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Bookdealers, Postmasters, and Newsdealers receive subscriptions. (Subscriptions to the English REVIEW OF REVIEWS, which is edited and published by Mr. W. T. Stead in London, may be sent to this office, and orders for single copies can also be filled, at the price of $2.50 for the yearly subscription, including postage, or 25 cents for single copies.) THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO., 13 Astor Place, New York City. (From a photograph taken at Lincoln, Neb., on July 10, especially for the New York Herald, and here reproduced by that paper's courtesy). VOL. XXII. Review of Reviews. NEW YORK, AUGUST, 1900. No. 2. THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. The Democrats During July, bar silver was quoted and Their in London at about 28 pence per Fighting Ground. ounce. Mexican silver dollars, which contain a little more silver than our standard American dollar, were worth in New York about 48 cents apiece. The Democratic party, meeting in national convention at Kansas City early last month, gave its real and thorough attention to only one question-namely, the attitude the party should assume in the present electoral campaign on the question of the monetary status of silver. It was not by any accident or intrigue, but with eyes wide open and with deliberation far beyond that which conventions usually give to any part of their declarations of belief and intention, that the Democratic party at Kansas City explicitly demanded the immediate restoration of the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the aid and consent of any other nation." The Kansas City platform is, as a whole, an exceedingly spirited and well-written document. Considered merely as an exercise in rhetoric, it is far superior to the Republican platform-so much so, indeed, that no one could well fail to note the contrast. But the country is not engaged in a mere debating contest; and for that reason oratory and rhetoric, which, in point of fact, never play the principal part in our political struggles, will have even less to do this year than usual with the conduct and the result of the campaign. other part of this interesting Kansas City platform discusses what it calls the burning issue of imperialism growing out of the Spanish War." To its indictment of imperialism there was finally added, by the platform committee, the following sentence: "We regard it [imperialism] as the paramount issue of the campaign." THE CONVENTION HALL AT KANSAS CITY. As to Issues." An The Social Democrats of Germany, "Paramount who are growing steadily in party strength, hold certain views of an interesting and thoughtful nature regarding com. pulsory military service, protective tariffs, colonial policies, naval expenditure, and numerous other subjects. It is understood, however, that their most distinctive tenet relates to the subject of private property-pointing to a policy that would amount to something like the confiscation of all capital. If, therefore, the Social Democrats of Germany were entering upon a campaign which promised to bring them into full authority, let us suppose that in their platform of principles they should declare that they were opposed to the present colonial and imperial policy of the German Emperor, and regarded (Burned on April 4, and rebuilt, practically fire-proof, in time for the Convention which met July 4.) DEMOCRATIC LEADERS DISCUSSING THE 16 TO 1 DECLARATION IN COATES HOUSE CORRIDOR, KANSAS CITY. it as the paramount issue. It is clear enough to us, looking on from the outside, that their designating such an issue as paramount would not necessarily make it so in the actual contest. Their oppo. nents, with one accord, would say that the prospect of a confiscation party getting into power was the real issue; and all other parties would be called upon to forget their differences of opinion about militarism, naval expansion, and landgrabbing in Asia and Africa, in the face of the menace of revolutionary socialism. Let us sup pose, again, that in England the Liberal party, in anticipation of the general elections that are to be held in the near future, should declare itself in favor of the immediate abolition of the House of Lords, the immediate disestablishment of the Church of England, and the wiping out of all vestiges of the old system of caste and privilege that still dominates English life and society together with the abolition of the monarchy, to take effect upon the death of Queen Victoria. We can imagine that such a statement of Liberal principles might include various other items; and that somebody who thought thereby to take the edge off the iconoclasm of the rest of the platform should succeed in getting the convention to agree that the Liberal opposition to the policy of Lord Salisbury and Mr. Chamberlain in South Africa should be designated as "the paramount Issue "in the campaign. But everybody in England who, for any reason, desired to prevent the overthrow of the Established Church, or who favored the maintenance of the landed aristocracy with its hereditary privileges, or who could not endure the thought of an England without a royal family, would scoff at the idea that the conduct of the South African War was the paramount issue. From their point of view there could be only one issue; namely, whether or not the Radicals should be allowed to get control of the gov ernment. "Pro" and the Situation. The Natural So much for analogies. We shall "Con" of ask our readers to follow with some patience our analysis of the party situation, because it has to do, in our opinion, with the fundamental bearings of a campaign that this country must have on its hands for more than three months. When a party is in full power, like the Republican party in the United States, that is to say, when it holds the Presidency and both houses of Congress, the party being as it is to-day in marvelous harmony and concord, its measures meeting with no obstruction at the hands of the federal judiciary, and most of the leading State governments being also in the hands of the same party, -it is almost inevitable that it should come before the country on its record rather than upon promises or pledges. The Republicans at Philadelphia saw this clearly enough, and realized the fact that in renominating President McKinley they were doing that which made it almost superfluous to go through the form of adopting a platform. |