Abstract

The Week

The article presents information on several socio-political developments from across the world. This year the Republicans adopted the Reed-Lodge idea of discriminating in the U.S. tariff legislation against countries that would not agree to international free coinage of silver. This was just sufficient to impel the Democrats to "go one better," by endorsing free coinage without international action. Of course the latter is much the worse platform of the two. The "Independent Labor Party," got up by Tom Mann, has been displaying so much activity in England lately that it has become a bugbear to the politicians, and is the only thing which now makes the Liberals doubt whether they could win at a general election. It forms an uncertain element in a good many constituencies, and is likely to draw off a certain number of votes from the Liberals. Tom is now laboring hard to make it a Socialist party, and has been boasting a good deal of his success.