James E. Homans, editor

“ Brandeis almost a form of recreation. From the time that he first came into prominence in Boston there has hardly been a year or a month in which he has not been connected with some public movement. Indeed, during the past twenty years, leadership in one matter of public concern or another has been absolutely continuous. This has given him a versatility which constitutes, in a considerable measure, his power. It has led him, without tiring, through a multitude of subjects, to any one of which many an able man would devote his whole lifetime. ”

“ One of the solutions he proposed in these articles was that the American consumers should follow the example of the Europeans, especially of the British, in establishing in this country the Rochdale system of co-operation, wherein the consumers, organized through their local co-operative societies, federate and own and operate their own industries, within the limits of food supply at least, a sort of voluntary socialism which has met with a tremendous measure of success in all European countries, and which has made astonishing strides during the past few years. ”

“ Brandeis' public activities for the past twenty years and which he has been the first to expound in this country, or at least the first to make it heard. And this theory is that in every adjustment of interests between the various groups of capital, the ultimate consumer is directly involved, be it between the shippers and the railroads, or between manufacturers and merchants. ”