longed for the effacement of every boundary-line from the map of Europe, in the interest of (a) peace and (b) free trade. terism at that stage of his development. Sixty years ago exactly, the first International Exhibition was supposed to usher in the Millennium. (a) The exaltation of peace, and And now we are having a recru internationalism arbitration as a means to it, is an unhealthy symptom of the life of our time. The world does not exist for peace, but for justice; and, as Mr. Felix Adler says, you must get justice before you can get peace. The present plans for the abolition of war, if successful, would strengthen a system of unrighteousness, oppression of weaker nationalities, and do nothing else. It would bind the strong powers of the world to wage no war upon each other, while each pursued its way of conquest and plunder, or secured the conquests it has already made against insurgents. It would hand Finland, Poland, Sleswick, Thessaly, Armenia, Bosnia, Alsace, Ireland, India, Corea and the Philippines over to their fate, and would leave their nationalities but "a tombstone and epitaph." It is for such a result as this that we are deluged with tearful oratory and sentimental print. It is a counsel of despair. There is nothing more righteous than a just and defensive war, and few things are a finer discipline of social and personal character. Take all the wars out of human history, and what a loss to the record of human heroism and magnanimity would result! (b) Free Trade is the second half of Cobdenism, and closely related to the other. "From growing commerce loose her latest chain, and let the fair, white-winged peacemaker fly to every land beneath the sky," sings Tennyson, the poetlaureate of Cobdenism and Manches descence of the folly of that early Victorian time on our side of the Atlantic, while Europe and even England are revolting against it. English Tories sharply resented even Irish-American contributions to the maintenance of the Irish Party in Parliament. Yet they had no words of protest when their Cobden Club, in 1880, deluged our Western States with pleas for Free Trade, although eleven members of the Administration of that day were members of the Cobden Club. And of our American Free Traders just one, the late Edward Atkinson, lifted up his voice in protest against the insolence, and told his English friends to mind their own business. In fact the party has been most un-American from the beginning, relying on contributions from the American agents of British firms for the support of its political and literary performances, and for the advertising which keeps its newspapers afloat. Some of its representatives recently prepared and published a textbook for use in American schools, in which everything like patriotism is depreciated as of immensely less value than cosmopolitan love of mankind. This subtle poison has been diffused by the party among our young men in the universities, among the children in the schools, and among the people generally from the pulpit and the rostrum, until a healthy Americanism threatens to disappear from extensive areas of American life, and Cobdenism or Manchesterism to take its place. Aldrich's Reply to Bristow. Press Extracts 261 All-Wool Clothing and the Other Kinds. Textile Manufacturers' Journal 535 American and British Warship Production. By Our London Cor. 126 .. Blaming the Tariff. Fibre and Fabric Britain, The Growth of Unemployment in. By Our London Cor. British Shoes Coming. Lynn Item Business, Attacks on "Knocking." Editorial Business Indications and Movements. W. J. Ballard California and Stand Pat Republicanism. W. J. Ballard Canada and Reciprocity. San Francisco Chronicle Canada, Cheap Living in. Cleveland Leader 2 Canada, Our Trade with. Statistical 684 Canadian Reciprocity. Press Extracts 520 Canadian Reciprocity, A Vermonter's View of. L. W. Peet 643 Cannon (Speaker), A Tribute to. Hon. F. W. Nye 217 Cheap Living Attainable. Omaha Bee 108 Cheaper Woolens Fallacy, The. Textile Manufacturers' Journal 504 Cheating the Government. Hartford Times 160 Commissions Not in Favor. New York Journal of Commerce 386 Constitution, Stand by the. From President Taft's Speech Cost of Living. Abstract of Massachusetts Report 102 Cost of Living Question, The. Facts and Opinions 39 378 Cost of Living, Some Factors in. Press Extracts 266 Cost of Living, The. Report of Senate Committee Cotton and Wool Schedules, The Attacks on. Fibre and Fabric ... 265 Cotton from Abroad 140 Cotton Manufacturers' Conference Cotton Manufacturers' Convention, The Cotton Manufacturers' Meeting Cotton Manufacturing and the Tariff. Textile American Cotton, Should Raise Their Own. Hartford Times 615 106 316 291 140 Crops, Our Marvelous. Walter J. Ballard Dallas Nightcaps Demagogues, Beware of. Albany Journal ... ....... Democratic Menace, The. Denver Republican ........... 386 82 ....... ..... ......... 507 Douglas (Ex. Gov.) Tariff Views. Cor. Boston Journal Editorial Notes ....27, 83, 141, 197, 249, 301, 353, 429, 493, 541, 587, 669 Election Results, Some Elections, The, and the Prospect Elections, Results in State and Primary Elections, The, and the Tariff. Textile Manufacturers' Journal Exports, Our, Analyzed. W. J. Ballard Extravagance, The Growth of. Financial Chronicle False Theories in Economics. C. L. Lorraine Farmers' Exodus, The, to Canada Farmers, Our, Protected. G. L. Stone Farmers Warned, The. Hampshire Gazette Fibre and Fabric and Mr. Langshaw Fifty Years Ago and Now. W. J. Ballard ........... Financial Fear of Radicalism. New York Journal of Commerce ... 337 Foraker on the Ohio Result 424 Foreign Commerce, Our, 1910. W. J. Ballard Fourth Government Department, The. New York Sun Free Trade Failure, The. Exeter (Eng.) Post ... Free Trade Fallacies, Some. By Our English Correspondent ..... 317 420 .. Fuller (Chief Justice) Stood for Safeguards. Hartford Times 218 ...... Garfield's Speech. Have We Reversed 532 Germany, Industrial Conditions in. By Our London Correspondent 286 Gloucester and Reciprocity. Lucien Price 573 Government by Spasm Government Operation of Public Utilities a Failure. Editorial .. ... 194 145 Greeley, Horace, and the Old Fights for Protection. Roland Ring Home Market Club, Annual Meeting, Reports, etc. Home Market Club on Canadian Compact, Resolutions, etc. Income Tax Amendment, The, in Virginia. Cor. N. Y. Sun Industrial Protection, The Constitutional Authority for. W. W. Insurgency, The Motive of. Albany Journal Insurgents and Protection. San Francisco Chronicle Insurgent Congressmen, The. New York Journal of Commerce Insurgents, The, and the Tariff. Robert Ellis Thompson Ireland and Holland, Lessons from. By Our London Correspondent 645 |