Quay, M. S.. campaign against (see Pennsylvania South Carolina, lynching of colored postmaster at Tayler, R. W., on Washington's restraint in Ge- Virginia officers colored troops with negroes, 470- Woodford, Gen., creditable Brooklyn speech, 414- √GREAT ABROAD. GREAT BRITAIN:-Salisbury's trade of Madagas de- with Dreyfus affair, 21, rioting against Zola Editorial and Miscellaneous Articles. au- ownership of railways, 197. GERMANY:-German editors in Jail for leze-ma- RUSSIA:-Specle payments and gold standard at- EGYPT:-Mahdi's zeriba rushed by British column, INDIA:-Government to issue gold notes, 41, gold Notes. Announcements, 10, 28, 48, 68, 89. 108, 131, 147, Journal, omission in Mass. Hist. Society's MS. Cairns, W. B., American Literature, 1815-1833, 365 University Grace Books, 304-Canadian Histo- Hale, E. E., blundering reminiscences, 284-E. T. India, peculiar functions of post-office in, 247. Zola trial, orthographic habits compared. 187. 200 French Press, Troubles of or Indepen- French Progress 359 King George, King Matthew. 218 178 Gladstone Deceased Gold, Tyranny of 64 6 63 London Municipality 179 Bill 239 Death to Harmony 44 Hawaiian Phase, Latest 42 Love of Country 83 102 .....376, 396 142 Imperial Policy Mississippi Disfranchises a Race. 398 456 Monetary Commission, Report of. 4 240 Fifty Millions, Grant of 198 Intervention in Cuba, What Af- 199 Municipal Corruption, Morals of. 297 142 ....... 358 Isolation, Olney on the Policy of. 319 National Hysteria 297 Magle (Hopkins's) 76 Pensées (Margival's Pascal's). 285 265 Stepmother (Xenopoulos's). 74 74 Spanish Maid (Quiller Couch's). 446 Speculum Perfectionis (Sabatier's) 466 Spinning-Wheel at Rest (Jenks's) 427 Statement of Stella Maberly (Anstey's) ERRATA. Page 88, col. 1., line 3 from bottom. For "Charles the Great" read "Charles the Bald." Page 90, col 11., line 36 from bottom. For "Löwenstein" read "Löwen stimm." 136 Page 104, col. 1., line 19. For "legislation" read "legislatures." Page 152, col 11.. line 27 from bottom. For "nine" read "fifteen." Line 24 from bottom. For "seven" read "twelve." " 74 152 Maidens of the Rocks (D'Annunzio's) Mammalian Anatomy (Jayne's)... 499 Mangan, James C.. (O'Donohue's) Life of sen's) 186 346 Students' Standard Dictionary. 69 Subconscious Self (Waldstein's).. 155 Suffolk County, Early Long Island Wills of Page 154, col ., line 27 from bottom. For "1781" read "1861." Page 232, col. ill., line 31. For "senses" read "sexes. Page 244, col. 1., line 13. For "wall" read "work. 329 Mann, Horace (Hinsdale's). Marching with Gomez (Flint's)... 252 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to 442 Himself (Rendall's) ...... 870 233 148 382 Philip II. of Spain (Hume's).. 54 75 442 Tales from a Mother-of-Pearl Casket (France's) 74 Tales of the Home Folks (Har ris's) 406 186 209 Taquisara (Crawford's) 52 Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow 427 (Bacon's) 169 Page 325, col 1., line 7 from bottom. For 1829" read "1629." Col. ill. line 28 from bottom. For "1841" read "1848," Page 326, col. 1., line 4. For "literal" read "liberal." Page 843, col. 1., line 19 from botton. For "Franklin" read "Frank lin B. Dexter's." Page 406, col. 11., line 33 from bot tom. For "sufficient" read "In sufficient." NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1898. The Week. The scores of thousands of operatives in New England cotton mills who received notice of a reduction in wages just before the end of 1897 were not the only class of working-people in that section to whom such a holiday gift was made. The employees in a great shoe factory at North Brookfield, Mass., have just been informed that their pay will be cut down with the new year, and the operatives in similar establishments elsewhere fear that the example thus set will be generally followed. The only reason assigned by the manufacturers is that they are losing money, and cannot continue the business unless they reduce the wage account. The company in question has always enjoyed a good reputation for fair treatment of its hands, and they are more disposed to accept the claim that the cut must be made in order to keep the shops going than is sometimes the case when such an aunouncement is made by an employer. A local newspaper says that "the people of North Brookfield hope that the peace and general good-will will not be interrupted by the present unpleasant situation." Why do shoe manufacturers find that they cannot pay as large wages hereafter as heretofore? Has any change in the conditions of the industry occurred during the past year? There has been one change, which is of great importance. A tax has been put by the Dingley law upon the raw material used in making shoes. The new tariff imposes a duty upon hides. This duty was imposed against the earnest protests of shoe manufacturers, who insisted that it would seriously injure their business. Six months have not passed since the law went into operation, and already a reduction of wages is found to be inevitable. Such a showing cannot be a pleasing spectacle for Republican Congressmen who promised prosperity as soon as a Republican tariff should go into effect, and who must meet next fall the interrogatory of a host of workingmen why prosperity involves smaller pay for them. The wheels of the reciprocity chariot are tarrying unconscionably. One brake on them is the fact that we cannot surrender a dollar of revenue, in the interest of reciprocal trade, without still further embarrassing our Treasury. How can we remit any part of the duty on sugar when we need the whole and more than the whole? The second great ob great execution already in the ranks of the enemy, and they may be made to do service as long as deficits continue. stacle in the way of reciprocity is the and with no relation to lumber. And We unite with our protectionist schedules of the Dingley law, while any of a reform except by Government oversight of the business. With this change in methods the pension bureau would have direct control of the attorneys, whose business it would be to see that all honest claims were promptly and intelligently presented; and if one of them should fail to do his duty or should be found incompetent, it would be an easy matter to remove him. It is a great thing to have a Commissioner who realizes the abuses of the existing system so thoroughly as Mr. Evans bes, and the McKinley Administration will be entitled to great credit if it shall carry through the reforms which he advocates. When the bill prohibiting pelagic sealing was on its hasty passage through Congress, the whole stress was laid on our duty to do what we asked other nations to do. We were asking the Canadians to give up pelagic sealing, and yet were open to the taunt that Americans were not above taking seals on the high seas. Let us make the nefarious business unlawful for our own citizens, and then our "moral position" will be much stronger in calling upon other nations to abandon it. That was the argument before the bill passed. But no sooner had it passed than it was found to contain a clause absolutely prohibiting the importation of sealskins or of articles made of sealskin. No sealskin muff or purse, no article of wearing apparel in which sealskin is even a part, can pass through our customhouses without being ripped to pieces to see if the pelt carries the proper stamp. No lady going abroad can safely take a sealskin coat along without a "certificate of ownership" from the Collector of the port; otherwise, this, too, on her return, will be torn open for examination. That is to say, while ostensibly passing a bill to prohibit pelagic sealing, we were really making a law to prohibit importation of sealskins. Incidentally we were giving an absolute monopoly of the sealskin trade in this country to the North American Commercial Company, which leases the Pribyloff Islands and is entitled to bring in its skins as before. Thus is our moral position made strong. Thus is a customs law again made to wring the soul of the foreigner and to cause the native to pay more for his clothes. After weeks of hard labor, the Navy Board, headed by the Assistant Secretary, has finished its bill for the reorganization of the service, and transmitted it to Secretary Long, accompanied by a very long explanatory report, written by Mr. Roosevelt. As was expected, the bill provides for the union of the line and the engineers, promotion by selection, increased pay for the officers. and a retired list for the enlisted men, and is therefore the most radical measure ever prepared in regard to our navy or any other navy. It requires not only that each graduate of Annapolis shall be some of the most persistent seekers after and wielders of political influence in Washington, of late years, have been captains, commodores, and admirals, and they will probably continue to be, unless human nature changes or most stringent regulations are enforced. Furthermore, the voluntary or forced retirement each year of a number of ablebodied and-if the general standard is high-mentally qualified officers will add to the retired list fifteen or more members each year. If these men are employed on shore duty, it will be tantamount to an increase of the active navy; if unemployed, the Government will find itself with a new class of able-bodied pensioners, quite capable of earning large salaries, on its hands. Mr. Roosevelt lays stress upon the fact that the proposed increase will augment the pay of the navy "only" $600,000. That will be true this year, but not in 1899, and still less as the years go on and the retired lists of officers and men steadily grow, for the present one has largely increased from year to year during the last decade. That 180 more officers have been asked for is no surprise. Fifteen years ago the cry was, We must have new ships, and plenty of them, to keep our officers busy. Now, having built more ships than are needed by so fortunately situated and peaceably disposed a nation as ours, we must have more an infantry drill-master, a hydrograph-expensive officers. It is only a couple er, an electrician, a navigator, a naval tactician and strategist, and an ordnance expert, acquainted with the handling and making of guns, powders, torpedoes, armor, and projectiles, but that he shall also be fully able to care for and direct the intricate machinery of every kind to be found on board a manof-war. Whether, in these days of necessary specialization, one officer can become expert in all these scientific matters, is a question that can be decided only after the system has been put in effect, for in no other service of to-day has it been thought of. Indeed, the only analogies that Mr. Roosevelt can draw are from the times of the Spanish Armada, of Blake, and of Nelson. It is well that the bill provides also for a body of warrant machinists, who will not be called upon to do "deck" duty, and upon whom the responsibility of the engine-room will mainly rest, as it does upon the engineers of to-day. The proposal to regulate promotion by selection-that is, by having a certain number of the least able officers forcibly retired each year in order to promote their subordinates-is open to two very serious objections. The danger that these retirements will be largely affected by political and social influence Mr. Roosevelt himself recognizes, but seeks to minimize by having the weeding out done by officers of the highest rank. It is unfortunately true, however, that of years since the number of enlisted men was increased, and now there are calls for more of them, and will continue to be as long as there is any chance of aping European countries and heaping greater and greater burdens upon our own. The factional opposition to Hanna in Ohio has proved to be more widespread and persistent than was anticipated, and the Foraker wing has detached from the machine enough members to carry its point if it can hold its men. At this writing it has won the first skirmish at Columbus by securing the organization of the Legislature, but the real fight over the senatorship is still to be fought. The opposition have the advantage temporarily, by reason of controlling the patronage of the Legislature, but they are suffering from the lack of popular support. They are repudiating all the obligations of partisanship, and yet they are unable to show that there is any patriotism or principle in their course. In this situation the champions of regularity are supported by public opinion, and it remains to be seen whether the bolters can stand out against the popular demands that they shall abide by the action of the party organization. The Republican opponents of Hanna are also embarrassed by the difficulty of making terms about the senatorship with the Democratic members of the Legislature, who are inclined to drive a hard bargain. As the voting for Senator will not begin for a week, and may drag on for a good while, the country is going to have a thorough exhibition of Ohio factional politics at its worst. The method of selection which has been followed in regard to the men who are to operate the machinery of Greater New York is a totally new thing in the history of civilized government. Mr. Croker has been engaged for two months, mainly at Lakewood, New Jersey, in the task of choosing these men. Who have been his advisers in this great task? Has he taken counsel with our leading authorities on municipal government, our most eminent financiers, our successful merchants, our chief lawyers and professional men? Have any of these been to Lakewood and had audience at the Croker court? Not one of them has been seen there. If any of them had gone, he would have been given short shrift by the Boss, who has made it known to the world that he has no use for the advice of such citizens. Not only has he spurned the counsel of men of success in all walks and professions of private life, but he has confined his selection of men for office under the new government to persons who either have no private business, or so little of it that they are willing to abandon it on becoming public servants. This is right under the Boss system. Any other plan would have been absurd. Hugh J. Grant promised us in 1888, that he would make his appointments from the "highest order of citizenship that the county affords." The present Tammany boss has "moved farther into the wilderness" since he was restored to power. He openly spurns the highest order of citizenship and constructs his government from the lowest. The results of his policy will furnish material for thought to the students of government throughout the world. It should be said of the new Police Board that we have never had a more complete embodiment of the bi-partisan idea than it presents. It is headed by Barney York of the Borough of Brooklyn, who is on it as "Boss McLaughlin's man." Its Treasurer is Tom Hamilton of the Borough of Manhattan, who is on it primarily as "Gibbs's man," but fundamentally as Platt's man, the information that he was Platt's selection for the place having convinced Croker that he was the man for it. He represents on the board the first instalment of the debt which Croker owes to Platt for the gift of the government of the city. The next man on the board is Johnny Sexton of the Borough of Manhattan, a Tammany district leader who is known as "Hugh J. Grant's man." The fourth and last member is Billy Phillips of the Borough of Brooklyn, who is known as "Willis's man," Willis being one of the |