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There has been no more perplexing problem of politics in the history of any nation than England's Irish question. In the present crisis it has assumed so serious a character that it present a direct obstacle to a successful prosecution of the war. Conscription and home rule are inseparably...
Public opinion and the light of criticism are indispensable to the success of popular government. In times of war, however, they must be tempered by the incontravertible necessity of centralization of power and responsibility. America now has its powerful administration; England long ago created its war council. They both are...
Last Saturday we heard of the Germans on Kemmel Hill, of Ypres almost certainly lost, and the enemy storm heavy over the Channel ports. Today we read of a British Cabinet Minister warning his countrymen against a coming peace offensive. And yet the week that is gone has witnessed no...
We have come to a crisis in the prosecution of the war. When a great confiagration breaks out, it is no time to train carpenters for rebuilding the devastated area. In the same way all men must discard thoughts of the future when they may turn their energies to the...
The present tendency of would-be political reformers to eliminate all party feeling from coming elections is no unmixed blessing. There are partisan elements in all elections which we would have permanently discarded, but the party system itself is a source of strength in a democracy and one which should...