SOME STOMACHS I HAVE KNOWN 13356 13358 13361 NEWTON MARSHALL HALL 13363 DR. EUGENE YATES JOHNSON 13369 13373 13377 AUGUSTUS POST 13389 13402 HENRY L. HIGGINSON 13404 E. BLAIR WALL 13495 13408 THE CONTROL OF WATER-POWER TERMS: $3.00 a year; single copies, 25 cents. For Foreign Postage add $1.28; Canada, 60 cents. Country Life in America CHICAGO The Garden Magazine-Farming NEW YORK 1268 People's Gas Bldg. DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY, 133 E. Sixteenth St. F. N. DOUBLEDAY, President WALTER H. PAGE } Vice-Presidents H. W. LANIER, Secretary S. A. EVERITT, Treasurer THE UNITED STATES PENSION BUILDING AT WASHINGTON THE SUICE-GATE THROUGH WHICH POURS $155,000,000 THIS YEAR-NEARLY HALF A CENTURY AFTER THE WAR THE WORLD'S WORK SEPTEMBER, 1910 VOLUME XX NUMBER 5 I' The March of Events bosses who, with Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania, held the machine-power of the Republican party (and therefore of the National Government) in their hands. Mr. Cummins and Mr. La Follette were incipient Insurgents and were regarded as negligible. The Democratic party was what Mr. Bryan commanded it to be. F ANY man be subject to fear of the future, let him consider the distance that we have come the last ten years. Ten years ago we had open wars of railroad rates and free passes on the railroads. The Interstate Commerce Law was practically a dead law, and the Commission was a harmless bureau of statistics. The bare mention of the Government's making a study of railroad securities in relation to physical valuation (such as the President wishes Mr. Hadley, of Yale, to undertake) would have provoked laughter or a riot. There were fewer publicservice commissions, such as now exist in New York. The real regulation of railroads, to say nothing of other large corporations, was regarded as a mere threat of impracticable radicalism. Now disposal of his fortune to further education. we take the principle for granted. Ten years ago, we were at war in the Philippines. Aguinaldo's rebellion provoked a sympathetic rebellion in and about Boston, and there were many persons who regarded anti-Imperialism as the overshadowing great question of our future. President McKinley was portrayed in cartoons as an emperor. We had not settled the status of Cuba. There was still the old treaty with England that practically forbade our cutting a canal across the Isthmus of Panama. Mr. Roosevelt was Governor of New York. Senator Hanna, of Ohio, and Senator Platt, of New York, were the Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Chicago, and California universities, not to mention a large number of smaller colleges, had presidents that have since retired or died; Mr. Carnegie had begun his building of public libraries, although the formation of the steel corporation had not yet made him one of the richest two or three men in the world; and Mr. Rockefeller had not begun the wholesale The Panama Canal, the Government's great reclamation work in the West, the policy of Conservation, the change of the Dingley tariff, the Japanese-Russian war these were all in the future; and how long ago 1900 was may be measured by recalling that Queen Victoria was still on the throne of England. All the great events and tendencies of these ten years have not made for the happiness of mankind nor for our national well-being. But there have been enough. events and tendencies that have put us forward to give a cheerful and hopeful turn to the thoughts of every man who looks backward as well as forward. Copyright, 1910, by Doubleday, Page & Co. All rights reserved. |