Abstract

Editorials

The article discusses several socio-political developments from the world. The action of the Democrats in caucus at Washington on Saturday leaves one in doubt whether it is intended to force the passage of the political measures upon which the two appropriation bills were made to depend in the last Congress, by adhering to them at all hazards, or whether a door is to be left open for retreat in case the President vetoes them. They have resolved to incorporate those measures, the repeal or modification of the Federal election law, and the proviso prohibiting the approach or presence of troops at the polls on Election Day, in the regular appropriation bills. The English papers have now for nearly a year been containing doleful accounts of the condition of the English farmers. In an article on the agricultural depression in a late number of the Fortnightly Review, by W.E. Bear, one of the best authorities in England on farming matters, he gives the result of inquiries made by him as to the condition of agriculture in thirty-nine counties, and the accounts from all are almost as gloomy as possible. In nearly all of them the farmers are described as losing money and heart; the land as declining in quality, and in many counties as going out of cultivation for want of people willing to work it as tenants.