112&week=c&msg=EqQkvsdH0iszCNHlXSjoYA&user=&pw=
