ISO THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



tice can hardly be referred to as high, nevertheless the nation is making 

 progress steadily toward more efficient courts; our peace establishment 

 meets the needs of the republic; and great advance has been made 

 toward the civic and friendly disposition among the people of the United 

 States, sufficient to induce them to forget their local prejudices and 

 policies enumerated by Washington as the fourth desideratum. We 

 have still the problem of federal authority and the wise determination 

 of what and how far the government should attempt to rule by central 

 authority. The question is of vast importance; its determination will 

 have much to do with the perpetuation of the republic.- 



