NOTES AND COMMENTS. THE HE RAILROAD QUESTION IN “THE ARENA": Next to Direct-Legislation there is no great vital question before the American people more important to pure government and popular rule, that is pressing for immediate solution, than the railroad question. For the past thirty years the railways have been the most sinister influence in our national life, the chief source of governmental corruption and the strong arm of the robber trusts and monopolies. THE ARENA for the ensuing year will make this overshadowing question the subject of special examination. The series of papers on the railways in foreign lands, prepared expressly for this journal by Professor FRANK PARSONS, will, we believe, be the most important discussions of this character that will appear in any review. Those who wish a fuller and more exhaustive treatment of the same subject should not fail to procure Dr. PARSONS' latest and greatest work, The Railways, the Trusts and the People, published by Dr. C. F. TAYLOR, of 1520 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. The paper which we present this month epitomizes the facts amplified in this work and treats them in a popular manner suitable to a magazine article. This paper also embraces the observations of Professor PARSONS on the railways of Switzerland as he found them from his personal investigations made in Switzerland during the past summer. Besides this discussion of the railways of Switzerland, the present issue of THE ARENA contains an extremely valuable contribution by Messrs. GRUHL and ROBINSON, entitled Is Railroad Rate-Regulation a Step to Government-Ownership? It embraces the opinions of a number of our leading statesmen, educators, lawyers and railway managers on the question, among whom are Mr. BRYAN, President RoOSEVELT, Senator LA FOLLETTE, Governor CUMMINS, RICHARD OLNEY, President HADLEY and Professor ELY. This contribution represents a vast amount of careful labor and painstaking research and is one of the papers that thinking men after reading will wish to file away for future reference. Governor Folk of Missouri: In our series of papers on leading representative statesmen of progressive democracy we this month present an admirable paper by the gifted writer and able statesman and lawyer, Hon. THOMAS SPEED MOSBY, Pardon-Attorney for the State of Missouri. Mr. MOSBY knows Governor FOLK intimately and has presented a fine pen-picture of the man and his ideals and purposes. Child-Labor: This contribution by ELINOR H. SToy is of special excellence and should be carefully read by every parent in the land. A great sin is being committed, a crime against democracy, against the state of to-day and the nation of to-mor row, and the victims of this crime are the helpless little ones that it is the sacred function of the Republic to guard, protect and in every way possible help to educate and to develop, body, brain and soul, in order that they may live the life the Creator intended they should live and that the state may be great in the coming days through her wealth of robust, clean-souled, strong-minded men and women. Our author treats the subject with great ability and the paper is a mine of information lighted up with that moral idealism that vitalizes the really strong work of civilization and progress. The Emerson Society of Boston: We take pleasure in calling the attention of our readers who dwell in New England to the announcements of the Emerson Society of Boston for the coming winter. The Public Library, Copley Square, Boston, on Wednesmeetings will be held in the lecture-room of the day afternoons at three o'clock, beginning with the first Wednesday in December, 1906. The interpretations of Emerson will usually be made by Mr. CHARLES MALLOY of Waltham, so well known to readers of THE ARENA on account of his extremely able interpretations of EMERSON's poetry that have appeared in this review. Other speakers will occasionally be heard. Mr. FRANK B. SANBORN of Concord will give several papers during the winter, one on Emerson and Whitman, another on Thoreau and Emerson, based on the recent publication of the journals of THOREAU, and a third on Emerson and His Concord Neighbors. Members are at liberty to join the society at any time and can do so by giving their names to the secretary, Miss E. L. NICKERSON, Riverbank Court, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The membership-fee is one dollar a year and there is no admission-fee to the lectures at the Library. Our Vanishing Liberty of the Press: We doubt whether there is any more important paper in this issue of THE ARENA than the deeply thoughtful contribution from the pen of Mr. THEODORE SHCROEDER, one of our associate editors, on Our Vanishing Liberty of the Press. Never in the history of our nation has free government more urgently called for strong, clear-visioned thinkers who possess the power to reason closely and logically; who are endowed with that clarity of intellectual vision that enables one to distinguish between the fundamental principles involved and the superficial aspects of the issue, and with that supreme courage which unhesitatingly takes a stand with right against, if needs be, the whole world. And perhaps the most inspiring sign of the hour is the increasing number of strong, virile and fundamental thinkers in our midst who are awakening the nation from the Stygian slumber into which reaction, prejudice and privilege have lulled it. In THEODORE SCHROEDER America has a fine type of this new school of thinkers who are calling the nation back to the old highway of freedom marked out by the fathers of the Republic. Broad Aspects of Race-Suicide: Not since the recent general discussion of race-suicide was inaugurated, largely by virtue of President ROOSEVELT's stand on the question, has so deeply thoughtful or broadly philosophic and statesmanlike a paper appeared on this question as that which we present in this issue of THE ARENA from the pen of FRANK T. CARLTON. This discussion is so deeply thoughtful, so rich in suggestive facts and so instinct with truths that every thoughtful man and woman should ponder over, that it merits the widest possible circulation. Professor Noa on William Wheelwright: The life of Mr. WHEELWRIGHT more than that of any other of the great master-builders of South America, holds interest for American readers, as WHEELWRIGHT was a Massachusetts lad who went to South America and by his genius, pluck and perseverence became the father of the commercial and industrial prosperity of the Latin Republics with which he was associated. Our readers who have for months enjoyed Professor NoA's pleasing and instructive papers on the great men and historical events of Latin America will be pleased to learn that this talented writer and scholar has just accepted an important editorial position on the staff of the two important and beautifully gotten-up illustrated magazines, Latin America and Las Republicas Americanas. These periodicals, one of which is published in English and the other in Spanish, deal with Latin America in a most instructive and interesting manner. They are handsomely illustrated and published at two dollars a year net for either magazine. Our Stories: This month we publish two delightful short stories. One entitled The Bishop's Ordination, by GISELA DITTRICK BRITT, will, we are sure, appeal to all our readers; while Nude Lips is one of Mr. CARMAN's most clever little stories, mildly satirical in character and hitting off in an admirable manner the exaggerated prudery of Mr. COMSTOCK and like would-be censors of public morals, who seem to find evil where most persons see only beauty. William Morris and Esthetic Socialism: In Mr. DICKINSON's paper on William Morris and Esthetic Socialism we have one of the most interesting, thoughtful and unhackneyed views of the Socialistic ideals that has appeared in recent magazine literature. To the student of social and economic advance nothing is more striking than the number of noble minds, from before the days of Sir THOMAS MORE, that have been strongly drawn to the ideals of a Socialistic state, a state in which the masterideal should be brotherhood and in which the interests of each should be the master-concern of all. AS MARX and LIEBKNECHT approached the subject as philosophers and scientists, we find KINGSLEY, FREDERICK MAURICE and other noble Christian scholars advocating the Socialistic ideals from the view-point of the great Prophet of Galilee. They appealed to VICTOR HUGO's sense of justice no less than to his esthetic and idealistic impulses; while to WILLIAM MORRIS the artistic ideal seemed to exert the master-spell. Mr. DICKINSON's paper will appeal to all thoughtful men and women who are sufficiently broad to desire to understand all view-points of the great living issues of the hour. Church and State in France: In Mr. ROMIEUX'S paper on Church and State in France we have a timely historical survey of this question which at the present time is, and doubtless for some months if not years to come will be, a leading issue in French political life. Note: Because of the miscarriage of a package sent from our publication office to an engraving house in New York City, by the Adams Express Company, we are prevented this month from giving our usual department "Politics, The People and The Trusts as Seen by Cartoonists." We are unable to ascertain just why this miscarriage_should have happened, because the Adams Express Company has not seen fit, up to this writingsixteen days after shipment was made to pay the slightest attention to our vigorous complaints-except to tell us orally that they "would look into it" and that "no trace of the package could be found." Abridged Report Appears, Later: The, 72. INDEX. Adulterated Food Bearing Government Inspection Albertson, Ralph, on the National Federation for Alien, The Transformation of the, into the Ameri- Allen, Arthur M., A Criticism of Mr. Grimke's Allen, Stephen H., Stock Gamblers as Managers of America, The Most Dangerous Criminals in, 644. American Literature, The Spirit of, 121. 92. Analysis of the Result, An, 541. Armour's Canned Goods Officially Exposed, Char- Art for Moral Progress, An Artist Who Believes in, 136. Artist's Message on Christ and Conventional Chris- Aspects of Contemporary Fiction, 1. Australian Artist Who Believes in Art for Moral Autocracy and Class-Rule, Senator Lodge as an Ayacucho, The Spanish Waterloo of South Ameri- Baker, Robert, Why He Should be Elected to Con- Bates, William W., The Cause and Cure of Our Beef-Packers' Meat Products, Wholesale Condem- Beef-Trust, The Plutocratic Press Becomes a Voice Beef-Trust's Crime Against the People, Further Bennett, John W., Common Ground for Socialist Benson, Allan L., on Public Ownership, 552; Berlin, The University of, and the Proposed Changes Bishop's Ordination, The, 633. Books of the Day, 103, 215, 330, 439, 569, 670. Bribery, A Cure for Municipal, 289; by Pass, At- Bringing of the Kingdom, The, 631. Britt, Gisel Dittrick, The Bishop's Ordination, 633. Bryan, Mr., and the Presidency, 189; The Real Bryan, Hon. William J., Individualism Through Bryan and La Follette, The Nation-Wide Enthu- Bryan's Candidacy, The Honest and Dishonest Buckman, Williamson, Picturesque Rothenburg, 128. Bushby, Rev. William R., The Zeit-Geist and the Butler, Maynard, The University of Berlin and the Byron: A Study in Heredity, 175. Campaign Against the Wholesale Poisoners of a Cannon, Speaker, as the Friend of Privileged In- Carman, Albert R., Nude Lips, 638. Cause and Cure of Our Marine Decay, The, 265. Child, The Right of the, Not to be Born, 125. Child-Labor, Compulsory Education and Race- Chinamen, Shall Educated, Be Welcomed to Our Christ and Conventional Christianity, An Artist's Church and State in France, 626. Churchill, Winston, George Fred. Williams and: Civic Righteousness, Jail Sentences for Rebaters Civil Marriages, The Recognition of, by the Spanish Clark, Chief Justice, Some Urgent Constitutional Class-Rule, A Practical Illustration of the Vital Clemenceau, Jaurès and, on the Demands of So- College Coöperative Stores in America, 201. Colorado Democracy Drives the Corruptionists Colorado Supreme Court, A Leading Republican Comments, Notes and, 112, 223, 335, 447, 575, 689. Comparative Anatomy, A Waning of the Interest Comstock, Mr., Not Wanted at the Mothers' Con- Concerning Those Who Work, 487. Condemnation of Beef-Packers' Meat Products in Constitutional Changes Demanded by Chief Justice Constitutional Convention, A Distinguished Jurist's Consumption of Wealth: Individual and Collective, 497. Contemporary Fiction, Aspects of, 1. Conviction of the New York Central Railroad and Coöperation in Great Britain, The Healthy Growth Coöperative Stores in America, College, 201. Corporation Collar, Politicians Wearing the, Fight Corporation Press, Professor Parsons on a Recent Corrupt Wealth, The Latest Example of the Mor- Costliness of War, The, 337. Courts, the Plutocracy and the People, The; or, Crane, George, A Cure for Municipal Bribery, 289. Cummins, Governor Albert B.: A Statesman Who Cure for Municipal Bribery, A, 289. Day, Chancellor, His Attack on the President and Degradation, Social, 192. Delaware, Direct-Legislation Triumphs in, 650. Democratic Progress, An American Journalist on Democracy, A Vital Service to, 83; The French Democracy's Lost Leader, Premier Ricard Seddon, Denver Election, The: The Latest Illustration of 92. Detroit United Railway Company Bribing Detroit Diaz, Porfirio: The Maker of Modern Mexico, 661. Direct-Legislation, A Primer of, 45; A Practical Direct-Legislation Triumphs in Delaware, 650. Dreyfus, The Vindication of, 314. Drunkards, Judge William Jefferson Pollard: A Eads, George W., N. O. Nelson, Practical Coop- Economic Struggle in Colorado, The, 375. Education, The University of Berlin and the Pro- Egypt, British, 41, 162. Election, The, 646; The Congressional, 647; The Elliot, John C., Our Next Ice-Age, 148. Episcopal Church, Heresy in the, 370. Fiscal Reforms, Radical, 319. Flower, B. O., Judge William Jefferson Pollard: Work in Redeeming Drunkards, 14; Edward W. Premier and His Work for Progressive Popular |