Abstract

Editorials

This article presents information on various political developments in the world. German claims that the U-boats during the past year have sunk 9,000,000 tons of shipping. Without making any such broad concession as this, it must be admitted that the shipping position is serious enough. For three years and a half Germany has held the western battle-front all but immovable, while she has crushed Servia, subjugated Rumania, and conquered Russia. Now, with a victorious shout, she proclaims her way open to India, and the menace of a Mohammedan Central Asia open to German propaganda is not to be lightly viewed. Germany is off the seas, save for her submarine pests, and she has lost her colonies, but in her central stronghold, where her military might can be made effective, she thus far more than holds her own. The U.S. political history since 1875 is strewn with "National" parties, and that just born at Chicago has more points of identity with its predecessors than the name. Representing the union of a Socialist rump, a Prohibition rump, and elements of the old Progressive party and new Non-Partisan League, it reminds that its most ambitious predecessor was also a coalition body. On February 22, 1878, a Toledo convention effected a union of the Labor Reform and Greenback parties upon a declaration that might now be repeated in Chicago.