bers of Parliament; the third promised liberation to members of Parliament now under arrest. -February 10.-Funeral of King Carlos and his son. Burial in the Pantheon, Lisbon. Italy Death. January 25.- Louise de la Ramee (Ouida), writer, aged 78. German Empire Riots.-January 12.-Socialistic disturbances in Berlin resulted in injury to over 100 persons. In Frankfort there was similar rioting and in Essen and Cologne processions paraded the streets singing the Marseillaise. -January 21.-Riotous demonstrations made by unemployed men in Berlin. Many injured by police, at whom rioters threw bricks. Estimated there are about 60,000 men without work in Berlin. -January 22.-Several persons injured and many arrests made in Brunswick as the result of conflict between the police and Socialists in a parade demanding universal manhood suffrage. Universal Suffrage.-January 22.-Chancellor von Buelow replying in the reichstag to an interpellation by the Social Democrats why the gov ernment should not grant the manhood suffrage system for the election of Prussian deputies, said the reichstag had nothing to do with the internal concerns of Prussia. Russian Empire Cabinet.-January 13.-An imperial ukase dismissed from office M. von Kauffman, minister of education, and appointed as his successor M. Schwartz. Reactionists had long agitated for Kauffman's retirement. -January 22.-Assistant Minister of the Interior Gurko dismissed from office because of his connection with the Lidval grain scandal. Finland.-February 3.-The Emperor rebuked the diet for its declaration that its contribution of 20,000,000 marks for military defense of the empire would be the last paid under the agreement of 1905. The Emperor announced that the disposition of the military funds of the grand duchy of Finland was his prerogative. The Russian forces in Finland have been strengthened. Revolutionary Damages.-January 29.-Landowners in the Baltic provinces who brought suit against insurance companies for compensation because of incendiary damages by revolutionists in the years 1905 and 1906 were successful in obtaining a favorable decision from the courts. Stoessel. January 17. Lieutenant-General Stoessel sent direct to Emperor Nicholas a protest against the exclusion of witnesses for the defense and other alleged discriminations by the court martial. In reply, General Stroukoff, personal aide-de-camp of the Emperor, took a seat upon the bench in court for the purpose of furnishing a report to the Emperor. Morocco Civil War.-January 13.-The machinations of the powerful Sheik El Killani responsible for the deposition of Abd-el-Aziz and proclamation of Mulai Hafid. The former's officials, including his brother and uncle, signed the deposing act and the appointment of the new Sultan. -January 14.- Mulai Hafid sent a commission to Paris, which declared that Mulai will scrupulously observe the treaty, including the Algeciras act. The holy war declared to be, not against foreigners, but against Abd-el-Aziz and the governing board of Morocco. -January 16.-A ten hours' battle between a French column under General d'Amade and some of Mulai Hafid's forces occurred near Settal. The French dispersed the enemy and occupied the town. -January 17.-The French troops captured Caid Duldel Hadjhammon, the principal instigator of the massacre at Casablanca. -February 3.-A French column attacked by Arabs finally repulsed after loss of eight Frenchmen, and fifty wounded. The enemy suffered heavy loss. Raisuli.-January 13.-Raisuli, the bandit, reported to have joined Mulai Hafid, and to persist in his refusal to release Caid Sir Harry McLean, except by order of the new leader. -February 7.-Caid Sir Harry McLean officially turned over to the British Charge d'Affaires at Tangier, for release on payment of ransom by the British government. Persia Capture by Turks.-January 13.-Prince Firman Firma, governor of the province of Azerbaijan and minister of justice, surrounded by Turks near Sandshbulak, and his rifles and cash box containing $150,000 seized. He appealed to Parliament. Japan Cabinet Crisis.-January 14.-The premier, Marquis Saionji, tendered his resignation, but the Emperor declined to receive it. The resignations of Yoshiro Sakatani, minister of finance, and Isaburo Yainagata, minister of communication, were accepted. Masahisa Matsura, minister of justice, will also take the portfolio of finance, and Keihara, minister of the interior, that of communication, thus leaving the cabinet without new elements but removing two disturbing factors. Difference of opinion as to taxation caused the trouble. -January 17.-The attempts to adjust the budget which caused the cabinet crisis were settled by the postponement of certain army and navy works. -January 23.-The government escaped a vote of censure in the lower house of the diet by a bare majority of nine on a division vote to cen Uncle Sam-" Now, Railroad High Finance, it's your time. Put down your hands or I will give you a threshing that will make the last one you got seem like a love-pat ་་ The first of this series of cartoons appeared in the March number The World Co-Day VOLUME XIV APRIL, 1908 NUMBER 4 I Safeguarding a New Epoch T is not every man who can read the signs of the times. are blind and some of us have hallucinations. But on even to the blindest. The past few years in the Ur closed one epoch and have begun a new. Even more than we have been aware, democra on trial. The country has faced a fundamental issue: obeyed, or are they to be evaded? Some of us thing is plain States have itself has been Are laws to be It is one of the penalties of reform that men always forget the pit out of which they have been dug. The condition of affairs a few years ago was one that played into the hands of the socialists, if not of the revolutionists. We were turning out laws by the hundreds, and the lawyers were making a living telling us how not to obey them. We believed that great aggregations of wealth were all but beyond the reach of law, and knew that the miasma of graft was ruining our business health. The plain American citizen was losing faith in the ability of the Republic to grow rich and remain democratic. All this we are liable to forget in the excess of our new enthusiasm for civic righteousness. True, we are by no means saints as yet, but we have begun to learn the meaning of the word Law. (Copyright, 1908, by THE WORLD TO-DAY COMPANY.) Our courts are not all they should be, but they are more respected than they were ten years ago. Our Congressmen are too friendly with lobbyists, but they are more susceptible to public opinion. Business men maybe are no more honest than they were once, but they are less inclined to play upon the brink of dishonesty. This new epoch is not the work of any one man, although President Roosevelt deserves gratitude for his share in bringing it to pass. It is a new phase in the development of democracy to be seen in national, municipal and even state governments. It is no wonder that men who have played fast and loose with the law should think themselves aggrieved. A man with privileges that he has come to believe are vested rights, dislikes to be told that he must bow to a higher law than that which his attorney formulates. Nobody likes to be less important than he has been. But it would be worse than idle to attempt to bring back the past. It would be sheer foolishness. Unless we utterly mistake the temper of the country at large, we have reached a very simple alternative: Is the American people strong enough to regulate the administration of great corporations, or are we to have fastened upon us an oligarchy from which there is no release except through revolution? And there is no question that the country chooses the first alternative. The utterances of men, any one of whom is sure to be president of the United States, give little assurance of comfort to the men who favor reaction. No man of those who can be seriously considered presidential possibilities but stands committed to the policy of vigorous enforcement of law represented by the present administration. The new era is to be permanent. * * * The era of muckraking has closed. It was strenuous, indeed overstrenuous, but it did its work. The era of respect for law, or, at least of fear of law, has dawned. That which in other days has been accomplished only by bloodshed is being accomplished by the processes of democracy. The good work will continue. We are not going back. We are going forward. Just how far we shall go, and how rapidly, and by what means, will depend largely upon whether men who are at present in control of great industrial and financial institutions are able to read the signs of the times and govern themselves accordingly. |