Abstract

Editorials

The article focuses on the political and social conditions around the world. There are three or four facts brought out by the Cincinnati convention, which would commend to the serious attention of all friends of good government of all parties. The first thing in them which strikes is the completeness with which nominating conventions have ceased to be, what they profess to be, deliberative assemblies. The Washington Treaty, it now appears, is to escape destruction by the addition of a supplemental article, in which both parties ask the Geneva Commission not to award "consequential damages," and bind themselves solemnly to each other in the presence of mankind never to ask each other for consequential damages again, and to treat all such claims as inadmissible.