Trolley Lines in a Railroad System, S. Baxter, WW. Attack on Venezuela, E. Maxey, Arena. Germany and Venezuela, V. Berard, RPar, January 15. Monroe Doctrine, Venezuela and the, West. War in Venezuela, V. Garien, Revue, January 15. Wadsworth-Longfellow Mansion at Portland, Maine, Ella War Machines, Human, D. A. Willey, Mun. Ward, Mrs. Humphrey, R. Phillips, Lamp. Watch Factory, Description of a, P. P. Frost, WW. Water Powers, Mountain, Utilization of, P. Letheule, Eng Weather Service, United States, W. L. Moore, San. Women in England: "In Our Midst," West. Abbreviations of Magazine Titles used in the Index. [All the articles in the leading reviews are indexed, but only the more important articles in the other magazines.] ACQR. American Catholic Quarterly Anglo-American Magazine, Annals. Annals of the American Acad Educational Review, N. Y. NEng. NineC. España Moderna, Madrid. NAR. Nou. NA. OC. Frank Leslie's Monthly, N. Y. 0. Gentleman's Magazine, Lon Out. OutW. Over. Gunton's Magazine, N. Y. Harper's Magazine, N. Y. PMM. Hartford Seminary Record, Pear. Phil. 387 387 387 388 388 388 390 390 390 391 391 392 392 393 393 393 394 394 394 394 395 EDITED BY ALBERT SHAW. CONTENTS FOR APRIL, 1903. Pope Leo XIII.... The Progress of the World The President's Western Tour. How Mr. Roosevelt Lives and Works. A Respite After Great Achievements. Our Arrangement with Colombia.. A Great Productive Enterprise. Comparisons with Germany. .Frontispiece What Next in the Trust Question ?.. 397 Hope for the Irish Farmer: A Talk with the Mr. Root's Efficiency. In the Philippines... 398 The Statehood Fight and Its Cost. 398 Addicksism and the "G. O. P.". 399 By E. T. D. Chambers. With map of the proposed railway. South Australia's Land-Grant Railway.. 456 Reform of Senate Methods.. With map of the proposed railway. With portraits of President Theodore Roosevelt, J. Record of Current Events. With portraits of A. C. Latimer, Levi Ankeny, Chester American Children of Labor.. The Coming Automobile.. Mr. Rhodes and Oxford.. With the Theosophists.. The Fossil Man of Kansas. The Tree-Dwellers of Malaya.. 480 481 481 483 483 485 Antarctic Exploration... 485 Volcanoes Under the Sea. 486 487 Alcohol: Food or Poison... 488 TERMS: $2.50 a year in advance: 25 cents a number. Foreign postage $1.00 a year additional. Subscribers may remit to us by post-office or express money orders, or by bank checks, drafts, or registered letters. Money in letters is at senders' risk. Renew as early as possible, in order to avoid a break in the receipt of the numbers. Bookdealers, Postmasters, and Newsdealers receive subscriptions. (Subscriptions to the English REVIEW OF REVIEWS, which is edited and published by Mr. W. T. Stead in London, may be sent to this office, and orders for single copies can also be filled, at the price of $2.50 for the yearly subscription, including postage, or 25 cents for single copies.) THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO., 13 Astor Place, New York City. (The third in the history of the Papacy to see the years of Peter, "-that is, to fill the Papal throne for full twenty-five years.) THE AMERICAN MONTHLY VOL. XXVII. Review of Reviews. NEW YORK, APRIL, 1903. No. 4. The THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. The President of the United States President's had by the middle of March fixed the Western Tour. itinerary of his great tour, which was to begin on April 1, to have the Pacific coast as its principal objective, and to continue until the first week in June. The plan of this journey comprised the visiting of more than twenty States and stops at more than a hundred different places, with scores of longer or shorter addresses and speeches. The whole thing would appear too formidable for any man of ordinary physical or mental constitution. President Roosevelt's powers of endurance, however, are not ordinary. He has come through a winter and spring of most incessant and arduous labors, with a great number of matters of moment and urgency pressing upon his time and attention. And none of those matters has been treated by him either with negligence or with any lack of diligent regard and concentrated interest; yet he has emerged from the past four or five months of intense application without the slightest indication of being fagged or stale. The young men of the country will How Mr. Roosevelt Lives and be entitled some time to know even Works. more than they have as yet been told about the way in which President Roosevelt accomplishes so much and yet keeps in prime order. His physical constitution was, of course, built up, as everybody knows, years ago by systematic exercise and much outdoor life. His mental vigor would seem to have been acquired by a somewhat analogous method. The President does not flinch from the task in hand. He has schooled himself to do the day's work as it comes. He has acquired to a marvelous degree the power of concentration and the habit of decisiveness. He arranges his day well, is very abstemious in eating and drinking, does not allow himself to be cheated out of a fair amount of exercise, does not rely in the least upon stimulants or tobacco, and, perhaps above all, never tries to surpass himself or to expend his reserve strength in the achievement of something exceptional. With matters of colossal importance to attend to, he simply does his best as he goes along, deals with every problem that arises in a simple, direct, and natural way, and thus finds the day sufficient unto itself. He borrows no trouble, sleeps soundly, and meets the morrow refreshed and with full courage. His It is not strange that this frank, Remarkable straightforward American citizen, so Popularity. high-minded in his motives and so democratic in his sympathies, should have won a great place in the confidence and affection of the American people. He has also taken a marvelous hold upon the imagination and the interest of the peoples of Europe. A discerning resident of Amsterdam informed this office, the other day, that, with the exception of their own queen, Wilhelmina, there was no personage now living in whom the people of Holland took nearly so much interest as in President Roosevelt. The people of France read eagerly all his utterances. His practical philosophy of life falls in most usefully with the wholesome point of view that the best political and social elements in our great sister republic are earnestly teaching to the new generation of Frenchmen. As for Germany, it is not merely the Emperor and Prince Henry, and the leaders of the army and navy, who have expressed their liking for President Roosevelt and their appreciation of his versatility; for the German people as a whole. have a remarkably warm feeling toward him, which is shown in their newspapers and in many private as well as public ways. All parties and organs in England, of late, with hardly any exceptions, have vied with one another in expressions of friendliness toward the people of the United States; and, if one may judge by the overwhelming tone of the English press, President Roosevelt's popularity is greater in that country than that enjoyed by any contemporary head of a foreign country in recent times. He seems, in short, to embody, to Europeans, the best and most honorable American traits of mind and character, to typify those qualities that belong to a gentleman in a democratic republic like ours, and to represent the best intellectual aims and aspirations of this Western world. A Respite Although the President's projected After Great Western trip is so long, and involves Achievements. appearances before so many audiences, it ought for him to be a pleasant rather than a difficult and trying experience. He can enter upon it with a clear conscience and a light heart. He knows that he has given the very best that is in him toward the performance of his duties as President; and he can afford to say, without affectation on the score of modesty, that a great deal of important and valuable public business has been achieved during the past few months, in most of which his own guidance and leadership have played a part. Knowing that the people of the West even more than those of any other part of the country appreciate and understand him, he will doubtless feel the more free to review, in his speeches, the recent course of public affairs, and to give some outlook upon the future from his standpoint as Chief Execu tive. His journey comes at a lull in public affairs due not only to the necessary adjournment of Congress by limitation on the 4th of March, but, further than that, due to the completion-almost simultaneously with the expiration of the life of the late Congress-of a number of pending episodes and affairs of unusual concern. Among these matters are to be menSome Things tioned the fortunate settlement of all Accomplished. the acute phases of the controversy of the allied European powers with Venezuela; the completion of the labors of the anthracitecoal commissioners; the practical settlement of the interoceanic canal question; the agreement upon satisfactory arrangements, commercial and otherwise, between the United States and Cuba; and the wholly auspicious establishment of the new Department of Commerce at Washington. The President, therefore, can well enter upon this journey with the pleasant feeling that a winter's hard work has produced substantial results, and that his speech-making might very suitably take the form, in large part, of a summing up and an interpretation of those achievements, without any undue or irritating appeal to party feeling, and with less necessity than usual for argument or exhortation. The people of the West, on the other hand, will be most delighted to do what they can to make the President's tour restful and agreeable, rather than wearisome through too much formality or too incessant speechifying. at Last! To Americans in general, and to the A Ship Canal, world at large, doubtless, the most striking of recent public achievements at Washington is the final settlement, after more than half a century of discussion, of the main features of a ship canal to connect the Atlantic and the Pacific, and to afford the world a new trade route destined to have a profound effect upon commerce and international relations. The abandonment of the long-cherished American preference for the Nicaragua route has a good deal dampened public enthusiasm, while the details of the arrangement made for Uncle Sam's occupation of the Panama Canal strip are in some respects so far from being clean-cut and satisfactory that intelligent Americans will prefer not to read the text of the treaty between the United States and Colombia. We may, however, compliment Colombian diplomacy upon the success it has had in dealing with Uncle Sam, and we may reasonably take an optimistic view of the whole business. The American ideal was an interoceanic canal that should in a true sense be an extension of our own shore line. Although this is not what we have secured in legal fact and form (since |