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 THE CRADLE OF THE TRUST 467

other. Try as we may to flee when the struggle seems too hard, yet we return knowing that outside is mere existence, inside is life.

Why, then, should we not have the best and most convenient agencies to make these eight hours of business as useful, and those other sixteen hours as restful, homelike, and enlightening, as possible ? We shall get these agencies as soon as we have settled our minds as to the need of them. When the politician had gone too far in his quest for power, and when we found that where work was wanted and needed nothing but politics came forth, we had the civil service reformed and have now a fair pros- pect of getting the public service performed in an efficient way. When we understand that our captains of industry and princes of pommerce are monopolizing our social evolutions, we shall like- wise have to ask these to step aside. They will do their duty toward the nation 'just as the politician did his ; for they, like him, are first citizens of the country, and next business-men in quest of success, and have proved this as often as need be.

We want the day to approach when the Old World will have to look to this country for ideas and models as to railroads, har- bors, and markets, and every other feature of the city layout; for the base on which our cities are built is broader and deeper than anything before seen. Therefore we pray that the day may not be too far off when the stream going from our shore to theirs may be reversed.

A. J. ROEWADE.

CHICAGO.