undertake to preach a crusade. How can we, with our slums, our lynchings, our race problems, our labor questions-how can we decently assume to teach mankind? Americans are the only civilized people who practise burning at the stake, and we wish to soften the manners of the isles of the sea!-Ernest Crosby.

Among the consequences are America's disregard for the rights of free speech and press; censorship and suppression of news; the growth of military spirit with its glorification of brute force, and branding as traitors those who protest against such.-Bolton Hall.

The Declaration of Independence has become an "incendiary document" in the Philippine Islands, and an exponent of exploded eighteenth century ethics in America.-Thomas Elmer Will.

If to anyone such a forecast seems visionary, let him ask himself whether, a few years ago, he could have dreamed that the principles of the Declaration of Independence would be disregarded and derided in America.-Professor Goldwin Smith.

There would be no cause for surprise if Roumania should petition the Powers of Europe to use their influence to break up the habit of burning negroes alive in the United States.-Kansas City Star.

The history of Hayti, since it began to work out its own destiny, is that of a steady reversion to heathen savagery. If a foreign Power should suggest that a refusal on our part to clean up Hayti or to let any one else attempt that Augean labor would be making the Monroe Doctrine a plea to justify the attitude of the dog in the manger, we really do not see what good answer we could return to such an expostulation.-New York Times.

UNPLEASANT CONTRASTS,

The individual in England has greater reedom of speech and action, and more privileges than the individual has in America. In American cities there is an extent of petty officialism and dictation that the English people would not endure a day.The Philistine.

In America, the so-called "land of the free,” our people (the Jews) find a worse tyranny than that from which they came, for to our former oppressors, our women at least, were sacred.Reported by Jacob A. Riis.

"Mr. Maddison, secretary of the Ironfounders' Society of England, said the American ironfounders may turn out more product than the British workers, but this is at the cost of shorter lives, the average life of the British ironfounder being fifty-four years, as against forty-four years for the American ironfounder."

"One difference between the Government of Great Britain and the Government of the United States is this:

"The Government of Great Britain is really run in the interest of the public, financially and otherwise.

"The Government of the United States, as everybody knows, is run largely in the interest of big financial concerns, trusts and corporations."-New York Journal.

New York, with half the population of London, has 56 per cent. more murders in an aver◄

age year.-New York World Table of Statistics.

When Mrs. Stanton called her first Woman's Convention in the Republic, the men had misrepresented (not represented) its women for nearly three-quarters of a century. The following shows woman's exact status therein.

"The American Government has never permitted any woman to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.

"It has compelled her to submit to laws in the formation of which she had no voice.

"It has withheld from her rights which it gave to the most ignorant and degraded men— both natives and foreigners.

"Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, it has oppressed her on all sides.

"It has made her, if married, in the eyes of the law, civilly dead.

"It has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns.

"It has made her morally an irresponsible being, as she can commit many crimes with impunity, provided they be done in the presence of her husband. In the covenant of marriage, she is compelled to promise obediance to her husband, he becoming, to all intents and purposes, her master-the law giving him power to deprive her of her liberty and to administer chastisement.

"It has so framed the laws of divorce, as to what shall be the proper causes, and to whom the guardianship of the children shall be given, as to be wholly regardless of the happiness of woman—the law, in all cases, going upon a false supposition of the supremacy of man, and giving all power into his hands.

"After depriving her of all rights as a married woman, if single and the owner of property, it has taxed her to support a government which recognizes her only when her property can be made profitable to it.

"It has monopolized all the profitable employments, and from those she is permitted to follow, she receives but a scanty remuneration.