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Index to Periodicals greatest of living Americans, and of his views regarding the marvelous things the future holds in store for mankind. Labor Unions. "San Francisco of the Closed Shop." By Frederick Palmer. Hampton's, v. 26. p. 217 (Feb). Unfolding the career of P. H. McCarthy, mayor of the city, and organizer of union labor into a political power. Mormonism. “The Mormon Revival of Polygamy." By Burton]. Hendrick. McClure’s,

is the Constitution and therefore not to be changed." “What Will the Democrats Do?" By Judson C. Welliver and Louis Brownlow. Hampton's, v. 26, p. 196 (Feb.).

“The wise course would be for Champ Clark and his fellows," we are told, to recognize the

principles of Republican Insurgency; “we shall then have both brands of Progressives, Demo cratic and Republican, arrayed in line of battle against both kinds of Tories, Republican and Democratic."

v. 36, p. 449 (Feb).

The oﬂicial attitude of the Mormon Church, at narly every stage, has been one of deception, says Mr. Hendrick, with regard to its attitude toward polygamy; it does not excommunicate the offenders, as a rule, countenancing the plural marriages of the important people whose viola tion is open and continuous.

Party Policies. “The Democratic Opportun ity." By Thomas Nelson Page. North American Review, v. 193, p. 193 (Feb.).

The extravagance of the Republican party in its appropriations, its wastefulness in the pension role, its alliance with privileged interests through the tariﬁ, and the tendency to usurp powers not granted by the Constitution, are conditions iving birth to the Democratic oppor tunity. T e “old” Nationalism is good enough for Mr. Page, who desires a conservative govem ment of laws, not of men, fully recognizing the supremacy of popular rights. “An Appeal to President Taft." By Wayne

"Theodore Roosevelt, Please Answer, II." By M. E. Stone, Jr. Metropolitan Magazine, v. 33,

p. 543 (Feb). Concerned

North American Review, v.

Col.

Roosevelt's relations

New York, and his record in that oﬂice.

"The End of the Old Constitution." By Sid ney Low. Fortnightly Review, v. 89, p. 114 (Jan.). “There is nothing novel in the claim, whether or not it be justified, that the Peers are the guardians of popular rights against an encroach ing House of Commons. ‘The House of Lords,’ said Lord Salisbury in 1895, ‘is a body which exists for the purpose of preventing the House of Commons doing mischief behind the backs of the people.’ That, of course, is precisely the point of view of Lord Lansdowne in the present crisis. And when he and Mr. Balfour declare for the Referendum, they are on the old Tory ground of setting the nation as a whole against a privileged governing section." Pensions.

MacVeigh.

with

with political leaders while he was Governor of

“The Pension Carnival; V, The

193,

p. 161 (Feb.). The writer thinks that there is much more opportunity for useful public service of the states than of the nation, and that the state legislator can do far more than the Congress man to solve the problems of equalizing the opportunities of the rich and the poor along the lines of the social reforms which have been taken up by eminent foreign statesmen. He decries the wastefulness of Congress in its pen sion and log rolling appropriations, and its readiness to be the tool of special interests in legislating on the tariff. The article closes with an earnest appeal to the President to throw his influence into the cause of federal taxation of inheritances.

"American Affairs." By A. Maurice Low. National Review, v. 56, p. 822 (_]an.). "Last month the country repudiated the Re publicans, yet the Democrats, who are now in a majority in the country, are in a minority in the House of Representatives; the party that has forfeited the conﬁdence of the country is still in control of the machinery of government, and it will be thirteen months after election before the Democrats can attempt to put their policies into effect. It is an arrangement, as every one must admit. both unjust and ridiculous. but it

Growing National Scandal of the Private Pen sion Act." By William Bayard Hale. World's Work, v. 21, p. 13967 (Feb.). By presenting the facts of particular cases, the author reveals the wrong of asty, ill-considered special acts. Post-051cc. "The Post-Oﬂ'ice: An Obstruc tive Monopoly.” By Don C. Seitz. World’: Work, v. 21, p. 13978 (Feb.). This article is taken up with a criticism of the out-of-date business methods. Pure Food Laws. "Cassidy and the Food Poisoners." By Cleveland Moﬂ'ett. Hampton's, v. 26, p. 139 (Feb.). The story of what Henry P. Cassidy, food inspector in Philadelphia, has done to give that city pure food. Hampton's has retracted the libelegf the Standard Oil Company herein con tain. Taxation. "The Things that are Caesar's, Ill." By Albert Jay Nock. American Magazine, v. 71, p. 450 (Feb.). A third article on the inequalities and absurdi ties of the personal propert tax in other states, following two articles on ew York City taxa tion.