Abstract

Editorials

This article focuses on socio-political developments around the world. The very desperate step taken by the Irish Land League in advising the tenants not to pay rent has been met by the Government with a proclamation suppressing the organization as illegal. As long as the League confined itself to agitation, even though violent agitation, for a change in the land laws, and supported its arguments by denunciations of the Government and the landlords, it stood on ground which, though it might not be in point of law absolutely impregnable. The Hedges family, which, like so many other families, is said to be "scattered all over the United States," has recently learned that there is a nice little property of $250, 000,000 in England ready to be divided among all Hedges who can prove a descent from a common ancestor who died some century or two ago in England.