Index to Periodicals world. but America is top-hole man in the com mercial world, which after all bosses the other two. Peace, as we all know, lasts longer than war; and a nation which can dictate to others, without bullying, in times of peace and war, using only trade as a weapon, needs no other."
Foreign Commerce. "How America Got into China." By Frederick McCormick. Cen fury, v. 81. p. 344 (Jan.). "The American government took steps to wrest from European finance an equal place for America as a money-lender, merchant and useful friend to China. The crisis came in 1909. . . . This [situation] could not be efi'ectuall dealt with on treaty rights; what was need was a
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Beginning as the foe of grafters, bosses and mechanics, Roosevelt, it is charged, "suddenly
began to eat out of the hand of the regular organization." How does the defender of the merit system explain the cases of Leonard Wood, Loomis, Paul Morton and Cortelyou? When Platt offered him the Republican nomination for Governor, he threw over the Independents on whose ticket he had agreed to run, with what one biographer calls one of the cleverest pieces of political manipulation in the history of the United States. "The Progressive Hen and the Insurgent Ducklings." By William Allen White. Amen‘ can Magazine, v. 71, p. 394 (Jan.). The reform movement, we are told, is greater
basis of material interests.” Labor Unions. "Otistown of the Open Shop."
than its leaders; it is not sufficient to work with agencies at hand, as Roosevelt has done, but they
By Frederick Palmer. (Jan.).
consin; a cause is to triumph, not a man or a
Hampton's, v. 26, p. 29
must be created, as La Follette has done in Wis machine.
The story of the labor troubles of Los Angeles, interesting in connection with the recent wreck of the Times office. Mormonism. “Under the Prophet in Utah, II." By Frank J. Cannon. Everybody's, v. 24, p. 29 (Jan.). The inner history of the antiépolygamy mani festo issued by the Mormon
hurch in 1890,
written by one who accuses the present leaders of the Church of treachery in repudiating that "revelation." Party Politics. Maurice Low.
"American Affairs." By A.
National Review, v. 56, p. 953
(Dec.). "In America there are nominally two parties and every man calls himself Republican or Democrat, but as a matter of fact there is always a third party and it is the third party that de cides elections. . . . This year the Independ ents voted against Mr. Roomvelt, twice before
the Independents voted for him." "Personalities and Political Forces." By Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart.
North American Review,
v. 193, p. 83 (Jan.). Col. Roosevelt did more, Prof. Hart thinks, for the perpetuity of his party and the welfare of his country, during the year 1910, than any other Progressive Republican. Most of the Osawatomie rinciples must reappear in the Republican p tform of 1912 if the party is to have any chance of success. "Will the Democratic Party Commit Sui cide?" By George Harvey. North American Review, v. 193, p. 1 (Jan.). Urging not revision by schedule, but down ward revision; so carried out as not to disturb legitimate business, "by heeding the funda mental principles enunciated by Walker in 1846 and by adopting the method of gradual reduc tions effected by Jackson in 1833." “Theodore Roosevelt—Please Answer." By M. E. Stone, Jr. Metropolitan, v. 34, p. 415 (Jan.).
Pensions. "The Pension Carnival, IV." By William Bayard Hale. World's Work, v. 21, p. 13917 (Jan.). Treating of the favorite frauds practised on the government, by masqueraders, rogues, per jurers, fake-veterans and bogus widows. Political Corruption. "What are you Go ing to Do About It?
VI, Senator Gore's Strange
Bribe Story." By Charles Edward Russell. Cosmopolitan, v. 50. p. 151 (Jan.). Dealing with the McMurray contracts and the Indian land question in Oklahoma. Railways. "Masters of Capital in America: The Inevitable Railroad Monopoly." By John Moody and George Kibbe Turner. McClurc's, v. 36, p. 334 (Jan.).
This is a striking and dramatic chapter of economic history, which treats of the culmination of the movement toward combination of railway capital. The rise of the late E. H. Harriman, the effect of his power on the fortunes of the Morgan-Hill alliance, and the Northern Securi ties episode in Mr. Morgan's career, are graphi cally presented. See Banking. Religion. "What Jesus Thought of the Law and those Belonging to It." By Elijah Green. leaf. Westminster Rniew, v. 174, p. 658 (Dec) Reviewing the Scriptural narrative for the urpose of showing how Jesus disregarded the osaic law and how he believed in its execution not by man, but by the Almighty. Tarlfl. "The Lemon in the Tariff." By Samuel Hopkins Adams. McClure's, v. 36, p. 353 (Jan.). This title is not figurative but literal, the sourness of the discussion being confined to a special schedule of the tariff. ‘ Crackl goes the whip. The traders fall into line. The schedule passed. 44 to 28. By such men and_such meas ures are we, the people of the United States. taxed, one and all of us."
